CARDIOLOGY, PRIMARY CARE AND NUTRITION

All Posts Tagged: endurance athlete

Podcast: Process or Outcome?

Welcome! and thank you for listening.  Do you focus on the process or the outcome when it comes to goals or life changes.  How about your nutrition?  Is the authoritarian dogma slowing you down? Everyone wants to be healthy, but at what cost?  Can you have both?   I would like to share some perspective […]
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Podcast: Reversing Diabetes to Improve Your Immune Function

Welcome! and Thank you for listening. Covid-19 continues to dominate healthcare concerns.  We are all becoming experts at social distancing and hand washing. This is a time to improve our baseline health so that we can survive these seemingly more virulent infections. Our body’s immune system is our best line of defense, but when we […]
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Podcast: Learning from Julie and Nannette

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Today I have two guests, Nannette Rogers and Julie Kermond.  They are both teachers, but now they do their work outside of the classroom.  It this does not inspire you, then you need to take a walk and listen again.  Nannette is 84 and Julie is 76.  They are […]
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Podcast: Have You Eaten Your Flavonoids Today?

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Everything we need for optimal health and wellness, we can get from plants.  We can grow plants sustainably and compassionately, as well as being able to provide enough food for all.  Plants make flavonoids as protection for themselves.  They can’t run from predators such as bugs, worms and poisons. […]
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Podcast: Plant Based Nutrition and Pregnant Runners!

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Addie Majnaric RDN and I ran the Houston Half Marathon this past weekend.  She is 22 weeks pregnant and feeling great.  Some would think eating plant based is not a good idea during pregnancy let alone running half marathons.  In reality being pregnant is not a disease, but it […]
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Podcast: My CIM Race Report

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  The California International Marathon is in the books.  If you are a runner, I highly recommend this race.  I have been running marathons since 2001 and have completed over 25 marathon races.  I did not grow up a runner but started running in my late thirties as a way […]
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Podcast: Let’s Just Agree to Disagree

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Why does controversy seem to get the most attention?  Shocking news! Those doctors can’t make up their minds what is healthy.  They want us sick?  Healthy is not good for the economy.   You can win more friends with maple syrup than vinegar.  Unless, you are Dr. Esselstyn who […]
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Podcast: Ironman Chattanooga 144.6 recap

Welcome! and Thank you for listening. This episode is a recap of Ironman Chattanooga.  I completed the 144.6 mile course last Sunday in very hot and humid conditions.  What does this have to do with plant based wellness? Everything.  It is about pushing beyond your comfort zone.  It is about breaking a long day or […]
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Podcast: How to Get Into the Flow!

Welcome! and Thank you for listening!.  I am a plant based cardiologist that specializes in reversing lifestyle diseases through plant based nutrition and movement.  This allows me to eliminate the need for medications that many people think they will require for a lifetime.   Athletes and sports psychologists talk about the flow state.  As a […]
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Podcast: If Grizzlies Eat Plants, Why Can’t You?

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Grizzly bears eat a lot of plants because catching animals is not that easy.  Wolves are carnivores but are only successful at capturing their prey 30% of their efforts.  If these to predators don’t eat meat every day then why do humans?  Our lifestyle diseases are largely from metabolic […]
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