Tag: plant based nutrition
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Blogpost: Are Metrics Synonymous with Health
Many justifications for medical or dietary change is that they change a metric in a positive way. However, fixing one metric does not guarantee that another will not become worse. Metrics are typically things we can measure that we assume are surrogates for improved health. A metric could be lipid numbers, weight, body mass index,…
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Podcast: Can you Feed Yourself ?
Welcome! and Thank you for listening! When did you begin to feed yourself? What exactly does that mean? A Poptart, a cheese burger and fries and a pizza? Do you think Hamburger helper makes a meal complete? Do you think about minerals and vitamins when you plan your meals? Do you even need to? This…
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Blogpost: A few counter points for your carnivore friends
Most lifestyle diseases occur beginning in adulthood around age 40. While genetics do play a small role, the majority of time, the environment is the initiator. In other words, environmental factors accelerate abnormal genes as well as create DNA damage that results in eventual disease. When it comes to nutrition, people can eat a very…
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Podcast: Why we look like our dogs, but should eat like herbivores.
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. Who domesticated who? Our canine friends are most likely descendants from wolves over 14,000 years ago. In fact, when people say you look like your dog, they are not that far off genetically when you look at our shared microbial DNA. Some of my veterinarian collogues are realizing the…
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Podcast: Asking the Right Questions
Welcome! and thank you for listening. There is a lot of health opinions and advise offered freely on the web. How much is true? How do you sort it out? Who is an expert? Does Yale or Harvard mean more than Ohio State when it comes to physicians, statisticians or perhaps veterinarians? Sometimes we…
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Podcast: Thank you Samantha
Welcome! and thank you for listening. I am a plant based cardiologist and also a vegan. As many of you know our family has rescue dogs and cats. This week I had to say goodbye to my beloved GSD rescue, Samantha. It was more that she rescued me from the heart break of losing a…
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Podcast: Have the Courage and all will be fine
Welcome! and Thank you for listening! Why do some people seem to make the transition to plant based nutrition so easy and others struggle. Why does there have to be pain before people make a change. I have been treating people with lifestyle diseases my whole career, and it has only been since incorporating…
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Podcast: Road to 50 Miles Documentary: Interview with the cast and director
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. This episode is an interview with the director and cast of the documentary, The Road to 50 Miles. Jennifer McMahon and Kara Wilson are mid pack mom runners who decide to take on the challenge to run a 50 mile endurance race called The American River 50 in Folsom,…