ICP 58: Chef AJ- Nature or Nurture? Defying poor genetics with diet, lifestyle and environment.

Welcome to The Ian Cramer Podcast, and Happy 2019. The conversations on this podcast focus on doctors, scholars and experts within diet, lifestyle and plant-based nutrition.  In this conversations, I speak with Chef AJ, a rockstar within this movement who has an amazing story of perseverance and never giving up on the north star called health. We do our best to summarize her life in about an hour. It's a story of growing up an overweight food addict, being surrounded in an environment where many people around her were overweight, surrounded by poor food choices and a poor environment for supporting health. But it end with eventual success. Chef AJ was able to find the right pieces to the puzzle and find a way to become healthy, for good.  Chef AJ has the right attitude; not blaming others, not blaming her genetics, but taking her health into her own hands and taking control of he own health destiny. Despite the genetics predispositions she may have inherited from her parents, she has not let those genetics dictate her day to day decisions on trying to live as healthful as possible.  Chef AJ is a ball of fire, she supportive, frank and inspiration and I think you'll really enjoy her in this episode, but I encourage all of you to check out her work on Facebook where she empowers people to take control of their health.  Please enjoy this conversation on Episode 58, with Chef AJ.