Hello! I am delighted to bring you yet another podcast with the one and only Bassem Youssef, who was at one time the Jon Stewart of the Middle East. 

A pediatric heart surgeon living in Cairo, he started an underground YouTube show ala the Daily show, poking fun at the Arab world and bringing to light some of the vast injustices that were happening in his country. He got so popular underground that he was offered a real show on a network and at one point had 40 million people tuning into his show.

However, making fun of dictators comes with a cost, and Bassem was forced to flee Egypt with his family because of very real death threats and an impending prison sentence. 

He has moved to California and is launching an entire new project. It's called Plant B. It is his new mission to help people overcome illness through a plant based diet. I'll let him explain to you all the benefits of going green, but suffice it to say, the case for a plant based diet has never made more sense to me. 

Thank you Bassem, for your continued appearance on my podcast, I am always left smarter by simply being around you. 

Check out his website: 

www.plantb.tv

His instagram: @bassem 

Twitter: @byouseff

Check out my website www.zoenightingale.com 

Instagram: @drznightingale

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Music: 

Donny Benet: working out 

Lost in Music: Sister Sledge, Dimitri From Paris remix