New Normal Project

Dr Michael Greger is featured on this episode of the New Normal Project.

Yes, the good doctor from NutritionFacts.org, the book How Not To Die and his latest book How Not to Diet, which was released today.

When I was at medical school we learnt all about diseases, syndromes, drugs and procedures. There was very little education about nutrition. I don't remember being told the sickest patients in our hospital mostly have the conditions which are heavily influenced by the lifestyles they lead. Conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, obesity and cancer. And noone ever mentioned these could be treatable or at least halted in their progression using simple lifestyle interventions.

So when I came across a doctor like Dr Michael Greger who, after witnessing his grandmother's health transformation through nutrition, decided to read every research study on nutrition in the English language and made it his life mission to help people with clear and understandable messages about the health benefits of nutrition, I became pretty interested in his work.

Michael is a physician, bestselling author, and internationally recognised speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, he is licensed as a general practitioner specialising in clinical nutrition. He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017 he was honoured with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award and became a diplomat of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.

Both his previous books, How Not to Die and the The How Not to Die Cookbook, became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His other great resource is the website NutritionFacts.org, a strictly non-commercial, science-based public service, provided by Michael, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos.

Dr Greger and I met up at the International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare conference in Oakland this recent September. Our conversation covered:

• His grandmother's transformation from end-stage heart disease with a plant-based diet
• Nathan Pritikin and how he discovered and used plant-based eating
• Why Michael didn't adopt a plant-based diet until Dean Ornish's Lifestyle Heart Trial
• The tremendous nutritional ignorance of the medical profession
• How NutritionFacts.org began and developed
• The assistance he received from a philanthropist to turn a DVD series into a website
• The rigorous work of synthesising the evidence for a NutritionFacts video
• Some of the resources people should consider when starting a plant-based diet
• Why both anecdote and the evidence are important for dietary change
• The healthy and less healthy ways that people can lose weight
• What is in his new book How Not To Diet
• The title and subject of the book that will follow
• How Michael evolves his diet over time

Enjoy the knowledgeable, charismatic, and mission-focused Dr Michael Greger.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to help you to become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious through a plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused way of living. I hope to inspire and empower you with scientific evidence, helpful information and real-life stories, based on eating mostly plant foods, being physically active, particularly in nature, sleeping well, being mindful and refining both the connections in your life and your purpose.

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Links related to Michael Greger

Dr Michael Greger

Dr Michael Greger on Wikipedia

NutritionFacts.org

Dr Michael Greger on Instagram (@nutrition_facts_org)

Dr Michel Greger on Twitter

Dr Michael Greger on Facebook

Book "How Not to Die" (by Michael Greger)

Book "The How Not to Die Cookbook" (by Michael Greger)

Book "How Not to Diet" (by Michael Greger)

Dr Michael Greger's Evidence-Based Eating Guide

Dr Michael Greger's Medical Nutrition Blog

Dr Michael Greger's Daily Dozen List

Dr Michael Greger's Dining by Traffic Light System

Podcast "Nutrition Facts with Dr Michael Greger"

NutritionFacts on YouTube

Links to people and resources (in order of mentioning)

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

International Plant-based Nutrition Healthcare Conference

Nathan Pritikin

Book "Pritikin: The Man Who Healed America's Heart" (by Tom Monte)

Dr Dean Ornish

Publication 1 from Dr Ornish's Lifestyle Heart Trial

Publication 2 from Dr Ornish's Lifestyle Heart Trial

Introductory videos on Nutrition Facts

Movie "The Game Changers"

Movie "Forks Over Knives"

Book "The China Study" (by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell)

The BROAD study

US News and World Report on Best Diets

Doctors For Nutrition

New Normal Project podcast - Episode 60 with Gemma Newman

Dr Gemma Newman

New Normal Project podcast - Episode 61 with Jackie Busse

Dr Jackie Busse

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New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

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Audio Producer Chris Burke

Burke Sound & Media

Are you aware adult health is influenced by what we eat as adults AND as children?

Whilst it might seem difficult to believe the food we eat early in life can influence the diseases we develop and how long we live, most of us do understand that childhood nutrition is at least a little bit important. And that foods like cow's milk, soft drinks and sugar-laden processed foods might not be the best things we can feed our children.

So if you are a parent, a grandparent, a budding parent, or even a child, you'd do very well to listen to American pediatrician, Dr Jackie Busse on this episode of the New Normal Project podcast.

Jackie is a board certified pediatrician with expertise in plant-based nutrition for kids and families. She grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before training in pediatrics at Rush University in Chicago. Shortly after moving to California in 2011, she was introduced to "The China Study" and it changed her life and practice. She has been living and teaching a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle ever since. As a founding member of the pediatric working group of the Plantrician Project Jackie was the lead author and editor of the Pediatric Quick Start Guide, published in 2018, and spoke at the International Plant Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference in 2019. As an expert lecturer for the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies, she recently rebuilt the pediatric and family lecture modules for the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program offered through eCornell.

In addition to her full-time general pediatrics practice in Santa Cruz, CA, Jackie teaches an ongoing whole-food, plant-based nutrition series for adults as well as the nutrition component of a lifestyle medicine series for kids. She is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Most importantly, Jackie is a mother to two thriving plant-eaters, now 3 and 5 years old. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge, insights and personal experience with the plant-based lifestyle.

Jackie has read widely on plant-based nutrition and is a world-renowned pediatric expert on the topic. In this conversation she speaks about:

• Growing up with a dairy farming grand-father
• Jackie's own transition to a plant-based diet after her husband read "The China Study"
• Her progression to advising a plant-based diet in her pediatric medical practice
• A couple of excellent patient examples
• The importance of understanding that healthy kids make healthy adults
• How primary disease prevention can begin in childhood and even in pregnancy
• How 80% of adult chronic diseases come about from lifestyle factors
• That almost all 10 year old children eating a standard American diet have fatty streaks in their heart's arteries
• The knowledge that our chances of cancer as an adult are affected by our childhood lifestyle
• Some wise thoughts about how we should think about genetics
• Childhood development of taste preferences
• Bringing up her own children as plant-based
• The differences between plant-based and animal-based diets on childhood health and disease
• The dangers of cow's milk and other dairy-containing products
• How long women should consider breast-feeding for
• Which plant-based milk best approximates breast milk
• The difference between juices and smoothies
• Some practical recommendations for dealing with parties, sleep-overs and peer pressure
• Advice for those wanting a gluten-free plant-based lifestyle
• What breakfast, lunch and dinner looks like for an average day of her family
• Which supplements you might consider for your children

Jackie knows what she is talking about. Her children have been plant-based their whole lives and her whole family is vibrant and thriving. On this podcast there is so much information about how best we can feed our children that it is truly a must listen.

Please enjoy my exchange with Dr Jackie Busse.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to help you to become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious through a plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused way of living. I hope to inspire and empower you with scientific evidence, helpful information and real-life stories, based on eating mostly plant foods, being physically active, particularly in nature, sleeping well, being mindful and refining both the connections in your life and your purpose.

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Links related to Jackie Busse

Dr Jackie Busse

Dr Jackie Busse's website

Dr Jackie Busse on Instagram @plantbasedpediatrician

Dr Jackie Busse on LinkedIn

Dr Jackie Busse on Facebook

Links to people and resources (in order of mentioning)

The China Study

Book "The China Study" (by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell)

The Plantrician Project

Book "The Pediatric Plant-Based Nutrition Quick Start Guide"

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

American Academy of Pediatrics

eCornell Plant-based Nutrition Certificate

International Plant-based Nutrition Healthcare Conference

Book "Disease-Proof Your Child" (by Joel Fuhrman)

Dr Joel Fuhrman

Book "Dr. Attwood's Low-fat Prescription for Kids" (by Charles Attwood)

Dr Charles Attwood

Dr Dean Ornish

American Academy of Pediatrics policy on Breastfeeding

World Health Organization recommendations on Breastfeeding

"Cowspiracy" movie

Dr Michael Greger

NutritionFacts.org

Book "How Not to Die" (by Michael Greger)

Book "How Not to Diet" (by Michael Greger)

New Normal Project podcast - Episode 60 with Gemma Newman

Dr Gemma Newman

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New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

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This episode features Dr Gemma Newman, a knowledgeable, caring and helpful UK General Practitioner, who practices lifestyle medicine based around a whole-food plant-based diet and the core belief that the body can naturally heal itself if it's given the right conditions.

Gemma is the sort of doctor we could all do with visiting no matter how healthy we feel. We can no doubt all improve our lifestyles, particularly with the growing evidence to support the ability of a plant-based lifestyle to prevent, reverse, or at least halt the progression of chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and cancer. And from my perspective as an Intensive Care doctor, the less chronic disease due to a healthier lifestyle, the the less likely you are to ever meet someone like me by becoming a patient in the ICU.

Gemma, the Plant Power Doctor, can be found through her website, on Instagram (@plantpowerdoctor), on Twitter (@drgemgem) and on Facebook. She has a specialist interest in holistic health, plant based nutrition and lifestyle medicine, and in her practice has come to understand that body, mind and soul are not separate, and that it is only in addressing the root causes of stress and disconnection that we can truly heal, from the inside out.

She has worked in medicine for 15 years and is the Senior Partner at a family medical practice where she has worked for 11 years. She studied at the University of Wales College of Medicine and has worked in many specialities as a doctor. Gemma had also gained additional qualifications in gynaecology, family planning and integrative medicine. She is passionate about the study of psychology and meditation, and is also a qualified Jikiden Reiki practitioner having studied this as well as Western style Reiki for the purposes of pain relief.

Gemma is an advisory board member of Plant Based Health Professionals UK and has contributed content on the topic of Diabetes for the Winchester University Plant Based Nutrition Course. As a broadcaster and writer she has been featured on ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News Sunrise. She has spoken on many podcasts including The Rich Roll Podcast and the Deliciously Ella podcast, and is regularly invited to teach other doctors and the general public via training programmes, podcasts and conferences about the benefits of plant-based nutrition. Ultimately she hopes her passionate for healing of mind, body and planet become contagious!

This episode is full of information, inspiration, helpful advice and even a couple of powerful patient-related stories. In it Gemma discusses many topics including:

• How the plant-based lifestyle has changed her life, her family's lives and her professional life
• Why she became a General Practitioner
• Her view that the body has a natural ability to heal itself
• How her husband inspired her to adopt a plant-based diet
• The very first patient she suggested try a plant-based diet
• Understanding the difference between a patient and a doctor's agenda in a health consultation
• Some thoughts on seeking good lifestyle advice from your doctor
• Some of the good online sources of lifestyle information
• Working through the dietary confusion that seems to be everywhere
• Her view that a whole food plant-based diet is the best all-round diet
• Dealing with the varying quality and amount of evidence
• How we all respond well to engaging stories
• Another great story of a patient reversing a range of medical disorders and stopping his medications
• How putting on your "GLOVES" (an acronym for Gratitude, Love, Organic, Veggies, Exercise and Sleep) will help improve your health
• The benefit of journalling as a tool for gratitude
• Her own preference for transcendental meditation
• How she talks to patients about love
• The health value of eating organic vegetables and fruit
• How she individualises advice about exercise
• The benefits of blue light glasses and turning off our screens in the evening
• Her philosophy on the use of medications as a practicing doctor
• How antibiotics can affect our microbiome
• How alcohol might affect the microbiome by "sterilising" our gut
• How Gemma lives a regular week in her life
• Her admission that she knows she could do better with her sleep

Gemma has a growing and well-deserved public profile, particularly because of her heavily science-based plant-based nutrition and healthy lifestyle advocacy. I loved talking with her.

Please enjoy listening to Dr Gemma Newman.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to help you to become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious through a plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused way of living. I hope to inspire and empower you with scientific evidence, helpful information and real-life stories, based on eating mostly plant foods, being physically active, particularly in nature, sleeping well, being mindful and refining both the connections in your life and your purpose.

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Links related to Dr Gemma Newman

Dr Gemma Newman's website

Gemma Newman on Instagram

Gemma Newman on Twitter

Gemma Newman on Facebook

Links to people and resources (in order of mentioning)

Lifestyle medicine

Plant-based Health Professionals UK

Plant-based nutrition course (with University of Winchester)

Gemma Newman on the Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Retreat with Rich Roll & Julie Piatt

Gordon the Gopher

The Broom Cupboard

Book "Finding Ultra" (by Rich Roll)

Scott Jurek

Book "Eat & Run" (by Scott Jurek)

Brendan Brazier

Books by Brendan Brazier

Plant-based nutrition

Desmond Tutu

British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Dr David Katz

True Health Initiative

Lyon Diet Heart Study

PREDIMED study

The Paddison Program

Dr Caldwell Esselstyn

Dr Dean Ornish

Dr Esselstyn's research study

Dr Ornish's research study

Dr Kevin Hall

Dr Kevin Hall's research study

Diet and prostate cancer study

Transcendental meditation

Study of organic food and cancer

Environmental Working Group

Dirty Dozen

Clean Fifteen

Four Minute Nitric Oxide Workout

New Normal Project podcast - Episode 53 with John Orchard

10,000 step initiative

Study on fruit and vegetable intake

Buddha bowl

Intensive care medicine

Australian list of plant-based practitioners

International list of plant-based practitioners

Mastering Intensive Care podcast

Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 49 with Hugh Montgomery

Dr Jackie Busse

Links related to New Normal Project podcast

New Normal Project podcast

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

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In this episode New Normal Project podcast host, Dr Andrew Davies, encourages you to take action.

In an aim to inspire and empower you to live a more plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, and to move towards your new normal, Andrew discusses what's been happening recently for him.

Andrew talks about:

• How he's been going with some of the recent guest-inspired challenges he took on
• What's been recently happening for him personally in one of the healthy lifestyle pillars - mindfulness
• Two recently published scientific papers he thinks are worth knowing about
• What he's been reading and listening to in the form of books and podcasts

The information and stories you hear on this podcast should inspire you to make choices in the way you lead your life so you can live vibrantly, happily, purposefully, for a long time, disease-free, and above all with a low risk of ever being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, the place Andrew works.

Hopefully you'll hear something that will help you make a better choice about the way you live your life. And perhaps you might take on a challenge yourself for the next 28 days. Or even 7 days. Small steps are important. Incremental change, particularly around habits, might be the most beneficial thing you ever do for your health. Live well, feel well, do well. Andrew ------------------------------------

About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. You'll hopefully glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious. ------------------------------------

Links to people and other resources (in order of mentioning)

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 57) - New Normal in Action (Oct 2019)

One Year No Beer

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 46) with Andy Ramage

Dr John Orchard

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 53) with John Orchard

Natalie and Stuart McIntosh

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 52) with Natalie & Stuart McIntosh

Ashley Jubinville

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 54) with Ashley Jubinville

PlantProof podcast

Adam Guthrie

New Normal Project podcast (Episode 58) with Adam Guthrie

Headspace (Meditation app)

Calm (Meditation app)

Scientific paper on soft drinks - JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Sep 3. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2478

Article in The Age on running 50 minutes a week

Scientific paper on running - Br J Sports Med. 2019 Nov 4. pii: bjsports-2018-100493. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-100493

WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity

Audio Book: "The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World" (by Robert Garland)

Professor Robert Garland

Book "Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon" (by Ed Caesar)

Ed Caesar

Video of Eliud Kipchoge running 1:59:40 marathon

Geoffrey Mutai

Rich Roll Podcast with Dean Karnazes

Finding Mastery Podcast with Mick Fanning

Howie Games Podcast with Scott McLaughlin

The Game Changers

Links related to New Normal Project podcast resources

New Normal Project podcast

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

Email Andrew Davies

Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66

Andrew Davies on Twitter: @andrewdavies66

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On this episode my inspiring guest is Adam Guthrie, whose health and vitality was amazingly transformed when he found out about and then adopted a whole food plant-based diet after having a heart attack at age 39.

Adam started his career as a chef but his vocation drifted into real estate where he was overeating junk food and became overweight and depressed. And despite thinking that his vegetarian diet was healthy, Adam had a heart attack at age 39.

In this podcast, Adam tells you what it felt like to have a heart attack, the medical treatment he received and his cardiologist's advice that he would need life long heart medications.

Adam now wishes his doctor had given him the option of transitioning to a whole food plant-based diet as, having done so, he is now amazingly fit and healthy; so much so that he no longer needs the medication, surfs most days, and has even completed an ironman triathlon.

His current lifestyle includes a diet full of vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains, a daily meditation practice and abstinence from alcohol. And he now hopes to help people to live this way, through classes, courses, events, retreats and the I Feel Good magazine.

Adam can be found through his website, on Instagram (@adamguthrie) and if you are in Australia you might be interested to join him at one of the events on his current Australian tour (adamguthrie.com/events).

Adam has a truly inspiring health transformation story and is powerfully influencing people through his gentle and humble manner. After listening to this episode I think you'll find it hard not to take at least something Adam says away with you.

In the episode you'll hear:

• How Adam's unhappiness in his work led to poor eating, obesity and depression
• The story of his heart attack whilst surfing in the ocean
• How he didn't like the idea of taking medications for the rest of his life
• How he then found online that several doctors were reversing heart disease with food
• The benefits he found from adopting a wholefood plant-based diet
• The 2 questions he asks before he eats a food item
• Some of the foods he thinks are more processed than you might think
• The ease of eating whole food plant-based, even when traveling
• The simple step of switching to a plant-based version of your regular meals
• Some tips for starting off in whole food plant-based food preparation
• The classes, courses and events he is running
• The importance of support and time in dietary transition
• The book that helped him start his body, mind and spiritual journey as a 21 year old
• Why he stopped drinking alcohol
• How this led him to embrace spirituality and meditation
• Some advice for people wanting to take their first steps

Please enjoy listening to Adam Guthrie.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about the healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. I hope you'll glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned:

Adam Guthrie

Adam Guthrie on Instagram @adamguthrie

I Feel Good Magazine and online programs

I Feel Good Magazine on Instagram @ifeelgoodmagazine

I Feel Good on Facebook

Adam Guthrie's events

Link to a free 12 month subscription

The China Study

Dr Joel Fuhrman

Dr John McDougall

Dr Caldwell Esselstyn

Dr Dean Ornish

Dr Michael Klaper

Plant-Based Nutrition eCornell Certificate Program

Book "Fit for Life" (by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond)

I Feel Good Magazine

Rich Roll Podcast episode with Kevin Smith

Book "You can heal your life" (by Louise Hay)

Plant Proof podcast with Adam Guthrie

Better Than Yesterday podcast with Adam Guthrie

SpudFit podcast with Adam Guthrie

Corinne Nijjer podcast with Adam Guthrie

Mastering Intensive Care podcast

Episode 48 of Mastering Intensive Care podcast with Laura Rock

Episode 57 of New Normal Project podcast - The New Normal in Action (10/Oct/2019)

New Normal Project podcast

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

Email Andrew Davies

Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66

Andrew Davies on Twitter: @andrewdavies66

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In this episode New Normal Project podcast host, Dr Andrew Davies, tries something new.

In an aim to inspire and empower you to live a more plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, and to consolidate his own new normal, Andrew discusses what's been happening recently for him.

Andrew talks about:

• How he's been going with 2 of the recent guest-inspired challenges he took on
• What's been recently happening for him personally in one of the healthy lifestyle pillars - physical activity
• 2 recently published scientific papers he found valuable to know about
• What he's been reading, listening to and watching in the form of books, podcasts and videos

The information and stories you hear on this podcast should inspire you to make choices in the way you lead your life so you can live vibrantly, happily, purposefully, for a long time, disease-free, and above all with a low risk of ever being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, the place Andrew works.

Hopefully you'll hear something that will help you make a better choice about the way you live your life. And perhaps you might take on a challenge yourself for the next 28 or even 7 days. Small steps are important. Incremental change, particularly around habits, might be the most beneficial thing you ever do for your health.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. You'll hopefully glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned:

One Year No Beer

The 28 Day Alcohol Free Challenge book

Dr John Orchard

Melbourne marathon

Scientific paper on physical activity - BMJ. 2019 Aug 21;366:l4570. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4570

Scientific paper on dietary trends - JAMA. 2019 Sep 24;322(12):1178-1187. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.13771

Book "Factfulness" (by Hans Rosling)

Hans Rosling

Rich Roll Podcast with Ryan Holiday

Finding Mastery Podcast with David Sinclair

Tim Ferris Show Podcast with David Allen

Getting Things Done website

Documentary Film "The Game Changers"

Louis Psihoyos

James Wilks

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Scott Jurek

Morgan Mitchell

Patrik Baboumian

Rip Esselstyn

Dean Ornish

Scott Stoll

Caldwell Esselstyn

Kim Williams

New Normal Project podcast

Episode 43 of New Normal Project podcast with Kim Williams

Episode 46 of New Normal Project podcast with Andy Ramage

Episode 48 of New Normal Project podcast with Caldwell Esselstyn

Episode 49 of New Normal Project podcast with Scott Stoll

Episode 50 of New Normal Project podcast

Episode 53 of New Normal Project podcast with John Orchard

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

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Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66

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This week's guest is triathlete and Ultraman Brad Dalrymple.

With most of the recent episodes focused on how plant-based eating can improve health and fight disease, it's time to change tack and discuss what else a plant-based diet can do - in terms of improving and sustaining athletic performance.

Exercise is vital to our health. It helps us to move our bodies and to enjoy nature. Exercise also allows us to participate in sport, thereby utilising the healthy competitive urge we have as humans so we can go further, go faster or be stronger. If that's what we want.

For me, when I hear of someone who exercises harder, longer and faster than I do, I take notice. And when they do this on a plant-based diet, and they perform amazingly, recovering better than the average athlete, they are worth taking significant notice of.

A bit over a decade ago, Brad Dalrymple was a regular Australian man, working as an environmental engineer, and playing a few ball sports in his mid-late 20s. When his father had a double knee replacement, Brad wondered whether the lateral knee movement involved in ball sports was all that good for his future. So he took up the sport of triathlon, a multi-sport event combining swimming, cycling and running.

Previously, Brad had given up dairy to help with stomach pains and when he later discovered that a growing number of plant-based athletes around the world were excelling in their sporting disciplines, he decided to try eating a strict plant-based diet himself.

As he talks about on this podcast, Brad found this was hugely beneficial to his performances, and indeed his recovery. So much so, he decided to take on the Ultraman event, a gruelling 3 day multi-sport event of swimming 10km, cycling 421km and running 84km.

One of the predominant reasons Brad took on the Ultraman was to influence those around him who didn't seem to like him telling them they should adopt a plant-based diet. Instead he decided to show them just what he could do by completing this taxing event totally fuelled by plants.

Brad has much to inspire us all with. In it you'll also hear him talk about:

• His background in work, life and sport
• How triathletes are rarely experts in all of the individual sports
• The fear he felt in his first triathlon
• His attraction to the social aspect of triathlon training
• The benefits from having a coach
• The resources he used in adopting a plant-based diet
• How dietary changes may work better than buying the latest triathlon equipment
• His race nutrition
• His weekly training and his daily nutrition
• His recent juice fast and some thoughts about exercise consuming less food
• Some thoughts on sleep
• His job in protecting our oceans from pollution
• Just how badly this pollution, particularly plastic, is damaging our marine environment
• His own Ocean Protect podcast
• And some parting advice about giving things a go

You can find Brad on Instagram (@braddalrymple) and you can listen to his Ocean Protect podcast here.

Please enjoy listening to Brad Dalrymple.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. I hope you'll glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned:

Brad Dalrymple on Instagram (@braddalrymple)

Ultraman Australia

Mooloolaba triathlon

Book "Fit for Life" (by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond)

Book "Thrive" (by Brendan Brazier)

Book "Finding Ultra" (by Rich Roll)

Rich Roll Podcast

Book "The Plant Power Way" (by Rich Roll & Julie Piatt)

Ocean Protect

Ocean Protect podcast

Bali Hope Swimrun

Forks Over Knives app

Documentary "Forks Over Knives"

Documentary "What The Health"

Plant Powered Mothers podcast

Mastering Intensive Care podcast

Plant Fit Summit

New Normal Project podcast

Episode 2 of New Normal Project podcast with Rich Roll & Julie Piatt

Episode 55 of New Normal Project podcast with Aggie & Kasia of Plant Powered Mothers

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

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Andrew Davies on Instagram: @andrewdavies66

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This week on the podcast you'll meet Aggie and Kasia, the Plant Powered Mothers.

Come and join us as I ask them about their transitions to a plant-based lifestyle and the advocacy they do through the Plant Powered Mothers podcast. You can find them at www.plantpoweredmothers.com.

After a decent gap between episodes here is a conversation with 2 first cousins focused on "helping other mums to make informed decisions about the food they eat and the food they feed their families".

Aggie is an intensive care nurse who struggles because the Intensive Care treatment model does not teach patients how to reverse or prevent chronic disease. Once Aggie discovered the many benefits of a wholefood plant-based diet she completed the certificate in Plant Based Nutrition through eCornell University to help educate and guide others to make the connection between food and disease. As a wife and mother of three, Aggie tells a great story of her family's transition to a plant-based lifestyle.

Kasia has a background in writing and is also a wife and mother of three. Her passion for plant-based nutrition began after her husband treated his high blood pressure very successfully with dietary change. After Kasia's mother died at 44 from a stroke she worried about having inherited bad genes but has since learnt how effectively an entirely plant-based diet heals the human body and prevents disease. By cutting out all animal products from her families diet, they have all been far healthier.

These women are doing a great job telling their stories and inspiring mums to improve what they are eating and serving to their families. And you don't have to be a mother to listen to this one. Whatever your role in life, in this podcast you'll hear some great ways of thinking about the plant-based lifestyle. Aggie and Kasia keep it simple, tell stories, bounce off each other for inspiration and, best of all, are building community around a plant-powered lifestyle, something that can help us all.

In this episode Kasia and Aggie talk about:

• Each of their plant-based diet transition experiences
• The powerful effects their family members have observed
• The general boost in the energy of their families
• The benefit of having each other in their transition to a plant-based diet
• How they now handle eating with family and friends
• The best ways to deal with kid's birthday parties and snacks
• Their advocacy through the Plant Powered Mothers podcast and social media
• Some of their favourite plant-based meals
• And many other things

You can find Kasia and Aggie at https://plantpoweredmothers.com/

Please also follow them on Instagram and on Facebook. You can also join their Facebook group here.

After the interview, you'll hear about an exciting, informative and free online summit that is coming up from August 31st to September 8th 2019. It is a series of 29 full-length interviews with many well-known advocates for plant-based eating. Listen to this podcast to hear more or simply go to https://plantfitsummit.com/

Please enjoy listening to Kasia and Aggie, the Plant Powered Mothers.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. I hope you'll glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned

Plant Powered Mothers website

Plant Powered Mothers on Facebook

Plant Powered Mothers Tribe on Facebook

Plant Powered Mothers on Instagram: @plantpoweredmothers

Documentary "Vegucated"

Book "Forks Over Knives - The Cook Book"

Plant-Based Nutrition eCornell Certificate Program

Episode 54 of New Normal Project podcast with Ashley Jubinville

Plant Fit Summit

Episode 45 of New Normal Project podcast with Neal Barnard

Episode 51 of New Normal Project podcast with Alan Desmond

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New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

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How might you make your next meal even just slightly more healthy?

Could you organize your kitchen to make it easier to eat well?

Can you maximize the amazing benefits of phytonutrients in your food?

I hope you'll be thinking about these questions after listening to this episode of the New Normal Project show with Ashley Jubinville.

Ashley is The Kitchen Coach, helping families find successful strategies in their transition to a healthier, whole food diet while juggling the daily stresses in their world. An effervescent, determined Canadian, Ashley has a no-nonsense, cut-through-the-noise-and-confusion approach that has been an absolute game-changer for thousands of families.

With 18 years of research, practice, engineering and passion, Ashley has discovered a formula of success that has her working with clients across the globe. Her unique approach with food, recipes, and her quirky engineering mind, can help get you organised, on-track, and loving the kitchen again. She has done what many doctors told her was impossible with her own personal health challenges since childhood and now helps others prevent the trial, error, time, and frustration in figuring out how to navigate the world of food sensitivities, kitchen organisation and how to get more whole foods into your world.

Ashley's work is her passion, and you can find her sharing her wealth of knowledge through her online programs, cooking up a storm in the kitchen, public speaking, and writing her new book!

In this episode Ashley speaks about:

• Spending time with her Dad in their Canadian vegetable garden
• Learning from her Mum's cooking and preserving of food
• The privilege of fresh food in Australia
• Her health decline as an engineer in her early 20s
• How she was diagnosed with coeliac disease
• What she did when she realized this was an auto-immune condition
• How quickly her back pain disappeared when gluten was excluded
• The value of noticing strong aversions and cravings to specific foods
• The label she now uses for chemically affected foods
• How much her sense of taste improved when she gave up dairy
• The importance of phytonutrients in our diet
• The common misunderstanding about protein and meat
• How her job as a household cook for a family turned into a business
• Some of the strategies she uses when she coaches families
• How quickly children can change their diets
• Her audacious vision for The Kitchen Coach
• How 90% of chronic disease is lifestyle-related and preventable
• Her approach of taking people slowly and only as far as they want to go
• Some examples of the families she has helped significantly
• And some advice for my daughter's picky eating

You can find Ashley at http://thekitchencoach.com. Please also follow her on Instagram, on Facebook or on Youtube.

Ashley has a gift for New Normal Project podcast listeners. It's a free download of her "Cook With Me LIVE" Recipe Series 1 eBook, containing 27 delicious recipes that will help either those in love with, or those just dabbling in plant powered foods! Please go directly to this link: Cook With Me LIVE Recipe Series 1 eBook

After the interview, I tell you about a recently published scientific paper on the value of healthy plant foods, I update you on some of my recent challenges, and I let you know the challenge I'll be making based on the discussion in this episode.

Please enjoy listening to Ashley Jubinville.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. I hope you'll glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned

The Kitchen Coach website

Ashley Jubinville on Instagram

Ashley Jubinville on Facebook

Ashley Jubinville on Youtube

Cook With Me LIVE Recipe Series 1 eBook (Ashley's gift to you)

The Whole Connection

Scientific article in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Book "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" (Walter Willett, with P.J. Skerrett)

Nurses' Health Study

Health Professionals Follow Up Study

Episode 2 of New Normal Project podcast with Rich Roll & Julie Piatt

Episode 46 of New Normal Project podcast with Andy Ramage

Episode 53 of New Normal Project podcast with John Orchard

Episode 444 of the Rich Roll Podcast with Andy Ramage

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New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

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How much daily exercise is required to have health benefits?

Which diseases can be prevented and even treated with exercise?

How can you exercise to prevent an overuse injury?

These are just three of the important questions you'll hear the answers to in this Masterclass on the effects of exercise on your health.

My guest on the podcast this week is Sport and Exercise Medicine Doctor, John Orchard, who has a combination career in professional sport and sports administration, clinical sports medicine practice and research. John and I studied Medicine together at the University of Melbourne, and John now works in Sydney where amongst other appointments he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. John is well respected as one of the leading sport and exercise physicians in Australia, and indeed internationally. His main area of clinical specialisation is muscle and tendon injuries of the lower limb and his general research stream is sports injury epidemiology and prevention. John works as the Chief Medical Officer for Cricket Australia and also has 20 years of experience working in various professional football codes in Australia.

In this episode John answered an array of questions on many aspects of the health effects of exercise activity. Whether you have been trying to exercise more, whether you don't know how much and which type of activity is best, or whether you are already an endurance athlete wondering whether there are any downsides, this episode should be very valuable.

John is a long-time friend of mine so he gave me some time to talk about topics like:

• What sport and exercise medicine actually is
• How exercise may have a better benefit/risk profile than many drugs
• The amount of exercise we all need to derive health benefits
• Increasing beyond moderate exercise improves performance but not health
• Which diseases can be prevented and even treated with exercise
• How a simple step counter is as effective as the expensive ones
• The dangers of both over and under exercise for our musculoskeletal system
• How much chronic use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increases the risk of cardiovascular disease
• Which pursuits lead to most musculoskeletal injuries
• How overuse injuries are mostly due to increases in exercise load
• His view on how inactivity has led to more hip and knee replacements
• Some thoughts on the benefits of sit/stand desks
• The cardiac arrhythmia that endurance athletes are prone to
• The conditions under which endurance exercise seems less risky
• When a sport and exercise medicine doctor is useful

After the interview, I talk about a recent ultra-marathon I completed, how I went with the challenge I made last episode, and the challenge I'll make for the next 28 days.

Please enjoy listening to John Orchard.

Live well, feel well, do well.

Andrew Davies

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About the New Normal Project podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to live your most plant-based, body-moving and mind-focused lifestyle, by hearing about healthy lifestyle pillars such as nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, sleep, connection and purpose. I hope you'll glean insights to help you make choices about your habits so you become more healthy, fulfilled and conscious.

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Links to people, organisations & other resources mentioned

John Orchard's website

John Orchard on Twitter: @DrJohnOrchard

John Orchard on LinkedIn

Sport and exercise medicine in Australia

School of Public Health, Sydney University

h-index

Cricket World Cup

Cricket Australia

American Journal of Sports Medicine

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Selected publications from John Orchard

Further publications from John Orchard

PubMed

Great Ocean Road Running Festival

Coeliac disease

Dr Malcolm Mackay

Dr Paul Froomes

Episode 52 of New Normal Project podcast with Natalie and Stuart McIntosh

New Normal Project podcast

New Normal Project website

New Normal Project on Facebook

New Normal Project on Instagram: @newnormalproject

New Normal Project on Twitter: @newnormalproj

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