Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

By Howard Jacobson, PhD

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Plant-based inspiration, guidance, and support for a joyful and vibrant life

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06.21.2022

Our bad habits can have deep roots, and superficial solutions only cause more distress. How can we pull out dysfunctional behaviors at the roots?

Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle episodes:

08.18.2020 What We Know About COVID-19: The Science Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423 Michael Rothberg, MD, returns to Plant Yourself to share the latest actual scientific understanding of COVID-19. We spoke first in mid-March, when we didn't know much. Fast forward five months, and we now know a lot, but in the US ...
08.18.2020 What We Know About COVID-19: The Science: Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423 Michael Rothberg, MD, returns to Plant Yourself to share the latest actual scientific understanding of COVID-19. We spoke first in mid-March, when we didn't know much. Fast forward five months, and we now know a lot, but in the US ...
08.11.2020 The Stunning New Science of Breathing: Dr Ryan Robinson on PYP 422 Ryan Robinson, DDS, is a unicorn in the medical world: a dentist who helps people open up their airways and learn how to breathe properly.
08.07.2020 Are Your Mutual Funds Building the World You Want? Marco Vangelisti on PYP 421 If you're fortunate enough to have savings, you've probably thought about how to invest them responsibly. The standard answer is to stick your money into no-load mutual funds that track the market and leave it there for as long as ...
08.04.2020 Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy: Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD on PYP 420 The COVID-19 pandemic is not a great time to be pregnant, according to my guests, Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro of The Pregnancy Advantage. It is, on the other hand, a terrific time to prepare to get pregnant. How does ...
08.04.2020 Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy with Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD: PYP 420 The COVID-19 pandemic is not a great time to be pregnant, according to my guests, Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro of The Pregnancy Advantage. It is, on the other hand, a terrific time to prepare to get pregnant. How does ...
07.28.2020 Healing from Racism with Bianca and Michael Alexander: PYP 419 I reached out to Bianca and Michael because I was turning into an asshole. Specifically, I was full of rage and outrage and judgment at all the racists out there. And the fact that I was right, and on the ...
07.21.2020 Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100: Marta Zaraska on PYP 418 ?? For the last 7 years, I've worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management. Turns out I may have been missing the most important determinants of health ...
07.21.2020 Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100 with Marta Zaraska: PYP 418 For the last 7 years, I've worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management. Turns out I may have been missing the most important determinants of health - ...
07.14.2020 Empowering Black Health with Lisa A Smith: PYP 417 Lisa A Smith is a serial entrepreneur who's made it her life's work to empower the Black community with information, skills, and philosophies that support health, peace of mind, and mutual support.
07.07.2020 Empathy is Stronger than Fear: Glenn Murphy on PYP 416 Glenn Murphy returns to Plant Yourself to talk about how we can self-regulate our emotions and actions during a time of great societal upheaval and division. We talk about our own impulses to “fight” with others, and where there's a ...
07.07.2020 Empathy is Stronger than Fear with Glenn Murphy: PYP 416 Glenn Murphy returns to Plant Yourself to talk about how we can self-regulate our emotions and actions during a time of great societal upheaval and division. We talk about our own impulses to "fight" with others, and where there's a ...
06.30.2020 Going from Racist to Anti-racist with Dustin and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 415 Dustin and Josh LaJaunie have amazing transformation stories. They went from obese to fit. From junk food addicts to plant-based eaters. From hunters to vegans. From sedentary to active. And, as you'll see and hear, from racist to antiracist.
06.24.2020 The Role of Science in Public Discourse and Racial Justice: Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MDs: PYP 414 Team Sherzai, aka Dean and Ayesha, join me on the podcast to talk about the role of science and scientists in dealing with all the false statements propagated on social media (as well as, occasionally, traditional media). What the Sherzais ...
06.16.2020 The Key to Human Resilience with Scott Carney: PYP 413 Most of my work as a health coach involves helping people respond differently to stimuli. That is, develop the ability to make different choices when confronted with tempting foods, tempting environments, tempting people, and tempting sensations, emotions, and thoughts. Think ...
06.09.2020 How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease: Richard Kwok on PYP 412 Today's podcast was recorded before most of today's front page news was front page news. However, with COVID-19 and the uprising for racial justice, the themes we talk about in this conversation are highly topical. Enjoy… Richard Kwok is an ...
06.09.2020 How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease with Richard Kwok: PYP 412 Richard Kwok is an environmental researcher who studies the effects of environmental pollution on human health. He's also my neighbor, and we met while cleaning up litter and quickly discovered a lot of interests in common. While the environment doesn't ...
06.03.2020 The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis: Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD on PYP 411 Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness. Dr Jankovic Weatherly is a real stickler for evidence of efficacy, whatever ...
06.03.2020 The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis with Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD: PYP 411 Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness. Dr Jankovic Weatherly is a real stickler for evidence of efficacy, whatever ...
05.29.2020 Tidings of Comfort or Joy: PYP 410 One day my grandfather punched someone in the face over some disagreement. The recipient of the blow, wounded more in pride than body, wobbled to a seat on the curb and began yelling, "Iodine! Police! Iodine! Police!"
05.26.2020 Staying off the Trauma Train with Shay Seaborne: PYP 409 Shay Seaborne is a trauma survivor, educator, and activist dedicated to demystifying trauma and helping people heal from - and with - Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). In our far-ranging conversation, we covered the origins of trauma, the mistaken ...
05.19.2020 How to Succeed at (Small, Heart-Centered) Business with Mark Silver: PYP 408 Mark Silver helps solo entrepreneurs and micro-businesses thrive through heartfelt business practices. The tagline for his company, Heart of Business, is "Every act of business can be an act of love." I wanted to pick Mark's brain on behalf of ...
05.14.2020 Do You Want to Play a Game?: PYP 407 One of the hot trends in behavior modification is gamification: that is, turning our goals and activities into behavioral chunks in order to win points and, sometimes, prizes. Gamification has its place, but there are a couple of pitfalls to ...
05.13.2020 Why I won’t “wish you luck”: PYP 406 Often a coaching client will end a session by saying, "Wish me luck" after setting a goal and making a plan to achieve it. In health coaching, this phrase is a huge red flag that the client is going to ...
05.12.2020 The Magic of Fiber with Will Bulsiewicz: PYP 405 What's the most important dietary rule? Is raw better than cooked food? Why shouldn't I always avoid foods that give me an upset stomach? This conversation with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, author of the just-published Fiber Fueled, will make you rethink ...
05.11.2020 When There’s Nothing More to be Done: PYP 404 Sometimes I hear from clients that they've done all they can, and they can't move the needle. They're stuck. They've hit a plateau. And there's simply nothing more to be done. What do we do then? ============================================= Tip Jar: https://plantyourself.com/gift ...
05.07.2020 Changing Your Thinking Isn’t Enough: PYP 403 Say you want to stop eating junk food, or drinking soda, or watching porn, or whatever. Maybe you've read a motivating article or seen a video, or gotten a scary medical result, or just got fed up at your current ...
05.06.2020 How to Eat Less During a Pandemic: PYP 402 Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we're often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse. It's easy to say, "Just eat less," but it's not that easy to do. In this ...
05.05.2020 Gardening Our Way Through Calamity with Will Bonsall: PYP 401 Will Bonsall is a self-described "back-to-the-land hippie homesteader," and author of two extremely important and prescient books: Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical Self-Reliant Gardening, and Through the Eyes of a Stranger, an adventure novel that explores what a sustainable ...
05.01.2020 The Power of Incantations: PYP 400 In the Jewish tradition, we say "Blessed is the righteous judge" upon hearing of a death. That's pretty much the opposite of how we may feel at that moment. We'd rather lash out at the unfairness of it, rather than ...
04.28.2020 Exploring Digital Spirituality with Gregory Grieve: PYP 399 Meditation apps have become a huge market. Headspace, Calm, 10% Happier, Insight Timer, and others promise stress relief, better health, and even spiritual contentment to users. Gregory Price Grieve, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, ...
04.21.2020 Liberating Humans and Animals with Michael Schwarz: PYP 398 Michael Schwarz is the founder of Treeline Cheese, a plant-based cheese company dedicated to ending the suffering caused by the animal-based dairy industry. He's also the child of one of the great heroes of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Harry ...
04.17.2020 The Power of Diversity: PYP 397 One of the factors that weakens any system - a garden, a community, a nation - is lack of diversity. Monocultures provide economies of scale, but also opportunities for scaled disaster. A messy, diverse ecosystem is far healthier and more ...
04.16.2020 Gardening with Nature: PYP 396 Today I talk about one element of my gardening practice and philosophy: working with, rather than against nature. This includes growing perennials, mulching with wood chips, and refraining from unnecessary tilling.
04.15.2020 Investing for an Uncertain Future: PYP 395 Those of us in one kind or another of "limbo" - life, career, relationship - are all facing the same question: what do we do with our time and energy right now to support our future? When the future is ...
04.14.2020 Self-Care: PYP 394 Some of us have had more time for self-care over the past few weeks than we even know what to do with. And we're loving it. How can we take advantage of this time to make ourselves, our families, our ...
04.13.2020 Homecoming: PYP 393 How we got home from South Africa. (Not particularly interesting; just an update for folks who've been listening for the past two weeks and were wondering what happened to us.) Returning tomorrow with a clear and rested head, for all ...
04.08.2020 Corks in the Stream: PYP 392 We may be going home tomorrow. There are dozens of unknowns, and we have little to no control over any of them. I'll stay in touch as I can!
04.07.2020 Weaving a Web of Generosity: PYP 391 In tough times, you might expect people to hunker down and hoard what's theirs. We see some of that these days, for sure. But we also see incredible displays of generosity. I personally am benefiting from the generosity of my ...
04.06.2020 Training Montage: PYP 390 People are comparing their experience of lockdown as an endless repetition of Goundhog Day, the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a man trapped in the same day over and over again. What I recall about that movie was, once Bill ...
04.05.2020 Sifting Through Conspiracies: PYP 389 In a world full of conspiracy theories, how can we know what to believe? We can't. But we can choose to adopt worldviews based on whether they empower us to help ourselves, others, and the world.
04.04.2020 Decisions, Decisions: PYP 388 In these challenging times, we may think we have a lot of decisions to make. And we can agonize over those decisions and feel tremendous regret if they don't work out the way we hoped they would. But it's almost ...
04.03.2020 The Silver Lining of Constraints: PYP 387 I'm very very constrained these days. Locked down in a foreign country with luggage for a 3-week vacation, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Crappy internet, little social contact outside my family, and beautiful hikes all around ...
04.02.2020 The Gift of Boredom: PYP 386 Many of us are bored right now, in lockdown or sheltering in place. We can paper over our boredom with mindless consumption, or we can use it to begin a process of profound healing.
04.01.2020 Stress and Resilience in the Time of Pandemic with Glenn Murphy: PYP 385 Glenn Murphy returns to the podcast in the nick of time, to help understand, manage, and overcome stress reactions and symptoms in this time of fear, lockdown, and uncertainty. He shares an evolutionary perspective on why this pandemic produces stress ...
03.31.2020 Gratitude: PYP 384 It's easy for me (and I guess, a lot of us) to focus on the negative these days. I'm reminding myself daily to look for things to be grateful for - and finding them!
03.30.2020 What is Essential: PYP 383 In these strange times, we have an opportunity to remember what is essential, and what is fluff. Who are we really, and how can we carry that realization forward once we attain a new equilibrium?
03.29.2020 The Illusion and Reality of Control: PYP 382 In a world in which we have virtually no control, how do we assert control in a useful way?
03.28.2020 Cultivating Emotional Herd Immunity: PYP 381 Those of us who have survived difficult times - physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual - have a gift for the rest of society: the knowledge that we can handle what seems unmanageable, and grow from what seems diabolical. Let's share ...
03.28.2020 You and What Army?: PYP 380 A special Covid-19 Lockdown Edition of the Plant Yourself Podcast. Halfway through I realized I was using the wrong mic. If that's the worst thing that happens today, cool! Now is not the time to indulge in crappy food choices, ...

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Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle episodes:

What We Know About COVID-19: The Science Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423

What We Know About COVID-19: The Science: Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423

The Stunning New Science of Breathing: Dr Ryan Robinson on PYP 422

Are Your Mutual Funds Building the World You Want? Marco Vangelisti on PYP 421

Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy: Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD on PYP 420

Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy with Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD: PYP 420

Healing from Racism with Bianca and Michael Alexander: PYP 419

Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100: Marta Zaraska on PYP 418

Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100 with Marta Zaraska: PYP 418

Empowering Black Health with Lisa A Smith: PYP 417

Empathy is Stronger than Fear: Glenn Murphy on PYP 416

Empathy is Stronger than Fear with Glenn Murphy: PYP 416

Going from Racist to Anti-racist with Dustin and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 415

The Role of Science in Public Discourse and Racial Justice: Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MDs: PYP 414

The Key to Human Resilience with Scott Carney: PYP 413

How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease: Richard Kwok on PYP 412

How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease with Richard Kwok: PYP 412

The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis: Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD on PYP 411

The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis with Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD: PYP 411

Tidings of Comfort or Joy: PYP 410

Staying off the Trauma Train with Shay Seaborne: PYP 409

How to Succeed at (Small, Heart-Centered) Business with Mark Silver: PYP 408

Do You Want to Play a Game?: PYP 407

Why I won’t “wish you luck”: PYP 406

The Magic of Fiber with Will Bulsiewicz: PYP 405

When There’s Nothing More to be Done: PYP 404

Changing Your Thinking Isn’t Enough: PYP 403

How to Eat Less During a Pandemic: PYP 402

Gardening Our Way Through Calamity with Will Bonsall: PYP 401

The Power of Incantations: PYP 400

Exploring Digital Spirituality with Gregory Grieve: PYP 399

Liberating Humans and Animals with Michael Schwarz: PYP 398

The Power of Diversity: PYP 397

Gardening with Nature: PYP 396

Investing for an Uncertain Future: PYP 395

Self-Care: PYP 394

Homecoming: PYP 393

Corks in the Stream: PYP 392

Weaving a Web of Generosity: PYP 391

Training Montage: PYP 390

Sifting Through Conspiracies: PYP 389

Decisions, Decisions: PYP 388

The Silver Lining of Constraints: PYP 387

The Gift of Boredom: PYP 386

Stress and Resilience in the Time of Pandemic with Glenn Murphy: PYP 385

Gratitude: PYP 384

What is Essential: PYP 383

The Illusion and Reality of Control: PYP 382

Cultivating Emotional Herd Immunity: PYP 381

You and What Army?: PYP 380