PLANTSTRONG Podcast

As busy families, it’s easy to catch yourself coming and going, shoveling back quick meals without even thinking, and prioritizing convenience over health, especially when you’re constantly pressed for time. 

You know you’re supposed to incorporate healthier eating habits for your whole family, but HOW?

Enter board-certified pediatrician, certified lifestyle medicine physician, health coach, and mother of two, Dr. Yami! 

Dr. Yami’s work and her private practice focus on how families can start to integrate more whole plant-based foods into their diets and adopt other healthy lifestyle habits even when moving a million miles a minute.

Easier said than done, right? 

Well, Dr. Yami literally wrote the book to help families in this transition. A Parent’s Guide to Intuitive Eating: How to Raise Kids Who Love to Eat Healthy, is packed with research and support to help parents and families work together on creating a healthier lifestyle. 

We talk all about body shaming and how to get your kids to eat whole-food plant-based without forcing it down their throats and allowing them to follow their kind of intuitive eating clues. 

Even if you’re not a parent, you’ll love the advice of Dr. Yami, especially if you consider yourself to be a picky eater (spoiler alert: most of us are). 

As Dr. Yami says, we can’t necessarily control what our bodies look like, but we can control how we view them, and her work is all about starting an ongoing conversation with your family about getting healthier TOGETHER.

And that’s what it’s all about!

You'll hear: 

• Dr. Yami’s many credentials and certifications
• Why did she write Intuitive Eating and How to Raise Kids Who Love to Eat Healthy?
• Dr. Yami shares her own personal journey to plants and her TEDx talk inspiration
• Dr. Yami is finally a proud “Super Pooper” after decades of constipation and Miralax
• When and why Dr. Yami decided to open her own private practice, with an emphasis on nutrition health
• What exactly is “Intuitive Eating?”
• What happens when parents start to force kids into specific eating patterns and times? Why can this be a slippery slope?
• What about body image? How can we instill a positive body image in our children?
• Dr. Yami didn’t always have a positive body image. Why did she loathe her body and what has she done to feel better in her body?
• Rejecting weight stigma in kids - why this is such a complex issue and important to understand that poor nutrition and body image can affect anyone.
• How to work with “picky eaters” in the family (and this includes adults!)
• What do you think is the best way for a parent to frame a conversation with their children about starting to eat healthier in the household?
• Eating out! Yes - you can get plant-based meals at places like Taco Bell, Panda Express and Wendy’s! Dr. Yami shares some of her favorite finds in fast food restaurants. 

Episode Resources

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Dr. Yami’s TEDx Talk - “From Chicken to Chickpeas”

Dr. Yami’s Website

Veggie Fit Kids

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Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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We’re thrilled to bring you the gravity-defying, jaw-dropping, artistic calisthenic work of Raymond, “The Noodnick.” 

His strength, grace, and skill of his movements shouldn’t come as a surprise because Raymond is PLANTSTRONG, baby!  In fact, his Mom and Uncle were the original founders of the Nasoya Tofu brand that you see today in grocery stores. 

Raymond has fascinating stories and philosophies on life, love, nutrition, and compassion that he shares with his hundreds of thousands of followers and with us today. 

It was a breath of fresh air to chat with someone who seeks love and true fulfillment every second of the day, but the real magic is watching him fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

Episode Resources

Episode Webpage with Videos 

Watch the Episode on YouTube

“The Noodnick” Instagram - @thenoodnick

“The Noodnick” TikTok - @thenoodnick

Vivo Barefoot Shoes

Born Primitive

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Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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Today, we share a modern-day story of David and Goliath with Dr. Baxter Montgomery. 

In 1997, Dr. Montgomery opened Montgomery Heart and Wellness in Houston, Texas right in the shadows of the powerful and world-renowned campus of the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical center.   

As a board-certified cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Dr. Montgomery has treated thousands of patients with severe cardiovascular diseases, but he started to notice something. 

Even though he employed state-of-the-art procedures, interventions, ablations, and medications, his patients continued to grow weaker and sicker. 

Montgomery, instead, started researching nutrition’s role in disease reversal and found that - you guessed it- PLANTS were the common denominator in determining wellness. 

Today at Montgomery Heart and Wellness, Dr. Montgomery helps patients achieve optimal health and wellness through various nutrition programs. His goal? To get his patients to think beyond the script, improve their health, and reverse these chronic lifestyle diseases. 

He truly is a modern-day David fighting a giant Goliath medical system, but much like David, he’s ready, willing, and able to slay the dragon of lifestyle disease.

Episode Timestamps

6:00 Why he was inspired to take a different approach to medicine 

12:45 His own personal journey back to health that inspired his nutrition protocols 

16:45 Just do this for seven days!

22:50 The results are astounding

24:30 Changing the Health Care Paradigm - “Heart and Souls of a Champion” upcoming program

29:50 Is his facility and in-patient center?

31:20 What’s an LVAT?

32:40 What is Lipoprotein a?

35:00 Are his colleagues on board, or still resistant? 

39:00 Dr. Montgomery’s 3 pillars of optimal health

41:50 How can the human body heal itself so quickly?

45:35 Moderation is like running through quicksand.

47:40 How do his patients respond to his protocols and advice?

49:00 Why does he prescribe raw foods only for his patients? 

57:00 All about the upcoming four-day Open House and Red Carpet Gala 

1:02:00 How he is living his God-given passion

1:05:00 Bonus - Dr. Montgomery’s take on A-Fib and PVCs

Episode Resources

Episode Webpage

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Montgomery Heart and Wellness Website


Learn More About Montgomery Heart Open House and Gala - October 19th-22nd, 2022

To stock up on the best-tasting, most convenient, 100% PLANTSTRONG foods, including our broths and soups, check out all of our PLANTSTRONG products HERE.

Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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We are "fired up" to welcome a plantstrong firefighting sister, Cindy Thompson, to the PLANTSTRONG podcast. 

I was so moved by Cindy’s background of why she chose firefighting as a career, but it’s her journey to plants that makes her a true hero in my book.

In this male-dominated, meat-loving profession, she boldly took agency over her own health and, along the way, inspired others (including those macho male firefighters) to take a second look at their own plates and take the plantstrong journey with her.

Today, even though she’s retired from firefighting, she is still extinguishing the flames of disease and illness as a health and lifestyle coach, and, among many other credentials, is a licensed Food for Life Instructor for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Her business is called Tri-Mazing because, yes, she does triathlons for fun now, but when you are making food and lifestyle changes to benefit the health of the planet, the animals, and yourself, you are **Three Times Amazing**! 

And, we get a bonus surprise today because she whips up an amazing queso dip and shares that recipe with us today! 

Enjoy!

Episode Resources

Watch the Full Episode on YouTube

Get Cindy's Recipes and Resources from Today's Episode


To stock up on the best-tasting, most convenient, 100% PLANTSTRONG foods, including our broths and soups, check out all of our PLANTSTRONG products HERE.

Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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We’re going to introduce you to a word today that may be new but is something many of us unknowingly participate in on a daily basis.

That word is “carnism.”

Melanie Joy coined the word in her work as a Harvard-educated psychologist and author specializing in the psychology of eating animals, social transformation, and relationships.

What exactly is carnism? It’s the Invisible belief system in our culture that conditions us to eat certain animals and not others. Her book title actually sums it up perfectly, Why we Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. From birth, we’re conditioned to believe that cows, chickens, pigs, and fish are food…and, here in America, dogs and cats are pets. We don’t even question it. The fact that this belief system is so ingrained in our culture is, in fact, carnism. 

But, my friends, the tide is turning as people are waking up and becoming more aware that, 

• We don’t have to consume animals to survive and thrive

• There are better and more humane ways to treat animals – ALL of which deserve respect and dignity

• And, we simply don’t have to act against our core values as empathetic human beings

Awareness is the first step and with awareness, we are better able to think freely and act compassionately, to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships and a more equitable and sustainable world.

Episode Timestamps

11:00 Melanie’s Journey to veganism

15:25 Helping us understand carnism and how we’re a part of this invisible belief system

19:48 Carnism conditions us to act against our core values of compassion and empathy

24:00 In one day, more farm animals are slaughtered than the total number of people killed in all wars throughout history

24:30 Why carnism is a system of oppression and was this a big master plan?

26:00 Examples of carnistic defense mechanisms - 

30:00 The Three “N” - normal, necessary, and natural 

32:40 How do we piece the veil of carnism and start to dismantle the system? When you become aware of the system, you’re much less likely to be hijacked by it.

38:00 Are there classes and resources to learn more and develop effective communication skills around these topics?

38:42 Are we in a “meatocracy?”

41:06 How can this be so invisible if it’s so pervasive?

46:00 Why self-care and self-compassion are so important for change 

50:58 How do we lower the bar for compassion and make it easier for people to make choices that align more with their values?

54:45 Is she hopeful about the future?

59:55 Are there countries around the world that are heading in the right direction?

1:05:15 carism.org truly is a service organization

Episode Resources

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Episode Webpage

Buy Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

Carnism.org

Center for Effective Vegan Advocacy

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Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

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Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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Imagine being in the absolute prime of your life - 21 years old, going to school at Stanford to study Mechanical Engineering, playing sports for hours on end…and then, ABRUPTLY, it comes to a screeching halt when you are diagnosed with not one, not two, but three autoimmune diseases within a matter of months.

Today’s guest, Cyrus Khambatta, went from “soccer stud” to “chronic disease patient” in the blink of an eye when he was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, alopecia, and Type 1 diabetes in 2002. 

Determined to understand everything he could about these diagnoses, especially his diabetes, he went back to school to learn the science, earning a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from UC Berkeley. In 2020, he and his business partner, Robby Barbaro, co-authored the book, Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.

An educated person is an empowered person and that’s our goal for today - to arm you with as much knowledge, research, and hope that you can master your diabetes with a whole foods plant-based diet that, yes, includes plenty of carbohydrates and rich diversity of luscious fruit. 

Rip and Cyrus Discuss:

• 00:00-22:00 Cyrus’s journey - How did he go from student to chronic patient in a matter of months?

• 22:40 Learning a new nutrition perspective from Doug Graham

• 27:00 Why he went back to school to find out if he was, “a freak of nature”

• 29:00 How can the medical establishment be so wrong with its recommendations?

• 33:45 Digging into the science - Let’s go!

• 34:50 What the heck is insulin resistance?

• 42:20 So, if sugar doesn’t always cause insulin resistance, what does?

• 53:20 What are the most dangerous fats and what effect do they have on insulin resistance?

• 57:19 The keto/paleo argument - why does it appear to work?

• 1:05:45 The Mastering Diabetes Way - Low Fat - 10-15% calories, 10-15% from protein, the rest should come from whole food, plant-based carbs

• 1:07:15 Plant-based, eat at least 90% of calories from whole plant foods

• 1:08:15 Keep your foods unprocessed or minimally processed

• 1:10:55 But, don’t I need fat to feed my brain? 

• 1:14:30 Do we need a minimum amount of fat?

• 1:20:00 Is diabetes a disability for Cyrus?

• 1:23:10 What percentage of the population is affected by the different types of diabetes?

• 1:29:30 Why he and Robby Barbara started the Mastering Diabetes Community

• 1:32:10 Is Alzheimer's now Type3 diabetes?

• 1:35:00 The importance of daily movement and exercise

• 1:42:50 What is the Hegsted equation?

• 1:47:10 Cyrus’s thoughts on the Glycemic Index

• 1:53:00 What about gluten?

• 1:57:00 Is he a fan of caffeine?

• 2:01:45 What does Cyrus eat in a day?

• 2:04:22 What is the worst thing about having Type 1 Diabetes?

• 2:04:04 What is the best thing about having Type 1 Diabetes?

• 2:08:00 Join the Mastering Diabetes Challenge!

Cyrus Khambatta may have a Ph.D., but today he’s here to help you master your diabetes.

Episode Resources:

Episode Webpage

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Mastering Diabetes Website

Join the Mastering Diabetes Challenge

Order the Mastering Diabetes Book 

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To stock up on the best-tasting, most convenient, 100% PLANTSTRONG foods, check out all of our PLANTSTRONG products HERE.

Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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You know how my Mom and Sister just released their new book, Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior? Well, Jennifer Stojkovic is one of those warriors.

 In 2020, she founded Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a global media and events platform focused on empowering women to build a kinder, more sustainable world. She also recently released the fabulous book, The Future of Food is Female, highlighting fifteen female leaders, innovators, and changemakers in the plant-based food space.

It is rare to find someone as passionate and driven as Jenny is to elevate, showcase, and promote women working in food tech.  As she writes, “Food system reform is the greatest challenge facing humanity today - and women are leading the charge and changing how we approach food.” 

Today, Jenny shares her unconventional route from Canada to Silicon Valley, and we highlight several of the changemakers in her book, along with the many projects she leads - including the Vegan Women’s Summit - her flagship event that returns in 2023 with a three-day event in New York City.

There is no doubt that the work she is doing today will provide a roadmap for future generations on how we approach food.

More About The Future of Food is Female

With exclusive interviews and original insights, The Future of Food is Female features a collection of cross-cultural stories from fifteen CEOs, venture capitalists, scientists, and trailblazers who are reinventing our food system and saving our planet.

From plant-based to cell-based innovation, artificial intelligence, and policymaking, women are leading this impactful industry and changing how we approach food.

This book shares their stories of advocacy within food tech and empowers future generations to learn, innovate, and change the world.

Episode Resources

Order The Future of Food is Female

Watch the Episode on YouTube

2023 Vegan Women’s Summit Details

Jennifer Stojkovic Website

PLANTSTRONG Pizza Guide

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Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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We’re here to make PLANTSTRONG living as simple as possible and one of the topics we receive a ton of questions about is batch cooking, or prepping food for the week all at once. 

Well, as the kids head back to school and we enter into Fall activities season, I wanted to talk to one of the experts about her game-changer appliance in batch cooking - the Instant Pot®. 

Pam Kropf, known as TrailMomma on Instagram, is a long-time PLANTSTRONG athlete, a busy mother of two active kids, and in between her own training and coaching, she also works a full-time job. 

She is the definition of time-starved, which is why we could think of no better person to have on this episode to talk about how she uses the Instant Pot® to make delicious, easy, and fast meals for her family.

We dish on:

• How to get started with the basics in your Instant Pot®. Not ready to cook a full meal? No problem! Use it to cook oats, rice, or quinoa for the week (3 parts water/liquid to 1 part grain). The “set it and forget it” aspect is great for a busy schedule

• The many benefits of the Instant Pot® vs. Using Your Stove

• How fast does it really cook?

• What are some easy go-to recipes for a family that is also constantly on-the-go?

  We discuss this and more, so if you’ve had your Instant Pot® in a box since the holidays, it’s time to break it out and get cooking!  

  Episode Resources

  Episode Webpage with Pics and Recipes

  Watch the Episode on YouTube

  Follow Pam on Instagram: @trailmomma

  Pam’s Favorite Instant Pot® Recipes

   

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  Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

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  Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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It’s time to live fierce, stay bold, and eat deliciously with my Mom, Ann, and sister, Jane Esselstyn! 

That’s right, we’re celebrating the release of their new book, Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior, which is out and available now.

It’s always a party with these two and I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to be with them in person just a few weeks ago when we were all together at the Esselstyn Family Farm. You know what that means – it can get a little nutty when the three of us are together because that Esselstyn feistiness is ALIVE and WELL!

Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior isn’t your typical cookbook. Truly, it’s a peek into our family history with stories, photos, quotes, and recipes from three generations of Esselstyns. Mostly, this book pays homage to the people who started it all - my parents - for forging and navigating that undiscovered path of plant-based nutrition at a time when no one understood how vital it was (including me and my siblings).

Here we all are decades later and I’m so proud to sit with Jane and Ann and share some of the inspiration and recipes with you today. My Mother has been called the “Julia Child of Plant-Based cooking” and you’ll see why after you dig through some of the recipes and photos in this gorgeous book. This truly is a fun and inspiring message of hope for all women to improve their own health so that they remain strong, bold, and fierce in body and mind!

(and let’s face it – there aren’t many people MORE fierce than Jane and Ann!)

More About Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior

At eighty-six and fifty-six, respectively, Ann and Jane are pictures of ageless health and vibrancy and spend their days hiking, doing yoga, gardening, cooking, and spreading the message that diet is the key to living a happy, strong, and disease-free life. Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior explains how women everywhere can pass on this important legacy in their own families through the generations, and illuminates how plants powerfully support a woman’s body and mind. This cookbook is a call to action and a message of hope for any and all to be Plant-Based Women Warriors filled with vitality and in control of their own health.

Episode Resources

Order Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Episode Website

Jane Esselstyn’s Website

Jane and Ann’s YouTube Channel

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Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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Ocean Robbins, was born a changemaker. Recently, his Dad John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America and other great books) was on the podcast, and the response from that episode was overwhelming. Many of you wrote in to say just how moved you were by John’s authenticity and his willingness to walk away from the Baskin Robbins fortune to forge his own “rocky road” of happiness without the strappings of running a multi-million dollar company that simply didn’t align with his values.

John and his wife built a one-room cabin in Canada and had a son. That son, now 48-year-old, Oceans is “a chocolate chip” off the old block of his father. As co-founder and CEO of The Food Revolution Network, Ocean thrives as an active author, activist, educator, and speaker.

His goal? To educate and inspire people to bring their life and food choices more in alignment with their values to create a more healthy and loving world.

From his very first peace rally at the age of seven, to his own natural bakery business at the age of 10, all the way through his non-profits and speaking tours in high school and beyond, it’s obvious that Ocean is living his purpose to be a beacon of love and kindness - hoping to bridge the gaps that separate us and, instead, shine a bright light on our commonalities as humans and stewards of this wonderful earth.

More About Ocean Robbins

Ocean Robbins is the CEO and co-founder of the 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network — one of the largest communities of healthy eating advocates on the planet. He has held hundreds of live seminars and events that have touched millions of lives from 190 nations.

Ocean is founder and was director of the nonprofit YES!, which has led transformational events for 650,000 leaders in 65 nations. He’s a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award, and numerous other honors. Ocean has served as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and on the boards of Friends Of The Earth, Creating Our Future, Tipping Point Network, Turning Tide Coalition, and many other organizations.

Ocean’s grandfather founded Baskin-Robbins, and his father, John Robbins, walked away from the family company and ice cream fortune to write bestsellers, including Diet for a New America, and to become a renowned health advocate. Now, Ocean is on a mission to transform the industrialized food culture into one that celebrates and supports healthy people and a healthy planet, and he’s inviting YOU to join the food revolution.

Ocean's been seen by hundreds of millions in TV, radio, online, and in-person appearances.

Episode Resources

Watch the Episode on YouTube

Ocean Robbins Website - Author, Speaker, Food Revolutionary

Food Revolution Network Website

Order the 31-Day Food Revolution Book 


11th Annual Plant-Stock - Reserve Your Ticket Now!

To stock up on the best-tasting, most convenient, 100% PLANTSTRONG foods, check out all of our PLANTSTRONG products HERE.

Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there!

We’ve also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don’t forget to tag us using #goplantstrong 🌱💪

Want to live your best PLANTSTRONG life? Join our exclusive PLANTSTRONG Community of friendly, plant-loving peeps! This is a goldmine of resources, recipes, and incredible support to feed your PLANTSTRONG life.

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