How do you achieve better nutrition in the quest for a healthier life?  
It's not through crash diets or quick-fix schemes.  In this interview, we get to hear Dr. Benjamin Ha's approach to optimizing health through progress over perfection! 

Dr. Benjamin Ha is a native of North Carolina but has lived in Bakersfield, California, since 2003. He followed in his father’s footsteps in choosing to become a family physician. During his residency in Long Beach, he fell in love—both with his wife-to-be and Southern California—so he decided to make California his new home. He enjoys visiting new places, spending quality time with family and friends, and exercising.

How does fiber compare to fermented foods when it comes to optimal gut health? Fiber has been shown to lower cardiovascular mortality, cancer mortality, and even all-cause mortality. As little as 10 grams per day increase in fiber can help protect our heart, our kidneys, improve our gut and lower our cancer risk.

Fermented foods have been shown to lower the risk of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Examples of fermented foods include kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, natto, miso, yogurt, kimchi. Let’s look at a head-to-head comparison of high fiber foods vs fermented foods for our gut microbiome health.

How to build and maintain sustainable habits.  Do you remember your New Year's resolutions? Probably not. Most people don't last more than a few weeks before they give up. This is because making a major life change is way too difficult to do in just one day of effort. There's too much risk of failure and too many reasons to quit. So what if there was a better way?

This week, I am talking with world-renowned behavior change expert Dr. BJ Fogg. Dr. Fogg has spent over 20 years running a research lab at Stanford University focusing on behavior.  In this interview, Dr. Fogg and I talk about his new book, Tiny Habits, and how to set up a behavior change program for success once and for all.  

Carbonated Beverages and Weight Gain - What’s the link? We know that sugar-sweetened and even artificially sweetened beverages are linked to weight gain. How about just plain carbonated drinks? 

When you drink a carbonated beverage, the carbon dioxide can stretch the stomach and release a hormone called ghrelin. Ghrelin is a hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain to create the sensation of hunger. This results in increase food consumption and weight gain. Let's look at the evidence both in animal models and humans. 

Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a double board-certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, who has been utilizing food as medicine since 2012. Previously, she created a new medical model combining the power of nutrient-dense foods and intensive clinical psychological therapy to treat not only food addiction but also chronic disease. As the Managing Editor for the Plantrician Project’s International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, she works closely with the journal’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Kim Williams. The journal is focused on bringing plant-based research to the forefront of modern medicine and to the general public. She is also co-founder of Healthy Human Revolution, whose mission is to provide resources that will empower individuals with the knowledge, tools, and mindset to successfully adopt and sustain a whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diet.
We sit down with Dr. Marbas to discuss her journey, her work with Plantbased telehealth, and her passion for helping people live their best life.

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. We sit down with Ocean to talk about healthy sustainable eating, doing good for ourselves and helping our planet at the same time. 

The best time to work out is a hotly debated topic. Some people think that waking up early for a morning workout is best while others think that afternoon or evening is better. Instead of relying on opinions or bro-science, lets look at some quality studies to see what the research suggests. At the end of the day, remember the key is to find the time and routine you can stick to!

When it comes to food, it can be hard for many of us to listen to our bodies signals, and not just because we might be hungry. There has been a growing body of scientific evidence that some foods are addictive - and the processed food industry knows all too well about how to take advantage of it. We get to sit down with Michael Moss and discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative work on how the food industry exploits our addictions.

There is substantial evidence that fasting can be beneficial for many aspects of health. However, there is very little mention of the risks. How much fasting is too much? Is there a sweet spot? Let's look at the research on both the benefits and risks of fasting and see how to do fasting safely.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) is a condition where fat builds up in the liver. This leads to liver damage and scarring and affects roughly 30% of American adults. In this interview, we sit down with Dr. Meagan Gray to talk about the role of whole-food, Plant-Based diets, and fatty liver disease.