The Plant Yourself Podcast

By Dr Howie Jacobson

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February 27, 2017 Getting a Second Lease on Life – and Using It in a Big Way with Paul Chatlin: PYP 199
At age 55, Paul Chatlin was a few minutes away from surgery on a 100% blockage in his right coronary artery when his cardiologist asked him out of the blue, “Would you consider a nutritional change instead of bypass surgery?”
Turns out the cardiologist's mentor was a dude named Caldwell Esselstyn, which is the only way this story makes any sense.
Paul, tired of his severe angina, terrified of the life that followed bypass surgery that he witnessed in his father and three uncles, and in agony from the “elephant sitting on his chest,” agreed.
“I'll do anything.”
He left the hospital at 3 in the morning; by 8am his phone is ringing. “This is Caldwell Esselstyn. I want you to read my book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, and I'll call you again in two days.”
And Paul has been whole food, plant-based ever since.
Two months of bed rest, during which time he devoured every plant-based book, documentary, YouTube video that he could get his hands on. A terrible cook, he took a course with Ann Esselstyn, Caldwell's wife, on preparing healthy food.
And he got better. Much better. So much better that he made a promise to himself and the world: “I will take the rest of my life and make a difference.” He wasn't sure how, but he would.
His mission clarified after his $700 receipt for the cooking class was rejected for reimbursal by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The same insurance company that was ready to fork over 130 grand for bypass surgery wouldn't consider paying 1/186th of that amount on a life skill that could prevent heart disease before it even started.
Their hands were tied, they explained to him. You'll have to take that up with the state legislature.
This, he decided, was his calling: to change the culture, to shift the conversation from medical management of disease to true prevention and healing.
Before tackling the political machine, Paul needed allies. He needed to know that he wasn't all alone, that he wasn't the only plant-based person in the entire Detroit region. He took out a $25 ad in a local paper, saying that he had lost 50 pounds, got off all his meds, dropped his cholesterol, and never felt better. Who wants to know what I've learned in the past four months?
Twenty people responded, and Paul was up and running. Fast forward a few years, Paul founded and runs the world's largest plant-based community, 3200 members strong and counting. He and his staff and volunteers have utterly transformed the culinary landscape around Detroit, and are now taking on the entrenched behemoth that is medical education.
I met Paul when I was invited to speak for his Plant-Based Nutrition Support Group (PBNSG) in July, 2016. They got me onto a live morning TV show (luckily, I had brought a clean shirt), put me up in a very classy hotel, shuttled me here and there, served me dinner at Dr. Joel Kahn's Greenspace Café, and got several hundred people in an audience to hear me talk about how to change bad habits.
Very impressive!
Paul and I talked about his journey, his mission, the obstacles, and the goals. I hope it uplifts you as much as it has me. We covered:

* what Paul thought was a healthy diet pre-Essy
* “I'd rather be healthy than full”
* the broken medical system, and the responsibility of doctors to take care of us in a better way
* the 150 doctors who had no interest in being involved in PBNSG: “we didn't learn this in school”
* how come the veterinarian asks about diet, but the primary care physician doesn't?
* that part of the Hippocratic oath where prevention is preferable to treatment
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1h 17min
February 20, 2017 Ed and Amanda Smith on Leadership, Community, and Health: PYP 198
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Ed and Amanda Smith are the co-founders of Healthfest, a three-day annual event in a small Texas town that's become an unlikely hub of plant-based nutrition in the United States.Marshall, Texas, population 27,000, is smack in the middle of the "stroke belt." Where beef is king, hunting is a rite of passage into manhood, and if it ain't deep-fried, it ain't food.And there, where Ed served as mayor, is where they decided to bring plant-based knowledge and practice.
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1h 18min
February 20, 2017 Ed and Amanda Smith on Leadership, Community, and Health: PYP 198
Ed and Amanda Smith are the co-founders of Healthfest, a three-day annual event in a small Texas town that's become an unlikely hub of plant-based nutrition in the United States.
Marshall, Texas, population 27,000, is smack in the middle of the “stroke belt.” Where beef is king, hunting is a rite of passage into manhood, and if it ain't deep-fried, it ain't food.
And there, where Ed served as mayor, is where they decided to bring plant-based knowledge and practice.
Today, Healthfest is one of the premier plant-based events in the world. People come from all 50 states and around the world to participate in the festival, which features prominent scientists, medical professionals, celebrity chefs, and inspirational ordinary folks who have transformed themselves through healthy living.
I got on the phone with Ed and Mandy with two goals in mind:

* I wanted to find out how they pulled it off, against what seemed to me to be steep odds
* I wanted to wrangle an invitation to this year's Healthfest, scheduled for March 31-April 1, 2017

You'll have to listen to see how I did.
But you can get a 10% discount if you register at Healthfest.com with the promo code PLANTYOURSELF.
And to be clear, I don't get an affiliate commission from that transaction. I'm just happy having my own promo code
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1h 18min
February 14, 2017 Scott Carney on Extreme Cold and Facing the World as It Is: PYP 197
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In the winter of 2013, Scott Carney traveled to Poland to debunk the prophet/madman Wim Hof, a charismatic Dutchman who claimed that his method of breathwork, cold exposure, and meditation could confer superpowers on its practitioners.
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1h 26min
February 14, 2017 Scott Carney on Extreme Cold and Facing the World as It Is: PYP 197
In the winter of 2013, Scott Carney traveled to Poland to debunk the prophet/madman Wim Hof, a charismatic Dutchman who claimed that his method of breathwork, cold exposure, and meditation could confer superpowers on its practitioners.
Scott was good at this sort of investigative muckraking; his previous book, A Death on Diamond Mountain, chronicled another guru whose hyperbolic claims and irresponsible programs put gullible people in harm's way. Wim would just be the next to fall.
Before exposing the scam, though, Scott's journalistic ethics compelled him to see it firsthand. And what he discovered – and experienced – changed how he saw health, culture, human nature – the works.
Long story short, Scott found compelling evidence – personal experience, case study, anecdotal, lab science, and clinical trials – that human beings are suffering for lack of exposure to environmental extremes.
We've become weak and anti-resilient. Our immune systems prowl our unchallenged bodies like bored puppies, chewing on everything in sight and triggering autoimmune disorders. And we live in a fear bubble that acts as an additional layer of insulation from the natural environment in which our ancestors evolved.
From his first dips in an icy lake, to taking control of his immune system, to climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in record time, shirtless in a t-shirt, Scott has chronicled his discoveries and insights in one of the best books I've read in years.
It's called What Doesn't Kill Us, and it did its job on me. Before I was halfway through, I was already doing the morning breathing exercises and running 7 January miles in just shorts and no shirt.
So when Scott agreed to be on the podcast (to give you some perspective on how hot this is right now, I heard him interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition a couple of weeks ago), I rejoiced.
And he didn't disappoint – this conversation went by so quickly, I didn't realize that we were 70 minutes in and I was totally monopolizing his afternoon.
I hope you enjoy it, and have the same “let's get cold!” reaction that I did.
(Responsible podcaster's note, cribbed from the Black Box Warning at the front of What Doesn't Kill Us: Please don't try any of this stuff “without appropriate experience, training, fitness level, doctor approval, and supervision.”)
Scott and I covered:

* why his book hit a nerve right now
* his experience leading a trip in India where a student threw herself to her death believing she was becoming an angel
* A Death on Diamond Mountain: Scott's book on dangerous spiritual leaders
* attempting to debunk Wim Hof's claims of superpowers: controlling body temperature and immune system and spending long periods of time in ice water (“he's gonna get people killed”)
* why Wim seemed trustworthy because of – rather than in spite of – his obvious flaws
* the costs of living in perpetual early summer
* comfort is killing us
* “the wedge” – using our minds to master our automatic reactions
* natural extension of the human project since infancy – gaining increasing control over our limbs, movements, and bodily functions
* “our brains are designed to panic – it's like a hobby”
* why our bodies can adapt so quickly to environmental extremes
* the difference between early warning panic and automatic responses to true danger
* the science of cold exposure
* the real purpose of body fat
* the discovery of adult brown adipose tissue in 2007 – and why it's triggered a ridiculous R&D initiative by Big Pharma
* Wim and the endotoxin challenge
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1h 22min
February 07, 2017 Pharmaceutical Brainwashing of America with Vanessa Sardi: PYP 196
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When Vanessa Sardi was a drug rep for one of the world's largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies, she firmly believed that she was educating doctors to make better prescribing decisions and was helping patients live healthier, more comfortable lives.
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1h 25min
February 07, 2017 Pharmaceutical Brainwashing of America with Vanessa Sardi: PYP 196
When Vanessa Sardi was a drug rep for one of the world's largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies, she firmly believed that she was educating doctors to make better prescribing decisions and was helping patients live healthier, more comfortable lives.
Vanessa had gone into the medical field resolved to help people with heart disease, inspired by the loss of her beloved grandfather in her early teens. Armed with a masters in cardiovascular physiology, she threw herself into cardio rehab and fell in love with the field, her colleagues, and her patients.
When the clinic folded due to insurance reimbursement changes, Vanessa moved on to pharmaceutical sales. As a long-time dancer and member of the New Orleans Saints cheerleading squad, the Saintsations, she had the prerequisite “pharma rep looks” to go along with her deep expertise in biology and medicine. And as she learned the art of the sale, she quickly rose to become the second most successful US rep in the company.
And then she watched Forks Over Knives and everything changed.
The scales fell away from her eyes, and Vanessa suddenly saw the truth behind the pharma marketing machine. Drugs treated symptoms, they didn't cure diseases. Doctors managed illness, and didn't really know how to make people better.
When Vanessa contracted Guillain-Barré Syndrome from a flu shot, she didn't stop believing in vaccines. She was just one of the few unlucky ones, she assumed. The rest of us would still benefit. But once she began to question the pharma party line, she saw mountains of evidence linking vaccines to all manner of ill health.
Vanessa quit the industry, re-schooled herself as a transformational health coach and graduate of Wellness Forum Health and e-Cornell's Program in Plant-based Nutrition, and reinvented herself – all while staying true to her initial passion for heart health.
In our conversation, we covered:

* her struggles with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating
* dealing with food addiction through mindfulness
* surviving her abusive grandmother and loving the grandfather who wasn't strong enough to protect her
* working at a cardio rehab center
* the life of a professional NFL cheerleader
* getting trained brainwashed as a pharma sales rep
* pulling back the curtain on pharma's marketing BS
* how to distort statistics to hoodwink doctors
* why doctors don't catch on to pharma's misleading tactics
* watching Forks Over Knives in 2014 and going plant-based overnight (literally)
* from pharma rep to farmer's rep – still walking the walk and dressing the part
* how eating whole food, plant-based affected her “fat thoughts” from her disordered eating days
* and much more…

Enjoy, add your voice to the conversation via the comment box below, and please share – that's how we spread our message and spread our roots.
Links
Vanessa's website: Nutriception.net
Forks Over Knives – the documentary
The Wellness Forum
(T. Colin Campbell's e-Cornell course in Plant-Based Nutrition)
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Gratitudes
Thanks to Plant Yourself podcast patrons

– Kim Harrison

– Lynn McLellan

– Anthony Dissen

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1h 25min
January 31, 2017 Milan Ross on Losing 250 Pounds and Finding His Purpose and Passion: PYP 195
Milan Ross weighed about 500 pounds and suffered from diabetic neuropathy, hypertension, and high cholesterol when he took a job at Whole Foods for the health insurance. His wife had just been diagnosed with severe and progressive MS, and they were going to need a lot of help with medical bills as the disease took her mobility and quality of life.
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1h 25min
January 24, 2017 "I'm not speeding up; they're all slowing down" with Ellen Jaffe Jones: PYP 194
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I ran into Ellen Jaffe Jones at the Raleigh NC Vegfest, where she was inspiring young and old to get off their butts and embrace a healthy, active, vegan lifestyle. We had met on Skype for a podcast interview more than three years ago, but this was the first time we had met in person.And since I've become a runner, I badly wanted a copy of her new book, Vegan Fitness For Mortals. As one of the most decorated track and field athletes in the country (and getting more and more competitive as her non-plant-based rivals slow down and quit as their bodies decline), she has a lot to teach me about running well and sustainably.
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1h 17min
January 24, 2017 “I’m not speeding up; they’re all slowing down” with Ellen Jaffe Jones: PYP 194
I ran into Ellen Jaffe Jones at the Raleigh NC Vegfest, where she was inspiring young and old to get off their butts and embrace a healthy, active, vegan lifestyle. We had met on Skype for a podcast interview more than three years ago, but this was the first time we had met in person.
And since I've become a runner, I badly wanted a copy of her new book, Vegan Fitness For Mortals. As one of the most decorated track and field athletes in the country (and getting more and more competitive as her non-plant-based rivals slow down and quit as their bodies decline), she has a lot to teach me about running well and sustainably.
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1h 16min

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