You guys wrote to us with questions and we answered!  In fact, we had so many requests we recorded a 2-part series of your Plant-Based FAQs.  Excited to share with you and please reach out if you have any questions! 

Topics Discussed in the Podcast 

• How often you should be eating
• Where to find recipes and meal planning
• Caloric Intake for Athletes
• How to stay motivated
• Change overnight or change gradually?
• How to make cooking easier
• Is Beyond Meat healthy?
• Difference between vegan and plant-based

• Can you get all essential amino acids plant-based? What about complete proteins?
• How to get enough protein without eating soy, gluten, or beans?
• What are phytates and are they bad?
• Vegan pregnancy

Vegan preganancy notes:

1.8x more iron than non-vegetarians. <45 mg and vegans get the same or higher than vegetarians.

25g more roughly per person protein

50% more iron (32mg ). You absorb iron better, especially during pregnancy

DHA from micro algae

Iodine

Vit B12

Vit D

Folic acid- in prenatal but also in most foods

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Resources

• Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis
• NutritionFacts.org and Dr. Michael Greger
• How Not to Die by Michael Greger
• Episode mentioned with Gut Health Dr. B
• Vegan Pregnancy Reed Mandels 

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