“Don’t worry so much about what you don’t know. Just step into it and try it.” ~ Kathy Davis

For some people, going plant-based can be intimidating. There are so many unknowns: Does it require shopping at special stores? Subsisting on mock meats and cheeses? Spending countless hours trying recipes that may or may not taste good?

Cyd Notter, Kathy Davis and Chuck Carroll agree that the answer is a resounding NO.

In fact, they can all say from experience that going plant-based was much easier than they expected—and it’s led to other positive changes in their lives, including better health and more confidence. So much so that Chuck calls the plant-based lifestyle “Life 2.0.”

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🥗 Episode Highlights

- Tips for going all-in with a plant-based diet if you don’t know where to start

- Encouragement for anyone who’s afraid going plant based will be too hard

- How to overcome the struggles many people face when going plant-based

- Why it’s important to have a solid reason—not just a short-term goal—for adopting a plant-based diet

- Why plant-based diets are the gateway to long-term health

- How going plant-based can inspire confidence and vitality in other areas of life

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Cyd Notter is a graduate of the Center for Nutrition Studies, a certified instructor for The Starch Solution and other dietary courses, a past newspaper columnist, and the author of the award-winning book The “Plan A” Diet: Combining Whole Food, Plant-Based Nutrition with the Timeless Wisdom of Scripture.

Kathy Davis is a plant-based lifestyle and mindset coach, the CEO of VegInspired, and the author of three plant-based cookbooks. Kathy empowers high-achieving professionals to elevate their energy by adopting healthy living habits so they can show up at their optimum performance and achieve their goals.

Chuck Carroll is known as “The Weight Loss Champion” for a reason — he has lost and kept off 280 pounds for more than 10 years! Now he is using his new lease on life to inspire others and host The Exam Room Podcast by the Physicians Committee, which has been downloaded millions of times to become the No. 1 nutrition podcast in nearly 80 countries!

Connect with Today's Guests

Cyd: https://cydnotter.com, https://www.facebook.com/groups/ThePlanADiet

Kathy: https://veginspired.com, Instagram @veginspired, @eatmoreplantsacademy

Chuck: https://www.pcrm.org/podcast, Instagram & Twitter @chuckcarrollwlc, Facebook @WeightLossChampion

“What ends up happening is the patient is now in charge of their health.” ~ Dr. Niki Davis

Traditional medicine addresses chronic disease with pills and procedures that control symptoms or attempt to fix damage that’s already been done.

Plant-Based TeleHealth takes a different approach: lifestyle medicine that uses a plant-based diet and personalized care to get to the root of diseases and help patients heal.

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That’s what attracted Dr. Kim Scheuer, Dr. Niki Davis, Dr. Colin Zhu and Dr. Chris Miller to this unique new practice that serves patients across the U.S. They wanted to stop “putting band-aids” on patients’ problems, go beyond what they were able to do in traditional practice and start giving patients the time and attention they needed to get better—for good.

Through Plant-Based TeleHealth, these doctors and their colleagues are able to help patients reduce their medications and improve their health. The patients get less of what they don’t want (more pills) and more of what they do want (freedom from symptoms and disease).

Episode Highlights

- How taking a holistic look at the whole person instead of just their symptoms changes the way medicine is practiced and enables a lifestyle approach

- Why the ability to spend more time with patients is critical to helping them make lasting diet and lifestyle changes

- The need to dig deeper and go beyond nutrition to discover all the potential factors that influence patients’ health

- The importance of understanding what potentially conflicting information patients will get from traditional doctors who don’t understand plant-based lifestyle medicine

- The need for a paradigm shift in health, wellness and medicine to get people back to the basics and on track for long-term healing

- Success stories from the doctors’ practices

About Plant-Based TeleHealth

Plant Based TeleHealth (PBTH) provides offers lifestyle medicine care for patients who have chronic disease and other conditions. Through the powerful, evidence-based practice of promoting healthy behaviors and lifestyle modification, including a whole food, plant-based diet, doctors work with patients to help them go beyond managing symptoms to experience real healing.

- https://plantbasedtelehealth.com

- Dr. Scheuer: https://dokslifestylemedicine.com/, Instagram @drkimscheuer

- Dr. Davis: https://drnikidavis.com, @nikidavismd on Facebook and Instagram

- Dr. Miller: https://eatandlivehealthfully.com

- Dr. Zhu: https://chefdoczhu.com, @thechefdoc on social media, host of Thrive Bites podcast at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChefDoc

“Our health is not determined by one single meal or one single food that we eat at one point in time. It’s about consistency over years and years.” ~ Simon Hill

Simon Hill’s journey into the plant-based space started at age 15 when he saw his father have a heart attack. Since that first brush with the effects of lifestyle disease, Simon has immersed himself in the science of diet and plant-based nutrition in his career as a nutritionist, podcast host and author.

Rather than supporting any particular dietary dogma in the plant-based space, he provides research-backed advice backed to help people plant their diets appropriately according to goals and life stage.

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“I think it’s important to not always reduce everything to black and white,” he says, “because science is not black and white.”

Simon believes it’s going to take more data collected across demographics to settle some of the persistent questions about plant-based nutrition and ensure that people have the best information to tailor their diets to changing needs as they age.

He believes “every diet needs to be appropriately planned” and continues to use his platform to provide information and guidance that helps people adopt and stick to healthy plant-based diets.

Episode Highlights

- Why educating people about healthy food isn’t the key to improving diets or health outcomes

- How the food environment may prevent people from making healthier dietary choices

- A scientific look at common myths and misconceptions in the plant-based space

- Why being aware of nutrient needs specific to plant-based diets and current life stage is a smarter approach than obsessing over single nutrients or foods

- Why it’s important for the plant-based community to be opened-minded about new discoveries in nutrition science

- Simon’s tips for maximizing nutrition and health on a plant-based diet

Simon Hill is a nutritionist and qualified physiotherapist and the the founder of the popularPlant Proofpodcast and blog.

On top of his formal education, Simon spends hours deciphering scientific studies so that he can break down how to fuel your body to promote longevity and reduce the chance of developing disease while simultaneously achieving whatever health and fitness goals you may have.

- https://plantproof.com

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/theproof

- Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheProofPod

- Instagram: https://instagram.com/plant_proof

- The Plant Proof Podcast: https://plantproof.com/all-podcasts

- Buy The Proof is in the Plants: https://plantproof.com/book/