The Modern Health Nerd Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

“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

Welcome to season 2 of The Modern Health Nerd Podcast!

We're spending 10 hyper-focused episodes talking about where whole food plant based fits in the current plant-based marketplace and the role of whole food plant-based diets in health--including the treatment and prevention of disease.

Join Theresa "Sam" Houghton, Chief Nerd at the Modern Health Nerd, for unique, fascinating interviews and panel discussions throughout the season. Follow the podcast on Spotify, Apple or wherever you love to listen to podcasts to never miss an episode.

Season 2 launches January 5, 2022!

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What if we could break the cycle of disease and premature death just by changing what we eat? Dr. T. Colin Campbell believes it really is that simple.

After decades of studying nutrition's effects on health and disease, Dr. Campbell is convinced that eating plants in as close to their whole, unrefined forms as possible is the best thing we can do to support optimal health.

In fact, he's the one who coined the term "whole food plant-based diet!"

Since first discovering the correlations between plant-based diets and disease reduction, Dr. Campbell has written several books, inclding The China Study, Whole and The Future of Nutrition. He has also appeared in several documentary films, including Forks Over Knives, Eating You Alive, Food Matters, and PlantPure Nation and has delivered hundreds of evidence-based nutrition lectures around the world.

In the final episode of Season 1 of The Modern Health Nerd Podcast, we discuss:

• How the common reductionist approach in nutrition and healthcare supports a system designed to make money instead of create health


• How the current food system negatively impacts health, vulnerable populations and the environment


• The research that changed Dr. Campbell's mind about animal protein's role in health


• Dr. Campell's thoughts on the growth of the plant-based and alternative protein movement


• Why eating whole, unrefined plant foods is more powerful than focusing on single nutrients


• Why a holistic view is important when interpreting nutrition research results


• Why policy change, particularly relating to dietary guidelines, is necessary to shift the food system toward one that supports health


• The need for better public nutrition knowledge and civil debates between proponents of differing opinions

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T. Colin Campbell, PhD has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for the China Study, Dr. Campbell’s profound impact also includes extensive involvement in education, public policy, and laboratory research.

Dr. Campbell has received over 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly with NIH), served on grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, actively participated in the development of national and international nutrition policy, and authored over 350 research papers, most published in peer-reviewed science journals.

Dr. Campbell is also is the founder of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and the online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate in partnership with eCornell.

• Center for Nutrition Studies: https://nutritionstudies.org


• Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate: https://nutritionstudies.org/courses/plant-based-nutrition/


• Plant Forward Workshop (October 13-November 17, 2021): https://plantforward.nutritionstudies.org/


• Plant Pure Communities: https://plantpurecommunities.org/

• Dr. Campbell's books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=T.+Colin+Campbell+PhD


• Forks Over Knives


• Plant Pure Nation
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How much control do we actually have over our food choices? According to Michael Moss, it's not nearly as much as we think.

Decades of research and reformulation have given the ultra-processed food industry ("Big Food") the upper hand, but we don't have to be victims of manipulation. We can regain control—and Michael Moss provides the ammunition we need in his detailed food system exposés.

In this episode, we explore:

• How the concept of the "bliss point" has caused sugar to invade nearly every type of product in the grocery store


• How the processed food industry's formulations and marketing tactics to hijack human biology and create addictive eating patterns


• Three main qualities that attract consumers to ultra-processed food


• How the processed food industry insinuated itself into the diet food industry


• How product reformulations can trick consumers into thinking ultra-processed foods are becoming healthier


• Using the processed food industry's own tactics to steer consumers toward healthier food choices


• How it's possible to shift our food preferences simply by building new habits


• Why changing the food system requires a multifaceted approach


• The power of changing the way people value food to consider factors beyond instant gratification

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Michael Moss is the author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” an expose of processed food and #1 New York Times Bestseller published in 2013 by Random House, and “Hooked: Food, Free Will and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions,” a New York Times Bestseller published in 2021.

He is a former investigative reporter with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 for his work on contaminated meat. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two boys.

• https://mossbooks.us

• Nikhil Arora, Back to the Roots, episode #25


• Hank Adams, Rise Gardens, episode #12


• Michael Moss on Chef AJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUGhvKsEUk

Can some of the smallest living things on the planet change the future of the food system—and create a better world? According to Eugene Wang, microalgae has that power.

Through his company, Sophie's BioNutrients, Eugene and his team are fermenting and extracting unique microalgae proteins suitable for a creating a variety of plant-based food products. Their proteins are sustainable, affordable and can be grown anywhere.

We cover a ton of ground in this super-nerdy episode, including:

• Eugene's unique background in plant-based food manufacturing


• How using fermentation to grow microalgae increases the protein's sustainability and lowers costs


• How quickly and prolifically microalgae grows compared to animal and plant proteins


• How microalgae protein can provide for increased protein demands at a lower financial and environmental cost than common proteins like soy


• Unique products Sophie's BioNutrients has been able to create using its microalgae proteins


• Nutrient profile of microalgae protein vs. soy


• The properties that may make microalgae versatile enough to withstand extreme climate conditions


• Overcoming consumers' innate resistance to change to help them embrace new food categories and flavors

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Eugene Wang grew up immersed in the vegetarian food business. Since 2010, his vision for launching Sophie’s Kitchen, the first Plant-Based Seafood Alternative, has manifested into a viable innovation. Sophie’s Kitchen had won numerous recognitions from companies like PepsiCo and Chipotle.

In 2019, Eugene took alternative protein to the microorganism level and started another venture: Sophie’s BioNutrients Singapore. He won $1 million SGD at The Liveabilty Challenge 2019 with this project and started protein fermentation facility in Singapore.

Using a proprietary strain of microalgae grown in a fermentation tank, Sophie's BioNutrients is creating a new, sustainable plant-based protein. This results in a product that's 60% protein and has a high quality essential amino acid profile that exceeds the WHO requirements for protein products.

Sustainability is inherent in the process. The growing system can be setup near metropolitan area to cut down the needs for agriculture and transportation, improve food security and reduce risks associated with supply chain disruption. The 3- to 10-day production cycle creates protein in a fraction of the time required for soy or beef and can be fueled entirely by industrial food waste.

Sophie's BioNutrients microalgae require very little water and only the land needed to set up an indoor production facility. With no need for fertilizer, herbicide, antibiotic, or growth hormones, it's  truly healthy for both the environment and the human body.

• https://www.sophiesbionutrients.com


• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-wang-2957b86/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/sophie-s-bionutrients/

• Tony Martens, episode #1


• Robin Simsa, episode #20

What's needed to take the current movement toward more sustainable, ethical food and products to the next level? Sonalie Figuerias believes it’s a combination of consumers asking for more transparency and traceability and brands taking a 360-degree approach to solving the world’s biggest problems.

Being at the head of "the world’s leading source for APAC alternative protein industry news and reporting" gives Sonalie unique insight into many of today's biggest climate, food and sustainability issues. In this episode, we touch on:

• How Green Queen grew out of Sonalie's own journey to a healthier lifestyle


• The unique characteristics of the alt protein/plant-based movement in Asia


• How Sonalie's early experiences with the new generation of plant-based products led to a shift in focus for Green Queen


• Why Green Queen covers innovations in packaging, fashion, beauty and more in addition to alt protein


• How the lack of transparency in the food industry places the unfair burden of due diligence and label reading on consumers


• How governance, transparency and accountability can have a positive impact on the food system and the climate


• The importance of developing products and policies that address food, ethical and sustainability issues from multiple angles


• The sweeping positive changes that could occur if factory farming was eliminated

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Serial social entrepreneur and  trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder and editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social and environmental change through inspiring and empowering original content and one of the world's leading outlets for alternative protein news.

She is also the founder & CEO of Ekowarehouse, the global sourcing platform for certified organic products and the co-founder & CEO of SourceGreenPackaging.com, the world's first global marketplace for sustainable packaging with a mission to fight single-use plastic waste.

With over a decade of experience in publishing, digital marketing, organic trade, sustainability, alternative proteins and green packaging, she is an eco wellness industry veteran with a keen eye for market trends and a sought-after international speaker and moderator, sharing her expertise on stages across Asia and beyond, including Harvard Business School and two times at TEDx.

Further, Sonalie is a global advisor at Social Ventures Hong Kong, an Impact Purpose Organization committed to re-imagining Hong Kong as a purpose-driven city, an advisor at The Remedy Project, which revolutionizes access to justice for migrant workers globally, a cause close to her heart, and she is an avid home cook and published cookbook author.

• https://www.greenqueen.com.hk


• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalie-figueiras-green-queen/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-queen/


• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenQueenHK/


• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreenQueenHK


• Instagram: https://instagram.com/greenqueenhk

Can simple changes make a big difference in diet and health—not just on an individual level, but across the food industry? Mike Fata is living proof that it's possible.

Mike has dedicated over 25 years studying and practicing natural health, starting in 1995 when he made the life changing decision to lose over 100lbs. In 1998, he founded Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods and spend the next 18 years growing the company, finally selling it to Tilray for $419 million in 2016.

In this episode, we dig into:

• How Mike's own health journey sparked the founding of Manitoba Harvest


• The history and growth of Manitoba Harvest


• Mike's involvement in other plant-based and functional food companies


• Hemp's health and environmental benefits


• Hemp's unique—and sometimes tumultuous—history


• Using science-backed education to overcome barriers of misinformation


• The importance of choosing fresh, organically grown foods over ultra-processed products


• The trend toward brands showing more personality and realism in marketing


• How individual companies can spark widespread positive change in the food system and consumer health

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Mike is passionate about sharing natural health with the world. He's a keynote speaker and has been featured on various media countless times regarding natural health, nutrition, hemp foods, organic agriculture, sustainable business and entrepreneurship.

Mike has won numerous awards, including Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2004), Top 40 under 40 (2008), OTA Organic Rising Star Award (2016) and Top 100 Health Influencers (2017). He's currently Chief Executive Officer of Fata & Associates, Chairman of the Board of Sol Cuisine, Director (Past Chairman) of the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) and investor/advisor to a portfolio of companies.

Mike is a homeschooling father👨‍👧‍👦, certified holistic health coach and avid backyard organic farmer. In his free time he enjoys coaching and mentoring natural products industry entrepreneurs, which he does frequently on Clubhouse.

• Tasty recipes: https://manitobaharvest.com/blogs/hemp-resource-hub/tagged/recipes


• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manitoba-mikefata/


• Clubhouse: @mikefata

What can today's eco-conscious companies, including plant-based businesses, do to increase their impact on the world? Emma Osborne of Citizen Kind would suggest hiring a team of people committed to living out a set of shared values.

Whether you're looking for fulfilling work or building a company dedicated to changing the world for the better, this episode has some fantastic gems. Here's a peek into what we dig into:

• Emma's early entry into vegetarianism and what finally got her to go vegan


• How impactful companies can make better hires


• Tips for finding "top talent" employees who share company values


• The importance of considering diverse perspectives when hiring—particularly when aiming to build a better future


• Why an amazing, committed team is crucial for startups that want to get established and grow


• The importance of vision and values in building a successful company


• The power of building community around a business—internally and with customers


• Why the values a company markets must be reflected in their internal relations and operations


• The importance of developing and adhering to a core value system in business and all of life

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Emma Osborne is the founder of Citizen Kind, a consultancy designed to help accelerate the growth of companies who are creating the future of food, materials and energy.

Through her expertise in talent, business strategy and creative flair, she has been helping solve problems for global startups from her base in London, UK, since launching in 2018. With 17 years recruitment experience, she has worked with large MNCs, agency groups, and SMEs to identify the commercial talent they need to thrive in the modern world. She is on the board with not-for-profits KindEarth.Tech and Vegan Leaders and is a passionate vegan, foodie and animal advocate.

If you are a conscious consumer or value-based employer, connect with her here and transform your career or invigorate your business!

• https://citizenkind.com


• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmaosborne/


• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/citizen_kind/


• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citizenkind

Why haven't consumers started adopting healthier eating habits despite all the "better-for-you" options on the market? Jack Bobo would say it's because companies don't understand how consumers think—and are turning them off with the wrong messaging.

Jack is the author of Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices, which exposes the not-so-obvious but real drivers of our complicated relationship to the foods we eat and why it’s proven so hard to change our habits. In this episode, we dive into:

• The disconnect between plant-based messaging and target consumers


• Types of messaging that can create personal and ethical conflicts in consumers' minds


• Why combative messaging isn't the way to move the food system in a positive direction


• How to avoid opposition and backlash resulting from inappropriate messaging or positioning


• Causes of the dramatic shift in American health over the last 50 years


• Why future growth projections for alternative protein may not indicate a reduction in meat consumption


• How dietary guidelines regarding ultra-processed foods may undermine the work of the alternative protein movement


• The psychology behind bad food choices


• The importance of conveying the appropriate use case for alternative proteins


• Scaling messaging as audiences change from the startup phase through growth


• What alternative protein startups can learn from Big Food

...and a lot more! Jack looks at the food system from a unique angle and has some true gems to share for anyone who's trying to market a food product—or change their own eating habits.

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Jack Bobo is the CEO of Futurity, a food foresight company that advises companies, foundations and governments on emerging food trends and consumer attitudes and behaviors related to the future of food.

Recognized by Scientific American as one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology, Jack is a global thought leader who has delivered more than 500 speeches in 50 countries on food technology and policy.

He previously served as the Chief Communications Officer and Senior Vice President for Global Policy and Government Affairs at Intrexon Corporation. Prior to joining Intrexon, Jack worked at the U.S. Department of State for thirteen years as a senior advisor for global food policy.

An attorney with a scientific background, Jack received from Indiana University a J.D., M.S. in Environmental Science, B.S. in biology and B.A. in psychology and chemistry.

• https://www.futurityfood.com


• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbobo/


• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jack_A_Bobo


• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurityfood/


• Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Smart-People-Make-Food-Choices/dp/1642505927/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1626210521&sr=8-3