In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Season three of the Nutshell begins with an interview with Dr. Carlijn Wagenaar, who joined us from the Netherlands, to discuss the findings of the randomised controlled trial ‘Plants for Joints’ 

This trial assessed the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary lifestyle programme with a plant-based diet in people with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. 

Useful links below:

https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/62/8/2683/6972770?login=true

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18554-2

https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/10/1/e004025

https://plants-for-health.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlijn-wagenaar-83214110b/?originalSubdomain=nl

Link to The Food Foundation Report ‘Rethinking Plant-Based Meat Alternatives’ :

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/rethinking-plant-based-meat-alternatives

Link to the webinar Daisy and Clare discussed:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/redefining-plant-based-meat-alternatives

Lectins: even the word sounds like they might be something not nice. Here we discuss these proteins which have received a lot of attention in recent years because of concerns they cause digestion problems and a reduction in the absorption of other important nutrients.

In episode 10 we have a wonderful chat with Jane Thurnell -Read on the subject of older adults, plant-based diets, and health.

Jane is an author, blogger and is a real inspiration as she promotes healthy ageing through lifestyle interventions. 

And her message is very much that it’s never too late to start eating healthier and moving more. In fact there’s very little in what we discussed with her that you won’t get even more benefit from through starting early in life.

When you’ve finished this episode, members of PBHP can head on over to April’s Plant-Based Health Professionals-UK webinar, ‘Move it or Lose it’ with Dr Hussain Al Zubaidi, a GP and lifestyle medicine practitioner:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/move-it-or-lose-it

Have a look and share PBHP’s protein fact sheet:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Proteinfactsheet-240501.pdf

Link to join PBHP:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/membership

Link to Walk with a Doc:

https://walkwithadoc.org/

Article and studies discussed:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/plant-based-eating-for-older-adults

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523662823

https://www.bluezones.com/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2813302

To connect with Jane:

https://www.janethurnellread.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janethurnellread/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylFXUsxQL_TXyk_E4dyVkg

https://www.instagram.com/thrivingjane/?hl=en

To register on Jane’s Love Healthy Eating Course:

https://www.janethurnellread.com/lhe-register/

The exercise website Jane recommends:

https://hasfit.com/

In this nugget we take a few minutes to sing the nutritional praises of seitan. If you're keen to make your own, like Daisy:

https://veryveganval.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/seitan.pdf

In episode 9, we had an informative discussion  with Jenny Chapman, a Churchill Fellow and food systems researcher. Jenny has a degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Taxonomy from Imperial College London, and a lifelong love of the natural world.  Her work has involved researching safe, healthy, sustainable and ethical protein sources. Jenny was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2023 to investigate the adoption, acceptance and trust of plant-based meat. Jenny recently published a report entitled’ Processing The Discourse over Plant-Based Meat’ which is an essential read for anyone who is trying to understand more about the “ultra-processed foods” debate. You can find her report here: https://www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/ideas-library/processing-the-discourse-over-plant-based-meat/ Reports and Studies Discussed: https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37356502/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31055621/ https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248-7.pdf https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.826162/full https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanepe/PIIS2666-7762(23)00190-4.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35314769/ To connect with Jenny: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-chapman-sustainability/

In this nugget we look at the evidence for diet to improve prostate cancer outcomes and the influence diet can have on erectile dysfunction.

ED HPFS paper

https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bju.15765

2022 PC review

Gupta, N., Patel, H.D., Taylor, J. et al. Systematic review of the impact of a plant-based diet on prostate cancer incidence and outcomes. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 25, 444–452 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-022-00553-2

UK Biobank study - Parra-Soto S, Ahumada D, Petermann-Rocha F, Boonpoor J, Gallegos JL, Anderson J, et al. Association of meat, vegetarian, pescatarian and fish-poultry diets with risk of 19 cancer sites and all cancer: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study and meta-analysis. BMC Med. 2022;20:79.

PC in HPFS study

Loeb S, Fu BC, Bauer SR, Pernar CH, Chan JM, Van Blarigan EL, et al. Association of plant-based diet index with prostate cancer risk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2022;115:662–70.

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/optimising-prostate-health-on-a-plant-based-diet

In episode 8, we talk to Dr. Tushar Mehta, about how the impact of our food choices goes way beyond climate change. Dr Mehta completed medical school and residency at the University of Toronto.  Currently, he practices Emergency Medicine and participates in international health projects.  Formerly an annual volunteer in rural India, he is now doing work in Haiti  (HEP-Haiti / Ecole Communautaire De Santo).  He has also worked with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is medical advisor for Project CANOE in Toronto.Along with a small team, Dr. Mehta co-founded Plant Based Data, an online database which collects and organizes academic literature regarding the impact of plant and animal agriculture on health, environment, food security, and pandemics.

Dr. Mehta is interested in an evidence and data based approach to health, ecological issues, and global justice issues.

For tickets to the 'I could never go vegan' film screening at Kings College Hospital, 2nd May:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-could-never-go-vegan-film-screening-tickets-855878524707

www.plantbaseddata.org 

CAPE 2021 Environment and Animal Agriculturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_0fqd0AzJak&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=CAPE%7CACME

Dr Tushar Mehta's slide deck which he is happy for people to use for education purposes:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3ya4ks3xepj47zj5l6wzn/2022-03-11-Western-University-Animal-Ag-and-Global-Eco-Impact-Shortest.pptx?rlkey=9lmnrk5rsk7vjj9z6pcs80in2&dl=0

Nicholas Carter’s recent report on disinformation from the animal agriculture industry: “Harvesting Denial Distractions & Deception" https://www.thefreedomfoodalliance.org/report/home

Nicholas Carter’s recent report on GWP* - a methane metric promoted by animal agriculture which undercounts their impact https://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Seeing-stars-report.pdf

State of the Ocean report from Plant Based Data team https://www.plantbaseddata.org/post/stateoftheocean

In this week's nugget, we unpack the often painful experience of kidney stones and how to reduce your chances of them through diet and lifestyle.

In episode 7 we discuss the role of the gut microbiome in weight management, and how weight loss injections like Ozempic and Wegovy are inspired by the body's own hormones.

Chris Damman is Clinical Associate Professor and a practising gastroenterologist at the University of Washington in the Department of Medicine/Division of Gastroenterology and editor-in-chief at Gut Bites MD.  

He is former Initiative Lead of Gut Health in the Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  He holds an M.D. from Columbia University, an M.A. in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and is board certified in Gastroenterology.  Chris holds research interests focused on food- and microbiome-based therapeutics for metabolic disease. He is a frequent contributor to the press as an expert in gut microbiome.

To connect with Chris:

www.gutbites.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-damman

Studies/ Articles  Discussed:

https://theconversation.com/your-body-already-has-a-built-in-weight-loss-system-that-works-like-wegovy-ozempic-and-mounjaro-food-and-your-gut-microbiome-220272

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02750-2/fulltext

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00754-6

In this nugget we highlight what you need to know about which plant foods and supplements contain omega 3s, and when you may need to focus more on these in your diet. For the full story on fish listen to our episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/34cvE3tChJNYn4D2miknhz⁠