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Ep 190 - Unlock The Power of Plants with Science & Cooking with Chef Caryn & Dr. Jim Loomis - Part 2
Episode 190
Thursday, April 3, 2025 • Duration 48:56
Now, in Part 2, we’re taking it a step further—diving into practical ways to make plant-based eating sustainable, enjoyable, and accessible for everyone!
Chef Caryn Dugan and Dr. Jim Loomis return to share more insights, debunk myths, and demonstrate how simple, delicious meals can fuel your body and prevent disease. Whether you're just starting your plant-based journey or looking for new inspiration, this episode is packed with valuable takeaways.
Tune in now and discover how to bring the power of plants to your plate—one delicious meal at a time.
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Ep 189 - Unlock The Power of Plants with Science & Cooking with Chef Caryn & Dr. Jim Loomis - Part 1
Episode 189
Saturday, March 29, 2025 • Duration 25:06
Can food truly be medicine? What if science and cooking came together to make plant-based eating both powerful and practical? In this episode, we explore the science behind plant-based nutrition and how to bring it to life in your kitchen with Chef Caryn Dugan and Dr. Jim Loomis.
Chef Caryn Dugan is the founder of the Center for Plant-Based Living, the nation’s first plant-based culinary education center. After facing personal health challenges, she turned to a whole food, plant-based diet and never looked back. Caryn is a certified instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and has trained under leading experts in plant-based nutrition.
Dr. Jim Loomis is an internal medicine physician, lifestyle medicine expert, and Medical Director at PCRM. He has served as the team doctor for the St. Louis Rams and Cardinals, as well as the tour physician for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Loomis is a strong advocate for food as medicine and has been featured in the documentary The Game Changers. Together, Caryn and Dr. Loomis co-host The Doc and Chef, a YouTube series where science meets cooking. Each episode breaks down a health topic—Dr. Loomis explains the research, and Caryn brings it to life with a practical, delicious recipe.
Tune in now and learn how to bring the power of plants to your plate!
Ep 180 - How I Raced To The Olympics with Plants with Dotsie Bausch
Episode 180
Thursday, September 26, 2024 • Duration 56:42
Ever wondered if going plant-based could fuel an Olympic dream?
In this episode, I sit down with Olympic silver medalist cyclist 🚴♀️ and Executive Director and Founder of @Switch4Good , Dotsie Bausch, to uncover how she defied the odds by embracing a plant-based diet.
Dotsie Bausch lives by the Switch4Good motto—Live better. Do more. Dairy-free—and is on a mission to educate and empower others to do the same. She speaks passionately around the world to spread her message about the positive impacts a plant-based lifestyle has on animals, humans, and the environment.
Her popular TEDx Talk, “Olympic Level Compassion,” has garnered over 175,000 views, serving as a catalyst for change for thousands of people. Dotsie shares her journey from her first steps into cycling to achieving world-class success, all while ditching dairy and going fully plant-powered.
Despite being told it would hold her back, she transformed her body, gained strength, and pushed her limits to reach the podium at the 2012 London Olympic Games. She also opens up about the physical changes she experienced, her decision to focus on dairy-free living, and what advice she'd give to up-and-coming athletes.
🌱 Listen in to hear how Dotsie not only conquered the world of sports but now inspires others to live and perform dairy-free with Switch4Good.
S 4 Ep 7 - Running Ultramarathons While Plant-Based with Dr. Madeline Hardacre
Season 4 · Episode 7
Monday, August 23, 2021 • Duration 01:01:14
Join me as I interview Dr. Madeline Hardacre as we talk all things about running, ultramarathons, being a plant-based athlete, and why she left her Ob/GYN practice to pursue women's coaching! WATCH THE YOUTUBE VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/P_myuGQA9qo
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Her bio: "I am a physician, board-certified in gynecology and lifestyle medicine. I am also a Wellcoaches Certified Health and Wellness Coach. My practice, Women’s Health Elevated, is focused on coaching women to optimal health and well-being through long-term, sustainable lifestyle change. I understand the challenges of busy family life. With a physician husband and 3 children (now teens and young adults), I appreciate the struggle that unfolds when we try to juggle schedules and family obligations while also prioritizing our health. I work with my clients to develop management strategies regardless of what else is going on in their life. I practice what I preach when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. I am a strong advocate for the benefits of plant-based nutrition. I am an avid distance runner and ultramarathoner, and plants fuel me for all of my running adventures on the trails of Tahoe."
***This episode was previously LIVE, so giveaways, comments, and questions cannot be entertained at this time.
S 4 Ep 6 - WFPB 101 Roundtable Discussion with Plant-Based Telehealth
Season 4 · Episode 6
Monday, August 16, 2021 • Duration 01:24:07
Join me & the Plant-Based Telehealth Family (Dr. Laurie Marbas, Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr. Niki Davis, Dr. Christina Miller, Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine, Dr. Jeffrey Pierce, Dr. Kim Scheuer, Anthony Masiello) as we have a WFPB 101 roundtable discussion about all things whole foods plant-based! You don't want to miss this one! WATCH THE YOUTUBE VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/eanonTW3p3s
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Plant-Based TeleHealth co-founders, Anthony Masiello, Laurie Marbas, MD, Christina Miller, MD, and Michael Klaper, MD, have launched a national telemedicine service focused on the prevention and reversal of chronic disease utilizing lifestyle medicine. This new service provides access to plant-based lifestyle medicine across the United States; using secure video conferencing and patient portal technologies, a doctor in one location delivers “in-person” care to a patient at a distant site.
Plant-Based TeleHealth (PBTH) provides medical care for patients who have a chronic disease and other medical conditions, including, but not limited to, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune diseases, inflammation, and digestive issues. These conditions are addressed through lifestyle medicine—the powerful, evidence-based practice of promoting healthy behaviors and lifestyle modification, including a whole-food, plant-based diet.
Doctors are now available to see patients in all 50 states across the US, and internationally for lifestyle medicine consultations.
S 4 Ep 5 - What‘s Love Got To Do With It? Creating The Next Dating App with Dr. Chrystene Nguyen
Season 4 · Episode 5
Monday, August 9, 2021 • Duration 01:00:05
Come and join us as we talk about love, medicine, relationships, and why/how the importance of having social connections now more than ever with Dr. Chrystene Nguyen! WATCH THE YOUTUBE VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/SqHDo_7ybBY
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Dr. Chrystene Nguyen is a double board-certified physician in Southern California in family and lifestyle medicine. She believes a major part of optimal health includes having supportive relationships and positive community and social connections, so during Covid-19 quarantine, she started a Facebook group called White Coat Romance. This is a space for single healthcare professionals to virtually mingle, get to know one another as friends and potential romantic partners and provide support among a group that understands the unique challenges and demands of the various healthcare professions. She is a hopeless romantic who desires to make a bigger impact so has been in the process of developing the White Coat Romance Dating App for a larger audience consisting of single white coat professionals with healthcare doctorate and master’s degrees, health science/research PhDs, and doctoral candidates (students), with its unique feature of NPI verification or other verification.
***This episode was previously LIVE, so giveaways, comments, and questions cannot be entertained at this time.
S 4 Ep 4 - What You Don‘t Know About Diet & Dental Health with Ann Nguyen-Chung, DMD
Season 4 · Episode 4
Monday, August 2, 2021 • Duration 01:10:47
Join me and Dr. Ann Nguyen-Chung, DMD, MBA as we navigate what we put into our mouths and how that affects our teeth and other aspects of dental health!
WATCH THE YOUTUBE Video: https://youtu.be/i9ua-JEMNuQ
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Dr. Ann is a plant-based dentist, based in Northern California. She serves the Native American population in her county and surrounding areas.
Dr. Ann adopted the whole-food, plant-based lifestyle several years ago, after learning that she had been diagnosed with multiple chronic inflammatory conditions. With this lifestyle, she has seen a reversal in almost all of the conditions and she continues to see improvement. Now, she is an advocate for the plant-based lifestyle and incorporates plant-based nutritional counseling with her patients.
Dr. Ann founded Happi Hippo Plant Organics in 2017, which is an eco-friendly, all-natural, vegan dental and body care company. The combination of her holistic plant-based lifestyle, love of animals, and passion to help fight climate change is how this company was born.
http://www.happihippoplantorganics.com/
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S 4 Ep 3 - Fitness 101 Essentials To Start Moving Your Body with Drs. Michelle Quirk & Michelle Dang
Season 4 · Episode 3
Monday, July 26, 2021 • Duration 01:05:25
Join Dr. Michelle Dang and Dr. Michelle Quirk for this rapid-fire 🔥 round-table discussion on the best tips and tricks to get started on getting that summer body going! WATCH THE YOUTUBE VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/EjlYoTIwV3I
Dr. Michelle Dang is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician and fellowship-trained in integrative medicine. She is a certified yoga instructor as well as a Lagree certified trainer. www.michelledangmd.com
Dr. Michelle Quirk discovered that running could change her life, in the midst of a lively career in pediatrics. She embraced the sport by becoming a certified run coach with the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA), a local Girls on the Run coach, and a Disney World-loving marathoner. She founded Mindful Marathon to help make running easy and fun for busy professionals. http://www.mindful-marathon.com/
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As a Chef, I manned the helm of many 4-5 diamond restaurants, wineries, cafes, and hotels, but still was not satiated and craved more from life.
I went back to school and studied plant-based nutrition as well as enrolled in a Vegan High end cooking program to reteach myself how to cook without dairy, refined sugars, and gluten.
During this time I steepled in the culture of regenerative farming, food is medicine philosophy, and started to understand the ways of ancient principles of food.
Essentially I started to cook and eat with the intention to prevent disease.
In 2020 I became Chef Collin the Culinary Coach and have now dedicated my life to learning and teaching others to cook healthy, by changing their Food Relationship through my D2R Method.
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This season of Thrive Bites will now be on YouTube in addition to all podcast platforms! We are going to host a LIVE Q&A format and my first guest is scheduled to air July 7th, Wed 5 pm PST, and she is a green tea expert.
Kiyomi's Bio: Desperate to help her husband survive stage III cancer, Kiyomi researched intensively to find a better way of getting the health benefits of green tea. Kiyomi's mission is to share her discoveries with American folks by offering the purest and simplest form of "Ground Green Tea." When asked "why Green Tea," she answers, "Because Green Tea Powder is the simplest and easiest addition anyone can make to his or her diet in order to improve health." She believes a small habitual change could lead to a significant outcome in the long run.
EGCG Correction: "An observed safe level of 704 mg EGCG/day could be considered for GTEs consumed in beverage form."
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*Interview views are opinions of the individual.
This podcast is not a source of medical or dental advice*
Plant-Based TeleHealth is making plant-based lifestyle medicine available nationwide, using telemedicine to remove many of the barriers that prevent people from accessing this type of care.
All text, graphics, audio files, Java applets and scripts, downloadable software, and other works on this website are the copyrighted works of TheChefDoc, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized redistribution or reproduction of any copyrighted materials on this website is strictly prohibited.
*This episode is sponsored by Listenable.io. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, using the coupon code {colinzhu} at listenable.io, and you’ll get 30% off a year of Listenable.
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*Interview views are opinions of the individual. This podcast is not a source of medical or dental advice*
All text, graphics, audio files, Java applets and scripts, downloadable software, and other works on this website are the copyrighted works of TheChefDoc, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized redistribution or reproduction of any copyrighted materials on this website is strictly prohibited.
*This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/thechefdoc
*This episode is sponsored by Listenable.io. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, using the coupon code {colinzhu} at listenable.io, and you’ll get 30% off a year of Listenable.
*This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/thechefdoc
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*Interview views are opinions of the individual. This podcast is not a source of medical or dental advice*
All text, graphics, audio files, Java applets and scripts, downloadable software, and other works on this website are the copyrighted works of TheChefDoc, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized redistribution or reproduction of any copyrighted materials on this website is strictly prohibited.
*This episode is sponsored by Listenable.io. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, using the coupon code {colinzhu} at listenable.io, and you’ll get 30% off a year of Listenable.
*This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/thechefdoc
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*Interview views are opinions of the individual. This podcast is not a source of medical or dental advice*
All text, graphics, audio files, Java applets and scripts, downloadable software, and other works on this website are the copyrighted works of TheChefDoc, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized redistribution or reproduction of any copyrighted materials on this website is strictly prohibited.
*This episode is sponsored by Listenable.io. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, using the coupon code {colinzhu} at listenable.io, and you’ll get 30% off a year of Listenable.
*This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Special offer for Thrive Bites listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/thechefdoc
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