The Plant Yourself Podcast

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Those of us who have survived difficult times - physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual - have a gift for the rest of society: the knowledge that we can handle what seems unmanageable, and grow from what seems diabolical.Let's share those gifts now, to counter all the fear and panic and despair out there.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.A special Covid-19 Lockdown Edition of the Plant Yourself Podcast. Halfway through I realized I was using the wrong mic. If that's the worst thing that happens today, cool!Now is not the time to indulge in crappy food choices, even though we may be stressed and cooped up and grieving.We have an army inside us - our immune system - that does its best to keep us safe. Now's the time to feed it well.We have an opportunity to find new sources of dopamine, of joy, of connection.What are you doing to get your daily dopamine fix?Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Michael B. Rothberg, M.D., M.P.H. is the Vice Chair for Research in the Medicine Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and Director of the Center for Value-Based Care Research.He joined me on Skype to talk about the current state of knowledge about Covid-19, and what we can and should do as individuals and a society to save as many lives as possible.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Shane Williams, MD, has been practicing plant-based (or as I would say, evidence-based) cardiology in Canada for nine years now.With hundreds of patients and lots of experience with what works and what doesn't in terms of advocacy, education, and support, Dr Williams is a valuable resource for plant-based physicians everywhere.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Don Larsen died this month, at the age of 90.He played baseball professionally from 1953 to 1967, and had a less than stellar career. As a pitcher, his lifetime record was 81 wins and 91 losses. He played five of those years with the powerhouse New York Yankees during their dynastic heyday in the 1950s; his record for lesser teams was a dismal 36 wins and 67 losses.And yet he's one of my favorite players of all time.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Justin Luria now lives what he calls a "muggle" life, managing on online bookshop. Before that, he trained as an energy healing and shamanic practitioner, and immersed himself in many of the spiritual practices of the "New Age," and learned from many contemporary spiritual teachers: Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, and others.He also actively pursued the goals of the self-help movement as modeled and taught by folks like Tony Robbins and others.And somewhere along the way, he realized that the bulk of self-help and spirituality was little more than our grasping consumer society wrapped in finer threads. Rather than being a cure or counterweight to modern life, mainstream spiritual and self-help culture intensifies our feelings of inadequacy and need, and often takes advantage of the vulnerable state in which that inadequacy leaves us.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.If you've adopted a new good habit today, you're probably very excited and motivated.What about tomorrow? Will you be motivated then as well? Fingers crossed...Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.In this episode, I share a personal coaching session that I conducted with Ian Lawton, host of the Workshed Podcast.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.When I was in 11th grade, I came in 3rd in the New Jersey Science League Chemistry II competition.Which was odd.I wasn't one of the best chemistry students in the state, by far. I wasn't even close to being the best chemistry student in my high school. Hell, I wasn't close to be the best chemistry student in my chemistry class.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Aaron Spitz, MD, is the director of male reproductive and sexual medicine at Orange County Urology Associates. He's served as president of the California Urological Association, was the lead urology delegate to the American Medical Association, and has been an assistant clinical professor at UC Irvine's Department of Urology for the past decade and a half.Impressive, no doubt. But cinematically compelling? You might not think...In one of the final parts of the documentary filmed before submitting it to Sundance, Dr Spitz performs an experiment with three male college athletes. They eat a meat-filled burrito for dinner one day, and a plant-based version of the same burrito the next. Both nights, the guys are hooked up to devices that measure the size and duration of their erections.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show