The Plant Yourself Podcast

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Gwyn Whittaker is a change-maker, and for the past several years she's deployed her considerable "get-it-done" skills to the plant-based movement.Whittaker is CEO of Greenfare Cafe in Herndon, Virginia, which is the only 100% whole-food, plant-based (WFPB), organic restaurant either of us has ever heard of.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.For my money, Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory has done more to improve our ability to heal and grow and thrive as a civilization than any other scientific breakthrough of the past 50 years.Its advances over prior understandings of the human nervous system, psychology, and experiences of states like well-being, happiness, and love - are profound. Paradigm-shifting. And, unlike a lot of theory, incredible practical and applicable to our everyday lives.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Ray Martin, aka "Old Man Skin and Bones," is on a mission to save others from what he went through: heart disease, expensive and unnecessary and potentially harmful medical care, and a bad case of the "If only I'd knowns."I met Ray through the Missing Chins Run Club (first rule of the Missing Chins Run Club: tell everybody in the Missing Chins Run Club how much you ran today), and was instantly charmed by his energy, passion, sense of humor, and fierce determination to spare others from his fate.The before and after photos accompanying this podcast says it all. In October, 2015, Ray came out of triple bypass surgery, alive and ready to change his life.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Amber Antonelli and Anthony Esposito run the Awaken Your Soul iboga retreat center in Costa Rica.Iboga is the name of a plant native to Gabon and neighboring West African countries that acts as a psychedelic, or as Amber and Anthony put it, a "teacher plant."Iboga, along with its better-known (in the US) cousins, Ayahuasca and psilocybin-containing mushrooms, appears to act pharmacologically by down-regulating parts of the human brain responsible for the moment-by-moment construction of the ego.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Jud Brewer is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and a second-time guest on Plant Yourself.When we first talked, two years ago, Jud had just published his groundbreaking book, The Craving Mind, and was in the process of releasing mindfulness apps, Eat Right Now (for dealing with food cravings),  Craving to Quit (for smoking cessation), and Unwinding Anxiety (for, you guessed it, anxiety).I wanted to catch up with Jud to find out how his academic research and public writing had migrated into the world. What is the state of mindfulness-based health improvement? Does he have data on how his approach compares to current best practices, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for smoking and other addictions?Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Yeah, them's fighting words in the title of today's episode. And Garth David, MD, my lead author of Proteinaholic and co-conspirator in a mission to tell the world that chronic disease and obesity are preventable and reversible, is a fighter.He's mixed it up on national TV, giving and taking punches on The Doctors. He's scrapped with Z-Dogg, tussled on Twitter with Joe Rogan, and publicly debated many of the best-known low-carbers out there.His agenda? Good science. The truth, as best as we can know it. And teaching people how to avoid "Internet-borne Misery" by becoming savvy consumers of information.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Jody Esselstyn is a registered nurse at the Charlottesville, VA, city schools, and docent at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.An unusual combo, perhaps, but Jody combines her two interests - medicine and art - in some innovative and lifesaving ways.She leads programs that help medicine students make better diagnoses, display more empathy at the bedside, and collaborate more generously with their medical peers through visits to art museums.It turns out that art is a perfect medium for helping people see beyond their assumptions and projections, to observe what's actually in front of them.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease.His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to their diets.His second film, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2, highlights the stories of some of those people.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.I had the best time talking with New York Times' bestselling author and love goddess adrienne maree brown!I stumbled upon her work through a sidebar article about her most recent book, Pleasure Activism, and was sufficiently intrigued to reach out to her publisher for a copy of the book and a request for an interview.Once the book arrived, I knew I was in for an education.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Lauren Plunkett is a registered dietitian living with type 1 diabetes. She's also the newest addition to the WellStart care team - and we couldn't be more pleased or delighted!Lauren is a dynamo of positive energy, and a shining example of the power of lifestyle to enhance quality of life.Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 11, Lauren struggled for years to feel good and have the energy to do what she wanted to do. She went on a mission to learn everything she could about nutrition and health.Once she discovered plant-based nutrition, she knew she had found the key to thriving with diabetes: reducing insulin resistance.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show