The Plant Yourself Podcast

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Carolyn Raffensperger has been advocating for the environment since 1982. She's currently executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and a tireless proponent of the Precautionary Principle when it comes to balancing economic and environmental impacts.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.When we adopt a new habit, we often experience a honeymoon period. Partly it's our enthusiasm and motivation at the first flush of hope and desire, and partly we've chosen this time to start because it's particularly convenient or easy.But the universe will test our resolve not too long after that. It can feel like slamming into a brick wall at the end of a runway.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Kelly McGonigal's latest book, The Joy of Movement, is both a work of science and a love letter to the human body/spirit.I admit, when I ordered it, I thought I knew what I was going to read: a well-researched, engaging tale of how exercise improves our mood and our brain functioning. I was delighted to be surprised by a treasure trove of ideas and philosophies that go far beyond the biochemistry of mood and movement.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.The public health crisis was going to be unprecedented, and catastrophic.As the Americans clumsily extricated themselves from the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, tens of thousands of US troops would be returning home. And by some estimates, 90% of them had become addicted to heroin during their tour of duty.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Michael Greger's latest book, How Not to Diet, is just stunning.It's a love song to science: its potential, its process, even its limitations.There has never been a more comprehensive, accessible, and evidence-based look at our current knowledge of how to get to and maintain a healthy weight.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Matt Buckner's low point came one day about 9 years ago, when he was 41. He was getting ready for an international business trip, and realized that one of his key medications, tramadol, was going to run out during the trip.The drug, which Matt took for the back pain caused by his morbid obesity, was one of five meds that he consumed every day. The others were for hypertension, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and depression.Matt also suffered from sleep apnea; his wife would force herself to stay awake at night so she could hear when he stopped breathing and wake him up.While waiting on line at the drug store, without an up-to-date prescription since he couldn't get in touch with his doctor on short notice on a Friday afternoon, Matt looked around and saw the other people in line. All of them old and sick. There's where he was headed.Matt took action.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Myq Kaplan is a stand-up comedian who also happens to be vegan (or is it the other way around?)He's performed on the Tonight Show, Conan, the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Late Late Show with James Corden, in his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents special, and in his own one-hour special on Netflix and Amazon, Small, Dork, and Handsome.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Rich "Raz" Razgaitis is on a mission to get water out of plastic, and plastic out of water.As co-founder and CEO of FloWater, which aims to reduce and ultimately end our dependence on single-use plastic water bottles, Raz has become an impassioned advocate for public health and environmental sanity.His message: bottled water is the new cigarette. As in,  it's killing us.Huh? How is that possible?Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Jim Loomis, MD is Medical Director of the Barnard Medical Center, and one of the stars of the blockbuster documentary The Game Changers.Dr Loomis' journey to plant-based practice for himself and his patients began with a viewing of Forks Over Knives, at a time when his own health was starting to fail.Once he discovered and benefited personally from Lifestyle Medicine, he began to see that the paradigm of human health he had been taught was seriously flawed.He summed it up this way: "If I'm not sick, then I must be well."Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.In June, 2019, Dr Milton Mills gave testimony before the USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee about their persistent recommendation to include dairy in our diets.Dr Mills short presentation was not what I was expecting to hear.Instead of just repeating the overwhelming body of evidence showing that cow's milk is not a healthy or suitable food for humans,  he put the debate in the context of racism.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show