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Chef AJ
Hi! I’m Chef AJ, the author of "Unprocessed", "The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss", and "Own Your Health". This is where I interview interesting people and post my weekly Weight Loss Wednesdays. I have been following a plant exclusive diet for over 40 years and I like to show people how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into their diets in ways that are easy, delicious, and fun. If you’d like to get in touch with me, my website is https://www.chefaj.com/. Thanks for stopping by my channel. I’m Chef AJ and I make healthy taste delicious.
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Mar 1, 2024 • 19min
Smoked Carrot Hot Dogs with Fakin' Bacon & Creamy Macaroni Salad with Debbie Adler
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
To get recipe, courses and hundreds of other invaluable contributions in the Vegan Health Bundle today and until March 10, 2024 11:59 PST click on Debbie's link: https://bit.ly/DebbieVeganBundle
Debbie shares how to make her signature Smoked Carrot Hot Dogs with Fakin' Bacon alongside a Creamy Macaroni Salad.
Delve into some other fantastic recipes from Debbie's Spring Meal Plan, including Mango Muffins, Cajun Jambalaya, Moroccan Lentil Stew, and Eggplant Parmesan Florentine and many more.
Alongside Debbie's contributions, you'll discover a plethora of mouthwatering recipes designed to keep you healthy, satisfied, and energized throughout the spring season and beyond.
About Debbie Adler:
Debbie Adler is a renowned plant-based chef and author of three award-winning cookbooks: "Sweet Debbie's Organic Treats," "Sweet, Savory & Free," and "The Mediterranean Plate." With a passion for healthy eating and mindful living, Debbie has carved a niche for herself in the culinary world as a pioneer of delectable, plant-powered cuisine.
As the owner of Sweet Debbie's, Debbie is on a mission to redefine the way we snack, offering a range of granola products infused with superpowers and crafted without refined oils or sugars. Her commitment to wholesome ingredients and sustainable practices has earned her widespread recognition and a dedicated following.
Debbie's expertise and innovative approach to cooking have garnered attention from major media outlets. She has been featured on NBC’s Nightly News, ABC-7’s Eyewitness News, CBS Los Angeles, and the national superstation WGN, where her culinary wisdom has captivated audiences across the nation.
Recently, Debbie's culinary prowess was showcased in the pages of the Los Angeles Times and on NPR’s esteemed radio show, Here and Now, solidifying her status as a trailblazer in the world of plant-based cuisine.
Her recipes, celebrated for their creativity and flavor, have graced the pages of national magazines including Allergic Living, Living Without, Simply Gluten-Free, Delight Gluten-Free, and Low Sugar Living. Additionally, her culinary insights have been featured on popular websites and blogs such as Gina Clowes’ Allergy Moms, Parents.com, and the online platforms of esteemed food companies like So Delicious Dairy Free, Sambazon, and Navitas Natural.
Driven by a deep-rooted commitment to animal welfare and environmental sustainability, Debbie's exclusive granola line is available online only at www.SweetDebbies.com. More than just a business venture, Sweet Debbie’s embodies a movement dedicated to fostering positive change and making a meaningful impact on the lives of farm animals.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweet.debbies/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SweetDebbieAdler/

Mar 1, 2024 • 32min
The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Amazing Plant-Based Cuisine with Chef Mark Reinfeld
To get your copy of The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Amazing Plant-Based Cuisine and the full recipe for the Creamy Asparagus and Corn Soup from the show, get your Bundle today only until MARCH 10, 2024 at 11:59pm PST from Chef Mark’s link: https://bit.ly/chefmarkveganbundle.
Look for his submission and you'll discover his e-book and many other amazing products.
Discover the secrets to creating mouthwatering plant-based cuisine with The 7 Culinary Keys to Creating Amazing Plant-Based Cuisine by Chef Mark Reinfeld. Drawing on his 25 years of experience in the plant-based culinary world, Chef Mark shares seven simple principles that will transform your vegan cooking. From developing your palate and mastering flavor balance to exploring global spice blends, creating delicious world sauces, and veganizing your favorite dishes, this ebook provides invaluable guidance, as well as practical lessons, recipes, and exercises to help you master the seven principles. Learn how to incorporate nutrient-dense superfoods, embrace experimentation, and unleash your inner creative chef. With these culinary keys, you'll effortlessly prepare impressive, healthy, and environmentally-friendly meals that will leave everyone craving more. It's time to elevate your plant-based cooking skills and embark on a flavorful culinary journey!

Feb 28, 2024 • 58min
Swing with Power Instead of Pain with Plant Based Physical Therapist Eileen Kopsaftis
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
Swing with Power Instead of Pain
Eileen’s monthly show, MOVE WELL TO AGE WELL WITH EILEEN KOPSAFTIS, is the 4th Tuesday of every month at 11:00am PACIFIC time.
Eileen Kopsaftis, BS, PT, FAFS, CMI, NE is the founder of Have Lifelong Wellbeing. She is a chronic pain expert, nutrition educator, and author of the best-selling book, Pain Culprits! Her passion is to teach what is mostly unknown so people can age without decline and move without pain. Eileen speaks nationally, publishes articles, and teaches movement and pain education classes both online and at Hudson Valley Community College.
Have Lifelong Wellbeing, LLC is the only online wellness resource that teaches how to get out of pain and age well by discovering causes unresolved by mainstream knowledge.
Content and training from Eileen can be found at:
Move Without Pain Private Club https://mwpprivateclub.com/
Have Lifelong Wellbeing monthly newsletter https://havelifelongwellbeing.com/newsletter/
YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/EileenKopsaftis
Eileen’s Book: Pain Culprits! https://painculprits.com/

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 11min
Hips Don’t Lie - Your Hips and Your Health with Stephan Esser MD + Hip Exercises with Tiffany Esser
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
To book a personal training session with Tiffany:
https://essersports.com/
To ask a question to any of the doctors that appear on Chef AJ LIVE! please send them to us in advance.
https://www.chefaj.com/
Dr. Esser's Prescription for Health.
Join Chef AJ and Dr. Esser for a high energy, informative conversation that will transform your health. Learn where health comes from and get educated, energized and inspired in 2024!
Dr Stephan Esser is a 4th generation plant based eater! He comes from a line of passionate educators sharing the message of health. He is a Sports and Lifestyle Medicine Physician who completed medical school at the University of South Florida, Residency at Harvard Medical School, Fellowship at Mayo Clinic and is presently a full time clinician in private practice, adjunct faculty for three academic residency programs and the lead team physician for the University of North Florida.
Dr. Esser is a lifetime advocate for plant-based nutrition. He completed residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He is a nationally sought-after speaker and writer on topics related to lifestyle medicine and plant-based nutrition.
He runs healthy living seminars and retreats in Jacksonville, Florida. He also provides non-operative sports and spine care to patients in the Jacksonville region at Southeast Orthopedic Specialists.
For a telemedicine appointment please visit https://esserhealth.com/
You can follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/esserhealth/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EsserHealth
Here are the FREE exercise videos he mentioned:
https://yalegriffinprc.griffinhealth.org/programs-resources/prc-programs-resources/abe-for-fitness
Dr. Esser's 4 week detox:http://esserhealth.com/detox/

Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 3min
Natural Ways To Lower Your Cholesterol with Plant-Based Cardiologist Monica Aggarwal, MD
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Feb 20, 2024 • 59min
Treating Chronic Fatigue with a WFPB Diet and Lifestyle Medicine Approach with Dr. Tila Kansagra
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
To register for Dr. Tila's FREE online workshop on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lifestyle Medicine
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-workshop-dr-tila-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-lifestyle-medicine-tickets-815225640837?aff=oddtdtcreator
Dr Tila Kansagra is an experienced General Practitioner with a special interest in treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia based in the UK. She is passionate about the role of lifestyle medicine in preventing and treating Chronic illness after seeing the difference it made to her health, the health of her loved ones and that of her patients. She holds an international Board certification in lifestyle medicine as well as a certificate in Plant based Nutrition. In addition to working for the National Health service, she works as private health coach and is able to consult worldwide except for in the USA and Canada but loves to educate about lifestyle medicine to any corner of the world.
She enjoys sharing Whole Food plant based recipes through her website The Plant Promoting Doctor | Plant-based Nutrition Coaching and instagram page @plant_promoting_doctor. She prides in dispelling common myths about plant based diets and is dedicated to providing informative mythbuster videos every monday through her instagram account and facebook of the same name. She is a mum of 2 and proud South Asian. She enjoys walks and cycling in nature, resistance exercise and would like to someday complete a course in food photography and styling.
Dr. Tila's Website: https://www.plantpromotingdoctor.com/
Dr. Tila's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plant_promoting_doctor/

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 14min
Harness the Hangry - Journey of a Recovering Crapaholic Who Lost Over 200 Pounds with Rondi Neuven
Harness the Hangry - Journey of a Recovering Crapaholic Who Lost Over 200 Pounds with Rondi Neuven by Chef AJ

Feb 20, 2024 • 55min
How Removing Meds Can Improve Patient Health with Plant-Based Cardiologist Baxter Montgomery, MD
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
Discover The Healing Power of Integrative Medicine: Healing Heart, Liver, and Kidney Failure with renowned cardiologist, cardiac electrophysiologist, and plant-based nutrition expert, Baxter Montgomery, MD.
Dr. Montgomery's holistic approach focuses on using whole food plant-based nutrition, and integrative medicine therapies like intravenous ozone, infrared sauna, and other treatments to heal patients suffering from acute and chronic health conditions such as congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, generalized inflammation and more.
Learn from his real-life patient stories how you can use Integrative Medicine principles and raw food nutrition to prevent/reverse disease, enhance your vitality, reduce stress, and achieve optimal health.
For a more in-depth discussion of today's topic please see The Power of Integrated Care: A Health Turnaround Story.
https://youtube.com/live/_izsTTn5hDc?feature=share
For more patient transformations see Dr. Montgomery's docuseries, Heart & Soul of a Champion. The first season focuses on the health transformation of professional athletes and the second season will focus on women's health.
https://watch.heartandsoulofachampion.com/
Do you seek a supportive online community that features plant-based experts live each month, patients before and after recovery presentations, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and weight loss support groups, fitness routines, recipes, and more? Join our online community at https://montgomeryheart.com/journey
Montgomery Heart & Wellness website https://montgomeryheart.com/.

Feb 20, 2024 • 32min
Persian Lime Chickpea Stew, Cowboy Caviar & Lime Chia Pudding Parfait with California Balsamic
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
https://californiabalsamic.com/chefaj
The three recipes for this month are:
Persian lime balsamic spinach and chickpeas stew
https://californiabalsamic.com/persian-lime-balsamic-spinach-and-chickpeas-stew/
Persian Lime Balsamic Chia Pudding Parfait
https://californiabalsamic.com/persian-lime-balsamic-chia-pudding-parfait/
Cowboy Caviar
https://californiabalsamic.com/cowboy-caviar/
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Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 7min
Lifestyle Interventional Cardiology - At the CATH Lab with Cardiologist Dr. Columbus Batiste
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Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The content of this podcast is provided for informational or educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. You should not use this information to diagnose or treat any health issue without consulting your doctor. Always seek medical advice before making any lifestyle changes.
Welcome to Heart 2 Heart: Conversations to Heal a Broken Heart with Dr. Columbus Batiste.
Dr. Columbus Batiste is a board-certified Interventional Cardiologist who has been an active lifestyle and whole food plant-based advocate for over a decade. His dedication to the science of lifestyle has led him to participate in multiple research studies and review articles which have confirmed the benefit of a plant-based diet.
To bring the science to his patient’s bedside, Dr. Batiste crafted a unique program in which he gave bi-monthly lectures and a monthly cooking class entitled: CATH lab. The CATH lab is a procedural room where Interventional Cardiologists bring patients to provide treatment to open vessels and stop heart attacks while they are occurring. Dr. Batiste re-purposed the Cath lab name into Cooking Alternative To Health (CATH) a series of cooking classes, that provided attendees information on how to maintain flavor and combine foods to restore blood flow and alleviate symptoms with the power of nutrition. Dr. Batiste has additionally explored the science regarding the relationship between mental health and relationships in heart disease. Dr. Batiste anticipates the release of his first book entitled SELFISH A Cure For A Stressed and Broken Heart in April 2024.
In honor of Heart Awareness Month, Dr Batiste interviews Paul and Tamara Berry in this episode. Paul shares his story regarding heart disease allowing a glimpse into symptoms, the emotions, and the treatments. Please take time to WATCH, LIKE, & SHARE.
Don’t forget to pre-order your copy of SELFISH available April 2024
Dr. Batiste website www.DrBatiste.com
Dr. Batiste on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthyheartdoc/
Dr. Batiste on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthyHeartDoc
Dr. Batiste on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@healthyheartdoc
To pre-order your copy of SELFish and receive a free e-book click on the link: https://drbatiste.com/product/selfish/