Jami Dulaney MD Wellness Podcast

Welcome to the 45th episode.   I am solo this week to talk about my training and adopting a whole foods plant based diet.   There  are many obstacle and turns.   A lot of confusion about what is the right way to eat.   Commit to a whole foods plant based diet and things will improve.   It is not for those looking for easy or life hacks.   There are no drive throughs or pills that will help.   But there is a sense of satisfaction being in control of what is on your plate and more importantly what is making you healthy  versus what is making you sick.   Buying your own fruits and vegetables and preparing and sharing with others is extremely rewarding.   Verbalizing your commitment to health will be supported by your friends and family.   You will not see or hear the truth on commercials or advertisements.   There are no "hacks" to health.   Join me  to learn to regain your health and happiness.  

Contact me a jamidulaney@gmail.com or doctordulaney.com  with questions or suggestions for discussion.   

This episode features Micaela Karlsen.  She is a doctoral fellow in Nutritional Epidemiology at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy.   She is also the founder of PlantBasedResearch.org.   This site features online narrative reviews of peer-reviewed scientific research papers and resources on plant based nutrition.  You can browse by category or look at the weekly posts of new articles.  There is also a guide to interpreting research papers so that you can go directly to the source when claims are made online that may be more of a misinterpretation of a study by the general media.   She also gives links to a research study that is ongoing at Tufts regarding the evaluation of various diets over longer periods of time.   You can join up at PlantBasedResearch.org and receive more information.   

I would encourage you to check out her site as well as the T. Colin Campbell Foundation website for studies relating to plant based nutrition.   The more you educate yourself, the more likely you are to maintain a plant based diet and less likely to second guess yourself when questioned by co workers or family members that may believe otherwise.  

Thanks for listening.   Contact me at jamidulaney@gmail.com or doctordulaney.com for more information.  

Welcome.   Today's podcast features Paul Shapiro, Vice President of the Humane Society's Farm Animal Protection Division.   Paul has written numerous articles on the benefits of eating a predominately plant based diet.   He is non judgmental and compassionate.   His division has introduced Meatless Monday campaigns to universities and hospitals all over the country providing them with detailed how to guidelines.  He has been an animal activist  since he was a teenager and has learned that you can win more hearts with compassion than anger.   He is an avid endurance athlete as well promoting a healthy vegan lifestyle as he works across the country advocating for animals and the environment.   Check out the Humane Society Meatless Monday recipes.   New ones are released on Fridays so you can gather the supplies to try one on Monday.   Also check out egglabels.com to learn what those labels really mean.   It is a shame that industry  spends such great energy to fool us into thinking that everything is on the up and up.   

Also check out the Trailrunner nation podcast and the Gordy Ainsleigh interview on the Western states 100 and his take on ultra running.   

I would love a 5 star review on iTunes if you have the time.   It will allow a wider audience to find me.   Thanks

Welcome to the podcast.   I hope to share with you my plant based journey as I teach my patients how to live healthier through a whole foods plant based no added oil diet.   It can be quite a shock.   A shock to find out that you are ill and a shock to find out that you can get better by eating a whole foods plant based diet.   It is not on TV.   You will not hear many traditional physicians discuss it or recommend it.   Yet the science is there.   I am here and passionate about spreading this science because it works.   There is nothing more rewarding than to see patients cure their angina by eating greens or seeing patients able to discontinue medications.   Listen and learn.   Email me with questions at jamidulaney@gmail.com.    Visit my website at doctordulaney.com.   

Thank you for listening.    My first apology is to Dr. Walter M. Bortz II, MD.   I call him Dr. Neal Bortz during the interview.   He is the author of Roadmap to 100.  This episode features the plant based journey of Kathy Grant.   She discusses her journey to health through a plant based diet.   She is active in a plant based community potluck group that meets in St Petersburg, Florida.   I think the support from such groups is fantastic.   Ideas and recipes can be shared.   One can get motivation from others on a similar path.   

I am looking for people with arrhythmias on a plant based diet that are athletes.   I would like to hear your story for an upcoming discussion with Dr. Paul Thompson on arrhythmias and endurance sports.  

Also, check out my new website, Doctordulaney.com where you can find this and other podcast and learn what is new in our practice.   As always you can reach me at jamidulaney@gmail.com

I went to see PlantPureNation last night.   Nelson Campbell et all made a stellar effort in writing and producing this movie.   I had a very interesting night.   Usually, I am surrounded by "plant based foodies" in these situations but last night I listened to a frank review of plant based documentary films.   My mother has said "the truth hurts" sometimes and it does.   But Colin Campbell says it sets you free.   And I have lived life on the underdog team so I am used to dusting off and going back in the game.   This episode has a little of all of that so I hope you can sympathize with me a little or even give me a hopeful shout out.    I believe eating and living a whole plant foods no added oil diet is the way to go to promote health and compassion for others so I will keep looking to find more ways to get the work out and support others  in their quest for health.   Enjoy!

This episode is a little different.  We talk dog nutrition.  When we become plant based what do with do with feeding our companion animals.   Dr. Pitcairn and his wife Susan are the authors of Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats.  They have been long time vegetarians and are now vegan.   Their journey to plant based nutrition is quite interesting.   

Dog nutrition: V-dog kibble, VegeCat and VegeDog supplements.    Check out her blog and youtube channel at susanpitcairn and susanpitcairnhandouts.

Contact me at jamidulaney@gmail.com.  Please check out my new website at doctordulaney.com.

This episode features Nelson Campbell, the director of the newly released documentary PlantPureNation.   This film features his 10 day jumpstart program taking ordinary folks and providing them with a whole foods plant based diet and observing the transformation.   He documents metrics such as blood pressure, glucose, weight and cholesterol.   The film also shows the involvement of industry on our government policies with regard to our foods.   Nelson is the son of T. Colin Campbell and as a family they are helping to educate families everywhere on the merits of a plant based diet.   The film opened in Los Angeles July4, 2015 and I am proud to announce the opening here in Ft. Myers, Florida, July 23, 2015.   Log onto Fandango.com for advanced ticket purchase.   I hope to see you there.

Following the film release he hopes to begin Plant Pods throughout the nation which will provide support for communities wishing to become plant based and take back their health.   

Contact me at Jamidulaney@gmail.com with questions and of course I would love a 5 star review on iTunes.  Thank you for listening. 

Thanks for listening to Episode 37 with Sharon Palmer, RD.   She is a registered dietitian and author.   She has a very informative Blog: The PlantPowered Blog in which she presents scientific article reviews, recipes, and interviews.   There you can register for her newsletter full of great weekly information as well.  Her books: Plant Powered Diet:The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health Beginning Today and Plant Powered for Life can be found on Amazon.   

Sharon has a unique background in that she trained to be a dietiian in one of the "Blue Zones" in Loma Linda, California.   The campus was vegetarian so there was not the bias as seen in a lot of  meat and dairy sponsored programs.   She was also raised predmominately vegetarian so she understood the benefits of healthy eating from an early age.   Nevertheless, she is very aware of the many journeys to plant based eating and is helpful and informative for all along the way.   It was a pleasure to have had the opportunity to speak with such a caring and knowledgeable person.   

You can find her at sharonpalmer.com.   I can be reached at jamidulaney@gmail.com.

Also check out the trailer for the soon to be released movie Plant Pure Nation by Nelson Campbell.    

Welcome and thanks for listening.   Today  I speak with Michaela Copenhaver.  She is an elite rower hoping to make the USA Olympic rowing team as a vegan.   She eats plant based whole foods and is doing excellent as an elite rower.   This sport combines strength and endurance.  The spring season races are 2 kilometers of all out rowing burning a tremendous amount of calories.   Why this interview? Well It is cool to speak with an olympic hopeful.  It is even more cool to speak with an elite vegan athlete.   If she can do this on a vegan diet at an elite level then us regular weekend warriors can as well.   She eats a whole foods diet with very little in the way of supplements.  She is injury free and energetic.  The one thing she has noticed most since being vegan is the lack of illness.   I hope you find some pearls in this episode and give eating a whole foods plant based diet a try whether you are an competitive athlete or someone trying to regain their health.  Follow her on her blog, The Lightweight Eats or on Twitter.   Contact me at jamidulaney@gmail.com with questions.   

Enjoy and eat plant strong.