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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at
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will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
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as well as a focus on health and wellness. Now,
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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson, as together we
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start with Asking Good Questions.
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Welcome, Welcome so much to the podcast. We are here
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today with a very special guest, and we are going
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to talk all about the five Big lesson. The most
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important thing is why you should even consider but you know,
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maybe think about going vegan this year or something, you know,
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starting that direction. So I have a special guest today
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and as well, step back a little bit. We're going
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to be showing my hydrophonic garden, which when I met Vicki,
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she was like, Hey, you have a hydroponic garden. So
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we're going to be talking a little bit about that.
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But let me introduce you to her. She has a
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Vicky woman has been vegan since about October of twenty eleven,
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and she is a PCRM certified Food for Life instructor.
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What is PCRM. It's Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. It's
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a non proper organization by Neil Barnard, doctor Neil Barnard, Okay,
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And she's a graduate of the Ruby Cooking School's Professional
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Plant Based Certification course. She's also educated herself along the
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way on all things vegan and plant based and cruelty free.
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So her goal is to help others learn vegan and
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plant based options and resources so they may find their
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own unique path to a cruelty free and satisfying diet.
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And what's interesting is I had found doctor Barnard on
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like YouTube podcasts, and so the reason that I found
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him was he was talking about this book and come
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out fairly with maybe last year, and in it it
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talked about these people that do cooking classes. I went
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to his website. But if there's anybody in Saint George, Utah,
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where I am Loda Bold, VICKI shows up and I
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just introduced myself and I said, hey, I would love
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to meet you. I've been learning about doctor Barnard and
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so it's because of this book and then going on
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his website and checking it out that I found Vicky.
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So welcome, welcome, Thank you. There anything more you want
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to say about your background and why, let's let's basically
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start with anything you want to add, and also why
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you might be okay. So back many years ago, I
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thought it wasn't right that animals have to die so
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that we could eat. I just it didn't make sense
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to me. But you know, I'm sixty two now, so
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there was no internet back then. There was very little
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resources that I could find. I looked on I didn't
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look online. I looked in the library, I at at
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the bookstore, and everything turned up. You know, it's the
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circle of life. You just have to eat animals and
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be a nature protein and all of that. So one day,
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thirteen years ago, a little over thirteen years ago. Now,
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I was in a bookstore and I picked up a book.
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It's something like, I don't know, Dummies, vegetarian Form to
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idiots going to Vegetarianism, and I picked it them and
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there's this little tiny paragraph that said, the vegan diet
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seems to be the most healthy diet you can be on.
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And I thought, that's it. I'm doing it. And then
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the next day, you know, I went through my refrigerator,
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got rid of all the animal products and it's it's
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literally the best thing I've ever done. Wow, other than
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having my kids, it's the best thing I've ever done
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in my entire life. I feel so much more vibrant,
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and I feel really right with my stuff. I think
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that's probably the biggest part is nobody has to die
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so that I could eat. It's also really healthy. So yeah, yeah,
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before I've got several questions, I'm going to ask her.
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We're going to really delve into this. But first I
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want to show you something that has become very important
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to me, and that is this hydrophonic garden. Now, I
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don't know if you've heard of there's a lot of
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different I actually made one out of a bin, but
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this one is a power garden. You can see down there,
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point my finger, there's a big container of like twenty
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gallons of water. There's a pump down there. You can
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see there's cages, there's lights, and I have it inside
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right now because I started it in November because we
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I'm a snowbird and so we're six months here and
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six months up north in Washington State. So I got
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this started in November and it's just been cold enough
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that it was just not going to work outside. I'm
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going to be putting it out in my backyard probably
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next week. But right now it's been great because I
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have a couple of kinds of kale. I've got the
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best Swiss chart. There's a great big tomato plant that
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is setting all kinds of tomatoes. There's actually cucumbers and watermelon.
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Kind of in the back. The peas you can see
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stop going up about that's all peas that are going
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crazy up over the top. Finach, green onions, chide. So
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I highly recommend looking into doing hydroponic gardening because when
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I want to make a salad, I just come over
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here to my hydroponic garden. And one of the things
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that when we were getting to know each other. I
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said something about my hydroponic garden, and Vicki goes, oh,
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I want to see her. I was so excited, She's
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not and so and so then that led to, well,
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I'd love to have you be on the show and
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talk about what you found out, because health and wellness
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besides all the financial things I do. I feel like
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if you don't have your health, you don't have any wealth,
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because that's the biggest thing is to be able to
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enjoy your life because you are healthy and so. All right,
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so what are some So let's start here. I know
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that I have been struggling off and on to become
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more and more I'm like, more and more and more
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plant based. I'm not one hundred percent yet, but I'm
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trying to be on that road. What are some reasons,
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Vicki that people say, oh, I can't go vegan, it's
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too hard or whatever. What are the reasons that you hear? So?
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Probably number one, if I need my protein, I could
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never be vegan. I could be vegan because I could
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eat that way, but I need too much protein. My
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doctor would one, Well, I can tell you that there
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is so much protein and a vegan diet. There are
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so many fits. I am not, you know, suffering from
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lack of protein. I have not met one person. You
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don't look like you're witheringly. You know, I'm not withering
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away to nothing. It's it's a very healthy diet. But
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there is a lot of protein in even things you
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wouldn't expect vegetables. Another thing is bacon. We all know.
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I know some of you are saying bacon and cheese. Oh,
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cheese is a big one. As far as bacon is concerned.
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I'm not a big fan of processed foods. Bacon's and
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processed food so we're just so many other things. But
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they do have some really good substitutes for these things.
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But after a while it's a little too salty and
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you're not going to want it anyways. But there are
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if you want to have a junk food diet it
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you know, and bacon isn't healthy, right, you can find
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non vegan, I mean non mete vgan, truly vegan. I've
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been researching that and finding because I was listening actually
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to a doctor Barnard podcast about going to the grocery
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store and I was like, I didn't go test that,
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and yeah, I'm finding stuff that I never even knew
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was there. Yeah, I do want to say something now,
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doctor Barnard and pcr and really quick, is that this
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conversation we're having is between the two of us. I'm
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not representing PCRM in this podcasts. In Yeah, I've certified
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to teach their plant based cooking courses and that's not
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what this is. So I just want to be clear
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on that. But yes, and there's also you can take
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a block of super firm tofu why is it really
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thin marinated and there's recipes online and bake it and
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it can be you can make something being salty and delicious.
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So she tried to me that it may not be
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exactly like bacon, but you're look, you're not killing an
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animal to eat, you know, and you're not eating She's
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so lay, she's very passionate about this, I tell you,
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And you're not eating all this saturated fat. I mean,
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it's healthier. And then she's so she's no matter which
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way you go, it's going to be high and fat.
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But there are really good vegan cheeses. Now, it's come
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a long way since eleven years ago. So there are
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different sections in the grocery aisle that you can find
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in the frozen food aile there's usually a plant based section.
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There's in the dairy isle you can find different things.
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I have. One of my advices is my creamer, and
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it's hard to find now that I like the filk
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original soy cramer for my coffee. It's you know, it's
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not the best. It's I mean, it tastes good, not
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the healthiest, but it's the one of the devices I do.
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But anyways, there's different sections in the in the grocery
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store where you'll see plant based. You do have to
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read the labels though, because certain things like coffee made
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and other things they have either way protein or caseine
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or those are all not vegan products ingredients, so be careful.
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Ls labels are important. Right, Let's talk a little bit
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more about protein, because that I think is maybe the
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biggest area that there are misconceptions and misinformation out there.
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And it's been basically it's like, if I don't have meat,
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I'm not going to get enough. And I think you
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would tend to disagree. I do because I'm getting enough
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and I'm not having me. But there are a variety
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of different doctors out there. I've got I've brought a
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couple of books Joel Furman. It is a really good one,
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and so is doctor Greyer kind of and comfitt in
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this way. Yeah, I'm just going to kind of bring
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a couple. Sorry, I had to grab my books. Eat
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to Live. This is doctor Joel Furman's book, and he
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talks a lot about that. So no, and let me interject.
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I always do uh, what we call a bonus download
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on the ASPID Questions podcast dot com website. There's a
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section there where you can go to bonus downloads everything
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for every episode that there's extra information or where to
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go find something is there. So there will be a
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flier or a PDF about all of these resources that
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Vicky is talking about. So you'll be able to look
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those things up later. Yeah, and you can find these
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folks online. But look at vegan vegan protein, you know,
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look it up online. This doctor, uh, Joel Furman, and
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I buy some of his products on his website. He
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does not pay me to do this. He doesn't even
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know who I am, probably, although I did meet once
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at a conference. But he's got great products. But this
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book is a really good one, to Eat to Live,
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that goes over the benefits of eating a plant based
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diet and also gives you a plan if you have
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health issues especially. It's a it's a it's a great book.
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But you know, people people have different reasons for wanting
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to go plant based. You know, some people it's for health, summits,
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for the animals. I happen to be both, and the environment. Okay,
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I'm all three. But you know, there's all different reasons.
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So your diet is going to be different based on
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what your reason is. So you have to decide yourself
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which way to go. But protein isn't a problem. There's
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so much out there. There's so much protein in a
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vegan diet. So how so people go, Okay, Vicky, you're
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making me want to look into this. How can they
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overcome these issues? What are some things like comparable vegan options,
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high quality plant based protein choices, things like that. I
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always say, try to stick to the whole food if
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you can. If you're transitioning and you really like the
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faith to meat, there's plenty of good vegan meats out
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there until you're ready to venture out on your own
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and make things yourself. So you know, one of the
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things I like to do is use lentils I make
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lentil soup, probably weakly. There's plenty of intant plot if
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a great porch. My instant pot is like gold to me.
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You just put stuff in. I take whatever vegetables I have,
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put some kind of vegetable broth better than Bill Young
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has a little jar with vegan chicken broth, so it
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tastes like chicken broth, but it's vegan. You just put
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it in there with hot water. You put some lentils in.
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I don't even measure. You cut up whatever vegetables you have, carrots, celery,
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and at the end I always will put in grades. Yeah,
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I'll put those at the bottom of my bull. And
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if you're in your kitchen all fail, you're so lucky.
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I don't know who that is, but you cannot move
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this out of the way that you can just put
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it all in there, turn the instant pot on, and
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in thirty minutes you have a homeade delicious suit with
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you know, all kinds of healthy nutrition in. They're awesome. Yeah,
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but there's also you're asking about options without your last