251: The Way to Stop Bad Genes and Aging From Robbing You Of A Full, Vibrant Life

0:00 You see people in your family dealing with so many medical problems and it's heartbreaking and you just think I don't want to end up that way. Maybe you're already dealing with your own medical problems and you're thinking what can I do? I just want to know what to do. You're tired of being tired all the time and you just want to feel better. What do you do? That's what we're talking about today. Hey sister, welcome to the Power On Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health?

0:40 Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're chair in the Need to Resale, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food. We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers to traditional routes. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods, and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived.

1:22 If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started. Sister, this is your wake up call episode Jair's bringing in. Let's reel them in, put our arms around them and welcome them all. Family. We love you. You are our power on plants, fam, and we love you and we care about you, and that is why we're bringing you this from the heart episode. And this is from the heart. This is where it gets real. This is where the rubber meets the road. You don't know what to do. Your family members are getting sick. You cannot stomach the thought of another diet.

2:05 You're sick and tired of being sick and tired all the time, or you just don't want to end up going through what you see other people going through, maybe your family members saying look, you're just getting older. This is just how it's going to be. This is laughing our family. It doesn't have to be that way. You can have the attitude of look, the buck stops here. I'm not walking in that same path, so I'm not going to get the same results. Because the truth is, if you walk in the same path and you eat the same food that your other family members ate and you live the same sedentary life that they lived Now that I mean you have to go to the gym every single day but if you follow in their footsteps, what kind of results are you going? to get. It's going to be the same results.

2:47 And we hear this. We hear this within the podcast realm, I hear it when I talk to my patients. It's just my genes, I've got the genetic kind. Well, you don't just share genes, you share habits, lifestyle. Lifestyle habits, the whether or not you move and sometimes exercise maybe a four letter word. So if you don't move, if you're sedentary, if you eat poor quality foods, you will have the same outcomes. Jared is a physician assistant. He is also certified in lifestyle medicine. In case you don't know, in lifestyle medicine there are various pillars that they look at.

3:29 You talk about the food you eat, the sleep, you get the relationships you have, your walk with the Lord right, all the spiritual side of how you live. All these things are areas, key areas, stress, stress, things like that. Jared and I focus on the food. Why do we focus on the food? Because if you can get that base right, it flows over into everything else. If the food gets right, your sleep gets better. If the food gets right, you feel better so you can move more. If the food gets right, you're going to have a better attitude. It actually affects your hormones to where you think differently, you speak differently, you have a different level of energy.

4:09 You're functioning on a whole different plane than what was possible for you before. So that's why we make the food the foundation. So when you say, what can I do? Just show me what to do. The answer is eat more whole plant foods. Now maybe you're thinking that sounds great. No, but I don't know how to do that. Then get inside the free community. It's free. Poweronplantscom forward slash pie P I E podcast insiders experience Poweronplantscom forward slash pie. Okay, type it in right now. Go and answer the three really simple questions about where you are on your playing based journey and press enter and you're in.

4:50 You're in and then you're going to go back and you're going to listen to episode number 250. Yeah, we just celebrate 250 episodes. We are so excited about that. But the key is in that episode. Okay, that's the one big key. It's going to tell you what to do when you get inside the community. That's going to make all the difference to you. What we see a hundred percent of the time gets lasting results for a hundred percent of the people. But this first step is you eat more whole plant foods and you make your decision. I'm going to do this, but you're not going to power through. Power through is not going to work. It doesn't work. It's miserable. You're pushing yourself to do something you don't enjoy. It doesn't work with your lifestyle.

5:31 You hate it. Like you're opening a can of canned green beans or you're eating nasty tasting convenience foods when you could have whipped something up if you knew how and about five minutes or less, and being eaten it just as fast as a convenience food but not actually taste good. It's fueling your body. Well, it's crazy how this happens. Now some of you, I hear whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're telling me all of this is just eat more plants and the answer is yes, and this is just one of those it's almost like a kick in the pants kind of episode is like, yes, it's me grabbing you by the shoulders, looking you square in the eye and say, look, it all boils down to eat more plants.

6:12 And I honestly want to do that with all my patients, but I know I can't do that because I know that I'm dealing with the lifetime of misinformation. I admit to some degree programming, advertising all this misinformation that they've been given. You've been set up. You've been set up. Okay, let's just be real. I can't undo that with say, hey, just eat more plants, it's not going to work, you got to work through it. There's some deprogramming and I share links with them and different information like that and it's a thing that happens over a course of a time. But if you're suffering with something and you're saying, yeah, I hear this, I don't know what to do. For some people, when we hear this, when we see comments on other platforms not our community, but on other platforms and they go on about it, it's just like look, eat more plants.

7:01 The results that you want the diabetes going away, the high blood pressure, the weight the cholesterol coming down all of these different things, thinking more clearly, being able to feel like doing what you want to do. I just want to look them square in the eye and just say, look, just eat more plants. But I've got nothing else, but I've got to say this learn how to make it quick, simple and delicious, girl. That's my mantra. That's the long time. It's what I say all the time. Now, I don't believe in mantras, okay, like the way, the spiritual woo, woo, way, okay, but this is what I say all the time. Why do I say it? Because it makes all the difference. Because somebody can come to you and say take you by the shoulders and say, eat more plants.

7:42 And you're going to say how do I do that? Okay, key number one is get inside this community and go listen to episode 250. Key number two is eat more plants. How are you going to do that? That's the question now. How am I going to do that? You're going to learn how. You're going to learn how because you're going to ask the questions. You're going to try new things. You're going to find what you like and you don't. You're going to build your new favorites. We're going to show you how to do that. It's not hard. You just need to be somewhere where we do, week after week, somebody cares about you right. Get in a community where there's real, where there's authentic, where somebody cares about you. They actually care if you feel better the next day or not. You know this is what matters. We were created to thrive on these foods Breeds and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes.

8:26 But if you have not been eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and legumes for your entire life, or you've been eating a little side of nasty ones that you didn't like but you pushed through, or you think a side salad's what you're gonna have to eat the rest of your life, you are in for a great, great surprise and treat. Yeah, it's a treat, literally. We do not feel deprived. Girl, you know what I'm talking about. Are you sitting there shouting at the podcast? Are you like listen? What they're saying is true. If you're already working with us, you're seeing the light. We see what you're doing, you're taking action, you're taking the steps and you're asking the questions. You're putting yourself in a place where you get those questions answered so you know how to eat more whole plant foods, how to make it easy for yourself.

9:08 That is when things become sustainable. How do I do it? But it all boils down to you. You got to find the way to eat more plants that is sustainable, that work, so you can start feeling better, so you can live the life you were created to live. These foods are the answer you are looking for. Take the leap. This is the key. Do it. If you're sitting on the fence thinking, okay, I hear it, I don't know, take the leap. What do you have to lose? Nothing, but you have everything to gain Everything to gain. Take it from somebody who's gone through it. Look, jare and I lost 70 pounds together without even trying to lose weight. We have members coming in and they're going having even tried to lose weight, and I've lost more weight. I'm weighing my high school weight.

9:50 I'm doing this, but they're not just sitting there gathering knowledge. Again, go listen to episode 250. There are some keys there to what you need to do. It's not hard. You just need a little bit of guidance and actual loving care from people who genuinely care about you and can show you what steps to take so you'll know how to eat more plants. You've got to learn how to love them. How do you make them taste like your old favorites? How do you discover the new favorites right? So it's not just about us saying eat more plants but that really is the key but it's learning how do I do this in the way that's going to work for me and is sustainable, that I actually love it so much. I look forward to it every day.

10:31 That's us, that's our story. We look forward to it every day. Do we ever feel deprived? Absolutely not, absolutely not. If I was ever in a situation where I felt deprived because I missed out on something, I'd figure out how to make a spin on that something, which is what I do and figure out for people all the time, because if I like Snickers, I want to know well what do I eat. That kind of gives me that flavor that I really enjoy just as much, and it may not even be a one-to-one replacement. I mean you get to a point where it doesn't even have to be replacing that exact food. It might be something at first. You need that and we give you that Like you've got to have that at first. If you love this thing, if you love chips, you want to have chips that taste really good. We can show you how to do that in like five minutes.

11:11 I mean actually have them on your plate in about five minutes. That's how easy it is. But later on it gets where you don't have to have those one-to-one substitutions. You're now learning all these new things to make that you. They weren't even on your radar. But I will say, with some of those substitutions that we've made, we've made them with real food. We have the real flavors, right, but we enjoy them more because really what we're eating before was the counterfeit Right. We're eating all the artificial flavors and we love that Like. Oh no, this is the standard of what we love and enjoy, right? No, nothing else could be better. But then you start making that transition, that transformation. You start having the real Like. We can take dates, wrap a pecan with them, freeze them.

11:54 It tastes like pecan pie. So we don't miss pecan pies, but we're getting all the natural flavor of the pecan, all the natural flavor of the medjool date. We're getting that caramel-y pecan goodness. And now we've got the authentic. We've got the real. So what you're saying is your taste buds and your health were hijacked. Your taste buds and your health were hijacked by the enemy, but we did know. I mean, I'll just put it there. It is true. And so we get sucked into all these things and we think that's normal and we think this is enjoyable and we say they're good. Oh, this was, you'll eat it. Oh, this was so good. Is it really good? Is it good if it's making you sick? Is it good if it's keeping you stuck? Is it good if it's causing you to live into the future that your doctor or your family has told you your genes is leading you to?

12:42 Is that good? We need to be careful about what we say is good. But I love that point that we were hijacked by something that was counterfeit or artificial and really what we want to do is live in what is rightfully ours, the blessings that come in filling our plate with the things that we were meant to eat from the very beginning. So if you're waiting for it, sister, here's your sign Eat more plants. You don't know how to do that? Get into the group poweronplantscom forward slash P I E pie. Podcast insiders. Experience is what that stands for, and you know. There's one other thing we want you to do for us, because this is so much fun.

13:23 Did you know that on our podcast page, at the very bottom right hand corner, you can click a little microphone button and leave us a message. We would absolutely love to hear your voice and get to know you more there as well. We love getting your emails and your messages, but we would love to hear your voice too. So that is at our podcast page, poweronplantspodcastcom. That's poweronplantspodcastcom. Go to the bottom right hand corner of the page, that little microphone icon. It's sticky, it stays right there. So if you scroll up and down, no matter what, it stays there in the bottom right hand corner Click it brings a little window. You can leave us a voicemail.

14:04 That's so much fun. We cannot wait to hear from you. Friend, this is going to be your best year ever, and we are so here for it. We look forward to meeting you inside of Pi, and until we see you there, have a great week and we'll see you next time on Poweron Plants.