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And here's a great analogy though.
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Think about if I had a medication that I could offer you.
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Inexpensive, it actually tasted good, but no side effects.
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It would take care of a majority, if not all, of your chronic issues.
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You're talking about a pill.
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Like if you if J.
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If I wrapped up whole food plant base into a tablet or pill and had that to offer you, and we just know it works.
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And we knew it worked, there were no side effects, and you would feel great, energy would be restored, aches and pains would go away, we would be considering that malpractice.
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I mean, we just would.
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But now, welcome to the Power on Plants Podcast, home of the purpose-driven men and women who refuse to let their body become the bottleneck to their God-given calling.
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If you're building a business, raising up the next generation, and carrying vision, but behind the scenes your energy is fading, inflammation is rising, your labs aren't great, and you're wondering how much longer can I keep pushing like this?
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It's time to fix the fuel.
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You've accomplished a lot in life, so you know you don't have a discipline problem and you're not just getting older.
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Your body needs the strategy that matches your assignment.
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Whole plant foods the exciting, sustainable way that fuel razor shark focus, optimize energy, reverse inflammation, and the most common chronic diseases of our time.
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Hello and welcome to Power on Plants.
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I'm Anita Roussel, nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.
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And I'm Jared Roussel, a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine.
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And we specialize in showing purpose-driven leaders and kingdom entrepreneurs the fastest, simplest, and most enjoyable path to having the body that finally feels great so you're able to fully live your God-given calling.
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Today, Jared and I want to share with you from the heart something that we hear all the time from various people, clients, his one-on-one patients.
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Many people say this to us when we share whole food plant-based with them.
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And it's the question why has no one ever shared this with me before?
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That's a valid question.
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It is a valid question.
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When you hear about something this amazing, you would you think, How have I not heard this before?
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I've been alive for how many decades?
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This information has been around for how long?
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And I'm just now hearing about this.
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But the problem is we have a common enemy.
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And that common enemy tells us lies because he does not want you to succeed or me to succeed or Jared to succeed, right?
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He is against the kingdom.
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He's anti-kingdom.
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And so you have a calling on your life that you were created to fulfill, and he does not want you to fulfill it.
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He wants to steal from you, destroy you, and keep you from fulfilling your mission that you were placed on earth to live out.
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And one of the biggest ways we see this happen is you get some kind of diagnosis about a chronic condition that you have, and you hear, this is just how it is.
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There's really not much you can do about it.
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Now, maybe you'll be offered something to manage the symptoms like a cream or a pill to cure the ill or an injection or an inhaler, right?
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Exactly.
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But here's the truth you need to know that you've most likely never heard before.
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And we care too much about you to keep silent about these things.
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If you have a diagnosis, there is a very good chance that someone and most likely a lot of people have reversed it eating whole plant foods.
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I want to say that one more time because I don't want you to miss it.
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If you have a diagnosis, there's a very good chance that someone, most likely a lot of people, have reversed that same diagnosis by eating whole plant foods.
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You also have to consider, too, that there are places in the world where people don't get some of these diseases.
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And why is that?
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You have to look at what is it that they're doing.
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I mean, there are places in Africa where heart disease is just not heard of.
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You can look in the hospital records for a span of two years and there are no cardiovascular diseases being recorded.
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What are those people doing?
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They're eating a predominantly plant-based diet.
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That's such a great point.
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Such an absolutely great point.
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And all you have to do to see and learn more about that is look into the blue zones.
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If you've never looked into the blue zones, those are the areas of the world where people live the longest, most active lives.
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And that's exactly what they're eating, like Jared said.
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It's mostly whole plant foods.
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So I want to talk more about that statement I just made that there's a very good chance that someone, most likely, a lot of people have reversed the diagnosis you've been given eating whole plant foods.
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If you don't believe us about this, or you think that just sounds crazy, I know I get it.
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It's hard to believe.
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But we want you to just get online and Google your symptom and whole food plant-based or healing diagnosis name.
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So you type that in healing my diagnosis name with whole plant foods, because we're going to share with you some stories today that may just blow your mind.
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In a world where there are 5 billion people connected to the internet, somebody somewhere has probably had your condition and has been able to positively impact it with a whole food plant-based diet.
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I want you to think about Terry Edwards of Eat Plant-Based, our friend that we had on the podcast to share with you her story.
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If you have not heard that interview, go right now and listen to it.
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If you like video interviews better, check out our YouTube channel at Symbol Power on Plants.
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That's at Symbol Power on Plants.
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We're starting to post a lot of video interviews in there.
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We have our one with Chris Wark, the one with Terry Edwards, the one with Sid Nodder, Clean Food Mama.
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You're going to see a lot there that you're not going to want to miss.
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But Terry shared about how she went to the doctor with all these symptoms, all these things going on.
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No one mentioned whole food plant-based to her, but she went home and discovered through a series of events that eating whole plant foods could help cure the diagnosis and symptoms she was dealing with.
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So she started eating more whole plant foods, getting results.
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And then she was so excited.
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She spent time trying to figure out the best way to present this to her doctors so that they could help more people.
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When you have a diagnosis that's serious and you're dealing with these symptoms that are heartbreaking, and all of a sudden you realize, hey, all I have to do is find the system and learn how to eat more whole plant foods in the way I actually enjoy that'll stick for life.
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And I get results with no side effects.
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And I love this way of living.
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And all of a sudden, you're a crusader.
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Like you want to go out and tell everybody about what's happened.
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You want, especially medical professionals, to understand look, you could help your patients.
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So she really liked her doctors.
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And there were several physicians in the office.
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She wanted them to know.
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She was so excited.
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So she planned how she was going to go in there to her next visit, get her labs checked, have good labs.
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And then she was going to explain to her doctors whole food plant-based eating so that they could help their patients because she had a heart for people, like we all do when our lives are changed by these amazing foods.
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So in walks Terry to her doctor's visit.
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Now, imagine her surprise when the doctor she's seeing that day notifies her that many of the physicians in that practice are vegetarians.
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They eat the majority of vegetables.
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They already knew this.
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They were already doing this for themselves, but they didn't share it with her.
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They didn't share it with her.
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Now, this broke my heart because this was our story.
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We were in the medical field.
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Jared and I literally, we just weren't taught these things, as most doctors and nurses are not.
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It's not a part of medical training.
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Contrary to popular belief, you don't get a whole lot of nutrition training.
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I had one course in nutrition and nursing school.
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Now, since then, I've had a lot more study.
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I went back and got certified as an integrative nutrition health coach.
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On top of that, we did our own research when we hit our health crisis at age 40.
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And upon digging and finding out these foods lead to healing, guess what?
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We started eating these foods.
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We started finding the system that worked so that it would last.
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And bingo, our stuff starts reversing.
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I'm living life again.
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I went from feeling dead to feeling fully alive.
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What is going on here?
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Why is somebody not telling us this?
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We've gone to doctors searching for answers, having tests, multiple appointments.
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Why did no one tell us these things?
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Okay.
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One reason we've just talked about it's our enemy.
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It's not them.
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A lot of them just don't know.
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But then apparently, a lot of them do.
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But what they're taught is and what they've come to believe is they might share it with you, but why waste their time if you're not going to do it?
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Now come on, are you kidding me?
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No, I'm not kidding you.
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I'm for real.
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This is a major belief within the medical community.
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Well, I can speak to that.
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Now, in my PA training, I probably had 10 hours of nutritional training.
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I believe the class was an hour once a week for about 10 weeks in duration.
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So we really didn't go into any great detail other than this is a carbohydrate, this is a fat, this is a protein.
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And it probably went a little deeper than that, but not much, certainly not to the depth that I've learned since going into lifestyle medicine.
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The amount of healing that is in plants and all the beneficial substances far exceeds what we learned in nutrition class.
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But when I was in school, the attitude was have your patient try diet exercise, and when that fails, here's a pill.
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Now, did they say those words?
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No.
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But if you read between the lines, that was a general attitude.
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And I think it's because we've become so reliant upon modern medicine and modern science that we just don't see how these things could function.
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We feel like it's old fashioned.
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This is what we used to do before we had our modern medicines, and now we know better.
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So it really doesn't make that big of a difference.
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So tell them dine and exercise.
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And again, when that fails, because it usually will, air quotes there, it usually will, then we've got medicine for that.
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Okay, but I'm just gonna say this Terry's doctors knew it made a difference.
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They knew it made a difference.
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How do I know that?
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Because they were doing it.
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They were eating the majority of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes.
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So if they were doing that for themselves and their family, they didn't hold back from her because they were unaware.
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They held back because they thought she wouldn't do it.
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They had already decided for her what she would and would not do.
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And I'm so sorry, but that is straight up wrong.
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Like if you're a medical professional and you know something that works, you're not the police.
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Like we're not the police of our patients.
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We're not the police of our clients.
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Jared and I do not have the attitude when we're working with you or we're working with another client of you had better do it.
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Like we say it's our way or the highway.
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Our attitude is we just want you to have the facts because most people out there aren't providing you with the facts.
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Sometimes it's because they don't know.
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Sometimes they do know, but they just don't think you'll do it.
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And if you haven't been told, the choice has already been made for you.
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Right.
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Because if you don't know that there is a plan A, as Sid Noter likes to say with her book titled Plan A Diet.
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Great.
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If you don't know that there's a plan A, then you can't choose it.
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Great book, by the way.
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I just have to say that.
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You need to get that book if you don't have it.
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Sid Noter's Plan A Diet.
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But anyway, yeah, I mean, you don't know if you don't know.
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So someone needs to tell you it's not okay when a medical professional has knowledge and knows that something could help someone and they keep quiet.
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And here's a great analogy, though.
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Think about if I had a medication that I could offer you.
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Inexpensive, it actually tasted good, but no side effects.
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It would take care of a majority, if not all, of your chronic issues.
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You're talking about a pill.
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Like if you if just if I wrapped up whole food plant base into a tablet or pill and had that to offer you, and we just know it works.
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And we knew it worked, there were no side effects, and you would feel great, energy would be restored, aches and pains would go away, we would be considering that malpractice.
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I mean, we just would.
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But now if we wrap that up into whole foods, put it on a plate, that's kind of weird.
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Yep.
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That's kind of fringe, that's kind of extreme.
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Yeah, that's how it's viewed.
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And it's so sad because you have to understand that these things, when they're held back from you, whether or not they know, and a lot of times it is not intentional.
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They really don't know.
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They have not been trained.
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So your job is to make sure that you get trained so you do know, so you do have the information, but you are in the right place.
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You're asking the right questions, you're listening to this podcast.
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You can search every single podcast episode and get the truth about these foods and what they do for you and start getting ideas about what to cook and what to make, and meet our other amazing coach, Robin, and hear about her life change.
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And you're going to meet so many incredible people in there.
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It's going to change your life when you start posting and start saying, How's this?
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And this is my question about that.
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And what do you think?
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And asking each other, be in that support network for one another.
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And then we have the cookbooks.
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Get started with the cookbooks.
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You can get those today and start finding your new favorites.
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That's huge.
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These things can and will make a difference for you.
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We want you to Google those symptoms, Google Whole Food Plant Base and look at it because Terry's not the only one that this has happened for.
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We're not the only one that this has happened for.
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Gone and searched and not heard that this can actually help me.
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Meanwhile, we were put on medications.
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I was put on steroids and told I was going to need to take them long term for a bladder issue I had.
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I was told I'd have forever.
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It is gone.
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I no longer have it.
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I no longer have fibrocystic breast disease.
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I no longer have joint pain.
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I no longer have life-altering low energy and fibromyalgia.
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I mean, all these things that I had, the 75 pounds that Jared and I dropped without even going on a diet.
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Listen, Adam and Eve were not in the garden pulling up their macros, micros app and counting points for Weight Watchers.
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Let's just get real.
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That doesn't even make sense.
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They weren't scanning the barcode on the produce.
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Those are man's ways.
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Man's ways are difficult.
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God's ways are not difficult.