Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle


Latest Episodes

Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438
November 17, 2020

Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics. - In this challenging conversation, we discuss how our cultures can traumatize us and predispose us to oppress other cultures.

Owning Our Health with Glen Merzer and Chef AJ: PYP 437
November 10, 2020

Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir. Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.

How Our Communities Can Get Healthy at Last: Eric Adams on PYP 432
October 09, 2020

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook,

We Move, Therefore We Think: Barbara Tversky on PYP 431
October 06, 2020

Barbara Tversky argues that our thinking, and consciousness itself, arises from the experiences of our physical bodies in space. - Rather than being an afterthought, or just the province of athletes and dancers,

Democracy Means a Healthy and Safe Environment for All: Jovita Lee on PYP 430
September 29, 2020

Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice.  - The environmental movement has a long and shameful history of privileging certain parts of the env...

Outlasting Broken and Unjust Systems: Meryl Fury on Plant Yourself 429
September 22, 2020

Meryl Fury is a registered nurse and CEO of the Plant-based Nutrition Movement. And she's a fierce advocate for justice and sanity in a world lacking both. - Emblematic of her approach to life is the story of how she went vegetarian at the age of 15,

The Younger Skin Diet: Rajani Katta, MD, on PYP 428
September 15, 2020

I think that having healthy, attractive skin is probably a lot more motivating to most people than a healthy heart, or liver, or pancreas. I mean, those organs are great and all, and important, but they're so, well, hidden.  -

Tiny Leaps Make Big Changes: Gregg Clunis on PYP 427
September 08, 2020

Gregg Clunis learned most of what he knows about persistence, strategy, personal development, and success from watching his immigrant parents struggle to achieve their dreams. Originally from Jamaica, Gregg and his family followed his father,

Creating a Platform for Black Plant-Based Health Experts: Judy Brangman, MD, on PYP 426
September 04, 2020

Judy Brangman, MD, aka The Plant-Based MD, visits the podcast to talk about her labor of love, the Reclaim Your Health Summit. - The summit is the first one featuring exclusively people of color in the plant-based healthcare space. Eighteen doctors,

Steven C Hayes on PYP 425: How to Liberate Our Minds
August 31, 2020

Steven C Hayes is the originator of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, take your pick), one of the most important psychological approaches of the past 100 years. - Why the high praise?