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PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Ep. 265: Kim Scheuer, MD - All Hail Dr. Kale!

PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Rip Esselstyn

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Medicine, Nutrition

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kim Scheuer is a dynamic plant-based telehealth physician and a passionate advocate for lifestyle medicine. Affectionately known as "Dr. Kale" by her patients, she shares her remarkable journey from a traditional family physician to embracing a plant-based lifestyle after navigating her own health challenges and witnessing the impact of nutrition on diseases.

In 2011, Dr. Kim Scheuer was a burned out family physician caught in the same grind of many physicians – long hours, diminishing patient care, and running on the hamster wheel of the “healthcare” system. 

It was also around this time that Kim realized she was just one-year shy of the age her mother was when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Determined not to walk this path, she started doing her research and what she found both astonished and angered her.

Of course, she found The China Study, Forks over Knives, and other resources, but how had she not learned any of this information in medical school??! How was she not familiar with the work of Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Fuhrman, Dr. McDougall, or Dr. Esselstyn?

It didn’t take long for this self-proclaimed “Milky Way vegetarian” and food addict to radically overhaul her own lifestyle and, ultimately, her medical practice. Today, she’s a plant-based telehealth physician with Love.Life Telehealth and she’s also board certified in Lifestyle Medicine. She works with patients in 25 states with general health and wellness, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, blood pressure, cholesterol control, cancer prevention and food addiction. 

Today, you’ll hear about her very personal journey, her passion for growing her own food, her connection to nature and her very personal “why” she needed to be plantstrong.

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0:00.0

I'm Ray Besselston and you're listening to the Plant Strong podcast.

0:04.7

This Plant Strong doctor has so much energy and enthusiasm that even her patients call her Dr. Taz, after the Taz-Manian devil, and Dr. Kale, well, after the green leafy

0:20.0

vegetable that we all love so much.

0:23.0

Through her own traumatic personal experiences,

0:26.0

Dr. Kim Schoyer found plant-based nutrition

0:30.0

and lifestyle medicine as a way to make yourself healthier.

0:34.3

Today, she shares what she has learned so that you too can feel a younger,

0:40.0

happier, and healthier.

0:42.0

Her remarkable journey is right after these words from Plant Strong.

0:50.0

It is officially September, which means it is back to school season and in the

0:56.4

Esselston House it's back to hectic schedules and constant carpools with all

1:01.8

the kids.

1:03.2

Now we talk a lot about batch cooking on the weekend

1:05.6

so that you can set yourself up for success

1:08.2

with healthy meals all during the week.

1:11.3

But when you're super tight on time,

1:13.8

Plant Strong Chilies and Stews are a lifesaver.

1:17.3

We have 10 different varieties for you to try,

1:19.7

all are hardy satisfying, super delicious.

1:23.2

My go to right now is the Chunky Chipotle,

1:26.8

the spicy Cajun Jambalaya,

1:29.2

and the spiced lentil chili.

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