Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Dr. Megan Rossi, PhD, RD, aka the Gut Health Doctor on Instagram, is one of the most

influential Gut Health specialists internationally. A practicing dietitian and nutritionist

with an award-winning PhD in Gut Health. She is also a leading research fellow at King's College

London, where she currently is investigating nutrition-based therapies in Gut Health.

And today, she's here to chat about her new book, How to Eat More Plants.

Transform your health with 30 plant-based foods per week and why it's easier than you think.

Megan, welcome. It's an absolute pleasure, Jason.

So plants, eat more plants. Sometimes it will not, sometimes. It's quite simple, yet we all can't

get it right. But I love about your approach because I think some people struggle with plant-based

diet because they just think of, all right, broccoli, spinach, dark leaf greens, and you know,

I don't like those foods, but a key theme in your book is diversity. And so let's start there.

How and why should we all be thinking about diversity and what does that look like in terms

of our diet? Yeah, look, it really comes down to this landmark scientific discovery that is

I've got microbiome. So that's a science-y name for literally the trillions of microorganisms

that live along and nine-metre digestive tract. And these microorganisms, honestly, are game-changing

in terms of what it means to live longer, to be happier, to be of a healthier body weight,

you know, better hormonal function, et cetera. And that's why, essentially, I wrote the book. So my

work at Kings, we've been for over the past decade, been investigating all of these different

types of nutrition therapies and how they impact our gut microbes, not just to improve things

like gut symptoms that have this widespread effect. And one of the key principles that we see coming

out around the reason, you know, plants are so beneficial is essentially because plants feed

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