Adam Sud: Healing anxiety, depression, and addiction with a plant-based diet
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Darin Olien
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
If someone told you that their addiction was an act of self-care, what would you say?
Would you believe them - accepting that they need their addiction to keep going, or would you see an opportunity for change?
In a world where we see more of someone’s highlight reel than their struggles, it’s hard for us to see all the nuances that come with addiction and poor mental health. And all the options available in the process of recovery…like plant based nutrition, for example.
In the latest episode of The Darin Olien Show, I sit down with Adam Sud to discover his transformative struggle with depression, anxiety, and addiction to being able to help others on their path to recovery. The importance of recognizing that our instincts are not failing us; rather, they are responding to an environment for which they were not designed. And the role nutrition plays in emotional wellness, highlighting the often overlooked connection between mental health issues like depression and anxiety with our physical health.
Adam Sud is a wellness and nutrition expert, speaker, and CEO of Plant Based for Positive Change. He researches nutrition's role in disease reversal, mental health and addiction, and has applied his expertise in treatment centers using plant-based nutrition as a tool for strengthening recovery and relapse prevention.
What we discuss…
(05:53) - Addiction as misguided self care and the burden of depression
(18:44) - Surviving the pain of personal crisis and finding purpose out the other side
(23:32) - Self-experimentation and the transformational power of plant-based recovery
(32:10) - How nutrition can aid in addiction recovery and have significant impact on your mental health
(49:36) - Understanding the impact of modern food on our physiology (& what to do about it)
(01:01:51) - Building meaningful connections to foster resilience and help your mental health
(01:13:41) - How reorganizing your priorities, values, and environment can transform your life choices
…and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If someone told you that addiction was an act of self-care, what would you say? |
| 0:10.4 | Would you believe them? |
| 0:11.6 | Accepting that they need their addiction to keep going? |
| 0:15.0 | Or would you see an opportunity for change? |
| 0:19.0 | In a world where we see more of people's highlight reels than their struggles, it's hard for us to see all the |
| 0:26.1 | nuances that come with addiction and poor mental health and all of the options available |
| 0:32.0 | in the process of recovery like you know plant-based |
| 0:34.8 | nutrition for example in this episode of the Darren Leach show I sit down with Adam |
| 0:39.7 | Sud to discover his transformational struggle with depression, anxiety, massive addiction, and becoming |
| 0:49.8 | able to help others on their path to recovery. It's an incredible story. The importance |
| 0:56.3 | of recognizing that our instincts are not ever failing us. Rather, they're responding to our environment for which they were not |
| 1:05.9 | designated. This is a very interesting topic we start to unpack and the role of |
| 1:12.1 | nutrition plays on emotional wellness, |
| 1:14.8 | highlighting the often overlooked connection between mental health issues like |
| 1:19.8 | depression and anxiety with our physical health. |
| 1:23.6 | Adam Sud is a wellness and nutritional expert, speaker, and CEO of Plant-based for |
| 1:30.2 | positive change. |
| 1:31.8 | He researches, literally researches nutrition's role in disease reversal. |
| 1:37.7 | We talk a little bit about that in this episode, Mental Health and Addiction, and has applied his expertise in treatment centers |
| 1:45.2 | using plant-based nutrition as a tool, a powerful tool, for strengthening |
| 1:50.2 | recovery and relapse prevention. |
| 1:53.0 | Before we dive in today's episode, I want to thank my sponsor, |
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