Basketball Legend Goes Vegan to Live Another 60 Years, Inspire Others | John Salley
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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Summary
John Salley was one of the bad boys of the NBA and one of the stars of the Bad Boys movie franchise. But he's also doing good things to improve his health and inspire others.
The 60-year-old has a goal to spend the next 60 years of his life teaching the world about health and wellness. And for Salley, that begins with his plant-based diet.
He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to peel back the curtain on his transition from the basketball court to Hollywood and health world.
Topics
- Has he ever gotten Bad Boys co-stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to try vegan food?
- Detoxing with food to get healthy
- Barriers to optimal nutrition in NBA
- Betta Life Nutrition
- Comparing the body to a Formula 1 car
- Juice vs. whole fruit
- Chinese sweet potatoes
- Are fake meats healthy?
- And more!
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John Salley
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International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine
Where: Washington, DC — Grand Hyatt
Date: August 15-17
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National Health Association Conference
Where: Online
Date: June 27-30
Who: Drs. Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn, Joel Fuhrman, Alan Goldhamer, Stephan Esser. Plus, Chuck Carroll, Ann and Jane Esselstyn, and more!
Tickets: https://bit.ly/NHAConf2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. I turned 60 May 16 and I decided for the next 60 years my focus was going to be health and wellness so and it's even like you Chuck when you first |
| 0:14.0 | started losing weight was one thing but then a wise man explained plant-based |
| 0:19.5 | living to you and a lot of people say you can eat what you want and you're going to lose weight. That's the first |
| 0:24.6 | thing they would say to people who want the easy way of doing it. I always say the |
| 0:29.4 | two most important letters in the alphabet in America are E and Z. |
| 0:34.2 | People want to do it easy. |
| 0:36.9 | So it's not easy. |
| 0:38.5 | I said it wasn't easy putting all these added weight |
| 0:41.8 | and things in your body. It's not going to be easy to lose. |
| 0:45.9 | Now I realize it wasn't just the weight. |
| 0:49.8 | I was helping people remove toxins from their body and the caveat was they lost they lost weight. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the exam. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs, coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:13.6 | High to the exam roomies listening in Miami, Florida, |
| 1:17.1 | Aloth, Kansas, and Valencia, Venezuela. |
| 1:21.2 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:26.3 | This is episode 52 of season 7, number 551 overall. |
| 1:33.0 | NBA legend turned actor John Sally is here with us to dunk on nutrition today. |
| 1:41.0 | And this is a thrill because John is a friend of hours here at the Physicians Committee |
| 1:46.3 | and absolutely he floors me early in the interview with something that he says. |
| 1:53.8 | He says he just turned 60 years old and he wants to spend, get this, the next 60 years of his life teaching others about health and wellness. So he just |
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