One of the favorite parts of my day is reading emails from folks like you who have taken the leap into the plan strong lifestyle and are now crushing their goals.

Today's note is from someone who answered a recent survey that we sent out about our RIP's Big Bowl serials.

And it reads, quote, nothing gets me more fired up than waking up to a bowl of your cereal.

I love adding in different fruits and have even tried your idea of adding grapefruit segments and was shocked how delicious it was.

Thank you for creating products that make living a whole food, plant-based, oil-free, and no added sugar lifestyle that much easier.

I can't wait to see what you guys create next.

Well, I want you to know that I shared this note with the entire plant-strong team because, if I'm honest, food is excruciatingly difficult.

And most manufacturers literally laugh at us when we present a product that we want to make because we refuse to cut corners or adding garbage ingredients or jack up the salt, the sugar, or pour in the oil.

But it's not just the way it's been done, but it's comments like these that get us out of bed every day, charging up that impossible hill to bring good food to people.

We have so many new things in the pipeline and I cannot wait to share them with all of you.

So thanks so much to all of you for all your support.

Now let's jump into today's show.

And I think in the first three months, I dropped 55 pounds and I was eating a ton. I was just eating the right things, no oil, you know.

More greens than I had ever eaten before in my life. I dropped 55 pounds for three months. My blood pressure went from 156 over 110 down to 126 over 79.

And my cholesterol dropped from over 400 to 199.

And according to doctors now, you know, in those little areas, I was a picture of health in, but it just everything kept improving. And that was after three months.

I'm Rep. Alcestan and welcome to the Plan Strong podcast. The mission at Plan Strong is to further the advancement of all things within the plant-based movement.

We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based living and envision a world that universally understands, promotes and prescribes plants as a solution to empowering your health, enhancing your performance, restoring the environment, and becoming better guardians to the animals we share this planet with.

We welcome you wherever you are on your Plan Strong journey. And I hope that you enjoy this show.

Hello, my Plan Strong pancakes. I'm Rep. Alcestan and thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the Plan Strong podcast. I actually chose the word pancakes on purpose because my guest today, Shane Martin, has no less than a dozen pancake recipes to choose from on his website, Shane and simple.

Shane is definitely a Plan Strong brother because of his passion for all things plants that is as enormous and skyrocketing as Mount Everest.

Now, a southern boy, through and through, Shane was a football-loving kid, born and raised in Mississippi with stints along the way in Nashville, Georgia, and a few other areas as a musician and a music director.

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