Ep. 156: Dr. Dawn Mussallem - This Plant-Based Physician Survived Two Death Sentences To Become a Real Life Wonder Woman
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Dawn Mussallem is a board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician at the Mayo Clinic Jacoby Center for Breast Health where she works with breast cancer patients during and after their diagnosis to heal and thrive using the pillars of lifestyle medicine alongside their conventional cancer treatments.
Dawn has many remarkable stories of patient recovery, but the biggest recovery story of all is her own. You see, in addition to being a physician, teacher, wife, and mother, Mussallem is also a cancer survivor, 2021 heart transplant recipient, and as of February 2022, she's also a marathon finisher!
It's a story you simply have to hear to believe and her passion and positivity will leave a lasting impact. Not only does she acknowledge her family and faith in this decades-long journey, but she also credits her whole foods plant-based diet with her ability to thrive and train with a renewed sense of purpose and boundless energy. It's a life force she brings both to her life and the lives of the patients she works with on a daily basis.
Episode Resources
Mayo Clinic News Network Story on Dawn
Dawn's Journey from Cancer Survivor to Heart Transplant Recipient
Running to a New Beat - Heart transplant recipient to mark 1-year anniversary with marathon
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| 0:00.0 | Hang onto your hats, hang onto your kale. It is that time of the year. We have just announced |
| 0:06.4 | our 11th annual Planstock Weekend and this year's celebration will be virtual and it will take place |
| 0:13.5 | from September 9th to the 11th. And you better bet your bottom butternut squash that we are |
| 0:21.1 | focused on food this year from start to finish. And we've assembled an absolute brock star lineup |
| 0:28.5 | of chefs and cookbook authors to demonstrate their favorite recipes so you can get inspired |
| 0:35.4 | to get in the kitchen and eat more whole plants. Don't miss the chance to join us live. I will be |
| 0:43.1 | in Cleveland with my parents and an SE and you know my Razzle Dazzle sister Jane and we cannot wait |
| 0:49.7 | to connect with you. Visit planstrong.com slash planstock to sign up today. |
| 0:56.8 | And so I woke up and my whole body was just like beating against the bed. And I had never felt |
| 1:04.8 | this far. I was like oh my gosh like what is going on like everything's beating. And I heard this |
| 1:10.0 | like whistling sound and it was my hair that was like like just brushing ever so suddenly like |
| 1:16.5 | I don't know if anyone else would ever have heard anything. I mean it probably happens to anyone |
| 1:20.0 | with a little bit of long hair but they probably aren't aware of it but I just have such full awareness |
| 1:24.7 | of everything. This is the gift of everything I've been through. And it was like singing. And it |
| 1:31.2 | was just like this harmonia sound. And my whole body was warm for the first time in so many years |
| 1:38.6 | that it was just like this immense sense of being fully alive. I describe it as like my cells |
| 1:46.6 | were oscillating at this higher frequency. And I think this is very cool. And there's something with |
| 1:52.0 | this that has to do with whole food plant-based nutrition I think too which this may sound a little |
| 1:56.0 | weird to people but it was the coolest thing ever. Like just I was alive. And more alive than anyone |
| 2:04.2 | has ever experienced and I haven't lost that. I'm Rapace Lichten and welcome to the planstrong |
| 2:09.3 | podcast. The mission at planstrong is to further the advancement of all things within the plant-based |
| 2:16.1 | movement. We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based living and envision |
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