Ep. 211: Dr. Sandra Musial - Leaving a Medical Practice to Go All-In on Food as Medicine
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In 2021, Dr. Sandra Musial gave up a private practice and teaching career to go ALL-IN with what she loves most - helping people transition to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.
She and other plant-based physicians started Plant Docs Providence to provide classes, education, and consultations to the public and medical professionals about how whole food, plant-based nutrition can prevent, improve, and reverse chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and certain cancers.
Today, she and Rip discuss:
- Her Ukrainian roots and why she wanted to pursue medicine
- Why she become a pediatrician to work with children
- What or who inspired Sandy to pursue plant-based nutrition
- The rewards and challenges of working with children and their fammilies
- The dedication and outcomes of starting an obesity clinic and a food garden at Hasbro Children’s Hospital
- When she knew it was time to go all-in on plant-based nutrition education
- How Plant Docs found a home at Plant City in Providence, Rhode Island
- Upcoming programs at Plant City
This career transition hasn’t come without risk, but when you pursue what you believe, the risk also comes with high-reward when you KNOW you’re making a difference in the lives of motivated people.
Sandra Musial, MD is a physician specializing in food as medicine who is dedicated to preserving health and reversing lifestyle-related chronic disease through whole, plant-based nutrition. Sandy earned a BS degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of New Hampshire, and an MD degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has worked in a private pediatric practice and at Hasbro Children's Hospital teaching the pediatric residents and medical students from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a Culinary Coach from Harvard’s CHEF Coaching program, has a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from eCornell, and a Health Coaching certificate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition®. Sandy is board certified in Pediatrics and Obesity Medicine and started an obesity clinic and the first vegetable garden at Hasbro. Though she has witnessed the healing power of conventional medicine, she has also seen its limitations, especially with regard to disease prevention through healthy nutrition. Sandy started the nonprofit Plant Docs as an avenue for people to learn about the power of plant-based nutrition to improve health.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that in the not-too-distant future we have two events |
| 0:06.4 | and there is something for everyone. Now first up on the docket we have our 12th annual |
| 0:13.4 | plant stock weekend celebration. This is going to be a virtual event and it is incredibly |
| 0:21.2 | affordable. I hope that you'll join us. We have Dr. Michael Greger speaking to us all about his |
| 0:28.8 | new book How Not to Age and the whole theme of this year's plant stock is coming together around |
| 0:37.7 | food and in that spirit we have assembled the most insane list of Brockstar chefs that you can |
| 0:45.8 | imagine. We've got Max Lamana who's an award-winning author, social media sensation and incredible |
| 0:54.0 | chef. We have got some of your tried-and-trude favorites like Chef A.J. We have Kim Campbell. We have |
| 1:01.9 | the other social media sensation, Carly Bowdrug. We have Cameron Clements. Mrs. Plant based on a |
| 1:09.4 | budget, Tony Acha Modo. The incredible registered dietician Desiree Nielsen, Kiki Nelson, Shane Martin, |
| 1:19.5 | Jackie Ackerberg, Janet Verney. The list goes on and of course, Jane and Anne Essleston and |
| 1:27.2 | my father. Now the other event that we have coming up in October, from October 9th to the 14th, |
| 1:35.3 | it is our live Sedona retreat. It's a life-changing event. Highly recommend that anyone looking to take |
| 1:43.5 | a deep dive with 80 to 90 other people in this very remote location in the austere red rock |
| 1:52.2 | mounds outside Sedona, Arizona. You do not want to miss this. We've been putting these on now for |
| 1:59.4 | close to 13 years and this Sedona retreat is one of my absolute favorites. We're talking unlimited |
| 2:08.8 | buffets of plant-strong food, yoga, world-class lectures, stargazing, bonfires, pickleball, |
| 2:19.3 | and all kinds of wonderful bonding and camaraderie. All right, I hope to see you at either or both |
| 2:26.6 | in the not too distant future. Whether it's plant stock or whether it's Sedona for either one, |
| 2:33.6 | simply go to plantstrong.com and then click on either 12th annual plant stock or Sedona retreat |
| 2:42.1 | 2000 and 23 and I hope to see you at either or both. You can't go wrong. |
| 2:52.7 | I'm Rep. Essleston and welcome to the Plant Strong podcast. The mission at Plant Strong is to |
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