I'm a Besselston and welcome to the Plant Strong podcast. The mission at

Plant 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 the shelf.

Grief is an interesting thing. We've all suffered loss in our lives and

sometimes the grief can be overwhelming and even debilitating. Other times though, it can force us into action and advocacy, and that's the story that I want to share with

you today with my guest, Maxime Segui. In his mid-20s, Maxime was engaged to be married when his then-fiancé was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was vegetarian at the time and doctors gave her about one year to live.

She immediately switched to a fully Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet and was able to live another five years.

Maxime has had his own journey with body weight, health, and nutrition issues,

vacillating drastically from bodybuilder to fitness model and everywhere in between.

But inspired by his late fiance, he switched to a whole food plant-based diet over seven years ago and has made it his

mission in life to help others disease-proof their bodies with proper diet and training.

Please welcome Maxime Segui.

Welcome to the Plant Strong podcast.

It's great to have you.

Yeah, thank you very much for having me.

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