Ep. 313: Dr. Jami Dulaney - This Cardiologist Stopped Doing Medicine the Old Way
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a seasoned cardiologist realizes that prescriptions and procedures aren’t enough?
You get Dr. Jami Dulaney—a board-certified cardiologist who transformed her practice (and personal life) by embracing plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine.
Motivated by her own family history of heart disease and a desire to do more than simply manage symptoms, Dr. Dulaney shares her transformative journey from practicing traditional cardiology to building a lifestyle medicine practice that focuses on the healing power of whole food, plant-based nutrition and movement.
You'll hear how she made this bold shift in her practice after seeing firsthand how food can reverse chronic conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. She also opens up about her personal evolution from golfer to runner, including her love of endurance running and how she stays motivated to live plantstrong.
Dr. Dulaney’s memberships include an annual comprehensive physical exam that incorporates screening and diagnostic tests, and focuses on nutrition, fitness and exercise, lifestyle management, mental wellness, stress management, and chronic disease management. The result is a customized wellness plan to guide you in achieving and maintaining optimum health and disease prevention.
Together, Rip and Dr. Dulaney explore:
- Why she left the “pill for every ill” model behind
- How lifestyle medicine is reversing chronic disease in her patients
- Why oils—even so-called “healthy” ones—have no place in a heart-healthy diet
- The power of community and education in sustaining health changes
- Her training mindset as a runner and the connection between physical and mental health
- How doctors can (and should) create space for deeper, more meaningful patient care
Dr. Dulaney proves that it’s never too late to rewrite the script—whether in your medical practice or your own life. This episode is a powerful reminder that food is medicine, and the future of healthcare starts with prevention, not prescriptions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ray Besselston, and you're listening to the Plan Strong podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | What happens when a seasoned cardiologist realizes that prescriptions and procedures just aren't doing the trick? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, you get Dr. Jamie Doolaney, a board-certified cardiologist who transformed her practice and her personal |
| 0:24.0 | life, by the way, by embracing plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine. I'm going to have |
| 0:30.4 | her story right after this message from Plant Strong. |
| 0:43.3 | What if one day could change your mindset and one week could change your life? |
| 0:45.2 | Well, we've got both coming your way. |
| 0:49.2 | First up, don't miss Plant Stock 2025. |
| 0:52.8 | It'll be streaming live on Saturday, September 6th. This virtual event is your front row seat to the future of food is medicine, |
| 0:58.6 | with powerful presentations from Brockstar doctors, experts, and real people who have |
| 1:05.1 | transformed their health with the power of plants. |
| 1:08.1 | Tickets are just $29, and partial proceeds support the rebuild of Blue Ridge Assembly, |
| 1:14.7 | our beloved second home in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Then, in November, join us in |
| 1:21.8 | person for the Plant Strong retreat in Black Mountain. It's six days of total transformation filled with |
| 1:29.5 | nourishing food, movement, connection, and the latest and greatest in lifestyle medicine |
| 1:35.4 | and nutrition science. Health care providers, this one is for you. We are offering |
| 1:41.6 | continuing education credits as part of your registration. So whether you |
| 1:46.1 | want to join us online, in the mountains, or both, this is your chance to reset, reconnect, |
| 1:53.8 | and reclaim your health. Grab your spot now at liveplandstrong.com and then click on events. I appreciate doctors and I know that you do as well |
| 2:06.3 | who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo because I think that we all know it's incredibly hard |
| 2:13.5 | to do this almost impossible. But cardiologist Dr. Jamie Delaney, she's one of those rare |
| 2:21.6 | physicians who found herself working in a broken health care system and decided to do something |
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