Ep. 32: Dr. Michael Klaper - Get Off Your 'Buts'
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
“Heaven forbid, you get a heart attack or a stroke. It's only you in that hospital bed. It's not the people at work. It's not your daughter-in-law. It's not the people you go out to dinner with. It's you. You're a grown man. You're a grown woman. It doesn't matter what people think at this point and you don't owe anything to anybody. It's nobody's business what you order for lunch.”
Not many people tell it like it is better than Dr. Michael Klaper. As a revered member of the Plant-Strong retreat team, this nutritional Paul Revere always inspires with his infinite wisdom, caring spirit, and straightforward approach. It’s also this fervor that drives his quest to expose and awaken tomorrow’s young physicians to the power of plant-based healing with his Moving Medicine Forward Initiative.
This candid interview is true-to-form as Dr. Klaper and Rip ask the audience to let go of their sacred cows and get off their ‘BUTS’ to make positive changes for long term health.
Life is made up of small changes, and the food we eat every day changes us from the inside out. When you switch to a whole food plant-based diet, you have a self-healing mechanism and the body gets itself back into balance. So, why not eat the cleanest fuel possible for your metabolic engine?
There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Every bite matters.
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| 0:00.0 | He's back. One of my favorites from season one, Dr. Michael Clapper, returns to the Plant |
| 0:12.0 | Strong podcast with a discussion that happens fresh from his presentation at one of our recent |
| 0:18.9 | Plant Strong Immersions. His talk on why every bite matters was so compelling that I just |
| 0:27.4 | had to dig in a little deeper and share it all with you. If you haven't listened to our |
| 0:35.0 | interview from season one on his thoughts on the Paleo Diet, you're bargaining with the devil. |
| 0:41.4 | I highly recommend it and you can find it with the link in our show notes here. But now, |
| 0:47.5 | back to today's knockout conversation. Dr. Clapper is the nutritional Gandalf. He is also the |
| 0:57.1 | nutritional Paul Revere. He's on a quest to not just spread the word to all of us, but also to |
| 1:03.8 | expose and awaken tomorrow's young physicians to the power of a plant-based healing revolutionary |
| 1:13.4 | diet. People, yes, including physicians, are absolutely afraid to make changes. Even as adults, |
| 1:21.4 | we're afraid of what people might think or say. Dr. Clapper addresses these fears head on |
| 1:28.5 | and asks his audience to let go of their sacred cows and get off their butts, for example, |
| 1:36.7 | but it's too hard, but it's too expensive, but it just doesn't taste good. And all of those excuses |
| 1:44.4 | that have held people back for years and years. Every bite matters. Life is made up of small changes |
| 1:53.3 | and the food that we eat every day changes us from the inside out. Why not eat the cleanest fuel |
| 2:01.8 | possible for your metabolic engine? Here's Dr. Michael Clapper to expand on the how and most |
| 2:09.8 | importantly, the why. All right, I am here in Sedona. I'm here with Dr. Clapper. We have just |
| 2:18.3 | finished up another immersion program. And once again, it's been pretty magical. It's been pretty |
| 2:24.2 | magical. It's wonderful. Yeah. And again, I want to thank you for being a part of this team and |
| 2:31.8 | just helping create an experience that these people will never forget and hopefully take with them |
| 2:38.2 | right for the for the rest of their lives. Yes. And as one of the women said on the first night, |
| 2:45.1 | she's like, you know, it's going to be as far as her embracing this lifestyle. It's going to be |
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