Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek.

Today, Paul talks with Czech faculty member Matthew Walden

about a controversial topic at the moment, vegetarianism.

Paul and why people become vegetarians and challenge some of the common health and religious

reasons that are presented by vegetarians for their decisions to avoid foods from animals.

Well welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek and Matthew Wall. Well, vegetarian with you. Thank you, Paul.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

I think it's going to be a fun discussion.

I'm very excited to do this with you, Matthew,

because your background as a naturopathic physician and an osteopathic

physician and your clinical experience and your own life experiences we will

discuss gives you the credibility of someone who's not only lived it but

looked into the research very deeply and spent a lot of time working with people that have a wide variety of health and performance issues including

vegans and vegetarians just as myself.

So it's fun for us to be able to share this podcast together because we can really do this not

from an academic perspective alone, but also draw on academic research and insights

and our own clinical experience to share with everybody so that it's a well-rounded approach.

Now, to begin, because this is a sensitive topic as anybody who has ever interacted with vegans and vegetarians knows.

Those groups are quite sensitized to anything that goes against their ideology.

But I'd like to share our mission statement for this program,

the Honest Vegetarian, and I'll begin by saying that I titled it the

honest vegetarian because I think there's times that all of us need to be vegetarians for various reasons which we'll get into.

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