Friends, let me introduce you to my brand new digital recipe book, Plant Based Femettes.

15. Must Have Recipes that will take your fermented food game to the next level.

Nourishing your microbiome and saving you dollars on your grocery bill at the same time.

Why eat fermented foods?

Well, research shows that regular consumption of fermented foods lowers inflammation in the body.

The type of inflammation that underpins and exacerbates chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's dementia.

Inside Plant Based Femettes is 15 recipes, including my very own soy yogurt and soy labne.

A delicious cold brew, kefir smoothie, and my baked miso egg plant and soba noodle salad.

The book also includes science supporting the consumption of fermented foods and a handful of frequently asked questions,

such as do fermented foods contain alcohol, and what's the difference between pickled and fermented foods?

To support your gut, this show, and my wonderful team here at the proof,

get your copy of Plant Based Femettes at theproof.com-fordslash-femettes.

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There'll be a link for this in the show notes.

That's where everything started with the engine to diet.

One of my firefighting brothers, his cholesterol, was 344.

The age of 33, a horrendous family history of men and his family dying before the age of 50.

Everybody was like, okay, we're in. We're in to help JR knock-o-down the same path that his forefathers went down.

And JR, he actually went back to the doctor, and it was 198.

So he had to drop effectively 148 points.

When we had a vacancy that needed to be filled,

we would have a list of firefighters, fire specialists, fire lieutenants

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