I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow mob. Welcome back. My guest today is the Plant Power Doctor, the name of her first book, Dr.

German Newman, who specializes after 20 years practice of medicine in sort of holistic

healing if you think about it. She's a very, very big advocate of the idea that

planned food, a balanced plant food diet would take you a very, very long way.

As all of you know, I'm newly married and my wonderful wife actually wants me to live a long life.

Interesting. So yeah, good sign. And so I'm very, very keen on having a healthy life Dr.

Newman's new book is called Get Well, Stay Well. I have not actually read it because I wanted to learn it from her.

And this is my copy now, lovely signed for me. Get Well, Stay Well, I think is a very good idea I think it

would please my wife so that's going to be the conversation for us today how to get

well and stay well a Gemma thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for

allowing me to challenge this a little bit if you don't mind at the beginning.

Okay so I really want to get well and stay well. I really do. But some people tell me because I'm a man and in my 50s I need to eat a lot of

protein and work out with heavy lifting. Others will tell me no no no no it's

plant-based and don't ever stress your joints some people will tell me

take your supplements some others will tell me don't take your supplements I think

there is a bit of the truth in all of them okay but you know every one of them will be a very strong advocate for what they believe.

So can we start from why plant food?

Why do you think that's the answer?

So hello Mo, thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here with you and I know that your

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