Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators,

to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast.

Today, I am joined by Jeffrey Boydie.

Jeffrey is on a mission to help us live a healthier life.

He shares plant-based recipes and lifestyle tips online and often showcases data and science-based evidence to support his advice.

There are so many topics and things I could discuss today with Jeffrey, but I really wanted to

focus first and foremost on food and diet and on the impact that the foods that we eat has on

our overall health, on our cognitive function, on our mood

and regulating our mood. So we're going to be talking a lot in this conversation about food,

about diet, specifically about a plant-based diet. We're also going to talk about ultra-processed

foods and about plant-based meat alternatives. We're going to talk about sugar and also I think just

sometimes people's reactions to healthy eating or plant-based eating and why we maybe think that

these things are sometimes extreme when I think my challenge would be that I think it's quite

extreme to potentially eat ultra-process foods every day or drink alcohol

every day or eat highly sugary foods every day or have lots of caffeine and not sleep much

every day. I think that's quite extreme. But it's quite interesting. Often people's reactions

when you talk about healthy eating and they label it as a diet. So lots of things for us to to dive into today. Welcome to the

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