Maggie Q: Why I'm Vegan

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Physicians Committee

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Q is a plant-based megastar! The talented actress, best known for starring in hit TV show Designated Survivor and the Insurgent movie series, joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on location in Los Angeles to talk about keeping it plant-based in Hollywood.

Her talents don't end when the cameras stop rolling. Away from the set, she's quite the extraordinary cook! The way her non-vegan dinner guests react to her plant-based dinners is uncanny and since she adopted a plant-based diet 20 years ago, it's a long list of names who have walked away with blown minds to complement their full bellies.

Maggie Q is also a devoted animal and human rights advocate. She shares with Chuck how it was those passions that led her to stop eating meat so long ago.

Also, on the show, you'll hear from someone at the forefront of the future of nutrition and medicine. Dr. Robin Ortiz brings her passion and infectious energy to The Exam Room™ to talk about her transformation from a (semi) rebellious teenager to a doctor with a keen eye for all things plant-based.

She gives her thoughts on the lack of nutrition education in medical school and talks about being viewed as a "hippy doc" by her colleagues because of her diet. But Dr. Ortiz's endless supply of optimism and an increasing amount research is proving that she's on the right track.

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0:00.0	Greetings, salutations.
0:08.4	This is the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:12.0	Hello, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.
0:15.2	Thanks for giving this show a listen this week.
0:17.8	A download, a watch, however it is that you hear me sing me.
0:21.5	We cannot thank you enough.
0:23.5	We just love doing this thing and we love that you are listening as well.
0:27.9	And we are rewarding you this week with a major name.
0:33.9	When it comes to celebrities in the plant-based world, I mean this is a big one.
0:40.3	And if you've seen Nikita maybe, you're familiar with the work as an actress or designated
0:45.8	survivor, one of my favorite shows of all time, you know the name Maggie Q.
0:53.6	But her recently in L.A. we were at a party celebrating the passage of the California
0:58.4	Cosmetics Bill and she is just a great person, such a warm smile and she is a phenomenal,
1:05.6	a phenomenal animal rights activist.
1:08.2	So we were out there celebrating the passage of the California Cosmetics Bill which
1:11.8	bans animal testing for cosmetics products and her heart is just enormous.
1:17.8	And I'm really excited because you are going to get the chance to hear that and experience
1:22.7	just how abundant her heart can be and just a minute during her conversation.
1:27.7	So met her at this party in the Hollywood Hills.
1:30.3	So many people were there including a lot of our tremendous staff including Dr. Barnard.
1:34.9	He made the trip from DC out to L.A. as well.
1:38.4	Also with attendance was friend of the show and an actress from HBO's True Blood, Kristen
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