Hi, this is Hope. This is Farine. Hi, this is Katie from Washington DC and you're listening to me.

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Brenda Davis, registered at the audition Brenda Davis R.D. as I often see it all over the place.

I am so excited to have this conversation with you. You are truly one of the pioneers

and the leading thinkers of all things. I am based and I'm not mistaken. You were the first

registered dietician to receive the Plantrition Projects Luminary Award. So welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for spending a little bit of your afternoon with me.

Oh, I'm delighted, Matt. And thank you so much for inviting me. And yes, I think I was the first

dietician, the first Canadian and the first woman. So that was pretty, pretty awesome.

That reflects so highly on you and so poorly on that, right? We need to get some more women,

some more Canadians and some more dieticians in that rank.

So first and foremost, I'll acknowledge that I have a bit of a cold, so forgive me if I'm

clearing my throat, coughing, or I'll try to go off camera to grow my nose as necessary. But

you have a new book out called Plant Powered Protein, a question that I think all of us

receive far too often. This concern around protein, but it is a concern and that a minimum

in is a controversy. So I'm so excited because you teamed up with a fellow dietician,

the Santa Elena, as well as Cory Davis, to put together a really deep dive into everything

from the basics of this macronutrient all the way to the ecological implications of how we

derive our protein, which is critical to human health, right? And you have some and we're

going to get into this and maybe I'll leave it for later, who say it's critical for human health

and in a negative sense, right? That it can be very destructive if you eat too much protein.

And then you have this other side of the equation for more probably vocal right now,

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