Rip Esselstyn: In Plants We Trust

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

A cornerstone of this podcast is celebrating the power of a plant-based lifestyle. Today we do just that with one of the movement’s most influential founding fathers. That father is none other than the great Plantstrong pioneer himself, Rip Esselstyn—returning for his second appearance on the podcast for a continuing dissertation on all things plants. If you caught our first conversation in December of 2017 (RRP 336), you already know Rip and I go way back. As swimmers we crossed paths as teens, later as college rivals, then decades thereafter as plant-based athlete and advocate allies. From the outset of my journey, he’s been a steady source of inspiration, encouragement and wisdom. An incredible mentor. A lighthouse. A loyal friend. For those unfamiliar, Rip was a three-time NCAA All-American backstroker at the University of Texas. After graduation, he spent a decade as one of the premier triathletes in the world. He then joined the Austin Fire Department where he introduced his passion for a whole-food, plant-based diet to Austin’s Engine 2 Firehouse in order to rescue a firefighting brother’s health. To document his success he wrote the national bestselling book, The Engine 2 Diet, which shows the irrefutable connection between a plant-based diet and good health. Thus began an illustrious career as a multiple New York Times bestselling author, in demand public speaker, health advocate, and food entrepreneur—catapulting the fledgling plant-based movement into mainstream adoption. Not enough? At age 56, Rip broke the master’s world record in the 200-meter backstroke. Today we pick up where we left things in 2017. More Rip. More plants. More awesome. Given Rip’s OG status, it was only fitting that today’s exchange was conducted OG style. No fancy studio. No cameras. Just two guys and two mics seated at Rip’s breakfast table in Austin. An old school, back-in-the-day podcast. Of course, we discuss the many benefits of a whole food plant-based diet—the Planstrong lifestyle as he calls it. In addition, we review the exploding popularity of this movement. How to rewrite your relationship with food in the new year. Plant fueling strategies to perform athletically. And how to leverage the nascent power within to positively and sustainably change our lifestyles for the better. We also dissect his recent world record-setting swim. What the future of the plant-based movement looks like. And the story behind his brand new food company titled, of course, PLANTSTRONG. To read more, click here. You can also listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Stick around to the end, because things take a compelling turn towards the spiritual and esoteric—personally my favorite part of this conversation. As you will soon discover, Rip is a good dude. A loyal, solid friend. And sincerely passionate about helping people eat and live better. Peace + Plants, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Whether you're prepping for a race trying to eat more nourishing food or looking to transition to a plant-based diet,
0:07.0	it's really hard to do it alone. We all need someone to support us to cheer us on,
0:13.0	which is why Julian and I launched the Plant Power Meal Planner in 2017.
0:17.0	Our team of caring food coaches are available by phone, chat, and email seven days a week.
0:23.0	These are real humans, not bots, excited to help you on your journey and making better food choices for yourself and your family.
0:32.0	We also recently launched a new Plant Power Meal Planner Knowledge Center that is packed with articles, helpful tips, cooking videos,
0:39.0	and other resources that make eating plant-based food easy, affordable, and dare I say it, even fun.
0:47.0	To support your health intentions this year, we've been offering you $20 off a one-year membership with the Code Power 20 through January,
0:55.0	which means there's still time to start eating plant-based or even to start again.
1:00.0	To learn more and to sign up, go to meals.richroll.com and use the Code Power 20 for $20 off.
1:07.0	Again, that's promo code Power 20 for $20 off at meals.richroll.com.
1:14.0	Offer ends February 1st.
1:17.0	Alright, let's do the show.
1:22.0	So I tell people, if you want to eat strong food, you want to eat a whole food plant-based diet.
1:29.0	Eating foods is as close to grown as possible where you know you're getting the most kick-ass form of protein.
1:37.0	All proteins originate from plants. Most people don't know that. It's like the Goldilocks form a protein.
1:44.0	It's not too high in the sulfuric containing amino acids. They're going to promote inflammation,
1:49.0	leach calcium from your bones, race, cholesterol levels, basically burden the dickens out of your kidneys and your liver.
1:57.0	So that's one thing. You've got the best form of protein. As opposed to the protein that you're going to find in red meat, chicken, fish, any of those meats.
2:10.0	We now know that one of the most powerful things that you can do to create a rock solid immune system.
2:19.0	It's to start eating a whole food plant-based diet. And now the 10 times the number of cells that we have of bacteria that reside in our microbiome,
2:30.0	we're creating a healthy microbiome and it is going to help us defend against the litany of chronic western diseases that are out there, inflammation, all these things.
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