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All right, welcome back to the Nutrition Science podcast.

I am looking forward to this episode today.

Today we're going to talk about plant-based nutrition, how to get started with a plant-based diet.

I have a guest that's going to be talking about this topic who's really educated on the topic, Dr. Matthew Nagra. Welcome, Dr. Nagra. Thanks for having me. And yeah, we've, we've chatted for, I feel like almost years at this point and never actually really spoken face-to-face. So it's kind of nice. Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's always good to connect with people that I've been connected

with online. And Dr. Niagara is a... spoken face to face, so it's kind of nice. Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's always good to connect with

people that I've been connected with online. And Dr. Niagara is a naturopathic doctor out of Vancouver,

also a what I would consider a plant-based diet advocate, someone who is himself a vegan and is a

proponent of this dietary pattern for a lot of people. And a lot of people, those of you who

are listening to the podcast might think, okay, you're having a naturopathic vegan on. What's going on?

You'll hear throughout this episode and something, you know, Dr. Nagra and I have been connected

for a long time. And he is just, he knows the science. He really really presents it well he has read the research i'm

someone who has myself read the research and i know a lot of these studies that he's talking about

when he presents them on instagram he presents them in a very unbiased way and i really like the way

that he presents the data and really you know gives an unbiased way. And I really like the way that he presents the data and really, you know,

gives an unbiased side of why following a plant-based diet might be a good thing to do. So I'm

happy to have him today so that we can discuss that. And I know that there's a lot of people who are,

you know, you're considering going on a plant-based diet for a variety of reasons, and sometimes there's a lot of things that you just need to consider going into it, some things that you need to be paying attention to you to make sure that you're getting your nutritional needs met, and that's what we're going to talk about today is how to adopt a vegan diet, how to adopt a plant-based diet, if you want to do so, or if you just want to move more towards a plant-based diet, more, you know, a more plant-based diet than what you're doing before. This episode is going to give you all the tips and tricks and strategies and things that you need to do to make sure that you're doing that in the healthiest way possible. So I am looking forward to the discussion. Thanks for coming on, Dr. Nagra.

And I want to start with just kind of talking about your journey.

What got you into nutrition?

Why this has become something that's really important to you.

And then why you decided to start to follow a plant-based diet.

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