Hi, everybody and welcome to the Eat to Live podcast. Actually, today is the first time I'm doing the podcast without my daughter Jenna, who's usually

my sidekick in this podcast.

But today I'm lucky enough to have a close friend of mine, Matt Letterman.

He's down visiting from LA.

And I've known Matt for decades.

He's been a fellow plant-based physician, but he's taken this concept of lifestyle medicine to like a new place

that I'm so proud of him and so excited to have him contribute to not just the podcast and talk

about his new book, which is called Wellness to Wonderful, that him and his wife, Alana,

put together, right?

How many years have you been writing that book? It's really cool. Yeah, it's taken us a while, sort of accumulate all the information that we put in there. Right. Yeah. So I just want to say it's not, even though he's very knowledgeable in plant-based nutrition and nutritional excellence, he took the book out of that realm, not solely in that realm, to encompass all of lifestyle medicine

with a tremendous amount of wisdom,

but practical wisdom that can be applied to people's lives,

to have them feel more content, more at peace,

to raise healthy children,

and to mostly have a happier and more joyous life.

So really appreciated that and the work you put into that.

Oh, thank you for saying that.

Thank you for acknowledging that.

And thank you for your friendship.

There was one, you know, I was so excited that you asked me to join you because I see

you with someone that if I ever have a question or a need or even a friend of mine has a

need, you'll put yourself

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