Eat Your Greens
Think of an ox, an elephant or gorilla. All super-strong creatures.
According to Dr Peter Attia in his book “Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity” muscle mass and strength are the key to longevity and health span. So as well as pumping iron, maybe we could eat what the planet’s strongest animals eat.
Plants.
My Brave New Girl podcast guest this week is Dr. Melissa Mondala, a holistic plant-based physician, nutritional & wellness expert, health coach, mental health advocate, and recipe inventor!
She has been featured in popular media, such as Forbes magazine, and helps clients improve their lifestyle to optimize their health, achieve their goals and develop sustainable habits to live a healthy and balanced life.
Dr Melissa practices integrative medicine which is a research-based branch of medicine that focuses on treating and preventing diseases holistically, with minimal surgery or prescriptions and encompasses principles of lifestyle medicine - nutrition, exercise, restorative sleep, emotional wellbeing, and avoiding toxins and risky substance use.
She shares how moving towards a plant-based diet can have significant benefits for our minds and bodies and shows us that whole food plant-based makes for healthy, strong people.
And a more healthy planet.
Dr Melissa Mondala plant-based integrative physician
PLANT POWERED
Plant-based for strength, health and longevity.
Dr. Melissa Mondala practices Integrative psychiatry which is a holistic approach that uses both traditional allopathic and complementary therapies in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Integrative medicine appreciates the mind-body-spirit connection along with essential supplementation.
Personalized treatments are developed to suit each person’s lifestyle and strengthen self-awareness and resources for self-care.
She teaches patients how to consume whole food plant-based, so they are not only able to minimize chronic disease but also save our planet from deforestation and excessive emissions.
By eating more vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, and seeds, multitude of studies show decrease in water pollution, decrease in freshwater use, and decrease in land use.
For humans is also decreases the rates of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cholesterol levels blood pressure, depression, anxiety, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Seems we can learn a lot from the ox, elephant and gorilla.
You can find out more about Dr Melissa’s work on https://melissamondalamd.com/ and follow her on Instagram @drmelissakitchen