What does it actually look like to thrive - not just survive - on a plant-based diet as you get older?

In this special episode I sit down with three extraordinary women who have dedicated their careers to this exact question:

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and plant-based nutrition pioneer Brenda Davis

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and longtime collaborator Vesanto Melina

👉🏻 Dr Charlene Black.

Together they bring decades of clinical experience, research and real-world results working with plant-based seniors.

This isn't about whether plant-based eating is safe. It's about how to do it brilliantly - with energy, strength, sharp thinking and genuine vitality - at every age.

WE COVER:

✔️ How to thrive on plants in your 60s, 70s and beyond - not just get by

✔️ Protein and muscle: what you actually need and how plants deliver it

✔️ Bone strength, calcium and the truth about plant-based eating and osteoporosis

✔️ Key nutrients to pay attention to as you age - B12, omega-3s, vitamin D and more

✔️ Brain health and cognitive vitality on a plant-based diet

✔️ Energy and appetite: eating well when your hunger signals change

✔️ Practical strategies for plant-powered seniors to look and feel their best

If you're a plant-based senior, or you're supporting one - this conversation is full of wisdom, warmth and genuinely useful guidance.

📗 Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina — https://plant-poweredseniors.com/

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Have you ever had one off-plan meal turn into a week of giving up?

Gave into dessert, and it turned into an all-out binge?

It’s ok… there’s nothing “wrong” with you…

You're doing something I see all the time - you're spiralling.

The mistake was never the problem.

The spiral after the mistake - that's where your progress actually gets lost.

In this episode, Kerryn breaks down why we spiral after an off-plan meal, the psychology of shame and emotional eating, and a practical 6-question reset framework you can use immediately to stop the spiral in its tracks.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Why one difficult meal can turn into three days of giving up - and what's really driving it

✔️ How your thinking drives your emotional state, which drives your action & your results

✔️ The 6-Question Reset: a simple framework to get curious instead of critical after any setback

✔️ The "next best decision" - why perfection is never the goal, and what to do instead

✔️ How to be okay with who you've been - and talk to yourself with the compassion that creates real, lasting change

✔️ Why the most successful people aren't the ones who never fall - they're the ones who always come back

LINKS:

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Most doctors were never taught that food is medicine.

Dr Michael Klaper has spent 35 years trying to change that.

In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Dr Michael Klaper - physician, plant-based pioneer, former NASA nutrition advisor and author of Moving Medicine Forward - for a conversation about what conventional medicine is missing, what the evidence actually says about reversing chronic disease through nutrition, and why he is now teaching medical students what he was never taught himself.

In this episode:

✔️ Dr Klaper’s personal story - from conventional medicine to plant-based nutrition pioneer

✔️ What he experienced in his own body when he changed his diet

✔️ The evidence linking food to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and chronic inflammation

✔️ Real patient stories of disease reversal through nutrition

✔️ Why most doctors are still not having this conversation - and what is happening in medical education

✔️ The Moving Medicine Forward initiative - teaching future doctors what current ones were never taught

✔️ His new book and where to get it

Links:

✔️ Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Medicine-Forward-Doctors-Nutrition_and/dp/1637748264

✔️ Moving Medicine Forward: www.movingmedforward.org

✔️ Dr Klaper’s website: www.doctorklaper.com

✔️ Book a free weight loss audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

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