My Minestrone Soup, 1 large onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 6 stocks of celery, 6 carrots, 3 small to medium potatoes, 3 zucchini, 8-12 mushrooms, 1 28 ounce can organic chopped tomatoes, spinach, 2 cups of organic vegetable stock, 1 teaspoon of fennel seeds, salt to taste, pepper, I either use green lentils, Romano beans, or navy beans, sometimes I mix half Romano beans and half navy beans. Most of the time I soak the beans for 48 hours if I don’t have time I just use good quality organic canned beans. Use a big pot and fill it as high as possible with filtered water and cook for at least 90 minutes. After 1 hour I put more water in the pot and cook for another 30 + minutes, cook uncovered. I use frozen organic spinach. I chop and dice everything in small bite size pieces. I use 1 cup dry beans when I soak for 48 hours. I do not soak the green lentils. I hope you like it. I add a small drizzle of organic extra virgin olive oil to my bowl of soup. After I soak the beans for 24 hours I strain the beans and put fresh filtered water in bowl and soak for another 24 hours. Rinse beans well in cold water before putting in pot. Forgot to add this, I cook one pack of soup pasta on the side and after I strain it I add some olive oil to it and mix it well so it doesn’t stick that way it can be stored in the fridge so that you can add some when you heat up your soup. I use any good quality Ditali or Orzo pasta from Italy.
I posted this before, but I used Excel to make a spreadsheet listing all the plant foods I have available to me. It's grouped by dark leafy greens, cruciferous, beans, lentils, grains, nuts/seeds. Then I have areas grouped by color for fruit and veg: red, yellow/orange, green, blue/purple and white, with the cells colored accordingly. There's some overlap for things like cruciferous greens. I have room to add herbs and spices. You have to play with the sizes of the cells and the margins and landscape works best. I have 330 cells with 250 filled in so far so there's room to write in any I missed. I was using it in a sheet protector and a dry erase marker but I'm going to keep a new sheet for each week to keep track and hopefully get everything crossed off over the course of a month. It's already making a difference in how many plants I can work into a meal. I'm posting in case this helps anyone. It took some work to do but it had the advantage of making me really take in all the variety that is available to me and to make a point to include it in our diets. DH is thrilled at the new meals I'm making and loves the veggie and fruit snack packs he gets in his lunch.
The plant point system like Dr B. :) excellent idea! I love trying to get more plant points everyday! Also, I always tell people, I don’t necessarily like to identify as “vegan”, even though I am one, I prefer to put the focus on whole plants. Vegan feels more focused on no animal products. Getting a wide variety of plant foods as whole as possible is the REAL key to optimal health. Of course making sure you’re getting plenty of whole grains and legumes. Getting as close to 100% to whole plants as possible. Also Learning to work with quality ancient wheats, learning to mill to make bread or pancakes, or crack and make porridge etc is one of the lost arts that I think is pivotal to re-instill. Our time might as well be called the White Flour age. And oh how destructive it has been to all of our bodies. Wheat in its full and pure form is so wonderfully healthy and powerful for our bodies.
I first heard Prof Tim Spector say try to eat 30 different plants a week & I thought that sounded crazy!! But it’s actually really easy, especially because herbs & spices count. I often have 15+ on any given day so I found 30 a week is child’s play! I still eat meat, dairy, fish etc but have really expanded the variety of plants so I hope my gut is liking it! Interesting about how sleep affects the gut.
I’m eating only meat eggs and cheese and I get rid of high blood pressure(before 150/90, after 120/70), drop blood sugar from pre diabetic to normal, get rid of joint and back pain, and what is most important for me personally I’ve finally after 15 years get rid of seborrheic dermatitis, my dermatologist said that cause is unknown and I should keep taking corticosteroids, now I’m super healthy so obviously plants doesn’t work for everyone
She said algae oil. She should know, fish don't actually make omega 3. They get it from plants. You can skip the fish and the micro plastic now found in the fish. Eat sea greens.
@@ginas761 Thanks! Awesome news! I'm plant-based for 10 yrs. and algae oil is new to me. Love the big world that opens up to you when you go plant-based. I did it for the animals and had no clue about the health benefits until I started experiencing them myself. Rah, rah!
This was a fantastic interview Chuck. Would it be possible to get Dr. Rossi back to talk about the gut/hormone axis? I'm sure all of your perimenopausal/menopausal women would greatly appreciate that. My gut microbiome has been adversely affected since my hormones went crazy.
I have a hunch that humans originally got enough B12 from eating bugs. Either on purpose because it’s the only creature we are fast enough to catch, or accidentally as the bugs hide in plant foods.
Being fed cows milk as a baby (my mom could not breast feed), totally stuffed up my immune system as far as allergies are concerned. I am still battling with allergies today (in my 50s).
Another fantastic episode Chuck Carroll and great to see Dr.Megan Rossi. I love 🥰 whole plant foods and wouldn't want to eat anything else. Thanks for increasing our health iq in every episode. Love 💞Chuck Carroll & Dr. Megan Rossi.
I have been on plant based diet over a year and SOS free for over 6 months. A week ago my blood test showed increased cholesterol for first time . I was shocked . I don’t know what triggered that???
do you eat ant “processed” foods? bread etc, any oil will do it, saturated fat even from plant will elevate it too(things like: avocados, nuts, some seeds) if eaten in small quantities they won’t elevate it but if you eat “more than” 1 oz of nuts or 1/8-1/4 has avocado might be - any coconut oil or coconut butter, vegan mayo etc commercial veggie burgers and meat substitutes got me! you have to check ingredients on everything, OR just eat only whole foods- no processed, no breads, etc
@@citigirl3238 Eating too much fruit raised my triglycerides which then raised my cholesterol. I have familial hypercholesterolemia though so I'm trying to stick with diet, exercise, and hope I never need medicines for it. Wonder if original poster is same as me.
What was your cholesterol number? The body makes cholesterol when it doesn't get it from the diet and needs it for hormone production. Are you menopausal?
I have been following a vegetarian diet for almost 9 months now. However what is worrying is that my bilirubin level is slightly elevated. What foods should I eat to bring the bilirubin level down?
Yah...when I am stressed...I go AWAY from eating...so many others are the opposite...Stress makes them WANT candy, junk, etc....I see it at work every day!
Dr Tom O'Bryan is the most knowledgeable Dr regarding gut health and the microbiome. He has an incredible video series named Betrayal. Amazing Dr trying to educate the world. Hope you'll have him on soon.
@@HidingFromFate bananas are high in sugar and digest quickly but beans are complex carbs and more complicated to digest. So it seems they wouldn't go well together in terms of digestion. But I don't know. Maybe that's a fallacious idea. I'm gonna try it and see.
@@betzib8021 OK, thanks for fleshing out your thought process for me. Since rarely (if ever) are digestive process length variances ever discussed or addressed for different food groups for relative compatibility, I suspect it won't be relevant here either. But I've been wrong before.
There isn't a list of 30 specific plants. The idea is to eat at least 30 different plants over the course of a week, making sure to get some of each group-grains, beans, fruit and veg in a rainbow of colors, cruciferous, dark leafy greens and a variety of herbs and spices. So a veg soup or chili or a big salad with as many different types of plants tossed in will get you a long way there.
ANY 30 foods. The point is to get VARIETY. Go to your market and grab as much of a variety of fresh plants as you can… and then enjoy making a variety of meals. :)
She wasn't advocating eating fish. She said the best dietary source of omega-3 is oily fish. That was a factual statement. She went on to say that getting sufficient o-3s from plants can be problematic without taking a vegan supplement.
Eating fish is problematic for health in numerous ways. I looked her up online, she is promoting eating eggs, goat cheese, fish, etc. Just another one of those doctors who promotes every kind of diet in a quest for fame and fortune. Very disappointed in th Exam Room, PCRM. What are they thinking?
@@breadanwine fish aren't the best source of DHA or Omega 3s, fish come packaged with heavy metals and pollutants that accumulate in oily flesh, these heavy metals like mercury lead to lower IQs in children born to mother's that ate fish. Also fish come with cholesterol, and micro plastics that end up in human blood streams. Also encouraging the eating of fish is leading to the death of the oceans, already 90% depleted, Wth, pcrm? Get your DHA/EPA from the same place the fish got it, ocean algae. Get your Omega 3s from flax, chia, hemp seeds, etc. There were plenty of healthy people raised from conception to adulthood on vegan diets before anyone ever heard of Omega 3s, like the children born on Steven Gaskin's "The Farm" commune in Tennessee in the 70s... About 500 vegan kids, studied from birth to age 17 and found to be as healthy as any American population of kids. Now there has been so much research, it's a better time than ever to eat a vegan diet and be healthy and Save the Earth and Oceans and the Animals, and consequently, us People too!.
False about omega 3 I bought the plantfit summit with all the plant based doctors and omega 3 is abundant more than enough in flaxseed and hempseed and that the combo of 2:1 omega 3 to 6 is perfect and that oils and eating animals salmon is an appalling animal exploitative source of omega 3 DHA that they actually block omega 3 absorption because the omega 6 and 9s are especially in oils 1:20000 the ridiculously high omega 6 and 9 blocks that omega 3 the scientists said that eating a head of red cabbage every day has all the Omega 3 and 6 in a whole foods plant based exclusive diet his blood test proved this so downplaying omega 3 absorptive capabilities is selling the public short- the western diet is the cause of this DHA desert 🏜️ also Dr Klapper specifically recommend NO ALGAE OIL! because his dad got dementia from it so this is me asserting my education onto a small point I disagree on here
My Minestrone Soup, 1 large onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 6 stocks of celery, 6 carrots, 3 small to medium potatoes, 3 zucchini, 8-12 mushrooms, 1 28 ounce can organic chopped tomatoes, spinach, 2 cups of organic vegetable stock, 1 teaspoon of fennel seeds, salt to taste, pepper, I either use green lentils, Romano beans, or navy beans, sometimes I mix half Romano beans and half navy beans. Most of the time I soak the beans for 48 hours if I don’t have time I just use good quality organic canned beans. Use a big pot and fill it as high as possible with filtered water and cook for at least 90 minutes. After 1 hour I put more water in the pot and cook for another 30 + minutes, cook uncovered. I use frozen organic spinach. I chop and dice everything in small bite size pieces. I use 1 cup dry beans when I soak for 48 hours. I do not soak the green lentils. I hope you like it. I add a small drizzle of organic extra virgin olive oil to my bowl of soup. After I soak the beans for 24 hours I strain the beans and put fresh filtered water in bowl and soak for another 24 hours. Rinse beans well in cold water before putting in pot. Forgot to add this, I cook one pack of soup pasta on the side and after I strain it I add some olive oil to it and mix it well so it doesn’t stick that way it can be stored in the fridge so that you can add some when you heat up your soup. I use any good quality Ditali or Orzo pasta from Italy.
Thank you!!!
@@jlarryd 👍
I posted this before, but I used Excel to make a spreadsheet listing all the plant foods I have available to me. It's grouped by dark leafy greens, cruciferous, beans, lentils, grains, nuts/seeds. Then I have areas grouped by color for fruit and veg: red, yellow/orange, green, blue/purple and white, with the cells colored accordingly. There's some overlap for things like cruciferous greens. I have room to add herbs and spices. You have to play with the sizes of the cells and the margins and landscape works best. I have 330 cells with 250 filled in so far so there's room to write in any I missed.
I was using it in a sheet protector and a dry erase marker but I'm going to keep a new sheet for each week to keep track and hopefully get everything crossed off over the course of a month.
It's already making a difference in how many plants I can work into a meal. I'm posting in case this helps anyone. It took some work to do but it had the advantage of making me really take in all the variety that is available to me and to make a point to include it in our diets. DH is thrilled at the new meals I'm making and loves the veggie and fruit snack packs he gets in his lunch.
Great idea, thanks for this. I aim for variety but tend to slip back into the usuals, this will be a great reminder of the variety available.
Great upfront investment that will continue to pay off for you!
Thank you!
The plant point system like Dr B. :) excellent idea! I love trying to get more plant points everyday! Also, I always tell people, I don’t necessarily like to identify as “vegan”, even though I am one, I prefer to put the focus on whole plants. Vegan feels more focused on no animal products. Getting a wide variety of plant foods as whole as possible is the REAL key to optimal health. Of course making sure you’re getting plenty of whole grains and legumes. Getting as close to 100% to whole plants as possible. Also Learning to work with quality ancient wheats, learning to mill to make bread or pancakes, or crack and make porridge etc is one of the lost arts that I think is pivotal to re-instill. Our time might as well be called the White Flour age. And oh how destructive it has been to all of our bodies. Wheat in its full and pure form is so wonderfully healthy and powerful for our bodies.
Fab guest presentation Chuck. Dr Rossi really knows her field. Learned a lot. Thank you.
I first heard Prof Tim Spector say try to eat 30 different plants a week & I thought that sounded crazy!! But it’s actually really easy, especially because herbs & spices count. I often have 15+ on any given day so I found 30 a week is child’s play! I still eat meat, dairy, fish etc but have really expanded the variety of plants so I hope my gut is liking it! Interesting about how sleep affects the gut.
What an enthusiastic speaker! 🌞🪴⭐️Great talk!
What a AMAZING INTERVIEW CHUCK. DR MEGAN ROSSI I LOVE YOUR PASSION AND KNOWLEDGE (Beautiful Aussie girl)
This was just such an interesting interview with so nuanced and clear Scientific reasonable for why - great inspiration 🙏💚
I’m eating only meat eggs and cheese and I get rid of high blood pressure(before 150/90, after 120/70), drop blood sugar from pre diabetic to normal, get rid of joint and back pain, and what is most important for me personally I’ve finally after 15 years get rid of seborrheic dermatitis, my dermatologist said that cause is unknown and I should keep taking corticosteroids, now I’m super healthy so obviously plants doesn’t work for everyone
This is short term. Long term you're wrecking your health.
@@k.h.6991 dr bernstein is 88. how do you explain that?
Could i have your choc shake recipe with beans?
26:37 Help! I can't understand what kind of oil Megan says to add to the diet for optimal mental health, sounds like OG OIL???
She said algae oil. She should know, fish don't actually make omega 3. They get it from plants. You can skip the fish and the micro plastic now found in the fish. Eat sea greens.
@@ginas761 Thanks! Awesome news! I'm plant-based for 10 yrs. and algae oil is new to me. Love the big world that opens up to you when you go plant-based. I did it for the animals and had no clue about the health benefits until I started experiencing them myself. Rah, rah!
Oh I would love that chocolate shake with blk beans recipe, Chuck!
Based on what I saw and heard in this video, I subscribed to your channel. Well done!!
Very inspiring - I am going to focus more on variety 🍀💚🐸
Just my minestrone soup has more than 10 different plant foods in it, one bowl every day.
Would love you to post your recipe!
What do you put in your minestrone? Sounds 😋 yummy!
Could you please post what you put in your soup
Thanks
Recipe please! Thank you kindly
That was one of the staples for the blue zone in Italy. I need to get that recipe
awesome interview I learned a lot!
This was a fantastic interview Chuck. Would it be possible to get Dr. Rossi back to talk about the gut/hormone axis? I'm sure all of your perimenopausal/menopausal women would greatly appreciate that. My gut microbiome has been adversely affected since my hormones went crazy.
I have a hunch that humans originally got enough B12 from eating bugs. Either on purpose because it’s the only creature we are fast enough to catch, or accidentally as the bugs hide in plant foods.
I’ve learned so much thank you! 🌱💚
Do different greens count as 1 or individual greens? Amish lettuce, Kale, romaine?
Dr Rossi mentioned focusing on eating a variety from the 6 main plant food groups, but I didn’t catch what these are. Can anyone list them for me?
Being fed cows milk as a baby (my mom could not breast feed), totally stuffed up my immune system as far as allergies are concerned. I am still battling with allergies today (in my 50s).
Another fantastic episode Chuck Carroll and great to see Dr.Megan Rossi. I love 🥰 whole plant foods and wouldn't want to eat anything else. Thanks for increasing our health iq in every episode. Love 💞Chuck Carroll & Dr. Megan Rossi.
What oil for brain health ?
I did not get where you get omega 3, I could not understand. Was it Lb oil?
Algae oil
Thanks dr for the great video ❤❤
These 6 categories are useful: whole grains, nuts & seeds, fruits, vegetables, legumes (aka beans and lentils), herbs & spices.
What did she say the last food group is?
Herbs and spices
herbs and spices, nuts and seeds, legumes, grains, fruits and vegetables are the six she mentions...
Thanks Michael and Sandy. Actually I looked at the transcript and spices was the word I did’t catch. Thanks again.
@@ronnieb.hudson2604 me too, had to turn on the closed captions to catch that one, the Aussie accent got me.
She forgot fungi.
Government of Japan wants citizens daily to eat 30 different foods. Even one bite counts. That shocked me.
What about antinutrients
I have been on plant based diet over a year and SOS free for over 6 months. A week ago my blood test showed increased cholesterol for first time . I was shocked . I don’t know what triggered that???
do you eat ant “processed” foods? bread etc, any oil will do it, saturated fat even from plant will elevate it too(things like: avocados, nuts, some seeds) if eaten in small quantities they won’t elevate it but if you eat “more than” 1 oz of nuts or 1/8-1/4 has avocado might be - any coconut oil or coconut butter, vegan mayo etc commercial veggie burgers and meat substitutes got me! you have to check ingredients on everything, OR just eat only whole foods- no processed, no breads, etc
@@citigirl3238 Eating too much fruit raised my triglycerides which then raised my cholesterol. I have familial hypercholesterolemia though so I'm trying to stick with diet, exercise, and hope I never need medicines for it. Wonder if original poster is same as me.
What was your cholesterol number? The body makes cholesterol when it doesn't get it from the diet and needs it for hormone production. Are you menopausal?
Thanks
I have been following a vegetarian diet for almost 9 months now. However what is worrying is that my bilirubin level is slightly elevated. What foods should I eat to bring the bilirubin level down?
Get rid of the dairy.
I want that black bean shake recipe!
first of all, she looks healthy. she chooses to use science. great interview.
Yah...when I am stressed...I go AWAY from eating...so many others are the opposite...Stress makes them WANT candy, junk, etc....I see it at work every day!
Dr Tom O'Bryan is the most knowledgeable Dr regarding gut health and the microbiome. He has an incredible video series named Betrayal. Amazing Dr trying to educate the world. Hope you'll have him on soon.
He's wrong about gluten. It does not need to be universally avoided. At most 25% may truly need to avoid it and I doubt that it's even that high.
Black beans in a banana smoothie sounds like indigestion. How can that work?
Why would it necessarily trigger indigestion?
@@HidingFromFate bananas are high in sugar and digest quickly but beans are complex carbs and more complicated to digest. So it seems they wouldn't go well together in terms of digestion. But I don't know. Maybe that's a fallacious idea. I'm gonna try it and see.
@@betzib8021 OK, thanks for fleshing out your thought process for me. Since rarely (if ever) are digestive process length variances ever discussed or addressed for different food groups for relative compatibility, I suspect it won't be relevant here either. But I've been wrong before.
@@HidingFromFate oh...me too...sometimes it's a grand experiment
Wow when is she going to mention the 30. Foods. (Plants)
There isn't a list of 30 specific plants. The idea is to eat at least 30 different plants over the course of a week, making sure to get some of each group-grains, beans, fruit and veg in a rainbow of colors, cruciferous, dark leafy greens and a variety of herbs and spices. So a veg soup or chili or a big salad with as many different types of plants tossed in will get you a long way there.
ANY 30 foods. The point is to get VARIETY. Go to your market and grab as much of a variety of fresh plants as you can… and then enjoy making a variety of meals. :)
I am anti diversity and eating 30+ plants a week. All my meals are 1-3 foods. I think eating that way is actually healthier.
Lots of people have lots of beliefs about many things.
Can’t believe she is still suggesting oily fish. 🤔
I think she I exaggerating the amount of omega 3 you need.
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Oily fish? WTAF!! I'm outa here - so disappointed with PCRM!
She wasn't advocating eating fish. She said the best dietary source of omega-3 is oily fish. That was a factual statement. She went on to say that getting sufficient o-3s from plants can be problematic without taking a vegan supplement.
Eating fish is problematic for health in numerous ways. I looked her up online, she is promoting eating eggs, goat cheese, fish, etc. Just another one of those doctors who promotes every kind of diet in a quest for fame and fortune. Very disappointed in th Exam Room, PCRM. What are they thinking?
@@lilyroza Yeah, It's gonna be hard to take Chuck seriously after this. I'd love to know what Neal Barnard thinks!
@@breadanwine fish aren't the best source of DHA or Omega 3s, fish come packaged with heavy metals and pollutants that accumulate in oily flesh, these heavy metals like mercury lead to lower IQs in children born to mother's that ate fish. Also fish come with cholesterol, and micro plastics that end up in human blood streams. Also encouraging the eating of fish is leading to the death of the oceans, already 90% depleted,
Wth, pcrm?
Get your DHA/EPA from the same place the fish got it, ocean algae. Get your Omega 3s from flax, chia, hemp seeds, etc. There were plenty of healthy people raised from conception to adulthood on vegan diets before anyone ever heard of Omega 3s, like the children born on Steven Gaskin's "The Farm" commune in Tennessee in the 70s... About 500 vegan kids, studied from birth to age 17 and found to be as healthy as any American population of kids. Now there has been so much research, it's a better time than ever to eat a vegan diet and be healthy and Save the Earth and Oceans and the Animals, and consequently, us People too!.
Delusional
It's too bad and really sad and we have to introduce animal products to the mix not a true vegan
Eating 30 plants per week? Entire plants or parts of them?
Are 30 Brussels sprouts enough?
any one knows her instagram ,facebook or youtube channel??
They are all listed under show notes.
@@lowellgutridge1645 thank you
False about omega 3 I bought the plantfit summit with all the plant based doctors and omega 3 is abundant more than enough in flaxseed and hempseed and that the combo of 2:1 omega 3 to 6 is perfect and that oils and eating animals salmon is an appalling animal exploitative source of omega 3 DHA that they actually block omega 3 absorption because the omega 6 and 9s are especially in oils 1:20000 the ridiculously high omega 6 and 9 blocks that omega 3 the scientists said that eating a head of red cabbage every day has all the Omega 3 and 6 in a whole foods plant based exclusive diet his blood test proved this so downplaying omega 3 absorptive capabilities is selling the public short- the western diet is the cause of this DHA desert 🏜️ also Dr Klapper specifically recommend NO ALGAE OIL! because his dad got dementia from it so this is me asserting my education onto a small point I disagree on here