Dotsie Bausch

And so I credit my mentor, Victoria Moran, who hosts Main Street Vegan, as well as the exam room that's hosted by Chuck Carroll and oftentimes Dr. Neil Barnard and also Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's Food for Thought.

Cheryl Moss's Better Life for Animals, Dotsie Bausch's Switch for Good, and all of those people I am so excited to say have been featured on this show.

And while I have yet to interview the host of the Plant Strong podcast, Rip Esselstyn, he has certainly been a vegan hero of mine and someone who I turn to for inspiration.

And it was on his show that I heard today's guest.

This is just 100% fact.

And most of the inflammation in your body that's not caused by the physical activity itself is coming from your diet.

And so, you know, the ability to, and Dotsie Bausch talks about this a lot in the Game Changers for those who've seen that movie.

But, you know, she sort of joked that in her 40s, she was cycling faster than her 20s and they had to send her back to the Olympics.

Now, because we publish video podcasts on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else, that checklist is going to be mostly focused on what to do for a video podcast.

Now, to illustrate these systems at work, a few years ago, I worked with a silver Olympic medalist named Dotsie Bausch.

She had a podcast called Switch for Good.

And that podcast went on to land a ton of sponsorships and land even awards for that production because of these systems, because everything around the host was systematized.

So you got up to 400 pounds, which probably was very bad for your joints.

Was your weight gain because of the Ehlers-Danlos or was it because of other things that was going on that made you turn to food? And as Dotsie mentioned, there was fentanyl and alcohol involved too.

After that surgery, the doctor sent me out of the hospital with a bottle of Lortab.

And, you know, I grew up, we didn't take aspirin.

It sucked.

And that's part of that emotional pain, you know?

It's amazing because I'm just thinking how Dotsie mentioned that you've done 50 mile trail runs and half Ironmans now, but that back then you could hardly get out of the chair.

What was the turning point for you then?