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Luke Gabites

Luke Gabites

Registered Clinical Nutritionist (CNA) and founder of Planted Nutrition in Auckland, New Zealand, specializing in plant-based and metabolic health nutrition.

Sep 28, 2026

5:00
Can you tell me a little bit about your journey in nutrition, maybe as an adult?
5:05
Yeah, well, for me, it's been quite a journey.
5:08
Like I first kind of started out, I guess it would have been to go back maybe like 10 years to when I went to uni.
5:16
And I was like an omnivore before, just like growing up in New Zealand.
5:20
I was really interested in nutrition.
5:22
So like I started to go to the gym when I was a teenager, learn about protein and the kind of most basic things around nutrition and I also used to get really bad migraines as a teenager so like they would completely take me out for like a few days and I learned about nutrition with making some changes there with diet and supplementation and I actually completely stopped getting them so that was kind of the first like aha moment for me with nutrition that I was like This is actually really important and it can be life changing.
5:53
And I went to university and my best mate was vegetarian and I ended up living with him and our whole flat went vegetarian.

17 MINS LATER

22:50
So where is that sort of category error? And how do you see that idea of diet versus ethos and philosophy with respect to veganism?

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