Luke Wilson
Dr. Luke Wilson is a Wellington, New Zealand general practitioner, board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, and Doctors For Nutrition Board Director focused on whole food plant-based nutrition.
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Mar 29, 2026
MichaelHOST
In your experience, what are some of the key factors that contribute to long-term adherence to a whole food plant-based diet?
Luke WilsonGUEST
Definitely that community aspect, I think, as Vasantai talked about so beautifully before.
Luke WilsonGUEST
I think it's hard to be sort of an island, I suppose, of health amongst this sort of ocean of chronic disease and everyone else in society, perhaps swimming in a different direction, if you like.
Luke WilsonGUEST
So I think it's really helpful if you can manage to get you know, at least the people that you live with on board.
Luke WilsonGUEST
It's been really helpful to me that most of my family has changed over to this way of eating as well.
Luke WilsonGUEST
And that there's been friends and Even colleagues now, we've got a couple of the other GPs at my clinic now that have gone plant-based or mostly plant-based most of the time.
Luke WilsonGUEST
So yeah, having that support, I think, is really important for people to be able to maintain this long-term because we're social creatures and our support networks are really important to us.
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MichaelHOST
You, Luke?
Luke WilsonGUEST
I'm Dr. Luke Wilson, and today I'm going to talk about my 21st century food course.
Luke WilsonGUEST
Before we dive in, though, I'll do a quick introduction of myself as well, since it's probably the first time that I'm meeting most of you.
Luke WilsonGUEST
So basically, I've been interested in food as long as I can remember, and I actually decided to become vegetarian when I was just four years old.
Luke WilsonGUEST
And when I found out what was going to happen to her when she went back to the farm, I made the decision that I didn't want her or any other animals ending up on my plate.
Luke WilsonGUEST
So as you can probably imagine, from a young age, I found myself answering a whole bunch of questions about food, health and nutrition.