Muzammil Ahmad is a medical student and a nutrition coach on a mission to raise awareness about the health benefits of plant-based diets and the importance of the role of diet in disease prevention, disease risk and disease progression. Muzammil believes in 'food as medicine' and utilizing lifestyle changes to optimize one’s health. As a medical student, he is passionate about transforming a reactionary approach to medicine to a more proactive approach. In this episode, Muzammil shares how...

If you are tired of the nutrition wars, mindless bickering among so called health experts and diet debates and are looking for REAL solutions for optimal brain and overall health, this conversation is for you. Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai are clinicians, researchers and educators on a mission to help us prevent Alzheimers disease, prevent cognitive decline and enjoy optimal brain (and overall) health through the power of science-based dietary and lifestyle measures. Learn about the best...

If you are ready to go from feeling effing tired to effing fantastic, this episode with the wise and inspiring Dr. Amy Shah is a must listen. Dr. Amy Shah is a Cornell, Harvard and Columbia trained double board certified physician who realised she herself was on the brink of burnout. When a dark moment in a car crash served as a wake up call, she decided that this sense of constant fatigue wasn't ok or normal and there had to be another way. Combining the science around circadian rhythms,...

Dr. Ana-Maria Temple has been practicing medicine since 1995 and has treated over 36,000 patients. In her revolutionary new book The Rule of 5, Dr Temple shares her blueprint to transform our kids' (and families') health so we can live long, vibrant, disease-free lives. Dr Temple's approach focuses on less not more medications, recognising that food and lifestyle can be our most potent solutions.Dr Temple also knows that in our modern world, this isn't always easy. Her own experience with...

Anna Yusim went to the best colleges in America, got her medical degree from Yale University and did a Psychiatry residency at NYU. On paper, everything looked perfect, but somehow, despite all the external accomplishments, Dr. Yusim felt unfulfilled. In her journey to find personal fulfilment and happiness beyond that which is promised by the material world, she discovered the science of spirituality and began to integrate her discoveries into her own life and the lives of her patients,...

Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN is a social media sensation with her Instagram account kids.eat.in.color now at over a million followers and her pragmatic, inclusive, empathetic and knowledgable advice on how to feed kids with minimal stress often going viral (for good reason)! I had the good fortune of being able to sit down with Jennifer to chat about the inspiration for her platform, her powerful and down-to-earth approach to nourish our kids (and ourselves as moms!), her own health...

This episode is sponsored by MegaFood but all opinions and discussion points are my own. When it comes to recommendations on nutrition and health, the unique needs of women are often overlooked. In this episode, packed with information and insight, Dr. Erin Stokes, the Medical Director at MegaFood guides us through specific micronutrients and other aspects of health that women need to pay attention to for optimal vitality. If you are a woman looking to access your deepest health and radiance...

What we eat doesn't just impact our physical health but also has powerful implications for our mental health. In fact, the body and the mind are intimately connected and to help us understand how we can optimize our brain health with food, I sat down with Dr. Uma Naidoo, a rare kind of medical doctor who is not just a Harvard trained psychiatrist but also a nutrition expert AND a chef!!!! Dr. Naidoo recently released the bestseller, THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON FOOD and shares potent tips to help us...

When it comes to chemicals in our food supply, homes and environment, ignorance is sadly, not bliss. Mounting research continues to suggest that these chemicals, all too rampant in our modern world, are wreaking havoc on our health. In this actionable and insightful episode, Dr. Aly Cohen, author of the newly released Non-Toxic and founder of www.thesmarthuman.com helps us understand WHY we should care about chemicals and what to do about them without feeling the need to be perfect or...

Intermittent fasting is an ancestral practice that has become ultra trendy in the modern day. But is all fasting created equal? And how can we leverage the science of circadian biology and fasting to properly implement these age old practices in our modern lives? To help us navigate these important issues, I sat down with double board certified, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard trained medical doctor, Dr. Amy Shah also know as @fastingmd. Amy experienced the transformative effects of what she...

In this episode, we dive deep into the magic of herbs for health with Rachelle Robinett, an Herbalist & Holistic Health Practitioner combining plant-based and natural medicine with practical lifestyle habit reshaping to help people find balanced, lasting health. Rachelle holds certificates in Complementary and Integrative Health, and Clinical Herbalism, and has been studying the relationship between plants and people her entire life - be that on a farm in the Pacific Northwest (where she...

In this episode of Momlight, I sat down with Dr. Robert Graham, founder of FRESH MED that is pioneering a whole new way of treating patients for radiant health. We talked about the integrative medicine approach and how the FRESH FIVE are the key pillars to health.  Dr Graham rightfully believes that “food plays a major role not only in the treatment of existing diseases, but also in health promotion and disease prevention.” Dr. Graham is the real deal as he is one of the less than 20...

In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Jed Fahey to talk about sulforaphane, arguably one of the most beneficial plant-derived phytochemicals currently known to man. Dr. Fahey (who will soon retire from his successful career at Johns Hopkins Medical School) is a world expert on sulforaphane and other plant-derived compounds called isothiocyanates that have tremendous benefits for our health. I may be biased but this episode truly feels akin to attending a lecture at a world-renowned university...

As the chief medical resident at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz was crushing his goals professionally, yet personally, his health, anxiety levels and confidence were at rock bottom. When he started dating his now wife who ate a plant-based diet, he became intrigued and decided to give it a try. Taking baby steps away from his standard American diet, Dr. B began to experience a monumental shift in his weight, energy levels and gut health! When he dove into the scientific...

Jules Horn was living on a predominantly animal protein heavy diet in the hopes that it would deliver fitness and health results for him as a successful NYC based model. One day on set in Miami, he looked great on the outside but felt lousy on the inside and began chatting with his photographer, who recommended Jules switch to a whole food plant based diet. Jules made the switch overnight (that's the kind of guy he is) and hasn't looked back since. Now Jules is on a mission to help the world...

As we find ourselves in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, the burden of chronic disease has become an important consideration. Diabetes is one of the underlying conditions that increases the severity of coronaviral infections and yet, when it comes to treating diabetes, there is more confusion than there is consensus. Importantly, the prevailing paradigm states that carbs are bad and fat and protein are good. But Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro, MPH are here to enlighten us that the...

When Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, he refused to resign himself to a life of medication and mere symptom management. Putting on his ex-cop detective hat, he dug deep for root cause solutions and discovered Whole Food Plant Based nutrition. A couple months into this new diet, his diabetes was reversed, including vision loss! Since then, Eric is on a mission to bring the power of food as healing medicine to Brooklyn and New York City residents. In...

In this powerful episode I sat down with Pia Schiavo-Campo also known as @MIXEDFATCHICH to talk about how we can learn to love, honor and embrace ourselves no matter our size. Pia is a fat writer, social justice warrior, style enthusiast, and a certified coach. She is also co-author of the book, Love It!: 234 Inspirations and Activities to Help You Love Your Body. You might be familiar with her by way of the Internet, public speaking or from features in Good Morning America, People magazine,...

Dr. Marvin Singh was a classically trained MD who began to feel frustrated with the tools at his disposal to help patients with chronic disease. When a colleague at Johns Hopkins Medical School turned him onto an Integrative Medicine fellowship to expand his tool kit, his medical practice and his own health changed forever. Dr Marvin Singh is now one of the very few integrative gastroenterologists focused on personalized medicine in the world. Instead of focusing on just nutrition, Dr. Singh...