A Plant-based Diet Changed My Life | Pat McAuley | TEDxBabsonCollege
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Pat McAuley describes the impact that food has on his life and why he is an advocate of the health and environmental benefits of plant-based living. Pat McAuley is a Boston-based serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and startup consultant for ethical/plant-based companies. He has started and successfully run companies in the tech space and food and beverage industries and has extensive experience building brands from scratch. After a plant-based diet changed his life, Pat shifted his focus to building and supporting businesses in the plant-based space. He is now an outspoken advocate of the health and environmental benefits of plant-based living. Pat is the host of the popular Eat Green Make Green Podcast and is currently working on opening one of the nation’s first fully plant-based beer halls, Rewild. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Anxiety is gone because of eating plants. Even as a kid I had a bad feeling about eating animals that I just couldn’t explain. I loved beans always, the only downside is that I was obsessed with cheese and no longer allow myself to eat dairy. Gluten-free, dairy-free, and plant foods is the way to go, truly. I do enjoy the occasional salmon here and there just because I workout a lot and worry about inadequate protein intake, but maybe with some more practice I can get more creative with the plant recipes. On a mission to heal and feel my best. Its crazy I notice even more physical strength on a plant-based diet. Life becomes easier for me. Its magical.
Very good presentation.
Listen to those messages your body gives you, eat healthy, you will need no doctor no nutritionist and no medicine then
blessed to be vegetarian since birth.
Wish more people felt this way xxxm👍❤️💋🌈🍒
now a days… wt
3 days on a plant-based diet. my bp went from 130/90 to 110/60 ❤❤❤❤ still suffering from the loss of my child bc of pre eclampsia and wrong eating habits lead to his death.
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wonder why lions arent vegan too…
meat is king
Nah I like meat 🍗🥓🥩🍖🍗🥓🍖🥩🍗🥓🥩🍖🍗🥓🥩🍖
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Amazing
Good speech!
Just curious what is that gadget in his hand he keeps looking at ?
A magic mushroom 🍄 trip changed me forever. Overnight, I stopped taking antidepressants,Bipolar meds, Adhd medication
And I turned 100 % vegan. That has been over 6 months now. 100 % Ego death !!! Man is so small . And everything works in one big orchestra of life. Just slow down and enjoy the wind and the song birds, smell the flowers 💐 🎶 ✨️. Mother Nature Rules All. Humans are earth’s food. I love you ⛰️ 🌳 🌲 🌴 🐜
12:05 wow. Considering giving up meat and this really hit me.
I don’t eat estrogen food
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Vegan, Paleo, Keto, Carnivore– All have one thing in common " No Sugar and Processed Foods"
Thats what’s the cause of every disease is
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Is that simple.
For your children
For the enviroment
For the animals
For you
Not an option
A responsability
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I am 40 y.o. and had been enjoying veganism for 9.5 years.
Plant based since January 2024! Fixed my gut almost immediately, not one of the many many specialist I saw over a 10 year period ever mentioned a plant based diet, they just threw pills at me. I finally got fed up and took control of my health. Went back to my GI 3 months after starting plant based & she was in shock! What the heck are they teaching these doctors in Med school! She actually told me that she doesn’t bring up dietary changes because she knows her patients won’t do it! Total cholesterol went down 30 points in 4 months. Never going back! We have to be our own physicians. Give the body what it needs & it will run like a racehorse. 58 year old female never felt better!
I’ve survived 43 yrs without steak or bacon. Been thriving on plants for decades!! Same weight as I was in my twenties –
Someone link a recipe for that breakfast veggie smoothie!
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Day one on plant base and is a success I know is too early for me to know any difference but I am willing to try , I have allergies all year long Gurd and so many digestive problems I hope this help me
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I don’t know, I hear that people get off plants and eat meat based. They feel so much better. I think it could depend on each individual person. Personally, I’ve been going off of meat slowly over the last few years and now can hardly eat any of it. But I do like Greek yogurt with no sugars added, and lots of probiotics.
I was a vegetarian for 21 years. Mostly vegan. Started eating animal products again a couple of weeks ago. No way! My body hurts more than it has in decades!! I was literally hobbling around the house today like I was 100 years old.
Starting again tomorrow. I had my two week rendezvous, and I am not a fan. I fell for the jargon of needing more protein in my 50s due to hormones. So I just thought why not try animal products? No no no no don’t do this! My body is so mad at me.🤦🏻♀️
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Physicians refuse to tell their patients the truth. Instead they hand out toxic medications that mask symptoms of a disease but doesn’t treat the actual disease. They create lifelong customers for Big Pharma. That’s malpractice. They put profit above health!
im on my 5th day no longer feel inflamantion and feel more energetic
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sooo you post this but not Mikhaila Peterson’s video? interesting censorship
I have been plant based since 1981. I am very healthy no meds and a desirable body weight
Brilliant! You have both convinced me AND helped me to defend my choice to transition to veganism by addressing all the flawed “logic” we use to defend exploiting animals for food. You continue to make a difference all these years after your talk. ❤
The example he gave of the person with the splinter in their foot to illustrate the state of American health care really made me think.
Last year my Doctor told me I was developing diabetes. She said it wasn’t to the stage where I would require insulin injections
Instead she put me on a medication called metformin. Instead of giving people pills, why can’t they treat the underlying cause?
Am I being too paranoid and cynical if I suggest that pharmaceutical companies would lose too much revenue if people were well?
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Carnivore is the way to go vegans are killing themselves.
Please consider what the building blocks of your food have been. When eating grass fed beef, you can be sure that that beef is made 100% from grass, and that grass was grown from the atmosphere. One never needs to fertilize a cow field.
When you are eating vegan crops, the chances are that the building blocks of your food have NOT been carbon from the atmosphere, but carbon from fossil fuels.
In every step of growing crops, fossil fuels are relied on heavily. Not just ploughing the fields and harvesting, but feeding and protecting too. Those essential fertilisers and pesticides are made using fossil fuels, both for raw materials and energy. When we eat vegan crops, especially, we are contributing to global warming on a horrendous scale.
You’re not just burning fossil fuels extraneously, you are burning them in your body now too, because that is what your food was made from. You are essentially polluting the planet, like a gas guzzling car, just by breathing.
Stop it!
Plant-based diet changed my niece’s life too — she became vegan along with her friend-group and half of them became anorexic. Worst thing that’s happened to the family. She’s lucky to be alive. Horrible diet.
It’s so wild that Carnivore is new craze. They will experience health benefits from cutting out processed foods. But the long term I don’t believe they will be healthy. If you really was carnivore you would eat like the rest of the carnivores do, raw bleeding and alive.
Plant based for a month now
Don’t see a difference
It breaks my heart how animals are slaughtered.