The plant based support you need.
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Learn the ins and outs of a whole food plant-based diet by joining our online learning platform today!
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Plant Based Nutrition Support Group is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to evidence based education and advocacy of plant-based whole food nutrition and an active lifestyle to prevent and reverse disease!
Join the ONLY national plant-based support community of like-minded people who will support your nutrition change!
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Each month we feature world renowned doctors, chefs, and influencers in the plant-based scene. Doctors and Influencers will speak on specific health topics and Chefs will demo recipes, each providing a Q+A session at the end of their presentation, and you can sit in LIVE with them!
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Live meetings with an expert that cover a different health topic each month ranging from Weight Loss, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cooking, Gut Health, Group Coaching, Inflammation, Foods that Fight Pain, and more! Each group comes with exclusive recipes, tips & tricks to assist you with overcoming any health issue you may be facing! This is also a great opportunity to meet like minded individuals!
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Get your questions answered with an online discussion board and get to know others who are facing the same roadblocks you are experiencing!
All events are recorded so you will have unlimited access to all previously recorded events and upcoming events!
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Plant Based Support Host Spotlight
Lauren Bernick became an inadvertent health advocate when she was diagnosed with Coronary Artery Disease in 2015. Her cardiologist told her that since her situation was familial (and it is, she has the cruddy DNA and dead relatives to prove it) there was nothing much to do about it except eat healthily and get on a statin (cholesterol-lowering medication with a myriad of side effects). He told her to eat chicken, fish, fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy, and healthy fats such as avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. Since that was EXACTLY what she was eating it didn’t add up. Not one to cover problems up with a Band-aid, Lauren wanted to get to the root cause of the problem.
After researching alternatives to a life on statins and other medications, she began following Dr. Esselstyn’s Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, a low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet. Dr. Esselstyn famously said, “Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.” Lauren was able to drop her cholesterol 100 points, change the size and shape of her blood platelets, and lose 20 pounds without medication. Her doctor says her blood pressure, weight, BMI, thyroid, and every other blood test is perfect and reflects the body of a much younger person! She still struggles to reach the ideal cholesterol target of 150 where Dr. Esselstyn says you are heart attack proof even though she sticks to the plan relentlessly.
Wanting to learn more about the science behind how eating a low-fat, plant-based diet affects one’s health, Lauren earned a Certificate in Plant-based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell institute from e-Cornell. She honed her writing and stage skills as a stand-up comic and was a semi-finalist in Roseanne Barr’s Funniest Mom in America in 2007 and winner of the Funniest Mom of Austin, Texas. Now she helps others adopt this lifestyle with humor and without judgment. She has been a guest on Chef AJ’s YouTube show, has five recipes featured in the PBNSG cookbook, is the host of the PBNSG heart disease support group, has authored an article about Eating Out in Health Science magazine, and Founder of Wellelephant.com. Lauren focuses on the ins and outs of daily life and helps others be prepared to eat a wholefood, plant-based diet in any situation.
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What People Are Saying
“Thanks again for starting, building and constantly enhancing PBNSG. It’s an excellent resource that’s changing and saving people’s lives.”
“Great friendly group of people, super informative, loads of support for lifestyle, good social group too.”
“Well organized support group has laid foundation for healthy eating. They've weeded out the obstacles. They've tuned out noise and confusion. They're a model for great health and reducing climate change.”