Even though I try to limit my time on technological devices, I’ve gotta say podcasts have become one of my all-time favorite pastimes! Not only are there hundreds of options to choose from on any topic you could possibly think of, but it’s a great way to use your technology to further your education and knowledge, as well as inspire creativity.
Here are twelve of the top-rated podcasts for 2019, all of which focus on promoting knowledge of health, introducing wellness methods to balance us, or help us get to know our vegan food scene just a bit better.
Get your knowledge on!
1. Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
Ultimate Health Podcast/ultimatehealthpodcast.com/dr-michael-greger
While we all just adore that wonderful nutrition research that goes along with a vegan diet, how about simply taking a quick listen to Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger?
This podcast is the perfect go-to for new and veteran vegans and plant-based eaters alike. Founder of NutritionFacts.org and author of How Not to Die and the most recently published How Not to Diet, Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a pioneering force in the health world, especially when it comes to new and innovative methods of relating to our food. Greger focuses on exploring “evidence-based nutrition to add years to our life and life to our years,” in this fact-filled podcast.
2. Soul on Fire
The Balanced Blonde/www.thebalancedblonde.com/podcast
Alright, you may be skeptical about a podcast hosted by someone calling themselves the “Balanced Blonde,” yet Jordan Younger (aka. the Balanced Blonde) has become wildly popular for her promotion and education around wellness and lifestyle. Leaving grad school for full-time blogging, Younger turned to the online community to enrich her soul and share her life. After falling ill with Lyme Disease in 2017, Younger shared her journey to healing with “radical self-care, alternative healing treatments, and holistic medicine.”
On her podcast Soul on Fire, Younger promotes “everything from plant-based food creations … to the best healing treatments in LA to an online diary from the heart of someone who has dedicated their life to wellness.” Plus, you’ll get a slew of other interesting and useful information and enlightening interviews about the “young entrepreneurial blogging life to wellness hacks, friendships in the blogging world, branding a business, nutrition tips, how to keep the passion alive, and balancing it all in the process.”
3. Body Kindness®
Body Kindness® /bodykindnessbook.com
Looking for that perfect, well-rounded, educational, inspiring, and body-positive podcast?
Created and hosted by Rebecca Scritchfield, “a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, ACSM certified exercise physiologist, and author of the book, Body Kindness: Transform your health from the inside out and never say diet again,” this podcast promotes body health instead of societal beauty standards around appearance. Basically, it’s exactly what we all need to start changing the way we relate to our bodies and our nutrition! Scritchfield has helped “people reject diets and body shame to create a better life with workable, interesting self-care goals to fit [an] individual’s needs and preferences, not society’s unrealistic weigh and beauty standards.
In her podcast, Scritchfield promotes kindness to your body by talking to “people from all walks of life about their journey to a better wellbeing” including topics that range “from food to family to sex.” Scritchfield believes that changing habits isn’t easy, “but when your goals come from a place of kindness you really can become your healthiest and happiest self.”
4. Brown Vegan
Brown Vegan Podcast/brownvegan.com
If you’re looking for a personable, down-to-earth guide to going vegan (and doing it right!), the Brown Vegan podcast is a great place to start.
Hosted by Monique Koch, this podcast will walk you through the ins and outs of a vegan lifestyle. Koch promotes this podcast for those that fall under four key ingredients for vegan lifestyle success:
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You want vegan life to be familiar & fun.
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You believe in “progression over perfection” and plan to keep moving forward in your vegan journey no matter what.
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You love easy recipes that don’t sacrifice texture or flavor.
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You believe in balance — green juice for breakfast and vegan cupcakes after dinner, baby!
Koch has been a practicing vegan since 2010 and has gone through the rigamarole of grocery shopping, prepping, and cooking for the entire family. With almost ten years of experience, Koch provides guidance, support, and tips to keep that vegan lifestyle going!
5. Food for Thought
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau/colleenpatrickgoudreau.com
Even though the Food for Thought podcast is the highlight, one reason I included this one on the list is that the podcast is only the tip of the iceberg for environmental, wellness, and nutrition resources when it comes to Collen Patrick-Goudreau.
Patrick-Goudreau lives by a compassionate philosophy and seeks to propel “plant-based eating into the mainstream and forever [change] how we regard animals.” She’s a “recognized expert and thought leader on the culinary, social, ethical, and practical aspects of living compassionately and healthfully” and through this Patrick-Goudreau has created a smorgasbord of resources from her Food for Thought podcast (along with four others!) to her 30-day vegan challenge proposal to her blog to her list of bestselling books including The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan, Vegan’s Daily Companion, On Being Vegan, and The 30-Day Vegan Challenge.
Food for Thought is a long-running podcast (almost 14 years!) “addressing all aspects of living healthfully and compassionately.” Her most recent episodes including The Last Thanksgiving Turkey, Lessons and Gifts: Making Meaningful Holidays (and Lives), andWhy Vegans Should Not Use the Word Vegan.
6. Move Your DNA
If you’re like me and you just love that deep science of the human body, then the Move Your DNA podcast will satiate your knowledge thirst!
Hosted by Katy Bowman, “biomechanist, author, and leader … [behind the] … conversations on how movement affects not only the shapes of our bodies but the shape of our life,” Move Your DNA provides a “deep dive on scientific studies and how to read and understand them.” If you’re looking to delve even deeper into the world of movement, you can also pick up the book Move Your DNA by Bowman, which “explains the science behind our need for natural movement – right down to the cellular level.”
7. Optimal Daily Health
Optimal Daily Health/stitcher.com
Ever wish there was a one-stop-shop for everything new and relevant in the health world? Turns out this actually exists in the podcast world through Optimal Daily Health. This podcast sources all the “best blogs about health and fitness” and provides an “audioblog or blogcast” to keep you up to date in the health world.
With changing hosts and presenters, this podcast is the perfect place to get a range of perspectives from highly knowledgable and innovative experts including Helen West of Healthline.com, certified personal trainer and holistic fitness expert Rachel Trotta, Elena Miller of Zen Psychiatry, and fitness expert Ben Greenfield.
8. The No-Bullsh!t Vegan Podcast
You know what you’re getting into when you sign up to listen to the No-Bullsh!t Vegan Podcast. It’s all right there in the name!
Hosted by Karina Inkster, a badass vegan fitness coach and author with a background in health and aging, this podcast hopes to “bust the many myths inside the vegan world” by utilizing “scientific truths, not made-up facts.” Umh, yes, please! This podcast is exactly what the vegan community needs! From those chaotic “ask me anything” podcasts to the specific topic sessions, such as episode 054 featuring Registered Dietitian Lauren McNeill speaking on vegan protein and omega-3 fatty acids, this podcast has got it all!
9. Meatless
How We Get On Next/howwegettonext.com
Written and hosted by Alicia Kennedy — a writer and recipe developer focusing on culture, climate, cocktails, and veganism — this is way more than just a foodie podcast. Kennedy takes the listener on an in-depth exploration of the highly controversial topic of eating animal products. This podcast features a variety of chefs, writers, and more who Kennedy stirs into a conversation “about how their personal and political beliefs determine whether or not they eat meat.” Kennedy focuses on the harder to ask and harder to answer questions including how “identity, culture, economics, and history affect a diet” and “why people eat, how they eat, and where ethics, politics, cultural identity, and animals fit into all that.”
10. Wellness Mama Podcast
Wellness Mama/wellnessmama.com
WellnessMama.com is one of those wonderfully curated and women-friendly resources to help us live a healthier life. Geared for women and moms, founder Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, teams up with “researchers and medical advisors … [to] … analyze a wide variety of health, parenting, and natural living topics and summarize the information in a clear and usable way.” The topics span from “practical tips, real food recipes, DIY beauty instructions, green cleaning tutorials, natural remedies, [to] other information to make your life better.”
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