Blogs, Podcasts, & Media
The Evolution of Nutrition Science at Weight Watchers with Dr. Michelle Cardel
Are you tired of nutritional misinformation and confusing fad diets? Dive into a science-backed discussion with Dr. Michelle Cardel, the ...
Combating Breast Cancer with Dr. Kristi Funk
In this compelling episode, board-certified breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk shares her personal and professional journey, from traditional surgery ...
How Not to Die. Quick Tips for Improving Longevity with Dr. Michael Greger
Dive into the science of longevity with Dr. Michael Greger, the renowned physician and author of the "How Not to ...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Menopause & Heart Disease with Dr. Gina Lundberg
In this episode, Dr. Monica Agarwal sits down with Dr. Gina Lundberg, a leading cardiologist and expert in women's heart ...
Why Do We Like To Eat So Much? Understand Eating Behaviors with Dr. Michael Vallis
Dr. Monica Aggarwal sits down with Dr. Michael Vallis, a leading health psychologist specializing in chronic disease management. They delve ...
How to Build Muscle for a Stronger, More Vital You with Brad Schoenfeld
Dive deep into the science of strength and fitness with Dr. Brad Schoenfeld, a leading authority on muscle hypertrophy. Discover ...
Understanding Sleep with Dr. Michael Breus
Do you sleep well? Do you ever wonder about those stages on your Aura Ring/Apple Watch/Fitbit? Is there an optimal ...
Life Hacks: Simple Changes to Improve Your Diet with Heather Borders
Have you met Heather Borders? Heather is a registered dietitian and focuses on getting patients to use plant-based nutrition to ...
Introducing Ethnically Sensitive, Tasteful and Healthy Meals with Drs. Hari and Jenneffer Pulapaka
"I am not a medical doctor; how do I impact others with healthy eating? How do I impact change?"Meet James ...
Getting Friends and Family to “Step One” of Change with Dr Liz Klodas
How many times have you heard from a doctor that you need to eat better and exercise for better health? ...
Lessons for a BETTER WORLD with Ocean Robbins
How does the grandson of the Baskin Robbins empire become a plant-based educator, believer and CEO of the food revolution ...
Preparing for the Fragile Years with Amy O’Rourke
Have you considered how you want to age and how you want to die? How do you make sure that ...
Explore How the Seeds We Grow Impact Human Health with John Rivers
Why Should You Care how Food is grown? What could that possibly have to do with your health? Meet Mr ...
Learning to Age Beautifully and Live with Vitality. A Chat with Chef Babette Davis.
What is the difference between aging well and simply aging? Have you considered what longevity means and what aging means ...
The Science of Fat with Dr. William Li
Have you ever wondered about why you can't lose weight? Have you thought that your metabolism is just too slow ...
Winning with Diabetes: Inspiring stories to help you thrive
Diabetes does not need to hold you back! Dr. Mark Corriere and Dr. Rita Kalyani are both diabetes specialists who ...
Building Resilience & Steps to Overcoming Anxious Feelings
Anxiety affects 31% of the American population and this number is increasing. People are noticing more and more anxious feelings, ...
Learning How to Learn (and Some Uncommon Sense Teaching)
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Barbara Oakley, a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan ...
Deep Dive into Plant Based Protein (and debunking some myths along the way)
I had a great time speaking with Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina. They are fabulous dietitians who are very well ...
Choose YOU Now with Julieanna Hever
Julieanna Hever speaks about her struggles with her weight and eating and how that helps her when she works with ...
How to Dramatically Reduce Health Risk for All Races
Dr. Kim Williams is a top cardiologist and he joined my show today to share how to dramatically reduce health ...
How to Stop Yo Yo Dieting Forever and Never Diet Again
Today Akash Vaghela joins us to share How to Stop Yo Yo Dieting FOREVER and live a healthier lifestyle without ...
Social Connections and Health (What Research Shows)
Today Dr. Beth Frates and I discuss what research shows about social connections and health.Dr. Beth Frates is a pioneer ...
How to Improve Kidney Health with Nutrition
Today Dr. Shivam Joshi shares how to improve kidney health with nutrition.Dr. Joshi is a highly awarded kidney doctor and ...
Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior Review with Ann & Jane Esselstyn
Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior Review! Today Ann and Jane Esselstyn dive deep into the creation of this plant-based bestselling ...
How to Improve Your Diabetes Health Once And For All
Today you'll learn how to improve your diabetes health while we speak with Dr. Cyrus Khambatta. Dr. Cyrus Khambatta is the co-author ...
How to Trust During Hard Times with Actress Gianna Simone
Actress Gianna Simone shares with us today how to trust during hard times in life. Gianna Simone has a beautiful ...
How do you reduce your blood pressure using lifestyle?
There are many ways to reduce your blood pressure using your lifestyle. Weight loss will really help you reduce your ...
How do you take your blood pressure?
Most people take their blood pressure with an automated cuff at home. If you are buying a cuff, buy a ...
Do we need to stop eating salt to be healthy?
More important than considering the salt is thinking about the sodium. The body needs some sodium to contract and relax ...
Do you need stents if we see clogs in the heart?
Do we need stents if we see clogs in our hearts? Not always. In the setting of the ACUTE HEART ...
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
Body Mass is a quick way to assess someone’s height-weight ratio. It is measured in kilograms over meters squared. If ...
What is a Plaque?
Do you know what the word heart plaque means? The job of blood vessels is to expand and constrict, depending ...
What is a Coronary Artery?
Have you ever heard of coronary arteries? When we are talking about coronary arteries, we are thinking about heart attacks, ...
What are Heart Palpitations?
Do you get flutters in your chest that you worry about? Palpitations are extra heart beats that people feel occasionally ...
IHeart Radio Interview
I really enjoyed doing a podcast for Iheartradio called Care Walks with the amazing host, Holly Robinson Peete. We talked ...
What is Heart Disease?
Does the term heart disease confuse you? Heart disease is an umbrella term for many heart conditions. But classically, heart ...
Vegan Colonoscopy Prep
Colonoscopy prep as a plant-based person is not easy and is a little annoying. The options that the doctor provided ...
Great Debates in Cardiometabolic Health
This is such a great event in Scottsdale, Arizona this weekend! I like this event because it is a debate ...
Metabolic Health Symposium
Join me at the Metabolic Health Symposium in Seattle, Washington and VIrtually! Registration is open for Swedish’s Metabolic Health Symposium: ...
Episode 2: Don’t Say Gay with Kyler Pettry
In this episode of "Seeking Voices of Health, Healing and Hope", my guest is a man named Kyler Pettry. Kyler ...
Episode 1: Plant-Powered Olympian Dotsie Bausch
In this episode of "Seeking Voices of Health, Healing and Hope", my guest is the amazing Dotsie Bausch. Dotsie has ...
New Year’s Resolutions, Illness and Anxiety
I have been reflecting a lot this month about life and I want to share that. January marks one year ...
Women Vs Inflammation Online Event
Have you all heard about Jane Esselstyn’s annual event? This year the focus is: Women vs. Inflammation: Prevent and Reverse ...
Webinar with Diet ID
Doing a fun talk with Dr. David Katz and the DietID team. My dear friend, Dr. Andrew Freeman, RD Adam ...
How to Implement a Plant Based Menu into a Hospital
I had the pleasure of talking to the DC hospital association along with PCRM’s esteemed Dr. Neal Barnard. Our goals ...
Stents Don’t Make you Live Longer
Episode 150 with Switch4Good Podcast hosted by Dotsie Bausch and Alexandra Paul We needed another episode to get it all ...
Body on Fire: How to Fight Inflammation with Cardiologist Dr. Monica Aggarwal
Podcast Episodes 149 and 150 with Switch4Good podcasters Dotsie Bausch and Alexandra Paul What lovely women to speak with. We ...
Speaking at Plant Stock 2021
I am excited to join Rip Esselstyn and the rest of the Esselstyn family at Plant-Stock 2021. Whether you are ...
Stop Rheumatoid Arthritis
With Drs Linda and Erica Linda and Erica are fabulous. Doctors trying to understand illness by looking at stress and ...
Plant Based Nutrition Support Group talk on Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Plant Based Nutrition Support Group was founded and established by Paul Chatlin in 2014. They are dedicated to evidence-based education ...
Eating Well Magazine: Anti-Inflammation Issue
Had a great time talking with Holly Pevzner and was thrilled to contribute to the anti-inflammation issue of Eating Well ...
How I Overcame Rheumatoid Arthritis-with Chuck Carroll
This is a podcast that I did with PCRM's The Exam Room hosted by Chuck Carroll. This was a hard ...
My Conversation with Rip Esselstyn-Plant Strong Podcast
Healthy Eating, Healthy Living I had a lovely talk with Rip Esselstyn who hosts the Plant Strong Podcast. We talked ...
Health Anti-Inflammation Magazine 2021
We are pleased that an excerpt of our book Body on Fire has been included in Health Anti-Inflammation Magazine. Be ...
A Doctor’s Personal Journey with Inflammation
A great podcast by the Veggie Doctor Talked a lot of inflammation, my favorite topic and the tools we have ...
The Release of BODY on FIRE–host Chuck Carroll
This is a podcast that I did with PCRM's The Exam Room, hosted by Chuck Carroll. In this podcast, we ...
Sleep Debt Can Make You Hungrier, More Prone to Diseases
Honored that an adapted excerpt of our book, Body on Fire, was featured in the Forks over Knives magazine. Read ...
Chef AJ LIVE!: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Disease
Dr. Rao and I are with chef AJ talking about our book, Body on Fire. The book talks about inflammation ...
Editorial Comment: Malnutrition in the Obese
Monica and Dr. Andrew Freeman weigh in on the problems with malnutrition in the obese. We commonly perceive malnutrition as ...
Ep9: Economics, Intuition, Wave 2, human behaviour, Brexit, more Money for SMEs & Lifestyle Medicine
Monica chats with Conor Devine about their journeys healing from disease. Conor is an author, businessman, multiple Ironman triathlete, who ...
Dr. Monica Aggarwal named “Stop Heart Disease” Researcher of 2019
On August 17, 2019, Florida Heart Research Foundation named Dr. Monica Aggarwal as the "Stop Heart Disease" Researcher of the ...
Eat to Live Daily
Monica chats with Elisha from Eat to Live Daily about how she tackled her Rheumatoid Arthritis with a plant-based diet ...
Plant Yourself Podcast with Howard Jacobson
Lovely time talking with Howard, host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, and co-founder of the Big Change Program and WellStart ...
Is Plant Based Nutrition just for Hippies and Liberals?
When people think of veganism or vegetarianism, they often think of Liberals and Hippies. My name is Monica Aggarwal and ...
A Chat with “Vegan with Jenn”
Great chat with Jenn. Thanks so much for reaching out and I am always there to help the advocates of ...
American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) features Our Plant Based Menu
This summer I had the pleasure of spending time with Martin Tull at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) ...
Time to Get Excited About Cooking Again
So I have been SOOOO bored of my regular foods the last couple of weeks. Does that ever happen to ...
A Better Hospital Menu
It took us a year to get there…but it is done! The plant-based menu is now available at the University ...
Almond Milk
 Monica Aggarwal and Marta Ferraz Valles walk through two easy ways to make your own almond milk ...
8th Annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest
Tampa Bay Veg Fest has been named 1 of 10 must-attend veg fests in the entire country, and I had ...
Food Nutrition Myth 4: Fiber One Bars
Fiber one bars: marketed as 20% daily fiber and randomly the word "protein" sits on the front cover. Gives perception ...
Food Nutrition Myth 3: Popcorners
Popcorners. Marketed as "gluten free" and "wholesome in a chip." Ingredients: second ingredient oil which is because they are fried ...
Food Nutrition Myth 2: “Premium Natural”
So this is Cabot whipped cream. Says that the product is "Premium Natural." There is even a dairy farm at ...
Food Nutrition Myth 1: Bread
Arnold's Farmhouse Bread. Bread needs only 3 vital ingredients: flour, water and yeast. That is all that is needed. The ...
I can eat McDonald’s today. I am still young.
Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women. In fact, heart disease will kill more women than ...
Great Question about Elimination diet
Somebody sent me this great question and I thought I would post it: Question: Hi Monica! My name is XX ...
Am I Spending More to Eat Well?
Costs of being on a WHOLE grain PLANT based diet. People often talk about the costs of eating healthy. The ...
Its not all about Kale. Or maybe it is…ODE TO GREENS OF ALL TYPES
I have been considering my obsession with kale. I love kale: lacinato kale, green curly kale, red kale. Yum. I ...
Are we too clean? The role of our gut bugs.
Our gut is like our second brain. It is the first line of defense against so many toxins that we ...
An Update on Soy
This is an update on soy. Still lots of confusion and concern out there. Bottom LINE: Soy products are okay ...
If I eat a vegan diet, what about my calcium intake?
Calcium is very important in bone development. However, this is not the whole picture. There are many other vitamins such ...
Love that People are Starting to Talk about Kimchi
Kimchi is fermented cabbage and is full of potent gut bugs that are very important for nourishing our gut flora ...
What is in this food? Weight Watchers frozen dinner.
What is in this food? I was at work the other day and I saw someone eating this meal. She ...
Without meat and eggs, no protein?
People ask me all the time about how I get my protein without eggs, meat and cheese. I just had ...
Kale: A SUPERFOOD
Kale has received a lot of press lately as the wonder vegetable, a super food. It really is an interesting ...
What is Normal Cholesterol? What should we aim for?
This is a good question. First, some definitions. Our lipid panel is broken into 4 parts: total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL ...
My Gold: TURMERIC
The studies on turmeric are amazing. A fascinating role for turmeric is in Alzheimer’s disease. The brain has cells called ...
What is the deal with soy? Good or bad for us?
People asking about soy milk lately. Soy good or bad? Causes cancer or not? Soy is quite popular in the ...
Speaking at Plant Stock 2021
I am excited to join Rip Esselstyn and the rest of the Esselstyn family at Plant-Stock 2021. Whether you are new to the lifestyle or have yet to eat greens for breakfast, this event will help you start or strengthen your path to plants. Join in and spend a long…
Plant Based Nutrition Support Group talk on Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Plant Based Nutrition Support Group was founded and established by Paul Chatlin in 2014. They are dedicated to evidence-based education and advocacy of plant-based whole food nutrition.
Eating Well Magazine: Anti-Inflammation Issue
Had a great time talking with Holly Pevzner and was thrilled to contribute to the anti-inflammation issue of Eating Well Magazine.
Health Anti-Inflammation Magazine 2021
We are pleased that an excerpt of our book Body on Fire has been included in Health Anti-Inflammation Magazine.Â
Sleep Debt Can Make You Hungrier, More Prone to Diseases
Honored that an adapted excerpt of our book, Body on Fire, was featured in the Forks over Knives magazine.
Overcoming Rheumatoid Arthritis With Food
One morning Monica Aggarwal, MD, FACC, found herself on the floor and unable to move. Her joints had grown so inflamed and stiff that she felt nearly paralyzed.Â
Body on Fire: Preventing Inflammation and Illness
Discover what it means to have inflammation in your body and unlock the secrets of a diet that can help to extinguish the unhealthy fire that is burning inside of you!Â
Who is Dr. Monica Aggarwal?
Board certified cardiologist, Author, Athlete. I have rheumatoid arthritis. Strong believer in diet over drugs. Believe in whole food, plant-based diet, stress reduction, SLEEP, and exercise.
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