Plant Fuelled Podcast

This episode is sponsored by supplementV! Elevate your plant-based nutrition with high-quality, research-backed supplements, get 15% off your order today at⁠ supplementv.com/CALLUM.⁠Bianca Jayne is a plant-based women's health and weight-loss coach, and this episode is for anyone who keeps starting and stopping on their health goals. Bad news if your plan was to wait until you feel motivated.You'll hear why willpower runs out, why waiting to feel motivated keeps you stuck, and how small habits and your environment help you stay consistent. We get into the messy middle between a before and an after, perfectionism, diet fads, why fast fixes like weight-loss drugs don't automatically teach sustainable habits, and why your plan has to fit around work, caregiving and everything else you've got going on. Bianca also walks you through her motivational triad and her Core Four framework: nourishment, the conscious, the unconscious and the body, so you can work out which one is holding you back.If you're vegan or plant-based and consistency is the bit you can't crack, this one is for you.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

This episode is sponsored by supplementV! Elevate your plant-based nutrition with high-quality, research-backed supplements, get 15% off your order today at supplementv.com/CALLUM.Sarah Regensburger is a vegan fashion designer and PETA's Designer of the Year 2022. We talk vegan leather, plant-based leather, banana leather and leaf fabric, and what's left in a designer's toolbox once you take out wool, leather and silk. We also get into how leather, fur, wool and silk are made, and why most people never think about it.So why is fashion so slow to move off animal materials? Habit, perceived luxury and fear of change all play a part, and independent labels get hit on price and production scale too. Sarah would rather show you a vegan design you actually like than tell you off, and plenty of her customers aren't vegan.The other half of the episode is creativity. Self-expression, why it isn't a job title, the fear of sharing your work, trusting your intuition, and knowing when to step away from a design. Sarah also talks about the late night in Bali that helped bring her Pine sub-brand to life, the hate her real-person models got online, and growing up feeling too Persian to be German and too German to be Persian.If sharing something you made terrifies you, this one is for you.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

This episode is sponsored by supplementV! Elevate your plant-based nutrition with high-quality, research-backed supplements—get 15% off your order today at supplementv.com/CALLUM.Callum answers randomly selected listener questions on nutrition, vegan living, and the future of Plant Fueled. He challenges viral health misinformation, offers context-dependent guidance on plant-based foods and sports nutrition, and shares plans for expanding the project while reflecting on mindfulness and audience support. key topicsCallum critiques a viral claim that adults can regrow teeth by pulling them and taking supplements, warning that follower counts are not evidence.He imagines expanding Plant Fueled into a studio with nutrition education, a cooking set, animal-agriculture content, podcasts, and limited-run merchandise.Callum says he values mindfulness practices such as meditation, journaling, yoga, and breathwork, but has not made time for them recently.He recommends adding more variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, and other plants as a straightforward nutrition improvement.For vegan toddlers, he discusses iron-fortified foods and plant sources such as chickpeas, lentils, tofu, and tempeh, paired with vitamin-C-rich foods; he advises against supplements without a doctor's direction.He explains that meat alternatives and other ultra-processed foods should be considered in context, while suggesting protein options including tempeh, seitan, nutritional yeast, protein powder, beans, and edamame.Callum challenges the idea that carbohydrates inherently cause weight gain, noting that they are a key energy source and that overall diet and circumstances matter.He says combining fats and carbohydrates is not inherently dangerous, while noting that fat can slow carbohydrate absorption around workouts; he recommends individualized expert advice for diabetes management.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

Karen Lee is an award-winning plant-based nutritionist, author and retired ITU nurse who manages her own multiple sclerosis through a whole food plant-based diet. She also wrote the book on it, literally.This one covers autoimmune disease properly. What's actually happening in the body, why there are over 100 recognised conditions and most people only know about a handful, the role of the gut microbiome in immune function, how ultra-processed foods affect autoimmune health, the autoimmune protocol and what the evidence actually says about it, leaky gut, chronic inflammation, and why the supplement and wellness industry has found autoimmune patients to be an extremely profitable group of people to target with things that don't work.We also talk about evidence-based nutrition and why blanket advice fails people with autoimmune conditions, the nuance that gets stripped out of most health content, and what practical management actually looks like when you're living with a chronic illness rather than just reading about one.Karen has MS. She's not theorising.Get Karen's book Healing From the Inside Out: use code VEG2026 for 25% off at hammersmithbooks.co.ukFind her:Website: thesensitivefoodiekitchen.comInstagram: @the.sensitive.foodieFacebook: TheSensitiveFoodieFind me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

70,000 followers. You asked, I answered. Some of the questions were brilliant. Some of them were the same question I've answered about fifteen times. I answered those too.We get into vegan nutrition during pregnancy and after giving birth, because this deserves more than a one liner. Oil-free plant-based diets and where I actually stand on them. Selenium sources that aren't Brazil nuts for anyone with a nut sensitivity. The best protein sources after tofu when you genuinely can't get on with tempeh. Why having nutritional yeast in your diet is not a substitute for a B12 supplement. How much meal repetition is actually a problem. Whether the Soyciety is coming back. The male loneliness epidemic and whether I've experienced it myself. London Marathon training. How I handle hate online. Upcoming guests. And whether I'm having kids.That one gets a short answer.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

Dr Matthew Nagra is a naturopathic doctor whose practice is built entirely around evidence-based nutrition, and this conversation goes through the topics with the most misinformation around them right now.Seed oils and why the panic doesn't match the peer reviewed evidence. The carnivore diet, its rise and its decline, and what the research actually shows. Cholesterol, LDL and heart disease. Omega-3s and supplementation. Plant toxins, oxalates and lectins, and whether anyone pushing fear about them has read a credible study. Industry funding and how it shapes research in ways most people never account for when they share a nutrition headline. How to actually read a study without being manipulated by the way it's presented.We also get into looks maxing and masculinity culture and diet. It's a corner of the internet that's been radicalising young men through food and nobody in the plant-based space is talking about it seriously.If you've ever shared a headline about seed oils or the carnivore diet and felt slightly unsure whether it was actually true, this is the episode.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠

Dr Gemma Newman is a British GP with over twenty years in medicine, additional qualifications in gynaecology and family planning, and a specialist interest in plant-based nutrition. She is also one of the clearest voices on women's health in a space that is absolutely riddled with people trying to make money from it.This one covers menopause and perimenopause properly. Estrogen, HRT, soy and why the fear around it has never matched the evidence, supplements worth taking versus the ones being aggressively marketed at women going through this, and why menopause has become such fertile ground for grifters. We also talk about why women become less visible as they age, how that makes them uniquely vulnerable to online marketing, the cultural differences in how menopause is experienced and talked about, and what a plant-based approach actually offers at this stage of life.Gemma has spent two decades in medicine watching this play out in her practice. She has no interest in selling you anything.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠

George Hearn is a life coach and Cambridge graduate who walked away from a corporate career in London, moved to Sydney, and now spends his time coaching young professionals who are good at life on paper and know something is still missing.We talk about the rock bottom paradox, why most people wait until things are genuinely falling apart before making changes they could have made years earlier, and what it looks like to start before you get there. The arrival fallacy, what happens when you finally hit the goal and feel nothing. Telic versus atelic activities and why the balance between them matters more than most productivity advice will ever tell you. Using envy as a signal instead of something to be ashamed of. Social media, the manufactured feeling of being behind, comparison, perfection, and what designing your life deliberately actually looks like versus just letting it accumulate.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee

Graham Meglino speaks at colleges and universities across the US helping graduates figure out what they're actually doing with their lives after the structure of education disappears and the real world turns out to be nothing like anyone told them it would be.This one goes somewhere a bit different for the podcast. We talk about passion versus purpose and why chasing passion is advice that sounds good and often leads people nowhere. Finding fulfilment, what that actually looks like in practice rather than on a motivational poster. Simple pleasures and why they matter more than most people give them credit for. Authenticity, embracing imperfection, habit change, and what public speaking has taught Graham about the way people connect with each other and with themselves.It's a conversation about building a life that feels like yours rather than one you stumbled into because nobody told you there were other options.If you graduated and immediately felt lost, or you're years out and still feel like you haven't quite landed, this one is for you.Find me:⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee

Kerryn Sawyer is the Plant Power Coach and someone who works with people at the exact point where knowing what to eat and actually doing it completely fall apart.This one goes into emotional eating, what's actually driving it and why telling someone to just track their calories misses the point entirely. We talk about the feeling of not being enough to achieve your own goals, how that shows up in the way people approach food, and why the extremes that dominate social media and diet culture are making it harder for people to figure out something that should be straightforward. Conflicting advice, wellness waffle, the money being made from keeping people confused, and what happens when someone has been swinging between approaches for so long they genuinely don't know what healthy looks like anymore.We also get into habits, triggers, calorie density, and what it actually takes to build a relationship with food that doesn't require constant willpower.It's one of those conversations that covers a lot of ground and lands somewhere genuinely useful.Find me:⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Iron Without the Bull⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee