Episode 23 - Healing with plants - an interview with Anthony Masiello of Plant Based TeleHealth

Today, I am joined by Anthony Masiello, co-founder and CEO of Plant Based TeleHealth, a national lifestyle telemedicine service focused on the prevention and reversal of disease with lifestyle medicine and whole food plant-based nutrition.  Anthony has been working in healthcare for more than 25 years.  His professional career started in the 90s at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) doing bioinformatics for the Human Genome Project.  He later shifted into Research and Development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, where he was interested in contributing more directly to the development of new disease therapies.  Finally, after learning there is a better way, he shifted his focus once again and is now 100% focused on providing access to medical services centered on the prevention and reversal of disease utilizing lifestyle medicine rooted in whole food plant-based nutrition. Anthony first came to a plant-based lifestyle himself after being denied a 20-year term life insurance policy at age 33.  He was morbidly obese, weighing more than 360 pounds, medicated for high blood pressure, and suffering from psoriasis, eczema, migraine headaches, and sleep apnea. Through the transition to a whole food plant-based diet and healthy lifestyle, Anthony lost 160 lbs. and reversed all of these conditions.  He has maintained that weight loss, optimal health, and a greatly improved quality of life for more than 15 years and counting. Anthony’s personal health transformation has been featured on the Megyn Kelly Today show, on PBS, in The Huffington Post, in the bestselling book Eat to Live, and by Forks Over Knives, Runners World, and numerous magazines, web sites, radio shows, podcasts, and articles. Visit his website: https://plantbasedtelehealth.com/ Follow Anthony:  Instagram: @amasiello https://instagram.com/amasiello/ @plantbasedtelehealth https://instagram.com/plantbasedtelehealth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthonymasiello https://www.facebook.com/PBTeleHealth and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PlantBasedTeleHealth Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and if you're loving it, please give Did You Bring the Hummus a 5 star rating, it's an easy way to keep supporting the show. Are you a change-maker? Do deeply care about changing the systems which oppress others and is it important to you to reduce suffering and to find powerful, consistent ways to do that? My new course, The Vegan Voyage, launching October 19th, is just what you're looking for. Visit my website for more details. https://www.didyoubringthehummus.com/veganvoyage Theme song: ©2020 JP Winters  © 2021 Kimberly Winters - Did You Bring the Hummus LLC