Inspiring stories of people who have gone plant-based and changed their health fate, their weight or their lives.
Success Stories
How Olympic Athlete Dotsie Bausch Fuels With a Vegan Diet
At 26 years old, Dotsie Bausch was a fashion model struggling with eating disorders and drug addiction. One day, during a therapy session, her therapist encouraged her to move her body again, encouraging her to take up a physical activity that was not attached to a goal of fitness or weight loss. She...
This Doctor Healed Her Acne and IBS With a Plant-Based Diet. Here’s How
Dr. Melissa Mondala was a busy medical student in her 20s when she found out that not eating healthy and taking care of herself had led her to have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that affects over 30 million individuals in the United States...
How This Doctor Used Diet to Heal His Arthritis
From the age of 17, Dr. Micah Yu has been dealing with gout, a form of arthritis characterized by severe pain, redness, and tenderness in joints. Over time, as he continued to eat a Standard American Diet (SAD), his gout pain transformed to another form of arthritis, affecting multiple joints in his body. For...
How One Woman Treated Hodgkin’s Lymphoma With Diet and Holistic Healing
Elissa Goodman, 61, has a passion for helping people discover the power of plant-based nutrition and holistic healing, just as she did in her 30s when she was diagnosed with cancer. Born with a low white blood count, she was always "the sick kid" in school who was too weak to do sports. In her 30s as an advertising exec...
Switching to This Diet Helped Him Lose 40 Pounds and Cure Severe Allergies
Brandon Burell thought he would live the rest of his life worrying about suffocating. His allergies and sinus congestion were so severe, he couldn't breathe or sleep without interruption, and took Afrin allergy medication daily. When he forgot it at home it caused him to have a panic attack. He ...
What to Eat to Ease Endometriosis Symptoms, From a Woman Who Did It
Endometriosis is more than just experiencing painful periods: For those suffering, it’s a complicated chronic disease that influences every aspect of their life. Endometriosis affects one in 10 women and girls worldwide and it takes an average of 7.5 years to...
A Fruit-Based Diet Helped This Woman Quit Smoking and Shed 60 Pounds
When Lexi Tavares graduated from North Eastern in Boston she was known as the bubbly cheerleader type and a dancer who everyone wanted to be friends with, but inside, she felt empty lonely, and depressed. Growing up, she had dealt with migraines since she was five years old, and they became more intense every passing year...
This Military Vet and Mom Cured Her Mild Anemia With Diet. Here’s How
When a ten-year military veteran was suddenly feeling sleepy all day, more than the usual fatigue of being a busy mother of a young child, she knew something was off. She was not eating meat at the time and when her blood worked showed that she had mild anemia, her doctor tried to convince her she should go back to eating beef. But...
This Mom Lost 160 Pounds: Here Are Her Weight Loss Tips
Mylitta Butler was the track star of her high school team. At 5 feet 10 inches, she ran across the finish line of her races with a long, lean stride, and no one could ever imagine that one day, her health would ever reach a low point where she could not even run a city block. Whe...
This One Food Was Triggering Her Fibromyalgia. Skip It to Help Joint Pain
When fibromyalgia strikes, it can put everything on hold. The constant pain, fatigue, and depression that accompanies this condition are enough to send anyone into a tailspin.
This is what happened to Jaya Jaya Myra. She was a researcher in immunology when the pain started, so you would think that her case of fibromyalgia, if curable, could be researched, treated with western medicine, and solved.