The Chef Bai Podcast

In this episode, Bailey sits down with cookbook author, podcast host, and founder of Spice Spice Baby, Kanchan Koya. Growing up in India, her childhood was immersed with foods packed full with spices, and this lead to her to become a foodie at heart. When she was studying her doctorate in Molecular Biology at Harvard, she began to see the connection and science behind the health benefits of using culinary spices regularly and our overall health. To help spread her love and awareness for spices, Kanchan created Spice Spice Baby as a platform to help educate people about the health benefits of spices. The feedback was impressive and people from all over the world wanted to learn about the powers of the spice box. Throughout this interview, she shares her insight and expertise on holistic remedies for things such as bloating, anxiety, sugar cravings, and much more. Click now to listen! They chat about: Growing up around spices. Creating and running “Spice Spice Baby”. Connecting ancient wisdom with modern science. The link between spices and your health. Antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. CCF Tea. Remedies for bloating and heart burn. Using more spices with kids. Curbing sugar cravings & sugar detoxing. Late night eating. Healing anxiety with spices. The importance of the gut and brain relationship. Slowing down the hustle. Reconnecting with ourselves & nature. And much more! This episode is friendly, educational, and encouraging. Click now to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! We are excited to announce our upcoming free training on July 25th. Chef Bai went from 16 years of chronic pain with endometriosis to healing her symptoms and working with women across the globe to do the same, all thanks to the strategies and tools like cycle syncing, which we will go over in the free training. In this free training we will cover: What cycle syncing is and how to sync your lifestyle with each phase of your cycle (it’s a lot easier than you might think!) The most powerful foods for each phase of your cycle (food allergy friendly!) How to manage period pains with food and lifestyle (works with any budget) Simply go to www.chefbai.kitchen and right away there will be a pop up to sign up, then you’ll get the latest updates on this free training and our ever anticipated offer coming up in 2 weeks! Share this information with anyone you know who has painful periods and is looking for more resources on managing their symptoms. Sign up with the free pop up on my website. www.chefbai.kitchen When you sign up, you’ll also get a freebie download that is my “6 easy hacks that you can use through your food, to have a better, less painful period.” 100% free and my gift to the community! Want more info about Kanchan? Follow on Instagram @chiefspicemama Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!”

In this episode, Bailey speaks with founder and CEO of MaryRuth Organics, MaryRuth Ghiyam. MaryRuth Organics was created to help people reach their goals and to achieve their dreams by being empowered to take their health and wellness into their own hands. MaryRuth shares her entrepreneurial journey over the last decade from the beginnings of MaryRuths Organics, to the many achievements and challenges she faced since, and to the secrets that helped her to become successful today. Her ambition and drive for her company is inspiring and uplifting for everyone, especially those who are entrepreneurs or those simply wanting to follow their own passion. She teaches us that creating a healthy and inviting atmosphere for both work-life and home-life, is how we as individuals, can reach our next level to our next highest self. With a thriving supplement business, four kids, a loving husband, and non stop aspiration for helping people, it’s easy to see why MaryRuth is a real life super women. Click now to listen! They cover: Managing positive company culture. Mental health & human connections. Financial empowerment. Leading a family with kids as an entrepreneur/business owner. Preventing stagnation to battle depression. Pushing ourselves to our next best level. Time blocking and time management. Healing & building momentum with daily habits. Influences we have on those around us. Avoiding burnout. And much more! This episode is uplifting, empowering, and positive! Click now to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Mary Ruth Organics! Built on the desire to support others on their health journey and inspired by MaryRuth to learn how people can use nutrition to live longer, healthier lives. MaryRuth Organics is a mission-oriented company that’s passionate about making powerful supplements to support overall health as you grow your dreams into realities. They offer a happiness guarantee because they believe that no one should have to pay for a product they’re not satisfied with; it’s a no-hassle, money-back promise to you. MaryRuth’s Organics believes in making the best supplements for your health by creating products with non-GMO, plant-based, vegan ingredients, with the fewest number of allergens as possible. For a limited time, our listeners can get one Organic Liquid Probiotic 2oz for free! Just visit MaryRuthOrganics.com and enter code: PLANTREMEDY Want more info about Mary Ruth? Follow on Instagram @maryruthorganics Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Grab my free download on my website for 6 easy hacks that you can use through your food, to have a better, less painful period. Simply go to www.chefbai.kitchen and right away there will be a pop up. 100% free and my gift to the community.

In this episode, Bailey sits down with nutrition, weight loss, and insulin resistance expert, & addiction recovery advocate, Adam Sud. Adam opens up and shares his first hand accounts of addiction, mental health, drug abuse, and his own journey to recovery. He helps us connect the dots when it comes to the standard recovery model and questions the idea in western medicine that nutrition, mental health, and addiction are actually interconnected, rather than all separated. Adam is the founder of the non profit organization "Plant Based For Positive Change" and is an international speaker for plant based nutrition and addiction recovery.  Bai and Adam share a powerful and inspiring conversation about body image, prescription dependency, suicide prevention, and modern day pressures. With Adam’s experience, he helps bring awareness and compassion for ourselves and for others struggling with chronic mental health issues. You won't want to miss this episode, click now to listen.  They cover: Growing up on the Standard American Diet (SAD). Personal body image. Bullying in childhood. Using medication/prescriptions recreationally. Ups and downs of medications like Adderall or Ritalin. Suicide prevention and mental health. Experience of checking into rehab. The pleasure trap of modern eating habits. Lack of studies on addiction recovery and nutrition. 10 week study of plant based diet vs SAD diet, for those in recovery. Reevaluating addiction recovery treatments. Addiction vs our identity. And much more! This episode is sincere, stimulating, and heartfelt. Click now to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Chef Bai (us)! We are promoting our freebie on the Chef Bai website all about period pain. We are on a mission to help liberate women from their periods. It’s a free download on my website, simply go to www.chefbai.kitchen and right away there will be a pop up. It’s a free download for 6 easy hacks that you can use through your food, to have a better, less painful period. 100% free and my gift to the community. Click below for our free download: “6 Food Hacks Heal Your Cycle” Go to www.chefbai.kitchen for your download. Want more info about Adam? Follow on Instagram @plantbasedaddict Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Extra Shownotes: Plant Based For Positive Change Organization  “The Pleasure Trap” book by Doug Lisle “Protein-aholic” book by Garth Davis, M.D. Robert Sud: Animal activist for @laanimalsave

In this episode, Bailey interviews successful restauranteur, cookbook author, and advocate for holistic therapies, Karyn Calabrese. She is 75 years young and has been predominately raw vegan for over 40+ years. Karyn was first known for opening the longest standing gourmet raw food restaurant in the US, Karyns Raw Bistro. She now runs her holistic wellness center in which she helps people detox and heal their bodies through her detox/cleanse programs, spa treatments, clean product line, longevity workshops, and much more.  Bailey and Karyn have a kismet conversation on the plant based lifestyle and how it has evolved over the decades. Karyn sheds a positive light on the idea of aging, and questions the narrative of how much power we actually have when it comes to maintaining optimal health. She brings her charm, knowledge, and experience to this interview. You won’t want to miss it! They chat about: Owning the longest standing raw food restaurant in the U.S. Feeding yourself first: (spiritually, mentally, and physically). Healthy habits with your phone. The baby formula shortage. Changing the narrative on aging. Reality of menopause. Eating raw vegan & detoxing. Erasing the labels that separate us. How alcohol effects the body. Plantbased: (40 years ago vs present day). The power of colonics. And much more! This episode is lighthearted, educational, and uplifting! Click now to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Chef Bai (us)! This week we are promoting our freebie on the Chef Bai website all about period pain. We are on a mission to help liberate women from their periods. It’s a free download on my website, simply go to www.chefbai.kitchen and right away there will be a pop up. It’s a free download for 6 easy hacks that you can use through your food, to have a better, less painful period. 100% free and my gift to the community. Click below for our free download: “6 Food Hacks Heal Your Cycle” Go to www.chefbai.kitchen for your download. Want more info about Karyn? Follow on Instagram @karyncalabrese Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Extra Shownotes: Optimal Health Institute Of San Diego

In this episode, Bailey sits down with CEO & founder of Base, Lola Priego. Lola created Base in 2019 as an alternative blood testing kit for home health care. Using her background of software engineering, she create an app to help connect people directly with blood testing laboratories to a committee of healthcare professionals, all with a science backed at-home blood testing kit. Their mission, to help people find an affordable and easier way to test and translate their blood data to access and measure their health over time. Lola explains the science and story behind Base, and why at-home health healthcare is the future. Lola brings her expertise and knowledge to this convo, along with tons of insightful information on the connection of blood results, nutrition, mental health, and physical health.  Together they talk about: Her story of creating BASE. The guessing game of doctor “google”. Downfalls of typical healthcare. Blending data, science and health. Personalization & data driven tools for our health. Linking nutrition & mental health. Having accessible at home health care. Brain fog and fatigue associated with vitamin deficiencies. Monitoring stress and anxiety through blood. And much more! This episode is motivating, instructive, and authentic. Click now to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor BASE. Base is an all-in-one testing plan that measures your blood and baseline to understand what's impacting your diet, stress, fatigue and general health. They are changing the way we learn about our bodies by using blood, so we can stop guessing and start measuring. Their goal as a brand is to stand in the gap and create a new kind of way to track health through at-home blood testing and regular tracking. Meet your new support system, and the future of health. Go to https://get-base.com Use this code for 20% off at Base: CHEFBAI20 Want more info about Lola or Base? Follow on Instagram @lolitapriego and @get_base Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Grab our free download: “6 Food Hacks To Heal Your Cycle” Go to www.chefbai.kitchen for the freebie 

In this episode, Bailey chats with professional adventurers, advocates for sustainability for the future, and genetic twins, Hugo and Ross Turner. The Turner Twins are British adventurers who have undergone a host of world-first expeditions to some of the most remote places on earth to help people learn about our world. Together, their pioneering spirit has led them to discover some of the planet’s last remaining untouched places, while utilizing new technologies to support and promote a more sustainable future. The Twins have compared various fitness and training methods to highlight any differences in performance and to seek scientific insight. In this interview, Hugo & Ross bring their different perspectives of the world for us learn from, and their passion for testing the boundaries of the human spirit. Enjoy! Throughout this episode we talk about: Their childhood in England. Growing up as twins. Their 12 week study of the vegan diet vs carnivore diet. Gut bacteria and how it relates to your health. The connection between the food we eat and how we feel Their perspective of the environment from their expeditions Seeing agricultural land first hand in South America Spreading awareness of sustainability Climate change and it’s importance And much more! This episode is real, humorous, and insightful. Click now to listen! Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread the love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Sarvaa Organics! Sarvaa offers organic, vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, low glycemic products carefully crafted with the most beneficial superfoods in the world. They create meal replacement protein powders, wholefood supplements, and probiotics that are nutrient rich and full of vibrancy. Their small team located in Durango, Colorado formulates, packs and ships each order personally with love and care. They are on a mission to empower the healing of people and the planet by providing nutrient dense, immune building, detox supporting, heart opening formulations from whole foods that are sustainably and ethically sourced. Click the link below to get yours! www.sarvaasuperfoods.com Use this code for 20% off at checkout: Bai20 Want more info about Hugo & Ross? Follow on Instagram @theturnertwins Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!”

In this episode, Bailey sits down with the author of the Engine 2 Diet, the host and creator of Plantstrong foods and the Plantstrong podcast, and an icon for the plant based movement, Rip Esselstyn. Together they talk about the many facets of the plant based lifestyle and helping people become better educated on the importance of diet and movement for their overall health. Rip brings his experiences, expertise, and his passion to this interview and you won't want to miss it!  They touch base on: Being a Podcast host. His inspiring TED talk. Experience working with firefighters, police, & EMT over the years. The 7 day rescue challenge and Engine 2. Growing up and his childhood with such influential parents. His story of Plantstrong and Plantstrong Foods. Preventing and even reversing heart disease! The number one killer in America. America’s naughty sodium intake. Advice for family and friends that are resistant to change. Reading food labels. Entrepreneurship and Diversification. And much more! This episode is straight forward, instructive, and positive! Click here to listen. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast. Help us spread this love. Don’t forget to share with a friend! Want our free download? Click here!  What's the freebie? On my website there's a free download for "6 easy hacks that you can use through your food, to have a better, less painful period." 100% free and my gift to the community! Simply go to www.chefbai.kitchen and when you sign up in the pop up, you'll get the download sent to your email. Want more info about Rip and Plantstrong? Follow on Instagram @ripesselstyn or @goplantstrong Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Extra Shownotes: Fiber Fueled Book The Pleasure Trap Book

Bailey sits down with her personal wine guru and sommelier, Allison Koerber in a special premiere episode of Season 3 of the Plant Remedy Podcast. To kick off the new season, Bailey and Alli talk about all things wine, in this mini wine masterclass, while ironically sitting in a vineyard in heart of cabernet sauvignon country, at Stags Leap district in Napa Valley. Throughout this convo, they help answer the many confusions behind wine and help connect the dots with the complexities of wine. In this episode we go over: Allison’s story which lead her into her passion for wine. Hear about the differences of natural wine, biodynamic wine, and organic wine. Why many wines aren’t vegan, and the how the process works. Old world wine vs new world wine. The history of stags leap district in Napa, and how it became so popular for it’s vineyards. How the regulations work regarding wine here locally in the States and also internationally over the world. How much pesticides are used on conventional wines compared to organic wine. What AVA means, and why they are important when purchasing wine. The truth about “cheap” wine. How the process of wine tasting goes and why they follow a certain procedure . Differences of sparkling wine, white wine, rose, and red wine. And so much more. This episode is light, fun, and vivacious, and a great way to kick off the season! Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! Help us spread this love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor WÜSTHOF Knives. They believe that quality knives can only be made where high-precision production meets traditional artisanship. WÜSTHOF knives are proud of their heritage and tradition of artisanship, and the wealth of experience over 7 generations. WÜSTHOF knives are currently exported from Solingen to eighty countries around the globe, from Reykjavík to Cape Town to Tokyo to San Francisco. Their goal is to offer food lovers, cooking enthusiasts, and chefs from all over the world exceptionally sharp, high-quality knives are at once beautiful, functional, and perfectly balanced. They have a large array of knives varying from chefs knives, paring knives, utility knives, and asian style knives. Click here to see their inventory, and find the right knife for you and your needs.   Don’t forget to follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, wellness info, kitchen tips, and her best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Extra Shownotes: The “Bottle Shock” movie

Bai sits down with her husband and business partner, Steve. They catch up with current events and share some insights on the past season of the plant remedy podcast. This last season was full of amazing guests and packed with so much yummy info. Thank you for all our guests and listeners for all the support. In this episode, Steve starts things off by describing his past two weeks of falling ill to covid and the constant battle of building his immune system. Steve talks about how our nutrition and the food we eat matters so much when it comes to our immune systems. He shows us some examples of what he ate in a day when he was sick that helped build the immune system to heal faster. Bailey brings up one specific subject that many of our listeners have been waiting for, and that’s microdosing with psilocybin! They share their experiences with microdosing over the past 6 months. It helps people in many ways, and everyones reaction to microdosing is different depending on a variety of factors like age, sex, status, etc. They touch base on the spirituality of psilocybin and how it positively effects your personality, your ego, and past traumas. In our opinion, it changes our perspective on the world we live in, and creates a more lightheartedness to the rough edges of the world. They talk about boundaries with work and relationships, including both sides of the spectrum. Yes, finding a balance is a never ending chore, but it’s so important to keep some sort of boundary for our own mental health. Now more than ever, our mental health is the most important part for us to keep fully functioning. Lastly, they share some big news on changes going on in the business. Changes can be rough and unpleasant sometimes, but switching things up can sometimes be the best thing in the long run. Together, Bai & Steve are very optimistic for the future and for the new things coming. This includes our special 2 night event coming up in March 23rd + 24th in our Kitchen Revival Masterclass! For this two part masterclass we are tackling our kitchens together as a community. This kitchen revival masterclass is a chance to begin the first week of spring with a fresh new and organized fridge and pantry. Together, (including us) we are going to pull everything out from the fridge, toss out expired food, organize produce, and clean up. Chef Bai will teach us tips and tricks on how to keep your fridge fully functioning depending on your household needs. We’ll also go through nutrition labels and food storage tips. If you can't make it, there will be a link to purchase the replay afterwards. Click here for more info.  This episode is light, happy, and fun. Click here to listen now! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Mala Girl Broths. These amazing broths are Chef made savory superfoods. Prepared from organically-sourced vegetable powders - cool stuff like dulse, moringa, reishi, lions mane, cacao (to name a few). Six flavor varieties, each with its own culinary personality and wellness benefits. Why compromise when you can have plant powered benefits?!  Let Mala Girl adapt to the mood of your tastebuds. We've created the flavor so you don't have to. Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” If you loved this episode, be sure to leave a review below and on apple podcasts. 

In this episode, Bailey chats with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD who is the Co-founder of Masteringdiabetes. Masteringdiabetes is at the forefront of research into the revolutionary method to reversing insulin resistance in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and gestational diabetes using a whole plant based diet and lifestyle approach. Cyrus shares some childhood stories of growing up an active healthy adolescent, eating mangos by the box, and playing every sport he could. With no clear signs of anything wrong, later on, in his late college years he noticed negative changes in his body. These changes became worse and worse until one day he went to the doctor and was diagnosed with three major autoimmune diseases. From that point on, his life became a battle for his health. As someone who was diagnosed with these auto immune diseases, he found after years of searching and researching, that a whole food plant based diet was able to help him control and minimize the harsh symptoms of diabetes even after a very short period. His journey into healing helped push his passion into why he was healing. This lead him into going to school for Nutritional Biochemistry to learn exactly how diabetes works on the body. This eventually lead him to create the business of Mastering diabetes, which helps consoling people with diabetes and leading people to health with a step by step approach of eating a whole plant based diet. He shares his knowledge of facts about diabetes, reducing insulin resistance, and many more eye opening facts about the connections between all these chronic diseases and our lifestyle. They go over the history and the current popular trends such as the Atkins diet. Paleo diet, Keto diet, and other low carb/high fat diets. Cyrus gives his expertise on the science of how these diets affect the body over the short term and also over the long term. He also goes over the opposite side of the spectrum of a whole food plant based diets and other high carb, low fat diets. This includes the truths and myths about carbohydrates that many of us hear about everyday. This episode with Cyrus is amazingly educational, lively, and explanatory! Want more info on Cyrus? Check out his IG @mangomannutrition Check out the mastering diabetes website: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Mala Girl Broths. These amazing broths are Chef made savory superfoods. Prepared from organically-sourced vegetable powders - cool stuff like dulse, moringa, reishi, lions mane, cacao (to name a few). Six flavor varieties, each with its own culinary personality and wellness benefits. Why compromise when you can have plant powered benefits?!  Let Māla Girl adapt to the mood of your tastebuds. We've created the flavor so you don't have to. Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” If you loved this episode, be sure to leave a review below and on apple podcasts.

In this episode, Bailey sits down with Matt Bertulli, CEO of eco-friendly company Pela, which fights for sustainability, waste awareness, and a greener future. Pela was the creator of the Pela case, which is the world’s first compostable phone case. Pela has a vision of a waste free future. They make products made of environmentally sensible materials, that educate and inspire a global community of people who are committed to making a positive impact on our planet.    Bai & Matt jump right into talking about sustainability and waste from all humankind. Our society is growing larger and with that, is our increase in waste, especially industrial waste. Matt shares his insights on how our waste has potential to be used to our benefit financially. His hope is to create more awareness on our individual waste and how we can minimize it as best we can.    Matt talks about the connections between sustainability and social equality, and how you can’t talk about one without considering the other. A lot of the worlds industrial waste is expelled and processed in under served communities. Finding these connections in society can bring awareness and with that, actual change.   Bai and Matt share their opinions about the mass amounts of waste from western countries. This has regards to our food systems, to our resources, and to our individual households. They also touch base on the psychology between waste and the effect it has on the world around us.   Matt explains how the best thing for our health , and the worlds future, is to become more educated with the waste systems of the world collectively. Instead of focusing on methane and carbon, rather to use our daily waste as a better tool to bring awareness to the public of climate change. Climate change is a big misunderstood idea. It is about the limited resources we have on this earth, and how we can’t be wasting them like we have a planet B.    They talk about the arguments about sustainability and the solutions to the most common questions.  Matt also sheds light on the future with his positive outlook and how we are collectively going towards a greener, more sustainable age.    Matt explains to us about his amazing and eco friendly phone case product. This case is 100% fully compostable, plant based, visible, and popular. Matt and his team are leading the charge for research in material science for fully compostable materials. His other eco friendly composting product, Lomi, is a 3 liter bin that turns your natural food scraps into dirt/soil overnight and can reduce food waste by 80%.    This podcast episode is illuminating, natural, and friendly. Can’t wait for you to listen.   Want more info on Matt?  Check out his IG @mbertulli  More info on Pela here: https://pela.earth    Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!”    If you liked this episode, be sure leave a review below and on apple podcasts! Want info on our upcoming Self Love Masterclass this February 23rd? Click here  This class is designed to show you that you can indulge AND slay your health goals. This cooking masterclass is perfect for date night or a night of self love. We will be talking all about self love and setting yourself up for the week ahead. Bai will show you the building blocks of creating a meal plan for your life no matter your lifestyle. Along with this masterclass we will be making lemon risotto, mushroom scallops, and chocolate truffles!  See you Wednesday 2/23 @ 5:30PM PST for our Self Love & Meal Plans Masterclass! 

Bailey sits down with the wonderful Unique Hammond. She is a holistic nutrition practitioner, integrative health coach, bean protocol specialist, and author of “Your Tastebuds are A**holes”. Unique shares her childhood story of growing up in California and what happened in her life that lead her to where she is today. She talks about her story of falling ill to Crohn's disease symptoms and the tough years she faced. Together Bai and Unique talk about what’s Crohn’s disease is, the symptoms, and the medications western medicine uses to fight it. Over time she was only getting worse and eventually was diagnosed with Crohn’s. They also touch base on auto immune diseases, endometriosis, and how correlated many illness are. Unique became desperate for answers and began looking into holistic ways to heal. She shares her struggles with her doctors throughout her journey and they talk about the trauma people go through when accessing our medical system with a chromic illness. The toll it does on all our mental health and how tons are silently suffering. Unique shares her knowledge and history of the bean protocol. How beans helped change her life and helped her manage her pain & symptoms. Over 18 months of following an intense bean protocol, her Crohn’s went into remission. Her story is amazing, and inspirational for anyone who’s ever been told they cannot heal naturally. She lays out ways she stays in remission and the things to stay away from to keep the body functioning properly. Unique tells us what she’s up to now, which includes health coaching and helping people through the bean protocol. How she helps clients find ways to heal themselves through the power of beans. Beans are full of protein, fat, carbs, nutrients, and vitamins that work wonders with our body when eaten properly and in the right order. She helps breaks this down for us and teaches us how beans changed her life. Lastly, Unique shares information about her latest book, “Your tastebuds are a**holes” which talks more in depth on her journey healing herself of Crohn’s disease. This episode with Unique is inspiring, optimistic, and natural. We can’t wait for you to listen! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY20 for 20% off both cycle balance & daily harmony PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off cycle balance only Want more info on Unique? Check out her IG @uniquehammond Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” If you liked this episode, be sure to leave a review on apple podcasts!

In this episode, Bailey sits down with the famously intelligent Dr. Michael Greger, author, physician, professional speaker on public health issues & advocacy of a whole-food, plant-based diet. They chat about his beginnings and what lead him to become a doctor in the first place. Dr. Greger shares his childhood experience with his grandmother falling ill with late stages of heart disease at 65. Soon after she was taught to change her diet, and with the help of Nathen Pritikin, she lived for another 31 fruitful years. Early on Dr. Greger saw the power of nutrition first hand, and has been passionate to teach others what he witnessed since. Because of his grandmother, he entered into medicine, studied lifestyle medicine, started Nutritionfacts.org, wrote all his books, hold public speakings, and much more. They talk about the hardships and obstacles people face when trying to adopt a more plant focused lifestyle. They also touch base on the resistance of a healthy, plant focused lifestyle in the medical community, in society, and with loved ones. How it seems like the whole system isn’t set up for making people healthy, rather the opposite. Dr. Greger dives in and explains about the food system as a whole. The interconnectedness of why things are the way they are. He shows us the flaws of big corporations selling us a trillion dollar industry of processed foods. How the most profitable foods, are usually the worst foods. How the system is set up to incentivize the bad foods, and punish the healthy ones. They talk about how we as individuals have to take responsibility for our own health and the health of our families now more than ever. That the most important decisions we make is what we eat everyday. Good news is the world is changing at an amazing pace, especially lately. The positive influence of eating plants over the past 50 years is increasing every year in the general public. The science is out there and people are finally listening. Bai asks Dr. Greger advice on helping show a stubborn family member or friend with a lifestyle created disease, on how to heal with a healthy diet change. They touch base on the negatives of dairy especially the health effects, and how now it’s easier than ever to switch to non dairy alternatives. With a plethora of plant based options, anyone can find something they like, and help bring down the demand for dairy products. They chat about the many myths of nutrition throughout society and how unfortunately fake myths, have real consequences. That all this unhealthy false information are causing premature illnesses in our bodies. One of the most astonishing things Dr. Greger noticed when asking his patients why they ate the way they ate, was that many didn’t have hard evidence why. Many had heard something from a friend at the gym or read something in a magazine. Dr. Greger believes everyone has to do the research themselves, and to not take anyones word for it. To remember that what you eat everyday is the most important decision you make for your health. This episode is informative, quick, and witty. Enjoy! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY20 for 20% off both cycle balance & daily harmony PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off cycle balance only Want more info on Dr. Greger? Check out his IG @michaelgregermd **This podcast was recorded in November 2021 for Season 2** Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, videos, and more!

Bailey sits down with Carleigh author and founder of plantyou. She has large online presence with her vegan food blog and has upcoming oil free vegan cookbook coming out this February 2022. They catch up and share insight on the world of plant based living, being food waste conscious, and navigating a platform with over a million viewers. She shares her story of transitioning to a whole food plant based diet. How in her words, she looks like someone that would be the least likely person to be vegan. She grew up on a farm and grew up surrounded by animal and dairy products her whole life, but when her father became ill, they decided to do research into healthier eating habits. After reading plant based books and watching documentaries, they eventually started swapping out their favorite comfort foods with plant based alternatives. Slowly over time Carleigh grew more and more confident with her cooking. By 2019 she was fully immersed into plant you and ran the business full time. Carleigh talks about her shift towards a food blogger and cookbook author, and the challenges she faced. Together Bai and Carleigh share their experiences of taking the leap in believing in yourself as an small business entrepreneur. The power and the responsibility that comes with running a full small business on your own. They talk about going vegan and transitioning to a plant based diet and about the connections you see more in your health, the animals, and the environment when eating plant based. How using resources like watching documentaries and researching into plant based lifestyle can be the best thing you can do for yourself. They feel and see a huge shift in attitude of the general society with regards to plant based recipes. It’s accepted more than ever and there’s more options more than ever. They touch base on the life of having a large online presence and the negatives such as people making assumptions including about her appearance. They chat about how they don’t feed into all the negativity and explain how important the positive comments are and how they really help spread more goodness. They talk about online bulling and how out of hand it has gotten, especially towards female bloggers and influencers. They talk about how entrepreneurs online should shed more light on the negative comment epidemic going on in the shadows. Talking about this can hopefully help keep people more accountable for their comments. To think before you write it. Spread the positivity. Lastly, Carleigh gives us the deets on her upcoming new cookbook with 140 recipes! All oil free! All plant based! There’s advice, pantry lists, and nutrition facts on each dish. Go to plantyou.com for your copy. They talk about the experience of finally seeing the first copy of the book in your hands, the non stop work that comes together to write a cookbook, and more. She talks about the personal challenges she overcame to write her book, especially the cover shot. How happy she was with all the positive feedback of writing a cookbook, and the large response she got from just the preorders alone. The cookbook Plantyou is Available on Feb. 15! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY20 for 20% off both cycle balance & daily harmony PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off cycle balance only Want more info on Carleigh? Check out her IG @plantyou If you liked this episode, be sure to leave a review on apple podcasts. Follow Chef Bai on IG: chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, cooking classes, and much more!

In this episode of the plant remedy podcast, Bailey sits down with world renowned Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. He is a 7 times New York Times best-selling author and expert on nutrition and natural healing. He focuses on preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. They dive into Dr Fuhrman’s early childhood and his history of studying and researching nutrition. His father who struggled with back pain, searched for answers from many specialists and doctors, but never found any real answers to the problem. Just bandages to the symptoms. It was through one book that lead into many more books based on nutrition to heal your body, that he and his father began diving into. That through food, you can change your life. Joel would sit along side his father at a young age and read these books that were focused on nutrition and eating healthfully. Years later, his father healed himself, and was a new person. Seeing the power of diet first hand, helped drive the passion in Joel on healthy eating and nutrition. Dr. Fuhrman talks about his life from his younger years and his life’s experiences until he went to school to be a physician in specialized nutritional medicine. Once he graduated, he began his journey of writing his findings of the connection between nutrition and health into books. Bailey talks with Joel about becoming a family physician with a background in nutrition. This way we could do something he enjoyed and help as many people as possible. Through his journey he was able to create a center in San Diego to help people come to as a retreat. For a couple weeks people come and heal themselves and learn better eating habits to take back with them afterwards. Through all these outlets, Dr. Fuhrman has helped over hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Dr. Fuhrman gives his insight and passion on his accomplishments of helping people learn to heal through food. He also talks about the challenges he faced with people individually, with opening a center, writing his books, and much more. They chat about how people have their beliefs systems around nutrition, food addictions, and the psychology of food. He shares facts on nutrition in America and health statistics that are eye opening. All these unhealthy diets are causing Americas chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and illnesses to skyrocket more than ever. He shares his insight on salts, oils, sugars, and the benefits of reducing your intake. Lastly, he shares his answers of having children and dealing with societal pressures. Also, he shares his answers and expertise on high blood pressure including facts that are very promising for anyone on high blood pressure medication. You won’t want to miss this first episode of the new year! Want more info on Dr. Fuhrman? Check out his IG @joelfuhrmanmd Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” If you liked this episode, be sure to leave a review on apple podcasts. Shownotes: Eat To Live Retreat- Health resort in San Diego Fast Food Genocide - Dr. Fuhrman Book Disease proof your child -Dr. Fuhrman Book

Hannah Sunderani, founder and creator of Two Spoons App and Plant Based Recipe Blog, sits down with Bailey to catch up on life and talk about recent events in each other lives. All which include the blessings of Hannah being pregnant with her first child which is absolutely amazing! She talks about all the nerves and exciting feelings of becoming a mom for the first time. Hannah retakes us through the start of her journey of deciding to have a baby and the challenges her and her husband faced. Hannah talks about the time frame she thought getting pregnant would occur was very different than reality. How in movies and stories from friends, it can be portrayed that women just get pregnant easily and then the next step is figuring out all the correct plans from there on. In reality, she found that the challenges beforehand can actually be much more difficult than the steps after knowing your pregnant. She opened up about her vulnerability about trying to conceive, which helped her close friends and family to open up to her and to show their own struggles of infertility. She noticed she was not alone in her journey. That many women and their other halves had many troubles, obstacles, and challenges to overcome to reach their goal of being pregnant. Hannah talks about her stages of reaching out to a fertility clinic, the process they went through together, and the results they received afterwards. For one moment, everything was fine, and then next moment they were battling uphill against infertility issues. She speaks about this anxiety and pressure within herself, and within her relationship with her husband. On top of this pressure, she explains the hardship of trying to juggle life, work, and pleasure with an unknown timing of becoming pregnant.  She talks about the feelings she gets around other couples now that she is pregnant. She doesn’t know their story, but she thinks of her journey, and she wishes that she isn’t giving them a painful reminder of their infertility issues, but rather hope that their time will come sooner than later, in one way or another. It’s a humble reminder that we are all struggling behind the faces we put on in public, and that being open and vulnerable, can be the most human thing we can do to help connect with one another. Hannah has opened up with more friends, family, and even strangers, and found that an overwhelming amount of people are going through similar infertility problems. You will never know unless you open up about yourself. Afterwards when Hannah and her husband received the great news, she felt more compelled to reach out and to offer her story of infertility, to help support someone who needs to hear it most. The important message she wanted to share was, if you know anyone who is going through infertility challenges, be soft and extra caring. Honestly to not to give any advice, but to just be there to sit down and to just listen. Listening can be the best support that woman or couple needs most. This episode is a deep, vulnerable, and moving conversation with Hannah and Bailey. Press play and enjoy.  A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off your first month Want more info on Hannah and Two Spoons? Check out her IG @twospoons.ca If you liked this episode, be sure to leave a review on apple podcasts.  *Podcast was recorded in August in preparation for season 2* THE PLANT REMEDY PODCAST WITH CHEF BAI

Bailey sits down with the amazing and charming Lulu Ge, founder and CEO of Elix healing. Together they talk about their relationship, and why Lulu created Elix. How it all began with her own story of dealing with painful menstrual cycles and trying to navigate herself off prescription birth control. Through her journey she found that western medicine didn’t have the answers she was looking for besides just going back on more prescription birth controls. So, with the insight from her grandfather who ran a hospital in China, she turned to a more holistic approach through medicine from special herbs, superfood tonics, and plants. Into her journey of using Chinese herbs to help her menstrual cycles, she found her painful symptoms declining and becoming much more manageable even by the first few months. This amazing change helped her gain more confidence with discussing it with her friends and coworkers. Instead of living in pain in silence, she was able to open up her heart and feelings around painful menstrual cycles. What happened next was alarming for her. The pain that she thought was rare and only hers was actually much more prevalent in her friends and coworkers than she ever imagined. So many women she knew opened up to her and revealed their own cycle problems and situations. Examples of these symptoms were headaches, bloating, cramps, nausea, and many more. Knowing that she was not alone and that many women live in painful silence, made her want to help make a difference and make a change. She wanted to share her special tonic with her friends, but she found out that her special herbs blend was tailored to her specific symptoms and needs, and really for her only. That every woman is different and depending on their cycle symptoms, body type, and so on, changes the specific herbs needed to help them. This journey is where Elix began. A way to bring a licensed practitioner to an online experience for any woman, and to access anywhere, especially people living in rural areas. Herbs from ethically sources, advisors from certified professionals, and support from people in the community and all over the world. Elix has grown exponentially over the last 2 years and has helped over +100,000 women. Everyday they are helping more and more women all over the world and to let them feel empowered with their cycle symptoms, and to feel better supported with their overall health. This episode is a powerful and special tool to help spread the word on women's health. You won’t want to miss it! Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off your first month Stay tuned also for their release of a new product in 2022! Want more info on Lulu Ge and Elix? Check out their IG @elixhealing Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!”   

Dr. Michael Klaper, gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health, talks about his journey and career into holistic health. He talks about his life long mission of teaching the public, the medical community, and everyone in between about healing themselves from chronic lifestyle created diseases through a whole food, plant based diet. Bailey and Dr. Klaper dive right into his early childhood of growing up in the midwest and working on a dairy farm in the summers. He gives his honest and heart-moving recollection of working on a dairy farm as a child and how it helped shape his future into entering medicine and striving to become a doctor. He gives his first person accounts as a child on a dairy farm and the procedures of creating and running a fully functioning dairy farm. From the way the cows are inseminated, how the calves are torn away from the mothers right after birth, how male cows are turned into veal, and the connection of dairy and slaughterhouses. They talk about the facts of life of a dairy cow from back then, and the procedures now. How much things have changed, and sadly how much certain things haven’t changed. They talk about the way the dairy industry has manipulated the general public into believing that dairy is a necessity in diet, how the dairy industry has manipulated the public on how dairy is made, and many more gut wrenching, heart breaking truths of the dangers of dairy. He also shares insights on how cows have changed into being genetically modified nowadays to produce milk all year around, even while they are pregnant. Cows used to stop producing milk while pregnant for 9 months, but now with the help of scientists, cows now produce milk non stop year round. This causes many natural hormones like many types of estrogens that pregnant mammals have, to be much more present in the milk nowadays, compared to many years ago. With more hormones in the milk, he explains the connection of the rise in irregularities, chronic diseases, and cancers in both women and men in the last 20-30 years. Dr. Klaper shares his expertise on the connection of dairy and health, and how the rise of consumption of dairy products has lead to a rise of diseases and cancers in men like prostate cancers, and in women like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and more. Dr. Klaper talks about his journey into turning plant based as a western medical doctor, and his own research on how effective a whole food plant based diet helped his health and his clients' health to become healthier from the inside out. They talk about the mass amount of misinformation on nutrition online and the damaging effects it has on the public. Especially with regards to many abnormal, unnatural diets such as the paleo diet and keto diet. These abnormal diets may have short term external changes in weight loss, they are also causing longterm decremental changes internally on the liver, the heart, the blood cholesterol levels, the colon, the arteries, the gut, and much more. Eating mass amounts of animal based foods high in fat, high in cholesterol, are a recipe for heart disease, which is sadly the number one cause of death in the United States. This episode is raw, real, and honest between both Bailey and Dr. Klaper. You won’t want to miss this one. Filled with tons of info, facts, and resources to help you on your own health journey to healing. Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off your first month  Want more info on this topic or on Dr. Klaper? Check out his IG @doctorklaper Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_Bai

We're so excited to have Tiffany Hurd on to kick off Season 2 of The Plant Remedy Podcast! Tiffany, plant medicine mentor, talks about how she entered the world of learning about integrating and using psilocybin on a healthy, intentional way for nervous system nourishment. She talks about her healing process for herself, personal development work, and her journey to her huge awaking. She watched her life change for the better, including her moods, mindset, and quality of her relationships with the procedures of microdosing with psilocybin.  People who use micro dosing of psychedelics notice subtle shifts in their mindset, body, and health. Bai and Tiffany, together talk about the process and procedures of micro dosing psilocybin and how it rewires the brain on a neurological level. It helps open up locked/blocked pathways in the brain and in the heart, and allows the body to face these negatives in a positive and constructive therapeutic way. To become vulnerable, and to get through and deal with past traumas, hardships, anxiety, and anything else that is disrupting your life in a negative way. They talk about the research behind it and how it's becoming more and more increasing accepted in the general public community. This includes the correct way to dose, the correct procedures to follow, and the history of how this healing process has been used for 100’s of years with cultures all over the world. They touch base on the major differences on recreational vs therapeutic healing with psilocybin. How using small doses for healing can help a majority of people, young or old, no matter where they stand on the spectrum of personal development. How it helps people with anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction, ALS and much more, to help people get to the root of their problems. To help heal the sources instead of the symptoms. Tune into this special episode for that kicks off Season 2 of the Plant Remedy Podcast.  Enjoy this Episode? Leave a comment on Apple Podcasts about your favorite part of the podcast! A special thanks to our podcast sponsor Elix Healing. Led by a pioneering team of doctors, herbalists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists, Elix combines the best of ancient wisdom and modern research to provide you with effective treatments and holistic health content that support your journey to your healthiest self. Use the code: PLANTREMEDY15 for 15% off your first month Want more info on this topic or on Tiffany? Check out her IG @iamtiffanyhurd Follow Chef Bai on IG @Chef_bai for more podcasts, recipes, virtual cooking classes, corporate wellness collaborations, and her newest best selling cookbook. “Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!” Extra Shownotes: Click here for : Rare Footage of 1950’s Housewife on LSD

In this episode of the Chef Bai Podcast, Bai dives into the inconsistencies around Thanksgiving as a holiday. She points out the irony of how we as a society, celebrate a day of giving thanks, spending time with loved ones and cooking together, based on a history of exploiting indigenous people. When you uncover the layers of what happened to the indigenous people when the pilgrims came overseas years ago, it’s heartbreaking. Even today, some the most poorly funded, poorly supported communities suffering in the United States are indigenous people. Now is a great time to look into your local indigenous communities and see how you can help give support and love. Bai dares "You" the listener to take a moment and see how we as individuals can give back, give thanks, and give a lil love to those in need of it most. Bai suggests a crazy concept. Can we stop celebrating thanksgiving?? We can still gather, still cook together, still spend time with family around this time of year, but have it based purely on that. Gathering around community. At the end of the day it’s not about the turkey, it’s about turning off the noise and being present with friends and family.  The “Thanksgiving holiday” is not only poorly associated with the suffering of indigenous people, it’s also associated with the suffering of over 46 million turkeys that get slaughtered each year in the United states for thanksgiving alone. Not to forget that these massive factory farms which execute these horrific deeds, negatively effect the communities living nearby with environmental pollution from animal waste and/or chemicals, and negatively effect the mental health for workers who operate inside and/or around these slaughter houses and factory farms. With all this harm, there has to be a way to bring more compassion into this time of year. What do you think? How does the Thanksgiving holiday make you feel? Leave a comment! Want Bai to highlight something more specific? Go to ⁠⁠⁠www.chefbai.kitchen/thepodcast⁠⁠⁠ and leave a question for Bai.  Love the show? Leave a review on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ about your favorite part of the podcast to help support us or leave 5 Stars on Spotify! Help us spread the love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! Want more info about Chef Bai? Follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @⁠⁠Chef_bai Sponsored By: The 14 Day Plant Based Challenge! Simply go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.chefbai.kitchen/challenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ When you purchase it, you get lifetime access, and you can do it at your own pace at your own time.  Only $22 For Lifetime access! (Less than $2/day to join!) What you’ll get with the challenge:  1. Three 14 Day meal guides including one to go along side our cookbook, "Cook. Heal. Go Vegan!"  2. VIP Access to our masterclass "Thriving On Plants!" + our new masterclass "Processed To Plants” 3. Daily food facts, videos, and wellness info to help keep you on track of your challenge! 4. Extra resources to motivate and educate you well beyond the two weeks, including 3 recipes of the day, everyday! 5. A self paced schedule to take your two week challenge whenever it’s convenient for you! ***Use this code for 50% the challenge at checkout: PODCAST Love the show? Leave a review on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ about your favorite part of the podcast to help support us or leave 5 Stars on Spotify! Help us spread the love! Don’t forget to share with a friend! Want more info about Chef Bai? Follow Chef Bai on IG and Tiktok @⁠⁠Chef_bai