Plant Fuelled Podcast

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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