This is my favorite podcast. I appreciate Rip’s message, his positivity and the way he interviews his guests. The episodes are so informative and I love all of the guests! He exposes us to great new information all the time! I trust his messages on health and appreciate these whole plant foods.

I’ve met Rip. I like Rip. I respect Rip. Now I worry about Rip. The last 7-8 podcasts have been painfully incoherent as evidenced by long awkward pauses, stumbling, mumbling, fidgeting, darting eyes, and losing track. Perhaps his father or another expert could *strongly* encourage he take a B12 supplement. I hope so because something seems really off and getting worse.

Good content, but we need a healthy debate on oils. Oils are not bad. Have someone like Simon Hill on the podcast to discuss. Thanks.

E2 life changing!! No more dieting, a miracle. Weight loss the same effortlessly. So much energy. These Podcasts continue to inspire year after year, week after week, day by day. Love listening as I run on Austin’s Lady Bird Lake or walk around the planet. Keeps me focused on being plant based. Life is good!! THANKS

Excellent interviews, plus the shorter podcasts are great for a quick refresher.

Wow- Casey Means was a great person to interview and I so look forward to hearing more from her. That episode was just jam packed with information. As someone who has reversed PCOS symptoms with a plant based diet, I’m eager to hear more on insulin. Honestly, anything she wants to talk about though bc she was so interesting to listen to. Definitely bring her back! :)

Rip is a great interviewer, and the guests are great as well!

Dr. Gregor is the best! He’s extremely knowledgeable, motivating, and I love his sense of humor. I grateful for my WFPBNO life! Ripp, I love your podcasts and Plantstrong food products! Can’t wait to have a bowl ( big) of my favorite Ripp’s Big Bowl cereal today!

Love this podcast. Great guests, recipes and ideas.

Loved it! Can’t wait to here more:)

Enjoyed every bit of it. Look forward to more. I’ll check past available episodes. I’d love to listen to them.

I love this podcast, but had to stop and rewind when Rip told long-distance hiker, Ruth that she was fortunate her husband “allowed” her to pursue her passion. What is this, the 1800s? Even she gently corrected him. Come on Rip you can do better.

Why is this the only podcast that shows all the “old” podcasts first?? Super annoying when you’re trying to find most recent episodes. Sorry for negativity, because I really enjoy the content!

My favorite podcast!!!!

Great podcast with wonderful guests! I’ve learned so much and have been inspired by some of the stories of how people have turned their health around. I look forward to every episode!

Love Rip Esselstyn’s interview style and really interesting guests. I am not fully vegan—more vegan-leaning vegetarian but find the podcast always inspiring and educational. Listen to many podcasts but this is one of my favorites.

Informative and well done podcast. But RIP has mommy issues. He constantly posts and talks about his mom, and not his wife. Even on Mothers Day- its all about mommy (his, never the mother of his children.)

Love this podcast ..you started me on my plant based journey and I am still going .

Thank you 🙏 Love the podcast and appreciate you changed our lives!!!

Plant Strong is one of my favorite podcasts to listen to. There are always great guests and information. Listening keeps me up to date on the latest findings, new studies and food/recipes. I know I have a place to go to get the inspiration and support I need. I have all of the Esselstyn cookbooks and feel equipped to manage this lifestyle. Thank you. ❤️🌱

I went plant based a little over a year ago, and I feel I couldn’t have made it without this valuable information! It really encouraged me to stay the course especially in the beginning when the mental battle was so hard. I always look forward to new episodes, but honestly I have binged listened to almost all of the past episodes. Some of them I play again, especially on tougher days when I feel like I’m the only one in my circle doing this. But I feel so much better physically and mentally that there’s no way I’m going back now!

I’ve learned so much about health and plant based cooking. The doctors in particular are fascinating. What a public service. Thank you!

I so enjoy listening to your podcast. I am binge listening to your episodes starting from the beginning. I enjoy listening to all of your guests but I particularly enjoy it when you interview and interact with physicians. It’s fascinating listening to their backgrounds, why they became physicians and why they turned to WFPB eating. Gee, who knew, physicians are people, too! Only kidding but I hope you understand what I mean. Thank you for a wonderful and enlightening podcast!

Fantastic. Your shows have been +++ 176 has amazing content+++ and is THE must-listen-to for 2023 Zachary Burns sky rockets amazing possibility & hope+++ into health based medicine. Appreciated. Jeanne

Rip, been listening to you for a long time. You’ve become a fantastic interviewer by getting into your guest’s stories at the beginning of their journey. The Hellah interview really put a smile on my face. Going plant based dropped my cholesterol 60 points AFTER being on a statin for over 20 years. Obviously a lot of weight loss took place. As an aside, when I think about eating something with a lot of oil or fat (but vegan) I can hear your dad in my head yelling at me to drop those oils. I need to hear that given my history with heart disease. Keep up the good work.

Rip! Yesterday I wad reflecting on my (almost) three year journey of going WFPB and losing 26kg. The road has not always been perfect but I’ve stuck to primarily plants! You have been such a constant through it all. I remember when I first started the journey and was doing daily walks, I searched for a podcast about plants to keep me learning and convinced it was the right choice. You popped up and I’ve listened to you every week since. Thank you for turning op week after week and bringing such amazing and inspirational guests to us. I’ve become aware of so many people doing the same as us through you! Thank you from the bottom of my heart…you’ll never know how your show has helped me keep going to become PLANTSTRONG!!!

With all the episodes now available, I have no shortage of interesting experts and/or success stories to listen to while I’m taking my daily exercise walk. I have been plant based for about 7 years. My journey started when I first saw FOK. I will be 80 years old next July (2023). I’m a retired M.D. Radiologist who graduated medical school in 1969 and completed a two-year Cardiovascular Radiology Fellowship, as well as an Internal Medicine internship (back when they still had them), and then worked in out-patient settings for 40 more years while raising 4 children. What I noticed over those 40 years was how obesity and so many chronic diseases and cancer, as well as heart disease, were becoming more and more common. Diseases I rarely or never saw in medical school and post-graduate years were becoming more and more common. And everybody was getting fat!!! My husband was choosing what to watch on TV one night, and he picked Fed Up, which led to Forks Over Knives. It was a Eureka moment! That was the answer: The Standard American Diet. We began our journey into becoming plantstrong, and it continues to this day. My husband and I are active and on no Rx meds. Both of us have signs of coronary artery disease, he with a 65-80% focal narrowing in the LAD, for which we refused an emergency stent because he was asymptomatic, and me with a calcium score of about 367 with calcification of all three coronary arteries. I am also asymptomatic. I’m in a conditioning class every Friday morning with my granddaughter and about 8 guys in their 40’s-50’s. I found a Primary Care Physician in our area, Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine, and we see her once a year. It looks like my husband and I will have a nice long retirement together.

II look forward each week to a new topic and have learned so much about a plant based lifestyle. You and your family are rockstars. I have to listen to some episodes on repeat as I go through them so fast. Thx again for your expertise and knowledge - I look forward to continuing the journey. Cheers

The episodes in this podcast are so inspiring and motivating. Rip and the guests speak with honesty and sincerity. I can’t get enough. Thank you so very much.

I love your podcasts Rip! Thank you & your family for sharing and inspiring us all to have a healthier life. Today’s podcast was amazing! I will be reading this Dr. B’s book as soon as I can get my hands on it. Hard to find words that sum up how grateful I am for your inspiration and your families work!

I have been listening to Rip’s podcastS since the very beginning and just today, I listened to his podcast with his dad, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. I genuinely LIKED just how much of his personal life that he shared on that podcast. I am presently 70 years old and have been eating totally VEGEN since July of 2018 even though I experienced a STROKE that was NOT from my diet but from a rapid heartbeat that later surgery transformed my heartbeat to a normal rhythm. I have been taking a blood thinner since November of 2018 when I experienced my stroke and it is good. Except for the fact that blood thinners, for me make me cold during the warmest weather while my wife is hot and enlists on turning on the air conditioning while I am wearing my cold weather Champion Sweatshirts and Sweatpants. I am OK with no longer eating Meat, Poultry, Pork, Dairy, Eggs, Cottage Cheese, Cheese, and Butter. I LOVE the dishes that I make with Pinto Beans, Black Beans, Kidney Beans, Chickpeas, Mung Beans, as well as Barley, Purple Barley, Sorghum, Millet, Quinoa, and Chia Seeds. I also love my peanut butter on Organic Apples and Organic Celery. I do need to thank Costco for their many sources of Organic Fruits and Organic Vegetables! And the most important Kitchen Device in my home is the 6 Quart INSTAPOT which will turn out the foods in between 20 minutes and. 45 minutes. So I just want to really thank Rip for doing a wonderful job with his podcasts as well as his food which I have ordered.

This podcast is seriously one of the best podcasts I have ever listened to! I have become fully plant based after listening to these episodes! I just started in May 2022 but I have gone back and are listening to them in order 😊😊

Wonderful information! Thank you for your podcast!

Thank you for your podcast 🌺

I had the pleasure of meeting Rip at an immersion event this year. I love this podcast because it keeps me inspired and I always learn so much. The enthusiasm Rip brings to plant based eating is so contagious! He makes veganism cool!

This podcast keeps me on track to stay healthy. I met Rip in 2011, did the 28 day challenge, dropped my cholesterol by 50 and haven’t looked back! I love all the different guests and learning about new cooking techniques and different ways to stay plant strong. Shane’s tofu scramble is the best one I’ve tried! Thank you for the inspiration!

Over the past few months, I have listened to every episode of your podcast, a few I listened to twice. The guests were all great and Rip is a wonderful host. I have been vegan for 17 years, but have really been embracing a more whole food way eating over the past couple of years. I have bought many of the books from the guests and have some on my wish list. I have read yours and your father’s book, as well as many other icons over the years. I have enjoyed many of the Plant Strong products ( using your pizza crust and sauce tonight for dinner) and have learned of some new products. My favorite is the Nutramilk, which my husband just got me for my birthday and I absolutely love it. I hope to someday make it to one of the Plant Strong retreats. I have worked in the Health and Wellness industry my entire career, but recently became a Certified Health Coach and also received my Plant Based Nutrition Certificate from ecornell. I hope I can inspire a few folks just as you and many of your guests have. Thank you so much for being here and I look forward to more podcasts.

By far one of my most favorite podcasts! But would you please stop calling me a pineapple or a papaya? And have you noticed that your sign off at the end of the podcast makes most of your guests squirm in their seats? Other than my small quirks, keep up the great work!

I’ve listened to EVERY episode and absolutely love everything I’ve learned here! My plant based journey began in January 2020, just before the pandemic, and while many people gained weight the past two years….going plant based helped me LOSE 50 pounds! I had been a pescatarian for the past 30 years and giving up dairy and fish and processed junk food really helped me shed the pounds. Thank you Rip for everything you do to promote this healthy way of eating! I’ve gotten off my statins and my reflux meds and my doc lowered the dosage of my thyroid meds. Listening to this podcast has turned me onto so many other great podcasts. What an amazing journey - Thanks!

The only thing that would make this podcast better is if you put the newest episodes on top so I don’t have to scroll around to find the newest episodes. I’m the owner of a business called VegeCooking that teaches, not just about plant-based cooking and lifestyle, but about positive mindset and joy. I’m constantly listening to podcasts centered on food and nutrition to enhance my knowledge of the benefits of this lifestyle to share with my students and clients. I love Rip’s passion and open and honest dialog with interviewees. He has a genuine interest in learning more about people’s perspectives on this lifestyle and how we can grow this movement faster - together. There’s a LOT of talk about the science in simple and easy to understand terms. This podcast is like a book I can’t put down.

I’ve been binging this podcast the last couple weeks. I like it a lot. I like Rip and his family. I don’t think any of his episodes are bad, but I’m not always a fan of his guests. However, I don’t think any of his guests are bad… I just particularly like the topic of the show. My favorite episodes are the ones with doctors, scientists, cooks, athletes, nutritionists, etc. I’m not really into the motivational stuff, the getting in shape stories, or the addiction stuff. His interviews with his dad are always good.

Rip always has interesting guests who give good information on the whys and how’s to live the plant based lifestyle. Highly recommended.

Unlike some in the vegan or plant-based space, Rip is down-to-earth and so approachable, especially in his desire to make Plantstrong a simple choice. You don’t need to be fancy to be healthy and that resonates.

I love information about healthy eating. But this podcast tends to perpetuate the myth that any condition can be cured by diet. We all know that heart disease diabetes and hypertension are diet related. That does not mean that everything is related to diet.

Hey Rip! Your Plantstrong podcast is my new favorite! You (and your family) have such a way about you. There’s so much love and compassion and ease when it comes to the relationship between you guys AND all of your relationships with food! I was vegan from 2016- 2018 (had a super healthy vegan pregnancy and birth in that time) and I am finding my way back. I stopped due to feeling unincluded so much. Hearing your firemen friends story about his journey and that he’s also alone within his fire house and even his family, makes me feel like I’m not alone and that I CAN do this. And I’m going back to how I love to eat, I can inspire others as I did before. Even when I did go back to not vegan (only ate chicken and eggs) I would barely eat all of my chicken or just a little egg because I really didn’t enjoy it. Plus, I feel so bad for the animals suffered lives. Anyway, thank you for the work you do and presenting this podcast in the lovely way you do!

I am vegan and a lifelong exercise/health nut, but Rip’s podcast and his words constantly find a way to inspire me every single time. Thank you Rip for helping so many people every day.

PLANTSTRONG rocks and this podcast is a must-listen for those of us who are making the transition to a plant-strong life or who need the kick to keep on going. I want to be Rip when I grow up!

Thanks so much for all your podcast brings to my life. The guests are always interesting and their life lessons are impactful. You, Plantstrong, your father’s book, your mom and sister’s YouTube channel (simply hilarious), all bring different things, joyous things to my life and I appreciate all that you do! I hope to attend one of your retreats in the future. Keep up the great work!

I have truly enjoyed this podcast! So much great information!

This podcast made me lose 21 pounds, treated my blood pressure, neck pain, back pain, GERD, decreased my heart disease and cancer risk, kept me motivated to exercise, kept me on track for my whole food plant based diet. Now I don’t take a ton of medicine. This podcast informed me that there is a specialty called: Lifestyle Medicine.