Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Fit For Life At Any Age: Chef Babette Davis On Healing Addiction, Inflammation, And Poor Health

September 9
53 mins

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Episode Description

This bonus episode revisits Corinna's Nutrition Without Compromise conversation with Chef Babette Davis, who was interviewed on Care More Be Better as Episode 174 in February 2024, roughly 6 months after this BONUS episode was originally recorded and shared on Nutrition Without Compromise. In this episode, they discuss:

  • Babette's childhood: asthma, eczema, refined sugar and MSG addiction inherited from her mother's cooking
  • The rough road through her 20s and 30s, including a seven-month battle with crack cocaine
  • Meeting Randall in 1990: the Griffith Park run, her first vegan meal, and the two books that changed everything (Fit for Life and the Mucusless Diet Healing System)
  • Food combining principles and why "mucus" is about systemic inflammation, not just congestion
  • Honest talk on protein, B12, and omega-3s for plant-based eaters, plus personalizing nutrition through simple at-home testing
  • Building Stuff I Eat, Inglewood's first vegan restaurant, and her advocacy with Mercy for Animals
Notable quote: "All you have to do is have a little bit of knowledge of what foods to eat together that will eliminate so much of your indigestion." / "At 73 years old, I don't have to harm anyone to nourish myself."

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