Vani Hari
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539 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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Yeah, the whole center of the grocery store.
So, you know, I continued working on in the corporate world. And I remember having this really terrible boss. And he was so bad that I started not being able to sleep at night. I started to get very fearful of, you know, just going to work. And it was becoming an issue. He was very aggressive. And in the way he acted, in the way he not only managed his employees, but treated me in general.
It was very misogynistic, if you will. And so I started to feel like kind of this this situation where I suddenly just stopped sleeping. So I went to the doctor and I just remember this moment because I sat in her, you know, she was my internist and I sat on the table and I told her, I was like, you know, I just can't sleep. I have a lot of stress at work.
And she just asked me like kind of what's happening. And she goes, oh, okay, this is what you need. You need Ambien, you need Xanax, and you need, starts with a C, it's an antidepressant. It starts with a C, I can't remember the name of it. And I said, wait a minute, like really? Like these, you want me to take these three drugs? And I was so trusting.
of my doctor and so trusting of the medical system that I took those drugs to get through that time period when she should have just been saying, hey, Vonnie, why don't you quit your job? You're 25 years old. Like, why don't you quit your job, right? Why don't you go look for another job? You don't need to take this mistreatment from this dude because you're making a big paycheck.
Like, go find another job, right? But this is kind of where I think the rubber meets the road for me when I was going through that period, because that's really where my... Symbalta? Symbalta. That's it. Thank you. I was like, it starts with a C. Symbalta, yeah. And... It was around that time where I said, I don't need to be on these drugs.
They were, first of all, making me completely numb and crazy, right? I suddenly was laying on the couch all day not doing anything, right? And it was that moment that I just said, you know, these drugs aren't for me. I need to get off these drugs, but I don't know how to do it. I found a integrative psychiatrist that also practices acupuncture, and she helped me get off of it.
And I started learning about natural foods, and I started learning about real food. And I started learning about food in a way that I had never known before in terms of
I started looking at ingredient labels of things that I had been eating most of my life, and I became horrified because I realized that they were man-made chemicals invented for one sole purpose, which was to improve the bottom line of the food industry, not improve my health. And so I was eating this like science experiment. No wonder I didn't feel good, right?
And I'd gained the weight and ended up in the hospital with appendicitis, but also didn't even have any other mechanism to get through a stressful time. The only option I was given from my doctor was here you go is, you know, all of these different, you know, brain altering medications.
And it wasn't until I made the connection that you can actually get through stressful times through meditation, through sleeping well, through, you know, eating well, from getting off of processed foods that actually make it very hard to think clearly.
And as soon as I changed my diet from a processed food diet to a real food diet, things from earth, basic meats, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, when I did that, everything changed. I lost all the weight. I went off nine prescription drugs.
I started to look completely different to the point where my friends and my family around me couldn't believe the remarkable transformation to the point where one of my aunts joked with one of my cousins, did she have some work done? How long did that take? It took a period of two to three years. Yeah, two to three years. And a lot of trial and error, too.
Of, oh, I thought this was healthy and this isn't. And there were so many time periods where I wouldn't eat a McDonald's hamburger anymore, but I'd go to Subway because it was, quote unquote, eat fresh, right? And then I found out Subway's bread had close to 50 ingredients, an ingredient in there called azodicarbonamide that you find in yoga mats and shoe rubber.
And they don't use it in single- They can be good if you prepare them properly. You know, they don't use it in Singapore and Europe and Australia and everywhere else, but they use it here in the United States. Like, what is this chemical doing in our bread?
Fundamentally for the food companies, it makes them more money because it's cheaper to use a chemical additive made from petroleum or coal tar or some other substance than to eat real food. And the reason why it's cheaper for them to do that is because it doesn't break down over time.
Yeah. I mean, it's economics because it allows them to keep that bread there longer at every subway around the block, right? It allows them to have that uniformity of that product as well, which is what fast food tends to do, which is you want that same product every single time and you want it to taste the same every single time, no matter who's making it.
Yeah, yeah. And so then I couldn't shut up about everything that I was learning.
So I started a blog and I wanted to call it eathealthyliveforever.com. And my husband, who's the tech geek in the family, thought that was a terrible name. And so he said, he found on auction a few minutes later, Food Babe for $10. And at first I didn't want to call it Food Babe because it felt kind of foreign. I didn't feel like a food babe for most of my life.
But I said, why don't we teach people to become a food babe? Like how to be a food babe.
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