Feeling stuck when it comes to your health and fitness?
Between work, family, and life, it's hard to find the time — not to mention the energy and motivation — to prioritize your health. And as the years creep along, the youthfulness and vibrancy of your younger years can feel impossible to reclaim.
Well, there's some good news. The latest fitness and longevity research points to a few lifestyle tweaks that can propel major changes to your health, no matter where you are today.
This year, our partner Complement is presenting Plantapalooza: Fit Over 40, where they're dedicating eight days to helping you understand the nutrition, fitness, and mindset practices that will help you feel your best for years to come.
Check out the online festival here and read more about 4 of their incredible line-up of plant-based doctors, registered dietitians, bestselling authors, fitness experts, and meditation specialists who will share their life-changing health secrets and strategies for improved energy, mobility, strength, and wellness.
1. Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
Cyrus is the co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green and is an internationally recognized nutrition and fitness coach who has been living with Type 1 diabetes since 2002. He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat plant-based nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.
2. Dotsie Bausch
The plant powered cyclist pours her passion into compassionate missions to change and save lives. She was featured in the groundbreaking Netflix documentary The Game Changers and has always been an advocate for plant based diets for athletes. Founder of the nonprofit Switch4Good, Dotsie is on a mission to educate professional and amateur athletes along with the general public about the health and performance benefits of removing dairy from their diets.
3. Rip Esselstyn
Coming from a family of strong health activists, Rip is a food writer, former firefighter and triathlete. He is known as an advocate of low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet. A "plant strong" diet, as he likes to call it because it is! He too was featured in The Game Changers and Forks Over Knives. To document his success with Austin’s Engine 2 Firehouse, he wrote "The Engine 2 Diet", which shows the indisputable connection between a plant-based diet and good health.
4. Dr. Poonam Desai
Meet Dr. Poonam Desai, an emergency medicine physician passionate about helping individuals optimize their health and embrace longevity. Witnessing the increasing prevalence of preventable diseases and the toll of aging on individuals' vitality, she felt compelled to take action and start Longevity Place, a practice centered on the belief that true healing requires personalized attention and a holistic approach.
Those are just a few of the 20+ experts sharing their insights and strategies to help you thrive.
Achieving new levels of mental and physical fitness later in life is well within reach when you have the right plan and resources. So make sure to check out the online festival here.
