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If I told you that there was a simple ingredient you could add to your meals every day, that would not only help your cells clear out the garbage, but also help you to drop pounds and not feel as hungry. Wouldn't you want to try it? You're going to love this strategy, because it's also going to make your food taste amazing, and it's very inexpensive too. Join us for this episode. We're going to tell you all about it. Hey sister, welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do?

Speaker 1: 0:49

Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food. We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers the traditional route. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods, and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started.

Speaker 2: 1:39

Welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. We are thrilled to have you here. If this is your first time, welcome to the family. We seriously mean that. Welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. We are thrilled to have you here. If this is your first time, welcome to the family. We seriously mean that. Welcome to the family. If you've been a longtime supporter or listener, we want you to know we appreciate you. We appreciate you joining us each and every episode. Now, today, we have this mystery ingredient, if you will, this mystery substance.

Speaker 1: 2:04

Well, you don't even know what it is yet I know it's going to taste good.

Speaker 2: 2:08

Before we get into it, though, have you ever had something in your possession that you've had it for a while, you know how you use it and then, all of a sudden, you learn some of these other things that it does, that you had no idea, and it made that item even more amazing? The only example I can really come up with concretely would be a phone, so if you have an iPhone and I'm sure I probably use maybe 1% of what that thing can do they're always coming out with new apps on it or new elements within the operating system. I hear of something different. I think I had no idea it could even do that. When did they put that into the operating system? Well, today's mystery ingredient is kind of like that. Would you like to tell them what it is?

Speaker 1: 2:51

I would. But I just want to add one thing, because you're going to hear some of these researchy episodes coming your way, because, if you don't know it, jared is a researcher and this is something you need to know about him, because we don't bring you anything that we haven't done the research on for ourselves, for our clients and for you, because the most important thing is that you know that this is backed by more than just hey, we tried and it worked for us. That's great. It's great to have somebody who can say to you I've used this, I've done it, it's worked. It's even better if you have somebody like us who can say to you we've both used this, we've done it, it's worked. It works for all four of our children. It works for Jared's clinical patients that he sees in that capacity. It works for our clients that we're working with inside Power on Plants. It just works. But then, on top of that, if you have a man who's dedicated his life to research, who loves it, who's worked in the field himself, who knows how it works, how to look at a study and is it reliable, is it not? Jared has a cellular molecular biology degree. He's worked in research at Medical University of South Carolina.

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You may not have known that about him, because he enjoys it. He loves it. He's a science guy. He's a biblical guy, but he's a science guy, so we love it when these things come together and make us feel great and allow us to do all these things that God has planted in our hearts and in our minds that we just don't feel good enough to do because we don't understand what we need to be eating on a regular basis. But we know because we've been there. I've been sick, I've been exhausted, I've been to the point where my body would not do the things I needed it to do on a daily basis. I was exhausted, we were both overweight. We've lost over 70 pounds and we've learned along the way how to look at the research and then put into practice those things that can be so simple, like what we're going to be sharing with you today. This one ingredient that you can add to your life, that research shows and that we've seen in our own lives will help you to accomplish many amazing things in your life, and we're going to tell you what those things are as well.

Speaker 1: 5:01

But that one ingredient we're talking about today is apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar. Very inexpensive, a natural product, it's going to boost the flavors in your food. It takes you seconds to add it and, once you learn, to add it to some of the staple dishes that you use on a regular basis, like your dressings, or just directly onto your salads or into your stir fries. It is going to bring you plant based joy, because you're going to feel so much better in your body. You're going to get the results that Jared's going to be sharing with you, and so let's go over and talk to research guy and find out. What does the research tell us about this amazing ingredient that we may be missing out on because we just don't understand the importance? Maybe you do eat it, but you eat it once a week. Why should you be getting it every single day and how much should you be eating?

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Well, first because it's yummy.

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Who can argue with that logic?

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But you touched on a few of those elements in the intro for the podcast today what we know with acetic acid, which is the primary component of apple cider vinegar. Now we use predominantly apple cider vinegar, but there are some other vinegars that have acetic acid itself in it. Now white vinegar is also acetic acid, but that's manufactured. We pretty much stay away from that one. We use it for cleaning, but not for cooking or any kind of personal purposes. We use just the naturally fermented vinegars, predominantly apple cider vinegar. We may have some other ones.

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Balsamic pomegranate.

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But all of these contain acetic acid because they are products of fermentation. Now what are some of the health benefits? Well, suppression of appetite, kickstart your metabolism and it even helps with insulin sensitivity, which could potentially even help with diabetes. So, going back to my molecular biology roots, I was looking into some of the studies and what I found was very interesting. What they have found with acetic acid is that it helps to stimulate the release of an enzyme that is called AMP-activated protein kinase. Now what does that mean for you? Probably not a whole lot, but what it does is it helps to mimic a calorie-restricted state in our bodies. So this would be like fasting Fasting can also help to create some of these benefits or exercising, like exercising at a moderate or vigorous intensity for an hour or two, which these are all very good things. However, if we can mimic some of this on a daily basis with a simple addition of vinegar, why wouldn't we want to?

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And your food tastes great.

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Get your exercise, but add some vinegar as well. What we know is that when this particular enzyme is activated, it will cause your body to use fat as an energy source and it also encourages autophagy. Now, what is autophagy? Anita mentioned this in the intro about clearing up cellular debris. When our cells have a time of plenty, when we have an abundance of food, the cells will make different things, but sometimes they don't always come out the way that you want. So, as you're making proteins, if they fold up in wrong ways and they're not really what the cell intended, instead of clearing those away, they kind of push them off in the corner.

Speaker 2: 8:20

But when times are lean, the cell says what garbage do we have around here that we don't really need? That maybe we could recycle, because we don't have the food like we normally would. So we need to conserve a little bit here. So it starts to clear out that cellular debris, that cellular garbage, which is very important for maintaining healthy cell function. You could do that again with exercise. Research shows that fasting for 24 to 48 hours can stimulate that. That's not necessarily the best way to go.

Speaker 1: 8:51

Or you could eat something delicious. A very small amount of it. Get it onto your food, make your plant-based dishes taste amazing and get all these incredible benefits the increased weight loss. You'll feel better because the garbage is getting cleared out, and all these other things that Jared's talked about. Just by getting a little bit of apple cider vinegar into your day. It's kind of a no-brainer.

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It doesn't take much, really. All you need is about two tablespoons a day. Now, we don't encourage you to drink it straight. You would want to put it in food, put it in a sauce, sprinkle it on your salad.

Speaker 2: 9:27

Now, touching on the weight loss aspect, there was a study that was conducted where they followed people for a 12-week length of time. They had a control group and a test group and with the control group they were able to simulate something that tasted like vinegar but was not actually acetic acid. And this is important because you want a control group whenever you're doing a study, because you don't want them to know who has what. Because if somebody says, hey, this food doesn't taste like vinegar and I'm supposed to be testing vinegar, then they're going to know. But in this study they were able to conduct it for 12 weeks and what they found is that people lost about five to six pounds of weight by adding the vinegar.

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Now you may think, jared, five or six pounds has been really not going to make that big of a difference In this population. They actually lost about an inch off their waist, but the significance here is that there was no change otherwise in what they were eating. Everybody in the group continued to eat exactly the same way. It's just in the test group they actually had the vinegar. In the control group they had what they thought might have been vinegar because it tasted the same, but yet they did see about a five to six pound difference, doing nothing else.

Speaker 1: 10:36

So wrap your mind around that for a second. It's one simple change that you can make daily, very simple to do. Once you get in the habit of it, you won't even think about it. But you could drop five pounds in just 12 weeks with no side effects, not having to restrict yourself, not having to count calories or numbers. And this is just one of the many things that we teach on how to lose weight. Feel better, clear out the cellular garbage, get your energy back and get your life back. Do it. You have nothing to lose except pounds and low energy and everything to gain.

Speaker 1: 11:18

Start getting vinegar on your salads, in your dressings, in your sauces. My pop barbecue sauce has vinegar in it. You can grab that recipe at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook. It's in our first cookbook volume. That's at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook. Now get it into your stir fries. This is one of the simplest ways you can add apple cider vinegar to your life, besides drizzling it over veggies cooked or grilled or raw in your bowl which is how I love my veggies the most Just drizzle it on there, two tablespoons a day.

Speaker 2: 11:55

Now, if you're not used to using vinegar, it may be a stronger flavor, but I guarantee after a while you're going to love it, You're going to crave it.

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Even before we were plant-based. I'm going to tell a secret of what we used to do. Even before we had kids, when we would eat salad Jared would make the most delicious salad and really it was what all did you put in it? I mean, mostly it was just a mixture of lettuces.

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It might have had some carrots, Carrots tomato, cucumber kind of the standard stuff.

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Like a side salad, but he would fill this gigantor bowl and we would sit and watch a show and we would just sit there together and share this huge bowl of salad. It was when we did eat some oil, so he would put a little oil on it and then he would just load it up with vinegar and Italian seasoning. Now we do the same thing, except we add stick to your ribs ingredients to our salads. If you don't know how to do that, get inside our free group podcast insiders experience and search stick to your ribs or just ribs. It's going to pull up a ton of times.

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I talk about how do you make salads stick to your ribs? How do you make food stick to your ribs? You don't want to make a plain salad, like what we just talked about, all the time and expect it to fill you up or for you to stay satisfied and full. You've got to get those ingredients in there that make you feel amazing, that give you prolonged energy throughout your day. But getting the vinegar in there even before we were plant-based, we started eating some of it and you get to almost where you crave vinegar, because it's one of those stronger flavors that makes your food incredibly enjoyable.

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I think about my favorite. Okay, I'm going to tell them myself here. I had a chicken and steak marinade that I used to use, and we do similar things now. I've changed it up and it tastes very similar, but it was called Best Chicken and Steak Marinade. Jared's got a huge smile on his face right now because he always used to joke about I had this cookbook that I made and I would print out all my favorite family recipes or things that I would make up back then when I was writing recipes for us that weren't plant-based, and every one of them almost. We noticed one day we went through it and almost all of them were called best.

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Best or ultimate. Mom's best, the best, and so it was the best superlatives like what's better than awesomest, most best recipe and it's so funny, but we loved it even then.

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It was in the steak marinade, so chicken marinade. So when you make vegetables and you get them on your grill, are you not marinating those? If not, why not? If your vegetables aren't going on your grill, if not, why not? But if you're making a marinade for your vegetables and it doesn't have vinegar in it and you've heard this episode you have the perfect reasons to start getting some apple cider vinegar into your marinades. It is absolutely wonderful.

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The only thing I want to tell you is, if you're going to cook a potato, I recommend not adding the vinegar until after the potatoes are done, because I have found over time and these are the kind of tips I love to share with you when you come into our programs, when you become a Power on Plants insider don't add the vinegar to your potatoes until after they're cooked, because it can take them a lot longer to cook and you feel like, is this potato ever going to get done? So add your vinegar after the fact to the cooked things. When you're doing stir fries and stuff, it doesn't matter as much. But then also get it on your raw ingredients. Eat more raw, eat more vinegar. Watch the pounds fall off. You may think oh Anita, you know five pounds, jared, are you kidding me?

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But that was doing nothing else.

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Nothing else.

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What if you make other changes and do other tips and strategies that we share with you, how those can add up.

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This is exactly how we lost 70 pounds without even trying. We just found a new way to eat that we absolutely love, because it's simple, enjoyable and it tastes amazing. And we don't miss our old things, because we share with you exactly how to eat so that you don't miss the old stuff. You don't need cheat days and all of a sudden you're free to live life. Live life not just because you feel better, but because you don't have to be psycho about food. I'm just going to say it. Let's just deal with the elephant in the room here. Sometimes we feel like we have to diet to get healthy, and then you're dieting and you're crazy about your diet. So you're dining out somewhere with friends or they're eating at your house and you can't even think about your relationship because you're just thinking about the food. It's so important that you get to the place where food becomes a resource and not your source, and that is exactly what I'm going to be showing you how to do inside our course. I cannot wait to share these things with you, but until then, you have tons of ways to get started. There is no reason for you to wait to get on the path to plant-based living. We have much, much more that we want to teach you that. We don't have nearly enough time to show you on the podcast, but I promise you, if you will get yourself inside Podcast Insider's Experience and you start searching through the platform, there's a little magnifying button down in the lower right-hand corner. Press it and type in any search term, anything you want to know about, there's going to be enough to get you started right there. If you will just take action on one thing don't listen to every episode on that thing. Listen to one thing and do the one thing, it's going to make all the difference for you. The two tablespoons of vinegar that's what you're going to add right now. Two tablespoons a day. It's not hard, it's super easy to do. And once you have that habit, you're going to add another and another and you'll be dropping weight like game busters. Again, we lost over 70 pounds doing this, and that is what we're passionate about showing you how to do, not just losing weight. It's not just about losing the pounds. It's about reversing disease, all the diseases that come with the weight.

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What if being overweight is not an issue for you? Sometimes being overweight is not an issue. We didn't even know it was an issue for us, but it was Clearly if our bodies dropped 70 pounds, it was an issue. But what we find is with our clients who are underweight or just malnourished and struggling with different health problems, that doctors can't seem to find the answer for so many times. When you start eating this way, your body then will gain the weight that you need when you're getting the nutrients that you need. So it works both ways If you're overweight, you'll drop the weight. If you're undernourished or malnourished, you start gaining back the weight that you need because your body now has the nutrients that it needs. And it works perfectly because that is how God has designed it to work. It's intentionally built into these foods according to Genesis 129. Grab out your Bibles and check it out for yourself. It's there. It's been there all along. Why have we not seen this?

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Daniel go to Daniel. How did Daniel eat? When he wanted to feel his best, when he wanted to be the strongest? He knew that if he would eat the way he knew Genesis feel his best when he wanted to be the strongest, he knew that if he would eat the way he knew Genesis 129, by the way, he might not have known it by those verse numbers. Okay, those were added later.

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Let's just talk about the reality of that. He knew the word, he knew the word and so he knew and it had been passed down from generation to generation to eat this way. This is how we were created to eat. This is how we thrive the best. So this is how he ate. This is how God showed him how to eat. And guess what happens? He becomes the strongest. He does the best.

Speaker 1: 19:24

It's like Jared says how do the strongest animals in the world? How are they getting their nutrition? They're eating these whole plant foods, and when you know how to add things onto those whole plant foods that are natural, this naturally would have happened out in nature. Things would have fermented, they would have developed some vinegar and things like that. This would have happened over time. We know that fermented products are healthy.

Speaker 1: 19:50

Don't go to the store and buy pickles and think you're getting your vinegar that you need. Lots of times they add in white vinegar, and white vinegar is not the healthiest thing for you to be eating. There are companies that make pickles that have natural fermented vinegar in them that has living microbes in there that are also beneficial. We didn't even talk about that or go into fermentation, but these things are amazing for you.

Speaker 1: 20:20

So find the way to get these whole plant foods that you're going to taste great, but also give you these benefits on top of it, and your goal this week is to get two tablespoons of vinegar each day into your food. Let us know how you have added vinegar to your life. What's a simple way that you've added it, and maybe you want to know what are some more simple ways I can add it. How are you guys enjoying vinegar? Share with each other what you're doing, how you like to eat vinegar best and before long, you can let go of all those things that keep you in bondage to food and you can start living your life and let food become a resource that's going to power you literally power your body. Well, have a great week, sunshine, and we'll see you soon. Thank you.