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Plant-Powered Performance for Purpose-Driven Leaders
You could serve 10x more people if you had the stamina. You know it, your team knows it, and God knows it.
Here's what nobody's saying out loud: You've built a high-level business running on fumes. You teach discipline to thousands but secretly can't control your own fork. You're crushing it on stage with a body that's quietly falling apart backstage, and the brain fog that cost you that deal last week? The exhaustion that made you cancel again? Every single "I don't feel good" day is someone who needed your breakthrough but didn't get it because your body tapped out early.
Your body is the bottleneck to your calling, while you're watching your peers decline at your age. Some already dropped out, but you refuse to be next. Your parents got sick when they hit your years, but you’re determined that will NOT be your story. If you've thought, "I know how to scale, but my body won't fully back me up," you’re in the right place.
Jarrod and Anita Roussel have spent nearly 5 decades in healthcare working with kingdom leaders like you who have big God-given vision while their bodies keep breaking down. Here's what they learned: You don't need another diet, because diets don’t provide sustainable results. What you need is your body to finally cooperate with all that God has called you to do.
That's why they created the 5-Step Accelerator Blueprint rooted in Scripture and whole plant foods, but here's the part that matters most: It actually works for people who don't have time for 3 hour meal prep or eating food that steals their joy. It’s time to escape the miserable attempts at health that involve calorie counting, obsessing over points at business dinners, and pulling out your phone to calculate macros when you should be building relationships and closing deals.
Welcome to the food that optimally fuels million-dollar decisions, meals you can make in hotels, energy that lasts through back-to-back stages, and a body that finally feels as strong as your calling.
Here's what you'll get every episode:
The energy to say YES to every God-given opportunity without wondering if you'll crash halfway through. Mental clarity for the decisions that actually move the needle. The stamina to show up strong when thousands are counting on you, no more barely “surviving” the day. We'll show you how to stop the inflammation that’s stealing your focus, reverse what you were told was "chronic," and know exactly what to eat without all the exhausting mental gymnastics that completely waste your brain power. You'll learn to make meals you love in minutes that actually taste incredible, get hours back for what grows your business, and watch your labs improve right alongside your income.
This isn't just about looking better in photos or fitting some ideal image. This is a movement of Kingdom leaders and entrepreneurs, banning together proclaiming to our enemy, “You can NOT steal my health anymore!” This is about finishing what God started in us, serving others and expanding God’s Kingdom together, and being the grandparent who runs with our grandkids instead of watching from the sideline. Having the stamina to fulfill our ENTIRE calling, not just the parts you have energy for left over after dragging through another exhausting day.
Your business has a ceiling right now, and your body set it. We're going to show you how to blow the roof off, breaking the generational health curse so your kids never have to fight this battle, and turn your body from the thing holding you back into the greatest business asset you have.
If you're done leaving Kingdom impact on the table because you're too tired to pick it up, hit subscribe and press play. Fuel Your Body. Fulfill Your Calling. This is Power On Plants.
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379: "What Do I Do?" The One Answer That Reverses Disease (Without Meds or Diets)
Your vision is crystal clear and your strategies are solid. You know exactly what to do to reach your goals, but your body will not cooperate...
Ring. Ring.
"My blood pressure keeps climbing. What do I do?"
"I'm pre-diabetic. What do I do?"
"My body feels exhausted all the time. What do I do?"
"My cholesterol is through the roof. What do I do?"
We get these desperate calls regularly from Kingdom leaders who've tried keto, paleo, a growing list of medications, abd seeing many providers. They've received a variety of diagnoses, but all have the same question...
“WHAT do I do?” Here's what breaks our hearts: there IS an answer but hardly anyone is sharing it.
In this episode, we're giving it to you. This is the ONE vehicle that consistently reverses "chronic" disease, eliminates brain fog, skyrockets energy, up-levels productivity, and transforms the body from your biggest hindrance into your secret productivity weapon!
Sound too simple? That's exactly what the enemy wants you to think! Because when you plug into God's original plan (the premium power fuel your body was designed to run on) your physical capacity finally starts matching the level of your calling. And he can't afford that!
We reveal why this method works for high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, and more (backed by decades of research). You’ll even discover why your providers often won't share it, even though they know it works.
This isn't another diet to “try.” It’s the original design.
Don’t miss this foundational episode, because it’s going to open your eyes in a big way. Then, join us next week as we knock down the very reasons you think you can't do it, and why it’s seemed so hard before. Here’s the reality: A healthy person has a thousand dreams, but a sick person has only one.
What if your body became your secret weapon instead of what's holding you back? Discover how to flip exhaustion into unstoppable energy. Listen now.
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You aren't meant to live just 60 or 70 years with half of it being on pills and being stuck on a couch. Your body is capable of living a hundred plus years, vital years, where you are out and you are active and you're contributing. You're not stuck inside, you're not stuck on oxygen, and you're not just stuck with those that you love having to take care of you for years and years. These foods seem like they're a miracle cure, but no, they're the premium fuel we were always meant to have. So when we've had substandard fuel, welcome to the Power on Plants Podcast, home of the purpose-driven men and women who refuse to let their body become the bottleneck to their God-given calling.
SPEAKER_01:If you're building a business, raising up the next generation, and carrying vision, but behind the scenes your energy is fading, inflammation is rising, your labs aren't great, and you're wondering how much longer can I keep pushing like this? It's time to fix the fuel.
SPEAKER_00:You've accomplished a lot in life, so you know you don't have a discipline problem and you're not just getting older.
SPEAKER_01:Your body needs the strategy that matches your assignment. Whole plant foods the exciting, sustainable way that fuel razor shark focus, optimize energy, reverse inflammation, and the most common chronic diseases of our time. All while you enjoy every single bite.
SPEAKER_00:So if you're done feeling older than you are and you're ready to show up strong, think clearly, multiply your impact, and actually love the meals that move you to optimal health, you're exactly where you need to be.
SPEAKER_01:So grab your earbuds and let's maximize your power on plants. You're a purpose-driven leader with a calling that is not slowing down. And if you've ever felt exhausted by your body becoming the bottleneck in your business and in your other God-given dreams, you are in the right place. This is Power on Plants, the podcast where we make high performance health simple, enjoyable, and sustainable for the leaders who cannot afford to run out of strength. I'm Anita Roussel, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm Jared Roussel, a physician assistant, certified and lifestyle medicine.
SPEAKER_01:And in every single episode, we show you exactly how to fuel your body in the way it was perfectly designed to thrive so that inflammation naturally fades away and your energy rises. Your labs improve, your health struggles go, and your physical capacity can finally match the size of your calling without any exhausting dieting, restriction, or need for willpowering through. Because your calling requires the strong body that's completely able to back you up. This means you need to know the way to optimally fuel yourself in every situation, including the ones we're talking about today. But we know you're thinking, how in the world do I do that? There's so much confusing information out there about optimal nutrition. It's exhausting. And you're right, it is exhausting when you don't have the system to follow. That when you plug in, your body goes from being the bottleneck to your dreams to being your number one asset so that it finally is able to completely back you in fully living your calling. Naturally, no meds, no side effects, and no nasty tasting food. If you're like, well, what in the world? I just wish someone would walk with me through those exact steps of how to do that in the way that's exciting and enjoyable for me so that it would last. That's exactly what we do inside Accelerator. To learn more, go right now to poweronplants.com forward slash accelerator. Now, today we are going to help you start getting results because the very first step is that you have to know what's going to get you to your dream outcome, finally blowing the cap off your capacity and being able to show up as the limitless leader you are always meant to be, enjoying living in your full potential every day with 10 times the productivity, sharp mental clarity, endless ideas and inspiration, and finally being able to fully show up and serve those who need you most without your body holding you back. So the first thing you need to know is, well, what in the world is the big picture answer here? What is the vehicle that's going to take me to this destination that I keep dreaming of? The one we've just been dreaming about together. Because I feel like I've tried it all. Our heart goes out to you, not only because we've been there before, but because our phones ring on the regular when people hit that wall. That or else the emails start flooding in, or the patients book their appointments. And at that point of their desperation, they all have one question: What do I do? Ring ring.
SPEAKER_00:Hello?
SPEAKER_01:Jared? Jared, this is Sally. Hey Sally, what's going on? I just don't know what to do. My doctor said my blood pressure keeps going higher and higher. He's wanting to put me on medication soon. He's warned me that that's what's gonna happen. My blood pressure keeps trending this way, and I don't want to go on those medicines. I know they make you feel bad, and I just don't want to have to be on medicine for the rest of my life. What do I do? Ring ring. Hello?
SPEAKER_00:Anita.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, this is Jim.
SPEAKER_01:Hey Jim, how are you?
SPEAKER_00:Uh I'll be honest, Anita, I'm getting kind of worried. I just had a physical exam recently and they did the lab work, you know, the typical stuff that they do. And they said that my cholesterol is starting to go through the roof. It's getting higher. He wants to start me on medications. My sister Becky went on that stuff and it wrecked her. She complained about how her muscles and her joints ached. I really don't want to do that. Can you help me out? What do I do? Ring ring. Hello, this is Jared.
SPEAKER_01:Hey Jared, this is Susie. I need your help. I just went to the doctor and I'm freaking out a little bit because he just told me I'm pre-diabetic. My A1C is 6.1. I've just been feeling off lately. And he's talking about starting me on medications and I might be getting type 2 diabetes. I mean, that tends to run in my family. Maybe I should consider that it's a thing. You know, maybe it's just my genetics, maybe it's just my age. I don't know. I'm freaking out. What do I do? And we could continue playing this game that breaks our heart all day long. It's not just these diagnoses. This happens with autoimmune diseases, various ones. We get calls about IBS and Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis and unexplained things like headaches. And I've been going to my doctor and getting scans, and they're doing all these tests, and I'm not getting answers, and I'm Googling my symptoms, and this is so scary and frustrating. I have extreme low energy all the time. I have all this weight that I'm struggling and I cannot lose. Seriously, I have tried every single diet known to man. I've done so much nutrition research. I ought to have a degree by now. This is exhausting. What do I do? Now I know it may sound like snake oil, but you have to understand that all these things that we've just mentioned have been tied to nutrition. It is lifestyle related. Yes, there can be some other things at play here, but what we know is that genes can be turned on and off by our lifestyle. And then when we share the answer, that is so simple. People feel like there's no way this can work for all those things. Now we're not going to go into the why in this episode of why it's true and why this isn't snake oil and why it does work for so many things, because we see it on repeat. Literally, we're the people that worked with our clients for years helping them manage results. And today we are so happy because we're helping our clients and our friends actually reverse those same diseases on the regular.
SPEAKER_00:If we went through all the science of how all these different conditions get better, we would make the Jerry Lewis telethon seem like a little 30-minute sitcom.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my word.
SPEAKER_00:We could go on forever. We just dated us.
SPEAKER_01:You just dated us again, the Jerry Lewis telethon.
SPEAKER_00:I well, you know, I I don't know that I ever made it fully through the entire thing, but there were a couple times I stayed up pretty late. But really, the uh amount of research is so expansive, so extensive that this is well-treaded territory. We know that we know this, but we're not being taught that in our medical institutions or out in society as a whole. And this is why we're so passionate.
SPEAKER_01:Right. And the providers, a lot of times they don't even know it. And we just talked about this recently. You need to go back and listen to all the episodes because we recently talked about how a lot of providers do know it, but they're not sharing because they've been convinced that you won't do it, even if they share it. So they feel like they're wasting their time and they have a lot of people on their list to see today. And it's not that they don't care about you, they just feel like you're not going to do it. So that in other words, they're making the decision for you that you should be able to make, but you can't make it because you have not been fully informed. So the one thing we want you to walk away with today is the answer to the question, what should I do? And this is the thing that we know works. And it works for a lot of things, so many different things. If you want to know why it works for so many things, we want you to go back and listen to episode number 376. If this were a pill, it would be malpractice not to offer it. Now I want you to wrap your mind around that for a minute. If what we're talking about today was a pill and we didn't offer it to you, we could be sued for malpractice. Okay. This is why we are so passionate about getting this information into your hands. So the question today is, what do I do? What is the vehicle? What is the thing, Jared and Anita, that if I got you on the phone and I called you up with a what do I do? You could confidently tell me that the majority of the time this is going to work without negative side effects and with positive side effects because God has packaged these things in such a way that this is the vehicle that brings about results. And that is eat whole plant foods. And if you really want results, go all in. Now I know what you're thinking. What in the world are you talking about right now? I can never do that because. And you have a bunch of reasons. Well, we know what the reasons are that you think you can't do it. And every one of those can be easily knocked over like a little domino that's standing in the way of you living your dreams. And we're going to talk about those next week. But today we want to dive a bit deeper with you because it's really important for you to understand that this is the vehicle. Whole plant foods are the car that if you get into it and plug into it, are going to change your life. It is going to blow your mind when you learn how to make this simple and enjoyable so that you're excited about it and it actually lasts. You don't have to push yourself through. It's not another diet. People see it as, oh, well, this is the diet I'm going to try now. Well, that's a big part of the problem of why it doesn't work for a lot of people. But what Jared and I were talking about just now before we started recording the podcast, that I want to share with you is this revelation that he had that is blowing my mind because as believers, we all have this common enemy that wants to keep us stuck. And there's nothing new under the sun. He does it in the same old ways over and over again. He wants to steal from you, kill you, completely destroy you. And therefore, he's going to use any means necessary to do that. And there's a big way that he does this around our help because you have to think about this. If you have a diagnosis that you're struggling with regularly, or maybe you haven't even been diagnosed yet, you just have the symptoms you're dealing with, and you're spending all your time trying to figure out what is the diagnosis? What is going on with my body? Why can it not just show up and do all the things that I want it to do? And so the problem is we have this enemy and he's telling us things that just aren't true. And Jared had a revelation about what one of these things is that happens that keeps us stuck on the regular.
SPEAKER_00:Well, the enemy's most potent weapon is deception. For all of us, he gets us believing lies that are not true. So we've come to believe that what we see in our culture, these 60 and 70 year lifespans, are normal. They're not normal.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So we think when we reach that old age, we think, hey, we've done great. You know, if I just make it to 75, if I could just make it to that age, I'm doing pretty good.
SPEAKER_00:That you're afterwards living on borrowed time. And in addition to a 70-year lifespan, we've been conditioned to believe because we've seen our parents, our great-grandparents go through this whole pattern that I'm going to start having disease in my 30s, 40s. Oh, I'm getting old. I have high blood pressure. That's just what happens.
SPEAKER_01:Think about that. So these false thoughts have been put into your head through society by the enemy. So now you're walking around thinking, oh, this is just normal. Oh, I'm and you say it. Think about the words you say. Start noticing what you say. Start noticing what the people around you are saying. Oh, I have blah. Oh, I am a diabetic. Oh, I am a whatever. Oh, I have this thing. And so we start living into it. Or here's the one we hear all the time. Oh, you know how it is when you get older. Oh, you just, you know how it is when you hit your 30s. You know how it is when you hit your 40s.
SPEAKER_00:Anita and I are 54, and I find it hilarious whenever someone hits early 30s saying, I'm just getting older. My blood pressure, last time I checked it, was 96 over 64. That is normal as you get older when you're eating the way that we eat. Societies that eat that way, their blood pressure goes down. But what we see in our culture, that as people get older, they see things like high blood pressure. Is that normal? Well, it's normal if you keep doing the things that our society is doing and eating the standard American diet. So, yes, and we see it with our parents, but you were talking about being conditioned. We see it in movies, we see it in magazine articles, it's in everything.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. And I know they're probably thinking, oh, Anita's probably trying to hide something because she didn't say her blood pressure. Maybe her blood pressure is high. No, it's not. No, it's not. The last time I checked it, mine was so low, people were probably like, what in the world? It was lower than Jared's.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it was lower than mine.
SPEAKER_01:And I don't feel lightheaded. I don't have any problems. It's not dangerously low, but it is the normal. Your blood pressure should go down as you age, not up. That is normal. This is why we make mindset the first thing that we go through in accelerator. It's not some woo-woo, oh, you got to change your mindset and get it right so you feel good in your spirit. No, it's like we have believed lies from the enemy and we swallowed them hook, line, and sinker. And now we're walking around and he's dragging us through all these different situations because we have believed and swallowed the lies. And so when you can have your eyes open to what the lies are that you believe that are keeping you stuck, all of a sudden you're free from those lies. Now you have to immediately, and this is a biblical principle, replace the lies with the truth. Okay, well, if this isn't true, then what is? What does God's word say? What does the research say that also aligns with God's word? Okay, now we've got that down. Now we're filled with the truth. Now we're being led around by something totally different. All of a sudden, like Jared's saying, the scales fall off your eyes. Now you're seeing clearly. Now you start to see all these things you never saw and noticed before, these truths that set you free. And one by one, the dominoes come down of why I can't do this. Because the enemy wants you to think eating whole plant foods is hard. You can't do it. Why? Because it is the vehicle. And if he can keep you in the wrong vehicle, you're headed for the wall and you're headed there fast, tires flaming, car spinning out of control. That's just the situation. And it happens in so many different diagnoses. And we know that these foods help to prevent and even reverse the most common diseases of our time. Let me repeat that. The most common chronic, and I'm doing air quotes, diseases of our time. Because when you get these diagnoses, and believe me, I've sat in the office, I've been the patient receiving the news, you're going to have this for the rest of your life. So you take that on, you're like, okay, I'm going to have this for the rest of my life. And here's the steroid you're going to be on. Oh, great. So I'm going to be taking the steroid for the rest of my life. And you swallow the hook and you swallow the line and you swallow the sinker, and you think that is your fate.
SPEAKER_00:Or it might be a biologic agent that suppresses your immune system. And it may work in the short term, but what's the long-term effect? We're always just thinking about okay, my current symptoms are gone, but we don't ever think what's the long-term ramification. Well, I can tell you with whole plant foods, none. There are no long-term ramifications. Except for really good ones.
SPEAKER_01:But here's but here's the thing. I think about what is the long-term ramification from the enemy standpoint because he's sitting there thinking, if I can get them to swallow this hook, line, and sinker, like I've been so successful at doing in the past, then the long-term ramification for them is that they are in bondage. They are not free to fully live their God-given calling. They will never reach their full potential. And therefore, his kingdom come through their life will not happen. So for him, it is about preventing your purpose in this world from coming to completion, the kingdom expansion that God wants to have through your life. And we're allowing him to do it because we keep trying all these man-made ways that just don't work. They're exhausting. They come with these side effects that in the end cause more destruction. Where, like Jared's saying, these foods, whole plant foods, when you eat them, they have a lot of the things that you're taking that are man-made. Okay. So they naturally either have in them or create things in our body that are the same, actually not the same, they're better than the medications, because the medications are fake and they're trying to mimic these things that are actually in our body that cause us to become healthy. We're going to give you some upcoming examples of that in future podcast episodes, such as with GLP1, but we're not going to go there today. But this is how the enemy keeps us stuck. And so now there are things that can actually help us in the whole plant foods. Like Jared's saying, they don't come with the side effects, but they also come with a load of benefits. So again, the enemy's ultimate desire is to stop God's kingdom from coming into your life. That's one of the main desires we're supposed to have because God's desire is to have you here living in right relationship with Him, expanding His kingdom on this earth because He wants everyone to live in freedom. And that freedom can be found through you and your ministry, but not if you're living sick and half dead through the majority of your life.
SPEAKER_00:And it's like we always say a healthy person has a thousand dreams, but a sick person has only one.
SPEAKER_01:And do you know what that dream is? That one dream?
SPEAKER_00:They just want to get better.
SPEAKER_01:I just want to feel good. I just want to get better. I just want to stop wasting all my time at these doctor's appointments. I just want to know what's going on with my body. So they can't. I just wish someone would tell me what to do. It's the same call we get. What do I do? Anita, Jared, it cannot be this simple. You're telling me, huh, this sounds crazy. Like you're telling me if I start eating whole plant foods, a lot of my symptoms are probably going to go away. Yeah, that's exactly what we're telling you. It really is just that simple. It's the enemy's ways that are complicated. It's the dieting. It's the keeping up with the points. It's all these reasons why you think you can't do it because of all the miserable things that you've gone through during your life that people have told you were the answer that have kept you stuck and in bondage so that you cannot live your mission.
SPEAKER_00:And you do these methods and you think, okay, I want this result. I can do these methods. I can do this. But you never think about when you're using that time to do all this stuff, what are you not doing? What is being displaced by all these man-made ways that you're not doing? You're not able to spend time meditating on the Lord's word. You're not able to have these creative ideas because you're too distracted with these other things that just should not be. They don't have to be.
SPEAKER_01:They still are time, they still are joy, and ultimately they still are will to live. Like who wants to do these methods for the rest of their life? And that's why they don't work. You know, you get to the end and you're exhausted. But we're going to go more in the next podcast episode into why do we think we can't eat whole plant foods? Why do we think it can't work? What are all the reasons that are keeping you from going all in and how they can easily be dealt with once you know the truth? Friend, we care about you. We are genuinely here to support you in your journey because this for us is not about helping some person get well. Yes, we want you well. Yes, we care about that. But by being here at Power Implants, you are a part of a movement. This is something so much bigger than one person getting well. This is the family of those who are uniting together in truth to take back their health, to say to the devil, no more. You will not steal from me, you will not kill me or destroy me. I will live and not die and proclaim the word of the Lord. We stand together in truth, we learn the simple ways to do things, and we escape the complicated ones. And we only can do that by knowing what the word says and how does that align with reliable research that has been there for years. And then you're going to start saying, Why has someone not told me this before? Where has this been all my life? But that only happens when you have the system because it's not just whole plant foods. In our society, we've been hijacked. So much so that we don't even know how to eat whole plant foods and make them enjoyable so that they work in our life. You don't have to worry. We're going to show you how to do that. But today, walk away with hope, knowing there is an answer. This situation that I'm currently in does not have to be my future. I found my family. I found my people. I'm going to learn how to harness the power of these foods so that my body goes from being the main bottleneck in my business and my mission in life to being my number one physical asset so that together we can bring his kingdom to this earth by living our God-given mission that we were always meant to fulfill.
SPEAKER_00:And just know this you aren't meant to live just 60 or 70 years with half of it being on pills and being stuck on a couch. Your body is capable of living a hundred plus years, vital years, where you are out and you are active and you're contributing. You're not stuck inside, you're not stuck on oxygen, and you're not just stuck with those that you love having to take care of you for years and years. These foods seem like they're a miracle cure, but no, they're the premium fuel we were always meant to have. So when we've had substandard fuel, that's when those diseases took place. But if we go back to the premium fuel, our body starts becoming the finely tuned race car that God made them to be to live out an amazing life.
SPEAKER_01:So I think what you're trying to say here is this is the original plan. And it's really hard to beat the original.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. Especially God's original.
SPEAKER_01:Can I get an amen? Woo-woo.
SPEAKER_00:Amen.
SPEAKER_01:So whole plant foods are the vehicle that are going to fully and optimally power your body literally well. We see it on the regular. This is not the exception to the rule. The lies that we've been convinced are true are the exception. This is where the blinders start to fall off. This is where truth becomes your reality. Next week, we're going to talk about some of the reasons that you think you can't do this. In other words, we're going to unpack more lies of the enemy that are keeping you stuck so your vision becomes 2020 and your body can start fully powering you to live your mission. Know that you are loved, you are prayed for. Things are going to get better. You are on the path to becoming the limitless leader you were created to be.
