Summary: I cannot wait for you to hear this awesome interview with Dr. Irminne Van Dyken. As a general surgeon she describes how you can adopt a plant based diet to help avoid the scalpel. You learn about the links between nutrition and some of the most common cancers that are being treated in the surgery room -- and tips to reduce your chances of developing these cancers by adjusting what you eat. She was born in the Netherlands, immigrated as a child to the U.S., grew up in Montana, and went to Montana State University. She did her medical training, followed by a general surgery internship and residency, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Van Dyken, is a general and trauma surgeon at the Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii. She thoroughly enjoys her busy practice. It is especially rewarding for her to see the positive changes in her patients as they do a 180 and completely restructure their lives around plant-based living. In her spare time, Dr. Van Dyken loves yoga, photography, sailing, cycling and playing musical instruments including the guitar, ukulele and violin. She shares her life with her husband Russell, 14-year-old dog Chaucer and two cats. She has been vegetarian since she was 9 years old, and strictly plant-based since 2010. She has a passion for educating others and sharing the benefits of healthy plant based living. She and Russell created "Out of the Doldrums" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9qgv-QTihuFpxERmHvjYQ/featured) - a YouTube Channel and online presence promoting healthy, active, plant based living (on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/out_of_the_doldrums/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/outofthedoldrums/), Twitter (https://twitter.com/irminne?lang=en) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9qgv-QTihuFpxERmHvjYQ/featured) Thank you always for listening. Please leave us a 5 star rating wherever you listen. Do you need help with the whole food plant based diet? We have the answers you are looking for at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com
