Featuring Dr. Laurie Marbas: Conversations with Lee Fulkerson

Dr. Marbas and Lee Fulkerson discuss how and why she came to use plant based nutrition in her medical practice and the high rate of success she’s had in doing so.  She reveals how and why she switched to a plant based diet and the beneficial affect the change had on her.  She also discusses starting a highly successful Lifestyle Medicine Program at Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, built around a plant based diet, the initial resistance she faced to this idea from the hospital’s administrators and other MD’s and how she overcame that resistance.

Laurie Marbas MD is a family physician in Western Colorado.  For the last 4 years she’s been using whole foods plant based nutrition in her practice.  She also founded a Lifestyle Medicine Program at Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, built around a plant based diet.