BONUS: Your Doctor Needs to Hear This — A Vital Signs Preview

BONUS: Your Doctor Needs to Hear This — A Vital Signs Preview

June 16, 2026 · 48 min · Season 4

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Rip Esselstyn shares a preview of the Vital Signs conference aimed at empowering healthcare providers with knowledge about whole-food, plant-based nutrition.

In this special episode, Rip shares a preview of Vital Signs: Real Food. Real Medicine. Real Change. , Plant Strong’s upcoming CME-focused conference for healthcare providers who want to bring the power of whole-food, plant-based nutrition into real-world clinical care. This is not just another conference. Vital Signs is about helping doctors, nurses, dietitians, health coaches, and medical professionals build confidence in the evidence so they can walk into the exam room and talk about food with clarity, conviction, and hope. And here’s why that matters: most providers see roughly 1,000 patients a year. Each of those patients eats three meals a day. That means every provider we reach with this message has the potential to influence nearly one million meals. One million meals. That is the power of changing the confidence of one healthcare provider. That is the power of putting real food, real evidence, and real tools into the hands of the people patients already trust. In this preview, Rip begins with the gap in medical education: providers receive thousands of hours of training in diagnosing, prescribing, and managing disease, yet most are taught very little about food as a…

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