{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Level Healing","title":"She Helps Elite Athletes Fuel Their Bodies. Her Advice for the Rest of Us May Surprise You | Julia Furlipa","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3022,"description":"What if feeling stronger, having more energy, and getting healthier didn’t start with eating less—but with eating more of the right foods? Today’s guest helps fuel elite athletes, and her approach might change the way you think about taking care of yourself.\nJulia Furlipa, plant-based nutritionist, wellness coach, author of The 7+ Lifestyle, and founder of Best Life By You, joins Dr. Tara Perry to challenge the most common assumption people make about getting healthy: that it requires eating less, cutting things out, and white-knuckling through willpower.\nJulia is the nutritionist to two NBA championship-winning Knicks players, a plant-based power athlete known as the Pull-Up Princess, and a coach who has helped clients lose over 40 pounds, reverse infertility diagnoses, and reclaim energy they thought was gone forever — all by adding, never subtracting. She turned a deeply personal experience with illness and loss at 15 into a career dedicated to helping others find the version of health that actually works for their real life.\nKEY TAKEAWAYS\n04:31 At 15, Julia watched her mother survive colon cancer and walk away with no nutritional guidance — doctors said she was fine and sent her home unchanged. That gap is what drove Julia into this work.\n 08:45 Most people stay stuck in learned eating behaviors from childhood not because they don’t want to change, but because no one has invited them to unlearn them.\n 16:28 Two books — Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr and How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger — read back to back in December 2019 turned Julia fully plant-based overnight. She says her energy went from here to somewhere entirely different.\n21:34 Julia’s first NBA client came to her through a series of four interviews — with the team dietician, the sports department, the chef, and the player’s family. Her passion for plant-based nutrition is what sealed it. They’ve since won a championship.\n27:09 Every coaching engagement starts with a why that’s strong enough to hold...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Dwahqt2n08i5n4UlpAN3zUyPHRFf7UB8y_jjfsjWGeg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNTZj/MjUxY2IzMGQzZDAz/MDAwNzZmMzg3ODFl/ZGRhOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}