Jen Schmidt
Jennifer is a Registered Nurse with a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from e-Cornell and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. She is a Licensed Food For Life Instructor with the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Working as a nurse on a medical-surgical unit has allowed her to see, firsthand, the devastating effects of chronic disease on the human body- the pain, the adverse effects of medications, the lives interrupted, the tears, the unhappiness, the despair, death, and loss of quality of life.
While there is certainly a need for the mainstream medical system and the lifesaving work done there, for the chronically ill, we are often just slapping a bandaid over their symptoms of disease and sending them out the door with more medications, only for them to return some time later, often time and time again, without ever addressing the root cause.
Diet.
The answer is in the foods we choose to put into our bodies at every meal. Vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and legumes have incredible powers in building, protecting, and healing the human body. This is the real medicine we should be utilizing and educating everyone on to stop disease in its tracks, reverse the progression, cure by addressing the root cause, and prevent it from ever even existing.
Jennifer quickly realized that this is how she would choose to do her work as a nurse, educating people on how to be successful in transitioning to a whole food plant-based lifestyle. Everyone deserves a life free from suffering and disease. Jennifer is living out her passion in educating others on the innumerable benefits of this lifestyle for personal health, the future of our planet, and compassion for our fellow beings.