Lauren Plunkett is a registered dietitian living with type 1 diabetes. She's also the newest addition to the WellStart care team - and we couldn't be more pleased or delighted!
Lauren is a dynamo of positive energy, and a shining example of the power of lifestyle to enhance quality of life.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 11, Lauren struggled for years to feel good and have the energy to do what she wanted to do. She went on a mission to learn everything she could about nutrition and health.
Once she discovered plant-based nutrition, she knew she had found the key to thriving with diabetes: reducing insulin resistance.
An approach which, while completely scientifically validated, put her at odds with the current diabetes education paradigm of carb counting and carbo-phobia.
We discussed her journey, her work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and her mission to "become the teacher [she] never had."
Oh, and also her profound aversion to pudding.