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The Microdose Diet with Peggy Van de Plassche

You can feel great and Peggy will show you how! Peggy speaks about personal transformation, mental health, psychedelics and all things related to self-actualization. She tried everything she is talking about and candidly shares her experience so you can speed-up and augment your transformation process.A former banker and venture capitalist, Peggy spent twenty years in the financial services and technology industries, as an executive, investor, board member and entrepreneur.In 2022, her decade-long personal healing journey had led her to leave her successful banking career to focus full-time on public speaking and writing, sharing her story of personal transformation with a wide audience. She is the author of “Paris, Mushrooms, and Me”, a memoir on her experience with microdosing psychedelics. Peggy interacts weekly with her +15k followers on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Substack.She is no stranger to reinvention. Plagued by high levels of anxiety and phobias since childhood, Peggy grew up in low-income housing in an industrial area of the North of France being raised by a struggling single mother.In her mid-twenties she immigrated to Canada to rediscover herself and now lives in Toronto, with her husband Maxim and their two cats, Twinkle and Bastet.She is an avid tennis player, yoga practitioner, reader and writer. She loves to travel and eat (not cook though!).She is passionate about animal welfare and supports multiple charities, as a volunteer and donor, such as AVA Cats, The Wild Animal Sanctuary, Ladybird Animal Sanctuary and the Toronto Humane Society.

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The Microdose Diet with Peggy Van de Plassche

🥼 Improving Healthcare with Alternative Medicines

October 03, 2023 • Peggy • Season 1 • Episode 41

👩‍⚕️ How to Combine Alternative Therapies with Mainstream Healthcare for better results

I wrote and spoke quite a bit about my doubts regarding the healthcare system in North-America and Europe. My cynicism is mostly due to the massive conflicts of interest and incoherence existing in the space, making patients’ best interest, more often than not, an after-though. If you want to see an extreme example of that dynamic I recommend the drama Painkiller which explores America's opioid epidemic.

Regardless of this very dire state of affairs, medical professionals still hold clout with most patients. This is why the power of the white coat could and should be harnessed to put back patients’ health and wellness at the center of the equation. Health workers may not be able to change the systemic flaws of the healthcare machine but they can use their considerable influence on the people they care for to maximize their chances of recovery.

From the placebo effect, to psychedelics, tapping meditation, autosuggestion, NLP, and visualization, medical professionals have an array of alternative medicines at their disposal that they are not using enough, or at all, to help their patients heal better and faster. Considering the power of their authority it is a missed opportunity for everyone. Below are some of the tools that could easily be incorporated to improve the results of our healthcare system. And great news for the taxpayers, they are free or cheap💸

I strongly believe in the value of Western Medicine, despite its focus on disease versus health, its incoherence, its massive conflicts of interest and its difficulty of access in North-America (yes, including Canada). However, we, patients, shouldn’t have to choose between alternative and mainstream medicines. One could easily augment the other, improving results and reducing costs. Today, patients (and medical professionals) interested in alternative options are left to their own device to research, train, and access therapies that could provide them with relied and healing. This is not the way to go.

We all agree that our minds are very powerful, so let’s make the most of them in a strategic and beneficial way for every last one of us!!

😎 About The Microdose Diet

I'm Peggy Van de Plassche, a former banker and VC with 20 years in financial services and technology. "The Microdose Diet" combines alternative medicines like microdosing psilocybin for personal and professional growth.

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