Plant Based Health Online
Vegan Business Tribe talks to Dr Laura Freeman about going from GP to starting her own vegan health business
Lisa Fox talks to Laura about how a cancer diagnosis sparked her own personal vegan journey, which led her to use her doctor’s skillset to launch the business Plant Based Health Online.
Your own vegan journey began when you were diagnosed with cancer.
How did such a huge life-changing moment lead to you investigate plant-based eating?
I was 12 weeks pregnant with my second child, Sadie, when a routine check-up uncovered a lump in my neck and I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. After Sadie was born, I had an operation to have the tumour removed and thankfully the surgeon found that it had not spread. Despite having a healthy weight and active lifestyle, my blood tests before the surgery showed my cholesterol levels were double what they should be. This made me question my diet at the time, as well as the advice I’d been giving my patients. I launched myself into the scientific research that linked the benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet with cancer risk reduction, treating high cholesterol and so many other health benefits.