Change your life in two weeks

A whole-food plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle will help improve your energy, sleep, and mood by reducing your weight and inflammation and lowering your blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose levels. Working with your medical provider, you may find that you can reduce your medications and lower your odds of having cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes. A healthier you is just a Jumpstart away—without counting calories or restricting portion size!

The short answer is: Yes! Many chronic diseases—including cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and type 2 diabetes—respond well to the Jumpstart diet. These are all part of an interconnected disease state known as metabolic syndrome. There is also growing evidence that a whole-food plant-based diet can also prevent or slow the progression of cancer and auto-immune disease, and can preserve brain health.

The Jumpstart Program diet adheres to Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD of the Cleveland Clinic to reverse heart disease in his patients, but its positive impacts extend far beyond heart disease.

If possible, you should take Jumpstart with the involvement of your medical provider, especially if you are on any medications.

If you do not have a medical provider, or do not have one that will support you during Jumpstart, please email us at info@roclifemed.org. We work with Love.Life Telehealth physicians that can support you: https://love.life/telehealth/

With your consent, after you complete the program, we will send your medical provider a results report, so they can continue to support you on your WFPB lifestyle journey.

Nothing in Jumpstart will go against doctor’s orders, so you should continue taking your medications. We recommend that you tell your physician or PCP that you are taking Jumpstart, so he or she can monitor any changes you may experience, and can taper dosages of your medications if necessary. For example, medication for high blood pressure and diabetes or pre-diabetes, as well as blood thinners, may need to be adjusted during Jumpstart.

If you are taking one of these drugs, Jumpstart will dovetail with your efforts and help you lose weight and stay healthy. If you are considering one of these drugs, you should know that a whole-food plant-based diet parallels the beneficial effects of these drugs, by inducing satiety and helping you reach a healthy set point in terms of what you eat and how much you weigh.

Each day of the Jumpstart program offers new resources to support your Very Low Fat Whole-Food Plant-Based journey. You'll have access to a wealth of information about how food impacts human health, you'll receive recipes, watch cooking demonstrations, and get daily emails with specific information about the hows and whys of taking on this challenge. Most importantly, you'll have the ability to interact with our facilitators and fellow Jumpstart participants, so you're supported in this process.

Jumpstart participants get extensive support during Jumpstart and beyond!

Jumpstart provides:
Interaction with medical providers, health coaches, and fellow participants

A 40-page Jumpstart Guide, which is your roadmap to whole-food plant-based living after Jumpstart!

Daily encouraging and informative emails with links to useful resources

Inclusion in the secure learning management system and online forum called Pale Blue Dot Community.

After Jumpstart the journey continues! Jumpstart alumni get extensive, ongoing support, including:
Monthly Alumni Group meetings

You will be following a low-fat whole-food plant-based diet which consists of beans, grains, vegetables and fruit; and excludes animal products, bottled oils, and most processed foods (except condiments). We provide you with shopping lists and recipes, and show you how to prepare delicious, nutritious, and satisfying meals and snacks using those food groups. We’ll guide you so you can eat out at restaurants and with friends and family. You can continue to drink coffee and tea; if you use cream or sugar, we explain how to use a small amount of natural sweetener and plant milk.

The best part is: no restrictions on the amount of healthy food, no measuring or weighing food, no calorie counting, and no macronutrient (carbs, protein, fat) tracking! Eat until you are satisfied, just eat what is Jumpstart-friendly.

You will learn all you need to know when you take Jumpstart!

The Jumpstart diet is whole-food plant-based (WFPB) which means it is made up of whole plant foods. Oil, which is extracted from food leaving behind the fiber and other nutrients, is not a whole food. It is high in calories and low in bulk, so it readily promotes obesity which is a risk factor for chronic disease. Oil is inflammatory, which also increases the risk of chronic disease. For these reasons, we ask you to cook and prepare food without oil, and we show you how to do it! 

The Jumpstart diet isn’t just WFPB, it is Very Low-Fat WFPB or VLF WFPB and excludes high-fat plant foods like nuts, avocados and olives, for the greatest health benefit. Most people add back those foods in moderation after Jumpstart.

We recommend no more than a half-drink a day (1/2 glass wine, 1/2 bottle or can of beer, or one light beer).

Coffee and tea, whether or not caffeinated, are allowed. A small amount of natural sweetener and plant milk can be added. We exclude juices and sweetened beverages. Details will be in your Jumpstart Guide.

Yes, but… Jumpstart asks you to follow a very low-fat, whole-food plant-based (VLF WFPB) diet. This diet is made up of beans, whole grains, vegetables and fruit; it excludes all animal products (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk and cheese); excludes most processed foods; and excludes high-fat plant foods (nuts, most seeds, coconut, avocado, olives, and all oils). Jumpstart is a vegan diet, but it’s an especially healthy one. So, for example, if you are considering a restaurant menu item or a packaged food, it’s not enough to know that it is vegan: you also want it to be made of whole-food ingredients and, for the duration of Jumpstart, want it to be very low in fat and to exclude high-fat plant foods and oil.

We offer our programs on a pay-it-forward pricing model. We welcome qualifying medical students, residents, and interns with limited financial resources to take it for our lowest price point, and medical providers may pay whatever they feel their financial circumstances allow for.

Qualifying health care professionals can take the 15-Day Jumpstart program and receive 10 CMEs for doing so.

Qualifying requirements and registration instructions for medical professionals are here.

You can retake the Live Jumpstart program within 12 months of completion FOR FREE if you:

• Attended at least 5 of the 7 live sessions

• Completed the Jumpstart Pre-Day 1 Questionnaire

• Completed the Pre-Day 1 Health and *Lab Data Questionnaire

• Completed the Jumpstart Day 15 Questionnaire

• Completed the Day 15 Health and *Lab Data Questionnaire
  
  We highly recommend getting both pre- and post- program
  lab work done so you can see the changes that occur in just 15 days.