Plants First: A Catered Book Club Luncheon at a Book Club Member's Private Home. This event is for anybody interested in meeting the book's author Dr. Katie Takayasu and enjoying the coordinating food following the Plants First approach. Following the book members will get to enjoy a catered lunch. The book suggests 80 percent of one's diet should be plant based, the remainder can be whatever your heart desires. Event capacity is limited. We kindly ask that you adhere to good Covid safe practices. 

Registration Closed. Event is sold out.  

Have you heard that a plant-forward lifestyle is better for you, but you don’t know why you should make plant-based foods a bigger part of your diet? Or maybe you understand the why, but you’ve had trouble figuring out how to improve your vegetable intake.

In Plants First, Dr. Katie Takayasu helps you understand the reasons for prioritizing plant-powered foods to clean up the hormonal cascades that cause cravings and leave you feeling sick and tired. She offers approachable science lessons that explain how a plant-forward diet can correct issues like inflammation and hormonal imbalances to help your body find its healthy weight and experience more restorative sleep.

Katherine Wehri Takayasu, M.D., M.B.A. practices Integrative Medicine combining traditional Western medicine with acupuncture, mind-body medicine, botanicals, nutrition, and lifestyle optimization. She’s an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian and teaches the next generation of doctors about healing the whole patient mind, body, and spirit. For her own wellbeing, Dr. Katie practices what she preaches by engaging in regular yoga and meditation. She lives with her husband and sons in Connecticut. Visit www.DrKatie.com to discover Dr. Katie’s Life Kitchen and on Instagram @DoctorKatie.