The Melanin Wellness Podcast: Holistic Health and Healing for Black Women’s Wellness · Cori Dunn

Men’s Nutrition 101: What’s Really on Your Plate? w/ Coach Kev Ramon

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For me it started with the Bible study—I was lost, grew up without a dad, and my mom was just a provider.

Kori opens the show by marking Men’s Health Month and setting up a month of daily health content for brothers. Coach Kev Ramon comes on as a guest with a long arc behind him. His story runs from addiction and incarceration to fruititarian eating, holistic health coaching, and truth-telling. The conversation starts with 30 seconds of gratitude. Kev says he is grateful for the journey that brought him to who he is now. He treats his past as part of the process, not wasted time. From there, the talk moves straight into food and illness. Kev says he started changing when he began reading labels. He urges people to learn what they are putting into their bodies. He pushes back on the idea that people can trust the system to look out for their best interests. He argues that profit comes first and that healthy people do not need the same products and treatments. The language stays plain and unsparing. He connects processed food, chemicals, and disease in a way that is meant to wake people up. Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses come up as part of that larger warning. He says many people treat suffering as normal when it is not. He describes those outcomes as the result of poisoning the body over time. He also says the evidence is right there on the package if people will read it. That leads him to the habit of removing foods one by one. He says he never found anything made by man that made sense for him to eat. He describes those foods as artificial and dead. Fruit becomes the turning point. He says it was not even something he had seriously considered as adult food until it entered his life later. The exchange stays loose and conversational, with Kev sometimes talking himself through the answer as he goes. Kori keeps the room warm and receptive while the message stays centered on health, truth, and responsibility. The episode closes with a direct appeal to brothers to honor their bodies and speak their truth.

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A direct, lived-in health conversation that turns food labels into a question of survival.

This episode follows a health turn with plainspoken force, moving from addiction and incarceration into label reading, food scrutiny, and the slow grind of change.

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If you want a blunt, heartfelt wake-up call about what you are putting in your body, press play.

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