Mendel Krashunsky
Meaningful People
Food Addiction, Obesity & the Lies We Tell Ourselves | Mendel Krashunsky
- Published
- August 8, 2026
- Duration
- 58:59
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 23, 2026
Discusses self improvement, religion.
Summary
Mendel Krashunsky is the founder of the Frum Health Club, a worldwide movement pushing Yidden to finally take their health seriously. He opens up about losing his father, an oligarch who lived a life of total luxury, to a preventable illness at just 38 years old, and how the grief sent Mendel into his own spiral of emotional eating that left him 70 pounds…
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Mendel Krashunsky is the founder of the Frum Health Club, a worldwide movement pushing Yidden to finally take their health seriously. He opens up about losing his father, an oligarch who lived a life of total luxury, to a preventable illness at just 38 years old, and how the grief sent Mendel into his own spiral of emotional eating that left him 70 pounds overweight and battling GERD before he'd even turned 20. From there, Mendel and Nachi dig into why health gets treated as optional in frum lif
Themes
- self improvement
- religion