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Derek Simnett

Derek Simnett makes Simnett Nutrition videos about vegan meals, plant-based nutrition and building strength, bringing fans into his kitchen, workouts and everyday life.

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Overview

Known as: Simnett Nutrition
Work: YouTube creator, recipe author and Certified Nutritional Practitioner
Plant-based since: 2011
Started: Founded Simnett Nutrition in 2015
Early reach: Almost 250,000 YouTube subscribers by his January 2019 interview with Sonya Looney

Mini bio

How it started.

Derek traces his move to a whole-food, plant-based diet to 2011. In a 2018 interview, he said reading his then-girlfriend’s holistic nutrition textbooks prompted him to reduce animal products. He later founded Simnett Nutrition in 2015 and began sharing videos alongside his work in nutrition.

From running to strength.

He was a lean runner when he became a nutritionist. Questions about whether vegans could build muscle pushed him to experiment with calisthenics, weights and meals made from everyday ingredients. His own training food became the foundation of Easy Vegan Muscle Meals.

Finding his audience.

By January 2019, Sonya Looney introduced him to her podcast audience as a creator with almost 250,000 YouTube subscribers. His mix of recipes, workouts and daily eating videos has continued, alongside Easy Vegan Comfort Meals and, in 2026, six weeks of Easy Vegan Meal Plans.

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Recipe books and meal plans

Interviews and collaborations

2026The Carnivore Diet Has a HUGE Problem (New Research)Host, with guest Dr. Matthew Nagra
2023Fit Rich Life, episode 66Guest
2019How to Build Muscle On a Vegan Diet with Derek SimnettGuest on The Sonya Looney Show

Quotes

My health and my connection to nature are integral to my wellbeing.Derek Simnett, The Health and Entrepreneur Mindset

In a June 2018 interview about calisthenics, food and his priorities in life.

Trivia

His interest in calisthenics began with stopping during trail runs to do pull-ups on tree branches, according to his 2018 interview.
In that interview, he described a home pull-up bar as the next step in his calisthenics journey.
Smoothie bowls were his regular post-workout meal in 2018 and appeared again in his July 2026 day-of-eating video.