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Increasing Alpha Gal syndrome has special requirements. How will Rouxbe Rx & the plant based chef programming reflect this increasing health concern?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on August 11, 2026

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Dyana Robenalt

Increasing Alpha Gal syndrome has special requirements. How will Rouxbe Rx & the plant based chef programming reflect this increasing health concern?

Answer

So alpha-gal syndrome, I'm not a doctor, I'm a chef, but from my understanding of it, you can't eat certain meats after having alpha-gal syndrome. It's typically, I believe- From ticks, but I'm not 1,000% sure around that. But basically, it makes it a syndrome, so you can't ingest heme and different meats from all kinds of different animals. So the Rouxbe RX and the Plant-Based Chef Program are perfect for you if that's what you're going through or you're recommending it to somebody else, because they're completely plant-based courses. So it'll show you how to replace different things, doing meat substitutes for things. So a great way to be able to help convert into a plant-based lifestyle. So yeah, you're right on target there looking at Rouxbe RX. Plant-Based Programming, Plants Protocol is another one of those that's actually a great program specifically looking at health and plant-based living.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.