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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:38,738 --> 00:00:40,874 The problem is there is no known cure 2 00:00:40,907 --> 00:00:42,275 and we probably won't even treat you 3 00:00:42,308 --> 00:00:43,543 because we have no hope. 4 00:00:43,576 --> 00:00:45,412 I don't think it's an accident 5 00:00:45,445 --> 00:00:46,713 that the information on this 6 00:00:46,746 --> 00:00:48,615 has been known for 15 or 20 years. 7 00:00:48,648 --> 00:00:50,784 They told my parents I was going to die. 8 00:00:50,817 --> 00:00:52,852 No one else should have died of heart disease. 9 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:55,622 We had the cure. We've had it for decades. 10 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:57,590 It's gonna take a radical shift in mindset. 11 00:00:57,624 --> 00:00:59,559 We can't blame doctors, 12 00:00:59,592 --> 00:01:01,161 they£re not trained in this field. 13 00:01:01,194 --> 00:01:02,595 You know, my genes have already set my destiny. 14 00:01:02,629 --> 00:01:03,897 What I thought I knew about 15 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,732 healthy eating almost killed me. 16 00:01:05,765 --> 00:01:07,700 Three fourths of what we suffer from in America 17 00:01:07,734 --> 00:01:10,136 is due to the food that we eat. 18 00:01:10,170 --> 00:01:12,539 It's not food to me, it's torture. 19 00:01:12,572 --> 00:01:13,873 I think we haven't really focused 20 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:16,142 on the quality of food that we take, 21 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:17,577 we're more interested in convenience. 22 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:19,179 Food is medicine. 23 00:01:19,212 --> 00:01:19,913 You got to put back into the earth 24 00:01:19,946 --> 00:01:21,281 in order to get back from it. 25 00:01:21,314 --> 00:01:23,817 Changing what I put into my body 26 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:25,318 can make me live longer. 27 00:01:25,351 --> 00:01:27,187 Why doesn't everybody know this? 28 00:01:42,969 --> 00:01:46,940 About 19 years ago, we were staying at the house, 29 00:01:46,973 --> 00:01:49,309 getting ready for Easter the night before, 30 00:01:49,342 --> 00:01:51,511 dyeing Easter eggs and making cookies 31 00:01:51,544 --> 00:01:53,413 and setting the table. 32 00:01:53,446 --> 00:01:58,451 And my father and my husband 33 00:01:59,486 --> 00:02:03,423 were watching television, this is hard for me, I'm sorry. 34 00:02:03,456 --> 00:02:05,492 And in the wee hours of the morning 35 00:02:05,525 --> 00:02:09,829 I heard my mom cry out that something was wrong. 36 00:02:09,863 --> 00:02:11,965 And we raced up to their bedroom 37 00:02:11,998 --> 00:02:14,701 and he was gone. 38 00:02:14,734 --> 00:02:18,304 He was 58 years old and he was gone. 39 00:02:25,411 --> 00:02:29,682 Everybody, everybody knows suffering, it's there. 40 00:02:29,716 --> 00:02:33,786 People are hurting and it's a tragedy 41 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:37,557 and it's important to me. 42 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:52,338 Good evening, the news hit around breakfast time 43 00:02:52,372 --> 00:02:53,907 as a lot of Americans were sitting down 44 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:56,309 in front of a plate of bacon or sausage. 45 00:02:56,342 --> 00:03:00,813 The obesity crisis is getting worse in America not better. 46 00:03:00,847 --> 00:03:03,550 We have to cut carbon pollution in our own countries 47 00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:05,919 to prevent the worst effects of climate change. 48 00:03:05,952 --> 00:03:07,654 This undercover video 49 00:03:07,687 --> 00:03:10,757 shows chickens being buried alive. 50 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:16,663 You want to tell the story dramatically 51 00:03:16,696 --> 00:03:19,032 and say you're in a hospital 52 00:03:19,065 --> 00:03:20,833 and decide to change your mind, you know. 53 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:25,505 And I don't believe anything anyone says in a hospital, 54 00:03:25,538 --> 00:03:28,007 on New Years Eve or during sex. 55 00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:30,276 Those three times 56 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:33,313 are all information is considered invalid. 57 00:03:33,346 --> 00:03:34,280 Everybody that goes to the hospital says, 58 00:03:34,314 --> 00:03:35,715 you know, from now on I'm gonna eat right, 59 00:03:35,748 --> 00:03:36,783 I'm gonna exercise, I'm gonna do all this, 60 00:03:36,816 --> 00:03:37,884 they're always lying. 61 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:40,553 They say the same three things actually during sex 62 00:03:40,587 --> 00:03:41,554 and on New Years Eve. 63 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:45,692 So I was in the hospital with bad hypertension 64 00:03:45,725 --> 00:03:50,330 and I did not make any promises to change my life. 65 00:03:50,363 --> 00:03:53,933 I would say I was probably 330 then, 66 00:03:53,967 --> 00:03:55,802 got to get your weight down to about 280 67 00:03:55,835 --> 00:03:59,305 where we can control your blood pressure with drugs. 68 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:01,808 And I said well it's 280 where I should get down to? 69 00:04:01,841 --> 00:04:05,478 And then he said this sentence that blew my mind. 70 00:04:05,511 --> 00:04:09,048 And it was the first time I'd ever something you know 71 00:04:09,082 --> 00:04:10,917 anybody watching this is very familiar with 72 00:04:10,950 --> 00:04:12,085 but I wasn't familiar with it. 73 00:04:12,118 --> 00:04:15,722 He said, "Well if you get your weight down to 220, 230 74 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:17,624 you probably wouldn't need drugs at all." 75 00:04:17,657 --> 00:04:20,059 And I said, "What! 76 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:22,095 I'd thought that my hypertension was genetic." 77 00:04:22,128 --> 00:04:23,630 He says, "Well it is." 78 00:04:23,663 --> 00:04:25,064 And I said, "Well no, 79 00:04:25,098 --> 00:04:28,034 you're telling me that the drugs that I'm taking are, 80 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:31,504 telling me these are fat guy drugs. 81 00:04:31,537 --> 00:04:33,106 I thought they were generic drugs." 82 00:04:33,139 --> 00:04:35,341 He said, "Well yes of course." 83 00:04:35,375 --> 00:04:36,843 I said, "Well it can't be both of course, 84 00:04:36,876 --> 00:04:38,578 you can't say it's genetic 85 00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:39,812 and yet if I get down to this weight 86 00:04:39,846 --> 00:04:41,347 I wouldn't have it." 87 00:04:41,381 --> 00:04:42,181 And that just bugged me, 88 00:04:42,215 --> 00:04:44,117 that just bugged me tremendously. 89 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:45,985 We are eating ourselves in the most overweight, 90 00:04:46,019 --> 00:04:47,353 obese population 91 00:04:47,387 --> 00:04:48,221 in the history of the human race. 92 00:04:48,254 --> 00:04:49,789 In this country this year we£ll spend 93 00:04:49,822 --> 00:04:51,758 over three trillion dollars on health care, 94 00:04:51,791 --> 00:04:54,594 Somewhere between 1 half and 75% of that 95 00:04:54,627 --> 00:04:56,863 are lifestyle related problems. 96 00:04:56,896 --> 00:04:59,766 You get out of your health exactly what you put into it. 97 00:04:59,799 --> 00:05:02,602 And we have been putting the wrong fuel in our body. 98 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:04,370 We really didn't learn much of anything about nutrition 99 00:05:04,404 --> 00:05:05,071 in medical school. 100 00:05:05,104 --> 00:05:06,939 I was really angry. 101 00:05:06,973 --> 00:05:08,775 I just could not understand why I didn't learn any of this. 102 00:05:08,808 --> 00:05:10,476 The system is set up to reimburse, 103 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:11,978 kind of, pills and procedures. 104 00:05:12,011 --> 00:05:13,780 You get paid to do things 105 00:05:13,813 --> 00:05:16,115 for patients. You don't get paid if your patients get better. 106 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:17,884 We live in a pill popping generation 107 00:05:17,917 --> 00:05:19,519 everybody wants a pill for this or a pill for that. 108 00:05:19,552 --> 00:05:20,720 Big Pharma is 109 00:05:20,753 --> 00:05:22,422 in the business of us being sick. 110 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:26,426 They fund medical education, that's what you learn about. 111 00:05:26,459 --> 00:05:28,795 We've never had more pills in human history 112 00:05:28,828 --> 00:05:30,830 and yet we've never had more chronic disease. 113 00:05:30,863 --> 00:05:32,165 There's the food industry 114 00:05:32,198 --> 00:05:34,400 which is a trillion dollar industry. 115 00:05:34,434 --> 00:05:35,368 There's lot of people 116 00:05:35,401 --> 00:05:37,437 that are making money off processed foods. 117 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,038 There are a lot of people making money off meat, 118 00:05:39,072 --> 00:05:40,506 lot of people making money off dairy. 119 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:41,908 And it's a huge lobbying power. 120 00:05:41,941 --> 00:05:46,145 Take away the supervision from the USDA 121 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:47,847 and give it to another body. 122 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,750 They£re handing out subsidies with this hand 123 00:05:50,783 --> 00:05:52,151 and with the other hand they£re telling 124 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:54,554 the American public what to eat. 125 00:05:54,587 --> 00:05:55,688 You know, they don't look at meat 126 00:05:55,722 --> 00:05:57,090 and say this is full of saturated fat, 127 00:05:57,123 --> 00:05:58,825 cholesterol, DDT, 128 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:00,526 environmental contaminants, infection. 129 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:01,994 not part of the sales pitch. 130 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:04,464 Dairy is the most toxic thing people put in their body, 131 00:06:04,497 --> 00:06:05,531 I won't even call it food. 132 00:06:05,565 --> 00:06:08,000 People that are eating the standard American diet 133 00:06:08,034 --> 00:06:10,169 don't understand, number one, 134 00:06:10,203 --> 00:06:12,171 the scientific implications of that in their body 135 00:06:12,205 --> 00:06:14,574 but two, they often don't understand 136 00:06:14,607 --> 00:06:18,111 that food has enslaved them by this addictive component. 137 00:06:18,144 --> 00:06:21,214 Foods are the cause of diabetes, of heart disease, 138 00:06:21,247 --> 00:06:23,716 of many forms of cancer, of hypertension 139 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:26,052 and if they are the cause they can also be the solution. 140 00:06:26,085 --> 00:06:29,222 What is on our plate is really affecting our environment. 141 00:06:29,255 --> 00:06:31,891 More global warming is caused by livestock consumption 142 00:06:31,924 --> 00:06:34,460 that all forms of transportation combined. 143 00:06:34,494 --> 00:06:36,095 Something's wrong with this paradigm 144 00:06:36,129 --> 00:06:38,631 and we need to shift paradigms to find out what works better. 145 00:06:38,664 --> 00:06:41,667 We're eating ourselves into our graves. 146 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,997 Since a small child, I've had a love of plants. 147 00:07:11,030 --> 00:07:12,999 To have this living organism 148 00:07:13,032 --> 00:07:14,634 within this tiny little package, 149 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:16,502 a seed and you plant it 150 00:07:16,536 --> 00:07:21,207 and it grows into such beauty and potential. 151 00:07:23,142 --> 00:07:26,245 I am a product of the state of New Jersey. 152 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,081 I went to Rutgers, the state university, 153 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:30,950 got a botany degree. 154 00:07:30,983 --> 00:07:33,519 And then went on to the state medical school. 155 00:07:33,553 --> 00:07:37,757 I received a, you know, standard academic training, 156 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:41,260 then went on to an internal medicine residency 157 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:44,263 in Washington, DC at George Washington 158 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:46,833 as a newly minted doctor. 159 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:51,804 My father who was an attorney, 69 years of age, 160 00:07:51,838 --> 00:07:53,539 was suddenly diagnosed 161 00:07:53,573 --> 00:07:57,243 with end stage metastatic pancreatic cancer. 162 00:07:57,276 --> 00:08:02,014 He was given a prognosis of one to three months to live, 163 00:08:02,048 --> 00:08:04,217 offered some standard treatment 164 00:08:04,250 --> 00:08:08,554 and because there is very little success 165 00:08:08,588 --> 00:08:12,558 with that age, my father decided to do nothing. 166 00:08:12,592 --> 00:08:15,027 And just go home and prepare for death. 167 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:17,029 I knew in my world that I'd come from, 168 00:08:17,063 --> 00:08:19,565 there was just nothing available 169 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:21,334 and even still to this day, 170 00:08:21,367 --> 00:08:24,570 there is very little available for pancreatic cancer. 171 00:08:25,371 --> 00:08:29,308 So I went to my local library 172 00:08:29,342 --> 00:08:32,578 and finally came across some books on food, 173 00:08:32,612 --> 00:08:35,081 brought these books home for my father. 174 00:08:35,114 --> 00:08:40,119 The books were on a whole unrefined plant food 175 00:08:40,753 --> 00:08:42,255 way of eating. 176 00:08:42,288 --> 00:08:46,893 He grasped onto it and completely changed his diet 177 00:08:46,926 --> 00:08:50,029 and a year later we went back. 178 00:08:50,062 --> 00:08:52,632 When the doctor saw my father walk in, 179 00:08:52,665 --> 00:08:54,267 he looked a little bit shaken. 180 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,603 He asked my father, what he was doing there 181 00:08:57,637 --> 00:09:01,641 and why basically why was he still alive. 182 00:09:01,674 --> 00:09:06,245 My father started to tell him about broccoli and brown rice 183 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:11,284 and the doctor lost complete interest 184 00:09:11,684 --> 00:09:16,689 in what my father was saying. 185 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:21,627 That was the point for me 186 00:09:21,661 --> 00:09:24,964 that changed what I would do as a doctor. 187 00:09:26,666 --> 00:09:28,734 Our medical community in general 188 00:09:28,768 --> 00:09:31,938 has really focused on symptoms of disease. 189 00:09:31,971 --> 00:09:35,308 We see it throughout our whole pharmaceutical industry 190 00:09:35,341 --> 00:09:37,209 and our whole approach to care. 191 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:38,911 And you know, we have this acute care model 192 00:09:38,945 --> 00:09:40,713 in healthcare today. 193 00:09:40,746 --> 00:09:42,648 And it was designed a 100 years ago 194 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:46,285 to treat communicable diseases and injury 195 00:09:46,319 --> 00:09:49,221 and we're still trying to treat chronic disease now 196 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:50,423 with that same acute care model, 197 00:09:50,456 --> 00:09:51,490 but it doesn't work. 198 00:09:51,524 --> 00:09:54,794 We're trying to treat diabetes and heart disease 199 00:09:54,827 --> 00:09:57,129 the way we treat strep throat with pills but it doesn't work. 200 00:09:57,163 --> 00:10:00,099 I feel a little disenfranchised 201 00:10:00,132 --> 00:10:02,001 if you will, to have gone through 202 00:10:02,034 --> 00:10:03,769 four years of medical school 203 00:10:03,803 --> 00:10:05,972 and six years of training after medical school 204 00:10:06,005 --> 00:10:08,274 and never been introduced to the idea 205 00:10:08,307 --> 00:10:12,678 that your health is so closely related to what you eat. 206 00:10:12,712 --> 00:10:16,449 When I entered into practice, 207 00:10:16,482 --> 00:10:20,152 I had patients constantly ask me, 208 00:10:20,186 --> 00:10:21,921 "What should I eat doc? 209 00:10:21,954 --> 00:10:25,291 How should I exercise? What should I do?" 210 00:10:25,324 --> 00:10:26,959 I would throw out a little arbitrary words 211 00:10:26,993 --> 00:10:30,096 and say, "Ah, be good the majority of the time." 212 00:10:30,129 --> 00:10:31,964 Live by the four sevenths rule. 213 00:10:31,998 --> 00:10:35,401 If you do well for seven days, that's good enough. 214 00:10:35,434 --> 00:10:38,204 I started to become trouble by that. You know, 215 00:10:38,237 --> 00:10:41,440 in that I was actually giving advice, 216 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:43,409 professional advice to individuals 217 00:10:43,442 --> 00:10:46,979 when they're asking without a fund of knowledge. 218 00:10:50,016 --> 00:10:53,786 Everybody knows that doctors don't get any really meaningful 219 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:55,321 education about nutrition. 220 00:10:55,354 --> 00:10:57,857 Nutrition is really something that maybe you get one hour, 221 00:10:57,890 --> 00:10:58,891 maybe you get two hours. 222 00:10:58,924 --> 00:11:01,394 Nutrition in the 1970s 223 00:11:01,427 --> 00:11:04,296 in my medical school was very, very limited. 224 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:07,733 I really still feel that it's nearly criminal. 225 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:10,002 There really haven't been many opportunities 226 00:11:10,036 --> 00:11:11,871 to discuss nutrition in depth 227 00:11:11,904 --> 00:11:15,241 because the topic only comes up and passing. 228 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:18,744 Maybe they assumed that we knew. 229 00:11:18,778 --> 00:11:20,179 The average physician in this country 230 00:11:20,212 --> 00:11:23,182 has less than 20 minutes of nutrition training period. 231 00:11:23,215 --> 00:11:24,383 Nobody teaches you anything about nutrition 232 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:25,551 in medical school. 233 00:11:25,584 --> 00:11:28,220 What I was taught was nobody changes their diet anyway 234 00:11:28,254 --> 00:11:30,923 so just, you know, do what you can. 235 00:11:30,956 --> 00:11:32,058 I hate to say it 236 00:11:32,091 --> 00:11:34,060 but your physician probably knows 237 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:35,494 less about nutrition than you do. 238 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:38,330 We're taught to treat diseases after they occur, 239 00:11:38,364 --> 00:11:39,765 we're not taught how to prevent them 240 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:41,100 in the first place. 241 00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:56,482 I think that people that society in general 242 00:11:56,515 --> 00:11:59,085 has a broken relationship with food. 243 00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:01,454 We're a society that's chronically fed 244 00:12:01,487 --> 00:12:02,521 from the time we get up in the morning 245 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:04,223 until the time we go to bed. 246 00:12:04,256 --> 00:12:06,058 When you think about it, the only species 247 00:12:06,092 --> 00:12:08,260 that are obese and chronically ill are us 248 00:12:08,294 --> 00:12:10,429 and the pets we keep warm and fed. 249 00:12:10,463 --> 00:12:12,565 And they get exactly the same diseases. 250 00:12:12,598 --> 00:12:16,068 If you eat the same things that most Americans eat, 251 00:12:16,102 --> 00:12:17,436 you're gonna get the same diseases 252 00:12:17,470 --> 00:12:18,838 that most Americans get. 253 00:12:18,871 --> 00:12:19,905 I'm a steak guy. 254 00:12:19,939 --> 00:12:21,407 - Fish. - Sushi actually. 255 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,541 I like meat. 256 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:24,110 Anything protein based. 257 00:12:24,143 --> 00:12:26,579 Steak, potatoes, greens. 258 00:12:26,612 --> 00:12:29,048 Good cheese, I don't really eat processed cheese. 259 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:31,817 - Lasagna - Hamburgers, French fries. 260 00:12:31,851 --> 00:12:35,454 Red Bull and a cigarette, which I don't need neither or. 261 00:12:35,488 --> 00:12:36,856 But you know what? 262 00:12:36,889 --> 00:12:37,857 I'm so old now, I'm just gonna do it anyway. 263 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:40,826 It's sad but I think I can say this honestly 264 00:12:40,860 --> 00:12:45,131 probably 95% of America has no idea how to eat. 265 00:12:45,164 --> 00:12:47,466 Who taught them? Grandma? 266 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:49,335 No, it's the television that's teaching them. 267 00:12:50,603 --> 00:12:54,340 Nutritious, delicious, above all else, beef. 268 00:12:54,373 --> 00:12:56,876 It's what for dinner. 269 00:12:56,909 --> 00:12:57,610 Got milk? 270 00:12:57,643 --> 00:13:00,446 Ahh, the power of cheese. 271 00:13:00,479 --> 00:13:02,882 Eggs, incredible energy for body and mind. 272 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:07,853 Well, I grew up in Texas eating meat four, five times a day? 273 00:13:07,887 --> 00:13:08,888 You know, and I liked it. 274 00:13:08,921 --> 00:13:12,858 I ate a high salt, sugar, fat, processed food, 275 00:13:12,892 --> 00:13:16,962 pizza, ice-cream, candy kind of diet. 276 00:13:16,996 --> 00:13:20,199 I was pretty much a standard cholesterolholic 277 00:13:20,232 --> 00:13:23,869 that grew up on a dairy and a beef farm. 278 00:13:23,903 --> 00:13:25,104 We loved our cheese, 279 00:13:25,137 --> 00:13:27,606 we loved our ice-cream and yogurt, and 280 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,642 steaks, and hamburgers on the grill. 281 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:32,611 Grew up on a dairy farm, actually milking cows. 282 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,180 Believing along the way 283 00:13:34,213 --> 00:13:36,982 that the good old American diet was as good as it gets. 284 00:13:42,588 --> 00:13:44,456 Certain foods are essential, 285 00:13:44,490 --> 00:13:47,626 we must have them daily for the sake of health. 286 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:52,865 Meat, cheese, fish, poultry. Vegetables, green and yellow. 287 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:56,302 Fruits, two or more servings daily, 288 00:13:56,335 --> 00:13:59,338 at least one raw citrus fruit or tomato often. 289 00:13:59,371 --> 00:14:04,076 And eggs, three to five a week but one a day preferred. 290 00:14:04,109 --> 00:14:09,114 Cereal and bread, rich golden butter and milk, 291 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:12,918 at least one quart of milk a day. 292 00:14:12,952 --> 00:14:14,653 I've come to see aging in America 293 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:17,089 as a function of accumulated abuse 294 00:14:17,122 --> 00:14:18,524 of the human body. 295 00:14:18,557 --> 00:14:20,659 And everybody gather around and dig in to those 296 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:23,395 sizzly, juicy, Armour star franks. 297 00:14:23,429 --> 00:14:26,198 Hot dog diggity, are they good? 298 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:27,933 Armour star franks. 299 00:14:27,967 --> 00:14:29,702 Because wonder soft whipped bread 300 00:14:29,735 --> 00:14:31,203 is made from batter not dough. 301 00:14:31,237 --> 00:14:33,672 It has no holes, get wonder soft whipped. 302 00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:35,040 One of the main reasons 303 00:14:35,074 --> 00:14:36,709 that we started eating processed food 304 00:14:36,742 --> 00:14:39,211 was it encouraged the shelf life of the product. 305 00:14:39,245 --> 00:14:40,946 We were taught that 306 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:43,015 this package foods were healthier 307 00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:45,951 and they were easier and they made our lives better. 308 00:14:45,985 --> 00:14:49,421 And many times it was a white refined food. 309 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:52,958 But of course, refined means about 97% of the fiber 310 00:14:52,992 --> 00:14:55,227 is gone and enriched means 311 00:14:55,261 --> 00:14:57,229 most of the nutrients have been stripped out 312 00:14:57,263 --> 00:14:59,431 but we've sprayed a few synthetic chemicals 313 00:14:59,465 --> 00:15:01,700 back on for you and now we call it enriched. 314 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:02,968 Our parents, you know, God bless them, 315 00:15:03,002 --> 00:15:03,769 they didn't know any better. 316 00:15:03,802 --> 00:15:05,237 The information wasn't out there. 317 00:15:05,271 --> 00:15:07,406 Meat and potatoes, that's how you lived. 318 00:15:07,439 --> 00:15:08,574 This summer try our 319 00:15:08,607 --> 00:15:10,643 new grilled chicken margarita pizza. 320 00:15:10,676 --> 00:15:12,711 Who knew crab goes with everything? 321 00:15:12,745 --> 00:15:15,281 Whoever put crab on the salmon, on a burger 322 00:15:15,314 --> 00:15:16,749 and don't forget the bacon and onions 323 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:18,651 seared inside fresh ground beef. 324 00:15:18,684 --> 00:15:21,620 Introducing grill dogs, flame grilled to perfection 325 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:23,589 and made with a 100% beef. 326 00:15:23,622 --> 00:15:25,758 Get them now, only at Burger King. 327 00:15:25,791 --> 00:15:28,560 The standard American diet is not working, 328 00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:29,762 it's not good for us. 329 00:15:29,795 --> 00:15:32,331 I think we haven't really focused on the quality of food 330 00:15:32,364 --> 00:15:35,000 that we take, we're more interested in convenience. 331 00:15:35,034 --> 00:15:37,736 I mean the whole fast food thing on television, 332 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,705 you know, all the pizza commercials, 333 00:15:39,738 --> 00:15:41,473 burger commercials, 334 00:15:41,507 --> 00:15:43,609 just fast food that you make at home, 335 00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:45,044 stuff that you take off the shelf 336 00:15:45,077 --> 00:15:46,211 and you pour it out of the box 337 00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:49,248 and put some water in it, you got a instant meal here. 338 00:15:49,281 --> 00:15:51,650 It's like oh, my God, we're killing ourselves. 339 00:15:51,684 --> 00:15:54,753 Early on in this process, it was kind of confusing 340 00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:56,322 because I would read a study that would say, 341 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:57,489 this is good for you 342 00:15:57,523 --> 00:15:58,724 and then other one would say no, 343 00:15:58,757 --> 00:16:01,427 that's actually bad for you, something else is good for you. 344 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:04,530 So the industry just has to keep the public confused 345 00:16:04,563 --> 00:16:06,498 which they have been doing a very good job at. 346 00:16:06,532 --> 00:16:10,536 I was so misinformed as a young adult 347 00:16:10,569 --> 00:16:12,271 that I didn't know how to eat properly 348 00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:14,106 and I didn't know how to balance my diet. 349 00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:16,608 I was, you know, eating what I thought was health food, 350 00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:19,311 you know, salmon, big hunks of salmon. 351 00:16:19,345 --> 00:16:22,448 I think it can get confusing to the general public 352 00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:23,716 because all they hear 353 00:16:23,749 --> 00:16:26,318 sensationalized headlines about, 354 00:16:26,352 --> 00:16:29,788 oh, this fat is good for you, this fat is bad for you. 355 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:34,059 You want a high protein diet, stay away from carbohydrates. 356 00:16:34,093 --> 00:16:36,662 We don't need food like that. We eat food. 357 00:16:36,695 --> 00:16:39,298 All that we need is enough confusion 358 00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:41,166 and then people will throw up their hands, 359 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,135 you know. Oh forget it, I'll just do whatever I want to do. 360 00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:45,804 Drink your milk for strong bones and teeth 361 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:48,507 and it turns out to be exactly the wrong way around. 362 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:51,076 And almost a little betrayed 363 00:16:51,110 --> 00:16:52,845 that we've been told our whole lives 364 00:16:52,878 --> 00:16:54,380 that we had to eat, 365 00:16:54,413 --> 00:16:55,848 you know, animal protein and drink milk 366 00:16:55,881 --> 00:16:56,882 in order to be healthy. 367 00:16:56,915 --> 00:16:59,651 But that's what we grew up with us as a culture 368 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:01,687 so we can't be blamed for it 369 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,256 but we have to break those habit patterns. 370 00:17:11,296 --> 00:17:13,332 I wasn't born obese. 371 00:17:13,365 --> 00:17:15,868 I was fit and healthy as a kid. 372 00:17:15,901 --> 00:17:18,737 Up until I was 24 years old, but from the time, 373 00:17:18,771 --> 00:17:20,873 the age of 24 to the age of 30, 374 00:17:20,906 --> 00:17:26,111 I got up as heavy as 518 pounds. 375 00:17:26,145 --> 00:17:28,180 I would love to say that, you know, 376 00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:31,550 I know why or how but I don't. 377 00:17:31,583 --> 00:17:34,753 All I know is that I got there and it was extremely difficult. 378 00:17:37,623 --> 00:17:40,225 In June of 2013, my wife Iris and I 379 00:17:40,259 --> 00:17:42,628 decided to take my then six year old son 380 00:17:42,661 --> 00:17:44,696 for his birthday to Florida. 381 00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:45,864 Two weeks prior to the trip 382 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:47,599 my son and I went through online 383 00:17:47,633 --> 00:17:49,535 and looked at all the rides 384 00:17:49,568 --> 00:17:52,237 and he decided that the Harry Potter ride 385 00:17:52,271 --> 00:17:55,607 was the most epic ride in the history of rides 386 00:17:55,641 --> 00:17:57,142 and he wanted me to ride it with him. 387 00:17:57,176 --> 00:17:58,544 And if you ever been on the ride, 388 00:17:58,577 --> 00:18:00,479 they have a sample of the seating 389 00:18:00,512 --> 00:18:02,381 as you approach the ride platform. 390 00:18:02,414 --> 00:18:03,449 One of the people who worked there 391 00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:06,718 asked me to step out of line to try the seating. 392 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:09,154 As soon as I sat down, it was apparent 393 00:18:09,188 --> 00:18:12,658 that this wasn't gonna happen. It was his birthday. 394 00:18:18,330 --> 00:18:21,700 Sorry, he begged... 395 00:18:25,537 --> 00:18:30,676 he cried but I couldn't fit. 396 00:18:30,709 --> 00:18:35,714 My wife practically drug him on to the ride 397 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:37,583 and in that moment I realized 398 00:18:37,616 --> 00:18:41,887 that I couldn't live like that anymore. 399 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:54,199 Eating to excess. 400 00:18:54,233 --> 00:18:55,300 You've got far too many sausages Billie 401 00:18:55,334 --> 00:18:56,435 will you put some back? 402 00:18:56,468 --> 00:18:57,870 There are fresh concerns about 403 00:18:57,903 --> 00:19:01,206 our globally expanding waist lines. 404 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,876 Experts had thought the obesity rate had leveled off 405 00:19:03,909 --> 00:19:06,445 and they don't know why it's rising instead. 406 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:08,280 The new report also shows 407 00:19:08,313 --> 00:19:11,216 women have a higher level of obesity than men. 408 00:19:11,250 --> 00:19:13,519 The reason people get fat is because they eat fat. 409 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:16,722 You know, from my lips to my hips 410 00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:18,790 the fat you eat is the fat you wear. 411 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:21,260 There is unfortunately been a lot of articles 412 00:19:21,293 --> 00:19:22,327 written recently 413 00:19:22,361 --> 00:19:24,963 mostly by non physicians and non scientists saying, 414 00:19:24,997 --> 00:19:27,533 you know, Americans have been told to eat less fat, 415 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:30,269 now they're eating less fat, they're fatter then ever so, 416 00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:33,272 you know, low fat has failed, bring out the bacon and eggs. 417 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:34,673 Well, I went to the US department 418 00:19:34,706 --> 00:19:36,008 of agriculture database 419 00:19:36,041 --> 00:19:37,142 and said I know that Americans have been told 420 00:19:37,176 --> 00:19:39,978 to eat less fat but what have we actually been eating? 421 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:42,481 Well, that turns out that every decade since 1950 422 00:19:42,514 --> 00:19:44,750 we've been eating more fat, more meat, 423 00:19:44,783 --> 00:19:46,518 more sugar and more calories. 424 00:19:46,552 --> 00:19:48,020 So not surprisingly we're fatter. 425 00:19:48,053 --> 00:19:50,255 The biggest portion of Americans 426 00:19:50,289 --> 00:19:51,690 are in the obese category now. 427 00:19:51,723 --> 00:19:54,259 It's unbelievable, 428 00:19:54,293 --> 00:19:56,528 There are a very small minority of people that 429 00:19:56,562 --> 00:19:58,664 Just goes, it goes from the spoon 430 00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:00,399 right to hips and belly 431 00:20:00,432 --> 00:20:02,701 and actually it goes there so effortlessly, 432 00:20:02,734 --> 00:20:04,570 you can take a needle and suck the fat out, 433 00:20:04,603 --> 00:20:06,038 take it to the lab, analyze it 434 00:20:06,071 --> 00:20:07,839 and you can tell what people like to eat. 435 00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:08,974 You suck their belly fat out 436 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:10,876 and is full of monounsaturated fats 437 00:20:10,909 --> 00:20:12,444 then they£re into olive oil. 438 00:20:12,477 --> 00:20:14,012 If it£s full of trans-fats 439 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:16,982 they're into margarines and shortenings. 440 00:20:17,015 --> 00:20:19,851 If they£re full of omega three fats then 441 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:22,588 People worry about if their 10 pounds too heavy, 442 00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:23,722 50 pounds too heavy, 443 00:20:23,755 --> 00:20:26,425 but they're not thinking about the impact of the weight 444 00:20:26,458 --> 00:20:28,694 as it pertains to their actual health 445 00:20:28,727 --> 00:20:31,463 and well being and their risk for disease. 446 00:20:35,968 --> 00:20:40,906 I want to enjoy my kids, enjoy my grandkids. 447 00:20:40,939 --> 00:20:44,343 I cannot imagine missing one thing. 448 00:20:46,111 --> 00:20:48,747 Going into this massive change, 449 00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:50,415 of course I'd love to lose weight, 450 00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:53,385 but more importantly, I just want to be healthy. 451 00:20:53,418 --> 00:20:56,488 When they say, "Doctor, I've tried everything, 452 00:20:56,521 --> 00:20:58,323 I'm miserable." 453 00:20:58,357 --> 00:21:03,362 I'll go, "Well, have you tried eating something different 454 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:05,397 or tell me what you've done with your nutrition?" 455 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:07,566 I'm changing what I put in my body, 456 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:10,435 but that's what I've known for 36 years. 457 00:21:10,469 --> 00:21:12,738 So, it's very scary. 458 00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:15,073 Up until recently, we didn't really think of nutrition 459 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:16,174 as being a very strong force. 460 00:21:16,208 --> 00:21:20,078 Eat a little bit less carbs and nothing much happens 461 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:21,747 or you count calories for a few weeks 462 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,849 and you lose a few pounds then you gain it all back 463 00:21:23,882 --> 00:21:25,017 and I think people have gotten used to the idea 464 00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:26,385 that food doesn't make much difference. 465 00:21:26,418 --> 00:21:30,489 My family surrounds celebrations, 466 00:21:30,522 --> 00:21:32,758 sad things, bad things, 467 00:21:32,791 --> 00:21:34,660 everything revolves around food. 468 00:21:34,693 --> 00:21:36,528 You know, you go to a funeral 469 00:21:36,561 --> 00:21:40,532 and after a funeral people get together, eat 470 00:21:40,565 --> 00:21:42,100 and they eat same kind of things 471 00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:43,635 that helped put the person in a casket 472 00:21:43,669 --> 00:21:45,070 in the first place. 473 00:21:45,103 --> 00:21:47,673 So, it's really part of who we are. 474 00:21:47,706 --> 00:21:51,009 The thought of giving up sugar, 475 00:21:51,043 --> 00:21:54,546 not being able to eat my waffle with syrup 476 00:21:54,579 --> 00:21:57,883 and a side of bacon that is, 477 00:21:57,916 --> 00:21:59,551 I mean, that just makes my stomach turn. 478 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,119 It's that nervous feeling of like 479 00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:04,423 when you are starting a new job or you're going from 480 00:22:04,456 --> 00:22:06,525 elementary school to middle school. 481 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:09,995 That's how I feel about changing my food. 482 00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:13,965 Because food is something primal. 483 00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:17,035 It's the first bond and love we create 484 00:22:17,069 --> 00:22:18,904 after we've been born, 485 00:22:18,937 --> 00:22:22,040 and looking into old age for many of us, 486 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:25,977 it's the last pleasure we are left with on this earth. 487 00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:30,182 I think you could save all the testing people do 488 00:22:30,215 --> 00:22:33,485 by taking a tub of movie popcorn 489 00:22:33,518 --> 00:22:35,487 and putting it under someone's nose 490 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,589 and saying does that smell good? 491 00:22:37,622 --> 00:22:40,592 And if they say yes, you need to get them to the hospital 492 00:22:40,625 --> 00:22:41,927 and save their lives. 493 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,429 And if they say no, they're healthy. 494 00:22:44,463 --> 00:22:45,864 I think that's all you got to do, 495 00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:47,432 that's all you got to do. 496 00:22:52,104 --> 00:22:54,473 I think a lot of people understand 497 00:22:54,506 --> 00:22:56,675 fruits and vegetables are good for you, 498 00:22:56,708 --> 00:22:59,511 but they don't know how good the good stuff is 499 00:22:59,544 --> 00:23:04,449 and they have no idea how bad the bad stuff is. 500 00:23:04,483 --> 00:23:08,086 I think the addiction to food is bigger 501 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,689 than the combination of the addiction 502 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:12,858 that people have to cigarettes, 503 00:23:12,891 --> 00:23:15,927 alcohol, coffee, drugs. 504 00:23:15,961 --> 00:23:18,163 I truly see how food 505 00:23:18,196 --> 00:23:20,565 can completely control someone's life. 506 00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:22,167 That you literally obsess over it 507 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,236 and it's understandable when you get in your car 508 00:23:24,269 --> 00:23:25,570 and you drive somewhere 509 00:23:25,604 --> 00:23:27,072 how many fast food places you go by? 510 00:23:27,105 --> 00:23:28,607 How many billboards do you see? 511 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,476 You are bombarded all day long 512 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:33,211 and just filled with temptation. 513 00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:35,781 It's like an alcoholic, I can't have one drink. 514 00:23:35,814 --> 00:23:39,918 I can't have that one candy bar a week 515 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:42,621 because I didn't have an off switch. 516 00:23:42,654 --> 00:23:44,589 Most of the restaurants have very easily figured out 517 00:23:44,623 --> 00:23:46,725 that if you add cheese and butter 518 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:49,928 and salt to everything, it tastes good 519 00:23:49,961 --> 00:23:51,596 and so you come back over and over again. 520 00:23:51,630 --> 00:23:52,664 And the same thing is true 521 00:23:52,697 --> 00:23:55,634 for a lot of snack foods and candies, 522 00:23:55,667 --> 00:23:58,503 they're just perfectly tweaked to be delicious. 523 00:23:58,537 --> 00:24:01,106 So, if we just look at like the average American diet, 524 00:24:01,139 --> 00:24:04,242 when we put in sugar, fat and salt into our body, 525 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:05,911 a couple of things happen. 526 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:08,680 First, it triggers the reward system in our brain, 527 00:24:08,713 --> 00:24:11,917 the dopamine reward system just like nicotine, 528 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:13,752 methamphetamine and cocaine. 529 00:24:13,785 --> 00:24:16,021 So they have the same effect creating some dependence 530 00:24:16,054 --> 00:24:17,189 or food addiction. 531 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:19,524 Drug addicts often have this thing 532 00:24:19,558 --> 00:24:20,759 where they call "chasing the dragon." 533 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:22,294 it's the illusive first high. 534 00:24:22,327 --> 00:24:24,563 No, other high is as good as this first high 535 00:24:24,596 --> 00:24:26,097 and so they're constantly chasing it 536 00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:27,666 and I've experienced that with food 537 00:24:27,699 --> 00:24:30,202 like the first bite is so amazing 538 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:31,303 but the second isn't as amazing 539 00:24:31,336 --> 00:24:32,370 and the third isn't. 540 00:24:32,404 --> 00:24:34,940 But I just keep eating it, whether it's the Oreos, 541 00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:37,108 or the chocolate chip cookies or the ice-cream, 542 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:39,277 just trying to get back to that first bliss. 543 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:43,048 What sweet out nature? Sweet potatoes, berries fruit, 544 00:24:43,081 --> 00:24:46,718 healthy foods, right? And so but now the industry 545 00:24:46,751 --> 00:24:51,556 uses that natural healthy urge against us, right? 546 00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:54,059 There are chemists that spend their whole lives, 547 00:24:54,092 --> 00:24:56,027 working on the bliss point. 548 00:24:56,061 --> 00:24:58,029 The ripest peach in the world 549 00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:00,298 is not as sweet as fruit loops, right? 550 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,901 Within just a couple of hours of eating these foods, 551 00:25:02,934 --> 00:25:04,302 it's absorbed into the bloodstream 552 00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:06,204 and then it penetrates our cells. 553 00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:08,673 Sugar causes measurable inflammation 554 00:25:08,707 --> 00:25:10,876 inside of our artery walls 555 00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:12,978 causing damage to the lining of the artery, 556 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:14,279 the endothelial cells, 557 00:25:14,312 --> 00:25:17,215 making us more susceptible to atherosclerosis 558 00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:18,917 and even more susceptible to inflammation 559 00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:19,985 that can lead to cancer. 560 00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:21,186 We also know that 561 00:25:21,219 --> 00:25:22,854 within a couple of hours of eating sugar, 562 00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:24,322 it suppresses our immune system 563 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,358 and it's specifically the natural killer cells 564 00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:28,693 that help us to fight infections 565 00:25:28,727 --> 00:25:30,095 and that can suppress your immune system 566 00:25:30,128 --> 00:25:32,030 for four to five hours. 567 00:25:32,063 --> 00:25:33,598 So, if we kind of understand this, 568 00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:36,034 you know, Americans having sugar based breakfast, 569 00:25:36,067 --> 00:25:38,370 sugar based lunch and sugar based dinner, 570 00:25:38,403 --> 00:25:39,738 they're suppressing their immune system 571 00:25:39,771 --> 00:25:40,872 throughout the course of the day 572 00:25:40,906 --> 00:25:42,607 making themselves more susceptible 573 00:25:42,641 --> 00:25:44,175 to these infections that we encounter. 574 00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:46,244 Realize, that we are going to go 575 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:48,380 through a chemical addictive withdraw 576 00:25:48,413 --> 00:25:49,948 for probably three or four days 577 00:25:49,981 --> 00:25:51,683 depending on the food and the frequency 578 00:25:51,716 --> 00:25:53,351 and the quantity at which you ate it. 579 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:56,955 If you feel a little bit bloated or little gassy or a lot gassy 580 00:25:56,988 --> 00:26:00,091 or you're going with more frequency, 581 00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:02,761 it's not to be concerned about. Let it pass, 582 00:26:02,794 --> 00:26:04,329 let your body sort of work itself out. 583 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:06,131 I know, it's tough in the beginning. 584 00:26:06,164 --> 00:26:07,198 I know food addictions 585 00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:10,769 and I call it toxic hunger can make you feel bad, 586 00:26:10,802 --> 00:26:12,304 when you're kind of like breaking those addictions, 587 00:26:12,337 --> 00:26:13,672 you could feel fatigue, 588 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:14,673 you could feel weak and headache-y. 589 00:26:14,706 --> 00:26:15,607 You could feel like 590 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,142 you're emotionally attached to those foods 591 00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:18,376 and having almost 592 00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,912 a feeling of anxiety giving up the foods 593 00:26:20,946 --> 00:26:22,080 you've come to love. 594 00:26:22,113 --> 00:26:24,082 Oh, I can't live without meat. 595 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:25,317 Well, yeah, I can. 596 00:26:25,350 --> 00:26:26,785 I always say, go cold turkey, 597 00:26:26,818 --> 00:26:29,120 even if it's just for a short period of time. 598 00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:31,823 Go cold turkey for 21 days, 599 00:26:31,856 --> 00:26:33,391 because the whole tapering off thing, 600 00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:34,993 it doesn't work with addiction. 601 00:26:35,026 --> 00:26:37,128 We're addicted to meat, we're addicted to dairy. 602 00:26:37,162 --> 00:26:40,665 There are opiates in cheeses and things like that. 603 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:42,267 Plus, we're just addicted to our habit patterns 604 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:43,401 that we grew up with. 605 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:45,971 Imagine you're back in the 1950s, 606 00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:49,007 before the Surgeon General report on smoking came out 607 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,676 and one doctor is telling you to smoke camels, 608 00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:54,412 the other doctor is saying no, smoke luckys instead. 609 00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:55,280 So in 1964, 610 00:26:55,313 --> 00:26:57,415 when the Surgeon General report came out, 611 00:26:57,449 --> 00:27:01,286 they cited 7000 studies about the dangers of smoking. 612 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:05,824 7,000, now look, 6,000 should have been enough, right? 613 00:27:05,857 --> 00:27:08,426 But I mean, it had to get to that point 614 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:10,128 before it could tip. 615 00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:13,098 And how many people had to die until that happened? 616 00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:14,199 And so, I think 617 00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:17,035 we're in a very similar situation today. 618 00:27:20,071 --> 00:27:22,841 My story starts a long time ago, 619 00:27:22,874 --> 00:27:26,011 with a lot of issues with overeating 620 00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:29,948 and it escalated many, many times up and down, 621 00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:34,386 lot of yo-yo dieting, finally at 380 pounds 622 00:27:34,419 --> 00:27:37,155 and diagnosed with type-2 diabetes 623 00:27:37,188 --> 00:27:39,124 and hypertension on medication, 624 00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:41,059 I decided to make a commitment 625 00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:44,696 to a completely different lifestyle of eating. 626 00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:51,036 I was, in my 49th year and it occurred to me, 627 00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:52,704 I wasn't gonna see 50. 628 00:27:54,939 --> 00:27:58,043 It was a lot of sitting on the couch, 629 00:27:58,076 --> 00:28:00,445 watching a lot of television and eating 630 00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:02,914 and everyone didn't always see the eating 631 00:28:02,947 --> 00:28:04,315 because I did that 632 00:28:04,349 --> 00:28:07,085 after they left for school or before, 633 00:28:07,118 --> 00:28:08,853 you know, in the car 634 00:28:08,887 --> 00:28:10,822 there was a lot of secretive eating going on. 635 00:28:10,855 --> 00:28:12,524 You want to believe that there is no addiction 636 00:28:12,557 --> 00:28:14,325 that this is a metabolic thing 637 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,061 and that, you know, this can be fixed, but, 638 00:28:16,094 --> 00:28:17,495 you know, when you start to find 639 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,431 you know, the trappings of wrappers 640 00:28:19,464 --> 00:28:22,500 I knew, I mean, it's, you know, I knew what was happening. 641 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:24,536 I knew about all the things that they didn't know about. 642 00:28:24,569 --> 00:28:27,005 You know, you say to yourself, okay, 643 00:28:27,038 --> 00:28:29,808 at this time maybe I'm 40, something years old and, 644 00:28:29,841 --> 00:28:32,343 you know, okay I'm gonna have all these kids, 645 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:33,945 gonna have to do something, you gonna take care of them 646 00:28:33,978 --> 00:28:35,113 if she is not around. 647 00:28:35,146 --> 00:28:36,781 Every day, I though that, 648 00:28:36,815 --> 00:28:38,516 they we're gonna find me dead in the parking lot, 649 00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:40,518 because I was out of breathe 650 00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:44,389 just walking from my car to my office, every day. 651 00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:46,524 There were lot of things that I didn't know, 652 00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:48,927 I didn't understand, you know, I'm like, 653 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,528 oh, if I could just do the math on this, 654 00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:52,831 it'll be better but there is no math to this. 655 00:28:52,864 --> 00:28:56,434 I couldn't do many things and I didn't do many things 656 00:28:56,468 --> 00:28:58,203 because of the shame and embarrassment, 657 00:28:58,236 --> 00:28:59,571 I didn't want to embarrass my kids. 658 00:28:59,604 --> 00:29:04,809 People make fun of them, like they don't exist, you know, 659 00:29:05,543 --> 00:29:07,011 and they do exist. 660 00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:14,586 I was morbidly obese my entire adult life. 661 00:29:14,619 --> 00:29:18,156 Being obese sucks. 662 00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,326 You know that people are looking at you. 663 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:22,427 You can only imagine 664 00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:23,461 what they're thinking about you, 665 00:29:23,495 --> 00:29:24,829 even though they're too polite. 666 00:29:24,863 --> 00:29:27,165 I was eating what most American's consider 667 00:29:27,198 --> 00:29:29,534 to be a healthy diet with lean protein. 668 00:29:29,567 --> 00:29:31,936 So, I was pretty much down to chicken and salmon 669 00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:33,138 as my protein. 670 00:29:33,171 --> 00:29:34,973 But we were cooking those proteins 671 00:29:35,006 --> 00:29:36,508 in butter and olive oil 672 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:39,444 and obviously it was not working. 673 00:29:39,477 --> 00:29:42,480 I had tried every fad diet that there was low carbs, 674 00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:44,449 south beach, atkins, weight watchers 675 00:29:44,482 --> 00:29:45,383 to try to lose weight 676 00:29:45,416 --> 00:29:47,619 and I discovered what a lot of people have, 677 00:29:47,652 --> 00:29:49,954 which is as long as you're doing these diets, 678 00:29:49,988 --> 00:29:52,991 they work great, the problem is when you stop dieting, 679 00:29:53,024 --> 00:29:54,325 all the weight comes back 680 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:56,127 and often more then you were in the first place. 681 00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,499 Wisdom is the process of finding out 682 00:30:01,533 --> 00:30:03,635 that your intuition is wrong. 683 00:30:03,668 --> 00:30:06,871 It's not easy to have to learn something 684 00:30:06,905 --> 00:30:08,139 that goes against your instincts. 685 00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:10,175 For example, people have the feeling 686 00:30:10,208 --> 00:30:11,643 when they're sitting in a car 687 00:30:11,676 --> 00:30:13,645 that they're not in danger 688 00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:15,380 if they don't have their seatbelt on. 689 00:30:15,413 --> 00:30:18,116 That was sort of the way people felt 690 00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:19,884 in the 1950s and '60s. 691 00:30:19,918 --> 00:30:22,453 So your intuition doesn't understand 692 00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:23,955 that you're sitting in a two ton vehicle 693 00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:25,223 going 50 miles an hour 694 00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:26,991 and that you are actually helpless. 695 00:30:27,025 --> 00:30:29,928 I thought I ate super healthy. 696 00:30:29,961 --> 00:30:32,230 The truth is that I was completely wrong, 697 00:30:32,263 --> 00:30:34,365 but the type of information 698 00:30:34,399 --> 00:30:37,569 that I could find available to me 699 00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:40,205 said that these foods were actually good for me. 700 00:30:40,238 --> 00:30:41,472 I thought I was healthy 701 00:30:41,506 --> 00:30:43,641 because I didn't have meat in my diet, 702 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,177 I didn't have milk in my diet, I didn't have eggs, 703 00:30:46,211 --> 00:30:47,679 I didn't have cheese. 704 00:30:47,712 --> 00:30:49,480 But I was eating all this other junk 705 00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:52,350 full of oil and sugar and salt and all that. 706 00:30:52,383 --> 00:30:54,986 I filled my body with protein and calories. 707 00:30:55,019 --> 00:30:57,555 Little did I know what it was doing to my body at that time, 708 00:30:57,589 --> 00:30:59,524 but I continued to eat that way all the way up 709 00:30:59,557 --> 00:31:01,693 through the '94 Olympics when I was competing. 710 00:31:01,726 --> 00:31:04,229 And thought nothing of going to a fast food restaurant, 711 00:31:04,262 --> 00:31:06,331 eating two hamburgers and a couple orders of fries 712 00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:07,398 and a chocolate milkshake. 713 00:31:07,432 --> 00:31:10,401 I had the idea that it had no consequences for me 714 00:31:10,435 --> 00:31:13,605 to eat this kind of food because I looked and felt great. 715 00:31:13,638 --> 00:31:15,673 Well, I'm thin, I don't really need to think about that. 716 00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:16,874 I don't need to think of plant based. 717 00:31:16,908 --> 00:31:19,344 That's for someone who's, you know, obese or over weight. 718 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,511 But the reality is that 719 00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:22,413 it's not so much about the weight 720 00:31:22,447 --> 00:31:24,015 because the weight is really a symptom 721 00:31:24,048 --> 00:31:25,583 of what's happening on the inside 722 00:31:25,617 --> 00:31:27,585 and many times that symptom goes unnoticed. 723 00:31:30,989 --> 00:31:32,690 I was just kind of your typical kid, 724 00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:33,658 I was on the year book, 725 00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:37,061 I played volleyball, so we really had no idea 726 00:31:37,095 --> 00:31:38,229 that anything was coming or that, 727 00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:39,297 anything was wrong. 728 00:31:44,769 --> 00:31:46,571 When I was 16 years old, I was told 729 00:31:46,604 --> 00:31:48,072 that I had six months to live. 730 00:31:48,106 --> 00:31:49,240 So the first clue 731 00:31:49,274 --> 00:31:50,275 that something was actually wrong 732 00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:53,011 was one weekend I had gone to the Jersey Shore 733 00:31:53,044 --> 00:31:54,045 with my friends. 734 00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:55,680 I remember we went to a diner 735 00:31:55,713 --> 00:31:57,682 and I had these pancakes 736 00:31:57,715 --> 00:32:00,585 and I literally, I could not get the pancakes, 737 00:32:00,618 --> 00:32:03,321 to my mouth, it hurt so bad. And the next morning I woke up 738 00:32:03,354 --> 00:32:05,089 and this excruciating pain that felt like 739 00:32:05,123 --> 00:32:07,458 it would take weeks to heal was gone. 740 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:09,227 But the strange thing was 741 00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:12,730 that same exact identical pain was in my left shoulder 742 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,065 and after a couple of days 743 00:32:14,098 --> 00:32:15,733 it disappeared from that arm too. 744 00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:18,403 Not long after that migraines started. 745 00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,505 I had this huge rash across my face 746 00:32:20,538 --> 00:32:21,739 going from one cheek across my nose 747 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,341 to the other side. 748 00:32:23,374 --> 00:32:25,510 My blood test showed that my kidneys were in trouble 749 00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:27,712 so they sent me in for kidney biopsy. 750 00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:30,114 So next thing I know I'm going in to surgery. 751 00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:31,082 So it's just kind of, 752 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:34,319 it was just so chaotic and then, you know, 753 00:32:34,352 --> 00:32:36,087 the doctor told us what happened and they said, 754 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,323 you know, you are in stage four kidney failure, 755 00:32:38,356 --> 00:32:39,724 and you got six months if we don't do 756 00:32:39,757 --> 00:32:42,694 something really, really aggressive. 757 00:32:42,727 --> 00:32:43,728 Six months, you'll be on dialysis 758 00:32:43,761 --> 00:32:45,263 or you'll be dead. 759 00:32:45,296 --> 00:32:47,265 So I was put on high dose steroids, 760 00:32:47,298 --> 00:32:48,333 it was about seven different pills 761 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:49,400 I had to take every day. 762 00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:52,170 And I also was put on experimental chemotherapy 763 00:32:52,203 --> 00:32:54,038 to try to save my kidneys. 764 00:32:54,072 --> 00:32:56,140 I was told I couldn't have kids, 765 00:32:56,174 --> 00:32:59,043 I was told I probably wouldn't live past my 50s. 766 00:32:59,077 --> 00:33:00,745 I'd probably be handicapped by my 30s. 767 00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:06,451 Well, with lupus 768 00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:08,820 your immune system's attacking your own body 769 00:33:08,853 --> 00:33:11,556 and so my immune system had suddenly stopped 770 00:33:11,589 --> 00:33:13,825 recognizing my kidneys as my own 771 00:33:13,858 --> 00:33:16,160 and were attacking my kidneys trying to kill it. 772 00:33:16,194 --> 00:33:18,229 I'd also developed blood clots 773 00:33:18,262 --> 00:33:19,764 that had happened when I was in medical school. 774 00:33:19,797 --> 00:33:21,632 And so I was taking blood thinners 775 00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:23,368 because I had experienced a mini stroke, 776 00:33:23,401 --> 00:33:24,635 a transient ischemic attack 777 00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,404 and thankfully I didn't damage my brain 778 00:33:26,437 --> 00:33:28,840 but I was in a lot of danger of dying at that point 779 00:33:28,873 --> 00:33:30,808 if I didn't use this blood thinner 780 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:31,776 for the rest of my life. 781 00:33:31,809 --> 00:33:33,678 Otherwise, you know, I was trucking through, 782 00:33:33,711 --> 00:33:36,080 I was two months away from graduating medical school 783 00:33:36,114 --> 00:33:38,116 and then I met this most amazing person, 784 00:33:38,149 --> 00:33:41,819 Thomas Tadlock and he just changed everything for me 785 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:43,788 and I went from only dreaming about a white coat 786 00:33:43,821 --> 00:33:46,224 to dreaming about a white dress. 787 00:33:46,257 --> 00:33:47,325 The hardest thing I ever had to do 788 00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:49,660 was to tell him about my illness 789 00:33:49,694 --> 00:33:52,330 and the fact that marrying me was, 790 00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:53,765 you know, not going be long term. 791 00:33:55,733 --> 00:34:00,738 And he, you know, it was hard for him to hear 792 00:34:01,172 --> 00:34:02,006 but he just said that 793 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:03,574 he'd rather have a short life with me 794 00:34:03,608 --> 00:34:05,843 than a life time with someone else. 795 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:07,478 So he would take care of me. 796 00:34:13,284 --> 00:34:16,888 If you need a surgery or if you're in an accident 797 00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:18,222 and you need diagnostics, 798 00:34:18,256 --> 00:34:20,425 the United States is the place to be. 799 00:34:20,458 --> 00:34:22,894 But if you want to prevent chronic disease, 800 00:34:22,927 --> 00:34:25,229 we're near the bottom of the list. 801 00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:28,866 We are taught to trust the medical field 802 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:32,136 and take the medicine they prescribe to us. 803 00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:34,205 Really, I grew up thinking that drugs, 804 00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:35,740 things like that from the doctor 805 00:34:35,773 --> 00:34:37,542 were the normal thing to do 806 00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:40,545 and that, that's what would cure you. 807 00:34:40,578 --> 00:34:42,580 And unfortunately the pills aren't the answer. 808 00:34:42,613 --> 00:34:43,581 Because if they were the answer 809 00:34:43,614 --> 00:34:46,317 we've never had more pills in human history. 810 00:34:46,350 --> 00:34:48,486 And yet we've never had more chronic disease. 811 00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,422 We need education more than medication 812 00:34:51,456 --> 00:34:54,492 and our doctors are not getting this in medical school. 813 00:34:54,525 --> 00:34:56,461 And if they are not, then you're not getting it. 814 00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:59,797 We are very focused on procedures and medications. 815 00:34:59,831 --> 00:35:01,766 Medical school is pharmacology. 816 00:35:01,799 --> 00:35:04,902 In fact we even learned about pharmacology during lunch. 817 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:06,938 We get take out, what are called drug lunches 818 00:35:06,971 --> 00:35:08,206 by pharmaceutical reps. 819 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,910 Pharmaceutical industry is like any other industry in America. 820 00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:16,848 They're there to make money and produce profits. 821 00:35:16,881 --> 00:35:20,918 They fund medical education, that's what you learn about. 822 00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:23,421 These medications, you don't get them for free. 823 00:35:23,454 --> 00:35:25,423 You pay a price for using medications. 824 00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:28,593 And they work as a permission slip. 825 00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:29,927 They enable people to think 826 00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,896 because their numbers look better they're okay, 827 00:35:31,929 --> 00:35:34,332 while the underlying pathology advances day after day. 828 00:35:34,365 --> 00:35:37,468 So in a sense, they give people a false sense of security 829 00:35:37,502 --> 00:35:39,237 that leads them to, give them permission 830 00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:40,104 to keep eating the same diet 831 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:41,372 that cause the problem to begin with 832 00:35:41,405 --> 00:35:42,607 and the inevitable consequences, 833 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,942 their disease gets worse and worse and worse. 834 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:48,479 But don't take it if you or if you and it might cause, 835 00:35:48,513 --> 00:35:51,315 you know, rectal bleeding and your eye might fall out 836 00:35:51,349 --> 00:35:54,952 and hey, you might even want to kill yourself. 837 00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:56,921 It's kind of like, really? 838 00:35:56,954 --> 00:35:58,890 But, it's gonna make me feel better 839 00:35:58,923 --> 00:36:01,492 but I might want to kill myself? 840 00:36:01,526 --> 00:36:03,461 I think I feel the way I'm feeling, I'm okay. 841 00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:05,229 Look big pharma is, 842 00:36:05,263 --> 00:36:07,465 one of the most profitable industries, 843 00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:09,901 the reason they're not researching to antibiotics, 844 00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:11,002 things that we need 845 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:12,803 is because you take it for ten days. 846 00:36:12,837 --> 00:36:15,673 That's not useful. No we want drugs 847 00:36:15,706 --> 00:36:17,909 you take every single day for the rest of your life, right? 848 00:36:17,942 --> 00:36:20,278 And what are those? Those are chronic disease drugs, right? 849 00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:22,813 High blood pressure medications for example, right. 850 00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:24,248 You have to take them everyday for the rest of your life 851 00:36:24,282 --> 00:36:26,717 because they don't treat 852 00:36:26,751 --> 00:36:30,388 the underlying cause of the disease. 853 00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:33,391 The pill companies don't make money 854 00:36:33,424 --> 00:36:34,525 when you're healthy. 855 00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:35,726 They make money when you're sick. 856 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,828 There is no profit in health, 857 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:39,997 they need to keep you in that kinda zombie state, 858 00:36:40,031 --> 00:36:41,766 in between where you're just 859 00:36:41,799 --> 00:36:44,869 shoveling more and more meds until you basically tap out, 860 00:36:44,902 --> 00:36:45,937 that's how the game works 861 00:36:45,970 --> 00:36:47,505 and that's whats stacked against you. 862 00:36:47,538 --> 00:36:49,540 I'm skeptical about the medical community 863 00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:51,676 because I know they're pill pushers 864 00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:54,278 and it's just part of what they do, 865 00:36:54,312 --> 00:36:58,916 the pharmaceutical community has their hooks way to deeply 866 00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:01,719 in the government, in the regulatory system. 867 00:37:01,752 --> 00:37:06,057 Approximately, 106,000 people die 868 00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:08,059 from drug side effects. 869 00:37:08,092 --> 00:37:09,994 And now that's just in hospitals 870 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:12,330 and that's just one year 871 00:37:12,363 --> 00:37:14,732 and these are drugs that are properly prescribed 872 00:37:14,765 --> 00:37:16,634 and taken as directed. 873 00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:20,071 These are not medical errors, these are not suicide attempts, 874 00:37:20,104 --> 00:37:21,439 these are not mistakes. 875 00:37:21,472 --> 00:37:22,607 These are drugs 876 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,375 that were prescribed exactly right 877 00:37:24,408 --> 00:37:27,545 and taken exactly as ordered. 878 00:37:27,578 --> 00:37:29,714 And we're killing 106,000 a year 879 00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:31,382 and that's a lot. 880 00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:34,318 That's a million people in ten years. 881 00:37:40,658 --> 00:37:42,827 When you're young, you think you're invincible. 882 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:43,961 You don't think what you're gonna eat's, 883 00:37:43,995 --> 00:37:46,597 gonna really hit you down the road. 884 00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:47,965 Really didn't start thinking about that much 885 00:37:47,999 --> 00:37:49,900 until my dad had a heart attack 886 00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:52,370 and then had quadruple bypass 887 00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:54,739 and then, you know, you start thinking well, uh-oh 888 00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:56,307 you know, he's got a problem so 889 00:37:59,076 --> 00:38:02,079 So, today we're gonna see Andre with high cholesterol, 890 00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:03,848 his cholesterol report shows 891 00:38:03,881 --> 00:38:08,819 that his total cholesterol is 189 on medication. 892 00:38:08,853 --> 00:38:10,588 With a whole food plant based diet, 893 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:12,089 we can take that cholesterol level 894 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:15,126 below a 150 without medication. 895 00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:16,927 And that's gonna be one of our goals. 896 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:18,863 I'm controlling my cholesterol now 897 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:21,999 and my triglycerides with medication. 898 00:38:22,033 --> 00:38:25,102 But a lot of the research I've done on the medications 899 00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:28,639 I'm on is not very positive and they have side effects 900 00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:30,808 and I've suffered some of the side effects. 901 00:38:30,841 --> 00:38:32,610 If I'm going to be on this for a long time, 902 00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:33,778 is there a better way? 903 00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:36,147 If I can do it through a dietary means, 904 00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:37,515 which would allow me 905 00:38:37,548 --> 00:38:39,550 to get off of these drugs completely, 906 00:38:39,583 --> 00:38:41,085 that would be the optimal goal. 907 00:38:41,118 --> 00:38:43,654 For me to change anything, 908 00:38:43,688 --> 00:38:45,790 I'm gonna have to have that proof 909 00:38:45,823 --> 00:38:48,159 to where through this diet, 910 00:38:48,192 --> 00:38:51,162 it will put me, my triglycerides in the safe range, 911 00:38:51,195 --> 00:38:53,397 my cholesterol in the safe range 912 00:38:53,431 --> 00:38:54,632 and hopefully 913 00:38:54,665 --> 00:38:58,669 the cholesterol ratios good to bad, 914 00:38:58,703 --> 00:39:00,671 within an acceptable range. 915 00:39:00,705 --> 00:39:03,140 I'm open minded to see what happens, 916 00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:05,142 give it a shot, see if it works, 917 00:39:05,176 --> 00:39:07,411 I mean what do you have to lose? 918 00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:16,654 Pythagoras and Socrates was talking about this 919 00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:19,623 and Hippocrates 2,500 years ago. 920 00:39:22,593 --> 00:39:25,896 The healthiest cultures on the planet without exception 921 00:39:25,930 --> 00:39:27,565 were plant based. 922 00:39:27,598 --> 00:39:30,434 I don't think it's an accident that the information on this 923 00:39:30,468 --> 00:39:33,204 has been known and is now just bubbling up. 924 00:39:33,237 --> 00:39:34,939 Then you have to ask the question, you know, 925 00:39:34,972 --> 00:39:39,477 why are we so oblivious to all of this? 926 00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:41,212 That gets you to questions concerning 927 00:39:41,245 --> 00:39:43,080 obviously governance, 928 00:39:43,114 --> 00:39:44,915 the US Department of Agriculture 929 00:39:44,949 --> 00:39:48,185 whose mandate is to promote agricultural products. 930 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,454 I mean, that's what they do. 931 00:39:50,488 --> 00:39:52,056 At the same time we put them in charge 932 00:39:52,089 --> 00:39:55,726 of protecting public safety by meat inspections and, 933 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,462 you know, nutrition guidelines. 934 00:39:58,496 --> 00:40:00,564 How the government is telling us what to eat, 935 00:40:00,598 --> 00:40:04,101 is through what they subsidize and so that's what people eat 936 00:40:04,135 --> 00:40:06,470 because people eat what's inexpensive. 937 00:40:06,504 --> 00:40:07,905 What foods are subsidized? 938 00:40:07,938 --> 00:40:09,473 Well, we're going broke 939 00:40:09,507 --> 00:40:12,243 so shouldn't we be subsidizing healthy foods, 940 00:40:12,276 --> 00:40:14,945 so are we making apples cheaper 941 00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:17,047 are we out making kale cheaper? 942 00:40:17,081 --> 00:40:19,483 No subsidies to the sugar industry 943 00:40:19,517 --> 00:40:23,087 and goes to feed crops, primarily to feed livestock. 944 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,990 So you can actually get kind of a low cost of production, 945 00:40:26,023 --> 00:40:28,092 thanks to our tax dollars! 946 00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:30,060 We are giving billions of dollars 947 00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:31,495 to livestock industry, 948 00:40:31,529 --> 00:40:34,665 so you can make Dollar Menu burgers. 949 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:39,703 In 2014, I had the privilege to be invited to testify 950 00:40:40,171 --> 00:40:43,240 in front of the USDA Dietary Guidelines 951 00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:46,076 Advisory Committee in Washington DC. 952 00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:49,780 Out of the 46 speakers invited, 953 00:40:49,814 --> 00:40:52,216 42 represented industry. 954 00:40:52,249 --> 00:40:53,617 Americans who consume 955 00:40:53,651 --> 00:40:55,085 the recommended amounts of dairy foods 956 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:56,187 are better able to meet 957 00:40:56,220 --> 00:40:57,988 key nutrient recommendations 958 00:40:58,022 --> 00:41:01,525 including calcium, vitamin D and potassium. 959 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:03,527 In fact, it's difficult for most Americans 960 00:41:03,561 --> 00:41:05,629 to meet these nutrient recommendations 961 00:41:05,663 --> 00:41:07,164 without consuming at least 962 00:41:07,198 --> 00:41:09,233 three servings of dairy foods daily. 963 00:41:09,266 --> 00:41:11,602 We know quite well that 964 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:15,539 a lot of these policy decisions and political decisions 965 00:41:15,573 --> 00:41:18,542 are being made through financial considerations 966 00:41:18,576 --> 00:41:22,613 with people with big money, big companies, big CEOs 967 00:41:22,646 --> 00:41:24,281 and big Washington connections. 968 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:27,852 And so, when it comes to eat more messaging, 969 00:41:27,885 --> 00:41:29,286 like eat more fruits and vegetables, 970 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,688 they come out and say it. 971 00:41:30,721 --> 00:41:32,256 When it comes to eat less messaging 972 00:41:32,289 --> 00:41:33,657 well, then there's a conflict, right. 973 00:41:33,691 --> 00:41:34,859 So what do they do? 974 00:41:34,892 --> 00:41:36,227 They don't actually mention foods, 975 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:37,828 god forbid, they say, 976 00:41:37,862 --> 00:41:40,297 you know, eat less saturated and trans fatty acids. 977 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:43,567 Now that's wink, wink, nudge, nudge, 978 00:41:43,601 --> 00:41:46,904 code for eat less, 979 00:41:46,937 --> 00:41:49,206 you know, meat and dairy. That's the sources 980 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,841 particularly cheese and chicken in this country. 981 00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:55,179 But they can't come out and say eat less cheetos. 982 00:41:55,212 --> 00:41:57,748 They can't come out and say eat less meat, eat less dairy, 983 00:41:57,781 --> 00:41:59,617 they would get hammered. 984 00:41:59,650 --> 00:42:02,887 Dairy is one of the strongest lobbies 985 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,589 as far as food production in this country goes. 986 00:42:05,623 --> 00:42:06,891 They have the most money 987 00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:08,926 and they will use it ruthlessly. 988 00:42:08,959 --> 00:42:10,361 There is not an asparagus lobby 989 00:42:10,394 --> 00:42:12,162 that I'm aware off. 990 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:14,164 There is no money in telling people 991 00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:17,301 to put the burger down and have a broccoli spear. 992 00:42:17,334 --> 00:42:21,639 The USDA had a internal news letter 993 00:42:21,672 --> 00:42:24,074 that promoted meatless Monday. 994 00:42:24,108 --> 00:42:26,343 So, once a week for your health, 995 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:28,212 for the environment consider, you know, 996 00:42:28,245 --> 00:42:30,014 reducing meat consumption 997 00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:34,718 and there was such a political firestorm 998 00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:38,222 to that radical proposition 999 00:42:38,255 --> 00:42:41,659 that it was retracted within hours 1000 00:42:41,692 --> 00:42:42,927 and you know, 1001 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,330 I think that was just a lesson that you can't even go there, 1002 00:42:46,363 --> 00:42:48,399 doesn't matter what the science says, 1003 00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,635 you know, money talks in Washington. 1004 00:42:51,669 --> 00:42:52,970 The dogma in the nutrition industry, 1005 00:42:53,003 --> 00:42:54,638 if you open up the fitness magazine 1006 00:42:54,672 --> 00:42:56,106 and if you open up the body building magazines 1007 00:42:56,140 --> 00:42:57,641 especially like you will never succeed 1008 00:42:57,675 --> 00:42:58,909 unless you eat as much animal products 1009 00:42:58,943 --> 00:42:59,877 as you possibly can. 1010 00:42:59,910 --> 00:43:01,378 So, I was terrified at first, I was like, 1011 00:43:01,412 --> 00:43:02,746 okay, I wanna be healthy 1012 00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:03,948 but I don't know what's gonna happen. 1013 00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:06,317 That's the first question anyone asks when you tell them 1014 00:43:06,350 --> 00:43:07,651 that you're a plant based athlete, 1015 00:43:07,685 --> 00:43:08,519 is like where do you get your protein? 1016 00:43:08,552 --> 00:43:10,387 It's funny that protein is an issue, 1017 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:12,089 because number one, people don't know what it is. 1018 00:43:13,157 --> 00:43:15,125 Number two, they don't recognize it in food. 1019 00:43:17,428 --> 00:43:18,929 The whole protein thing is such a myth, 1020 00:43:18,963 --> 00:43:20,965 it's a mainstream propaganda thing 1021 00:43:20,998 --> 00:43:23,434 by these dairy and animal companies 1022 00:43:23,467 --> 00:43:25,402 that throw this thing out there that, 1023 00:43:25,436 --> 00:43:27,304 the amount of protein you need in your body. 1024 00:43:27,338 --> 00:43:29,306 Standing in front of you is obviously not a hindrance 1025 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:31,408 in bodybuilding to eat whole plant foods. 1026 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:33,110 So what's the problem with so much protein? 1027 00:43:33,143 --> 00:43:34,678 It can damage our kidneys. 1028 00:43:34,712 --> 00:43:39,283 Some even cancers will grow or exacerbate 1029 00:43:39,316 --> 00:43:40,851 because of high levels of protein. 1030 00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:42,086 And for somebody 1031 00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:43,354 who is absolutely stuck on protein, 1032 00:43:43,387 --> 00:43:44,688 that's their big issue. 1033 00:43:44,722 --> 00:43:45,923 I'm not sure I'm gonna get enough. 1034 00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:48,025 Get in your car, go to the nearest rural area, 1035 00:43:48,058 --> 00:43:50,461 pick out the biggest bull that you can find, 1036 00:43:50,494 --> 00:43:52,730 then go to the nearest racetrack, 1037 00:43:52,763 --> 00:43:56,467 find the fastest, biggest, most muscular stallion. 1038 00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:58,969 Go to the zoo, look at the tallest giraffe, 1039 00:43:59,003 --> 00:44:00,838 the biggest elephant and all those animals 1040 00:44:00,871 --> 00:44:04,842 with rippling muscles are vegans, 1041 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:06,810 they're getting all the protein they need 1042 00:44:06,844 --> 00:44:10,147 entirely from plant sources and you will too. 1043 00:44:16,854 --> 00:44:18,122 If you go back 10,000 years, 1044 00:44:18,155 --> 00:44:20,724 you look at old skeleton's fossils, 1045 00:44:20,758 --> 00:44:22,893 people had no cavities, people had these perfect teeth. 1046 00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:24,028 You go back, you think wait a second, 1047 00:44:24,061 --> 00:44:25,429 they never brushed a day in their lives, 1048 00:44:25,462 --> 00:44:28,232 no Listerine, no water pick, no flossing. 1049 00:44:28,265 --> 00:44:31,001 Yeah, but no candy bars. 1050 00:44:31,035 --> 00:44:32,970 Before the invention of the candy bar, 1051 00:44:33,003 --> 00:44:34,038 they had perfect teeth, I mean... 1052 00:44:34,071 --> 00:44:35,239 you think, 1053 00:44:35,272 --> 00:44:37,875 our bodies would have evolved to like 1054 00:44:37,908 --> 00:44:39,843 have our teeth fall out? Doesn't make a lot of sense. 1055 00:44:39,877 --> 00:44:41,311 Okay, but so, 1056 00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:45,482 cavities are completely preventable through diet. 1057 00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:46,817 We say, wait a second, 1058 00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:47,684 if they're completely preventable 1059 00:44:47,718 --> 00:44:49,753 why do people continue to get cavities? 1060 00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:53,157 Well, people like dessert that kinda out weighs 1061 00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:54,925 the cost and discomfort of the dentist chair. 1062 00:44:54,958 --> 00:44:56,794 And look that's fine, right. 1063 00:44:56,827 --> 00:44:59,463 Look, I enjoy the occasional indulgence. 1064 00:44:59,496 --> 00:45:01,532 I got a good dental plan, right? 1065 00:45:01,565 --> 00:45:02,399 All right, but what if 1066 00:45:02,433 --> 00:45:04,802 instead of the plaque on our teeth, 1067 00:45:04,835 --> 00:45:07,504 we're talking about the atherosclerotic plaque 1068 00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:09,907 building up inside of our arteries, right. 1069 00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:12,376 Then what are the consequences for you and your family? 1070 00:45:12,409 --> 00:45:14,945 Now, we're not talking about scraping tartar anymore. 1071 00:45:14,978 --> 00:45:18,749 Now, we're talking literally life or death. 1072 00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:21,485 If you had told me, 1073 00:45:21,518 --> 00:45:24,521 the stuff I know now affects my health, 1074 00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:26,323 I would have thought you were crazy. 1075 00:45:27,524 --> 00:45:30,861 I was 57, I thought I was too young to have a stroke. 1076 00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:35,099 When Pam and I got married, I weighed 140. 1077 00:45:35,132 --> 00:45:38,035 As I got older that increased about, 1078 00:45:38,068 --> 00:45:39,937 I don't know, 10 pounds a year or so 1079 00:45:39,970 --> 00:45:43,841 when I had my stroke, I was at 240... 1080 00:45:43,874 --> 00:45:44,808 almost 250. 1081 00:45:46,443 --> 00:45:48,078 He didn't know how to do anything. 1082 00:45:48,112 --> 00:45:49,546 He didn't know me as his wife. 1083 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:50,581 According to my wife, 1084 00:45:50,614 --> 00:45:53,117 I had the mentality of about a three year old. 1085 00:45:53,150 --> 00:45:56,820 Even to go to take a shower or bath, 1086 00:45:56,854 --> 00:45:57,721 he wasn't sure what to do. 1087 00:45:57,754 --> 00:45:59,323 He'd just go in there and he'd stand. 1088 00:45:59,356 --> 00:46:00,491 When I had my stroke 1089 00:46:00,524 --> 00:46:03,127 they diagnosed that I had diabetes 1090 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,430 and I was untreated for approximately 10 years. 1091 00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:09,466 Pretty soon the doctor set me down, 1092 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:12,302 he tore off my chart 1093 00:46:12,336 --> 00:46:15,072 after my stress test was going on and he says, 1094 00:46:15,105 --> 00:46:16,106 you see anything wrong with that? 1095 00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:17,508 And handed it to the doctor. 1096 00:46:17,541 --> 00:46:20,144 When that was done, they came out and said, 1097 00:46:20,177 --> 00:46:21,912 "We need to do immediate surgery." 1098 00:46:21,945 --> 00:46:23,347 I was pretty high risk, 1099 00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:26,250 because I'd had a stroke and the way I looked at it, 1100 00:46:26,283 --> 00:46:29,353 if I didn't have surgery I was gonna die anyhow. 1101 00:46:29,386 --> 00:46:31,088 He came through the heart surgery, 1102 00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:33,991 he did good but he... 1103 00:46:34,024 --> 00:46:35,893 he still never got any better. 1104 00:46:35,926 --> 00:46:38,629 I had a stroke, I had to live with that. 1105 00:46:38,662 --> 00:46:41,031 I was diabetic, I had to live with that 1106 00:46:41,064 --> 00:46:43,901 and I had a basket of pills I had to live with that. 1107 00:46:48,172 --> 00:46:50,607 Every 34 seconds someone in the United States 1108 00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:51,675 has a heart attack, 1109 00:46:51,708 --> 00:46:54,111 and in case you haven't heard one in three women 1110 00:46:54,144 --> 00:46:55,612 will die of heart disease. 1111 00:46:55,646 --> 00:46:57,447 I didn't go into medicine 1112 00:46:57,481 --> 00:46:59,349 to help people get a little bit better here, 1113 00:46:59,383 --> 00:47:00,584 little bit better there. 1114 00:47:00,617 --> 00:47:03,320 I really wanted transformational change 1115 00:47:03,353 --> 00:47:04,621 and I was becoming disillusioned. 1116 00:47:04,655 --> 00:47:07,491 It's the whole mindset of our medical culture. 1117 00:47:07,524 --> 00:47:10,561 We're taught as medical students and physicians 1118 00:47:10,594 --> 00:47:14,665 to treat the bad outcomes of our horrific health habits. 1119 00:47:14,698 --> 00:47:19,369 I used to work every Christmas and Easter. 1120 00:47:19,403 --> 00:47:23,307 Six to eight hours after that big holiday meal, 1121 00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:27,945 we would see the strokes, we would see the heart attacks. 1122 00:47:27,978 --> 00:47:29,913 It was just amazing. 1123 00:47:29,947 --> 00:47:33,183 Nobody puts these things together 1124 00:47:33,217 --> 00:47:35,652 and says, "Dear Lord, 1125 00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:38,422 people are eating themselves to death." 1126 00:47:41,592 --> 00:47:46,563 My blood sugar west 441, I had five blockages, 1127 00:47:46,597 --> 00:47:48,565 two of 'em were 100 percent, 1128 00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:51,435 two was 80 and one was 70 percent. 1129 00:47:51,468 --> 00:47:54,972 I was on 13 pills a day and two shots. 1130 00:47:55,005 --> 00:47:56,673 I had seven stents 1131 00:47:56,707 --> 00:47:59,276 in my original right coronary artery. 1132 00:47:59,309 --> 00:48:00,711 They just kind of dismissed 1133 00:48:00,744 --> 00:48:03,447 that it was anything to do with food 1134 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,383 that it was more family genetics 1135 00:48:06,416 --> 00:48:10,587 that I had a double whammy, because I was diabetic. 1136 00:48:10,621 --> 00:48:12,589 Since the days of Hipocrates, 1137 00:48:12,623 --> 00:48:15,359 there's almost been a basic covenant of trust 1138 00:48:15,392 --> 00:48:16,693 between the caregiver and the patient 1139 00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:18,462 that were ever possible. 1140 00:48:18,495 --> 00:48:20,697 The caregiver is going to share with the patient, 1141 00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:22,699 what is the causation of the illness. 1142 00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:24,568 And today in Cardiology, 1143 00:48:24,601 --> 00:48:26,970 generally, that's just not being done at all. 1144 00:48:27,004 --> 00:48:28,238 Not at all. 1145 00:48:31,275 --> 00:48:32,109 We cut people open. 1146 00:48:32,142 --> 00:48:33,710 We'd bypass their clogged arteries. 1147 00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:34,678 We'd tell them they were cured 1148 00:48:34,711 --> 00:48:36,213 and more often than not, they would go home 1149 00:48:36,246 --> 00:48:37,281 and do all the things 1150 00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:38,982 that had caused the problem in the first place. 1151 00:48:39,016 --> 00:48:41,118 You know, smoke and eat junk food 1152 00:48:41,151 --> 00:48:43,120 and more often than not, the bypasses would clog up 1153 00:48:43,153 --> 00:48:44,721 and we would cut them open again sometimes 1154 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:45,989 two or three times. 1155 00:48:46,023 --> 00:48:46,923 And so for me, 1156 00:48:46,957 --> 00:48:48,659 we were literally bypassing the problem. 1157 00:48:48,692 --> 00:48:50,661 We weren't really treating the underlying cause. 1158 00:48:50,694 --> 00:48:51,995 If you had a nail 1159 00:48:52,029 --> 00:48:53,997 stuck in the bottom of your shoe 1160 00:48:54,031 --> 00:48:56,233 and every time you stepped down it hurt your foot 1161 00:48:56,266 --> 00:48:58,735 because that nail's poking your foot. 1162 00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:01,104 I could give you some tylenol or advil and say, 1163 00:49:01,138 --> 00:49:02,706 "Well, just keep going on." 1164 00:49:02,739 --> 00:49:05,709 Or I could say, "I believe we've found the cause, 1165 00:49:05,742 --> 00:49:07,778 let's remove that nail from your shoe 1166 00:49:07,811 --> 00:49:10,013 and you don't need any medication." 1167 00:49:10,047 --> 00:49:10,914 That's the way it is 1168 00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:12,516 with the whole food plant based diet. 1169 00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:16,453 As a youngster, 1170 00:49:16,486 --> 00:49:18,789 my own family had a lot of health issues, 1171 00:49:18,822 --> 00:49:22,259 and as a kid I remember my two favorite uncles 1172 00:49:22,292 --> 00:49:24,795 having to have bypass surgery. 1173 00:49:24,828 --> 00:49:27,597 And these were people who I loved 1174 00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:29,399 and they were never the same after the surgery. 1175 00:49:32,669 --> 00:49:34,438 And then one day, I start waking up 1176 00:49:34,471 --> 00:49:36,473 with the most severe pains in the morning. 1177 00:49:36,506 --> 00:49:38,175 I jut knew something was really bad 1178 00:49:38,208 --> 00:49:39,743 but I kept thinking, maybe It'll just go away. 1179 00:49:39,776 --> 00:49:41,712 You know, I just wanted to believe anything 1180 00:49:41,745 --> 00:49:44,281 but, oh, my goodness, I've got some heart issues. 1181 00:49:44,314 --> 00:49:45,749 I went to the Cleveland Clinic. 1182 00:49:45,782 --> 00:49:49,219 I had a 100 percent on my right artery blocked 1183 00:49:49,252 --> 00:49:50,654 and two at 65 percent. 1184 00:49:50,687 --> 00:49:52,089 I had a hardening 1185 00:49:52,122 --> 00:49:53,623 on the right side of the artery. 1186 00:49:53,657 --> 00:49:55,792 I also had left bundle block, 1187 00:49:55,826 --> 00:49:57,794 I had an enlarged heart, I had leaky valves, 1188 00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:58,895 I was a real mess. 1189 00:49:58,929 --> 00:50:01,298 Even though we tend to think of advances in medicine 1190 00:50:01,331 --> 00:50:02,799 as being a new drug or new laser 1191 00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:05,535 or something really high-tech and expensive. 1192 00:50:05,569 --> 00:50:08,538 In our studies over the last, almost 40 years now, 1193 00:50:08,572 --> 00:50:10,841 we've used these very high-tech expensive 1194 00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:13,076 state of the art scientific measures 1195 00:50:13,110 --> 00:50:13,777 to prove how powerful 1196 00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:15,579 this very simple and low tech 1197 00:50:15,612 --> 00:50:18,315 and low cost interventions can be. 1198 00:50:18,348 --> 00:50:19,716 And we found for the first time 1199 00:50:19,750 --> 00:50:22,185 that not only can you help prevent disease, 1200 00:50:22,219 --> 00:50:24,254 but you can actually reverse it in most cases. 1201 00:50:24,287 --> 00:50:27,324 What Ornish showed in 1990 1202 00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:30,594 in the most prestigious medical journal in the world, 1203 00:50:30,627 --> 00:50:34,331 he could measure and show that the arteries 1204 00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:37,434 were opening up without drugs, without surgery 1205 00:50:37,467 --> 00:50:39,269 just, you know, plant based diet, 1206 00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:41,438 and other healthy lifestyle changes. 1207 00:50:41,471 --> 00:50:43,874 After that publication, 1208 00:50:43,907 --> 00:50:45,876 no one else should have died of heart disease. 1209 00:50:45,909 --> 00:50:47,110 We had the cure. 1210 00:50:47,144 --> 00:50:49,446 We've had it for decades 1211 00:50:49,479 --> 00:50:54,551 yet hundreds of thousands of people continue to die 1212 00:50:54,584 --> 00:50:59,322 from this preventable, treatable, reversible disease. 1213 00:51:01,925 --> 00:51:04,795 The catheter is again in the aorta now, in the left main, 1214 00:51:04,828 --> 00:51:05,862 an injecting dye in the left main 1215 00:51:05,896 --> 00:51:08,298 and if you look very closely, I'll slow it down, 1216 00:51:08,331 --> 00:51:10,167 you can see there is a significant 1217 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:11,401 narrowing of the vessel right here. 1218 00:51:11,435 --> 00:51:12,903 See this is a normal vessel here, 1219 00:51:12,936 --> 00:51:15,572 this is a circumflex vessel and if you look right here, 1220 00:51:15,605 --> 00:51:20,744 it's very hazy and so that's the cholesterol plaque, 1221 00:51:20,777 --> 00:51:23,814 that is limiting the flow significantly down this vessel, 1222 00:51:23,847 --> 00:51:25,215 so the patient comes in with a heart attack 1223 00:51:25,248 --> 00:51:27,317 or comes in with chest pain. 1224 00:51:27,350 --> 00:51:29,386 Most of what I do are coronary bypass grafts 1225 00:51:29,419 --> 00:51:31,755 and Oklahoma is number two in the nation 1226 00:51:31,788 --> 00:51:34,224 for death from cardiovascular disease 1227 00:51:34,257 --> 00:51:35,325 and it's because the way we eat. 1228 00:51:35,358 --> 00:51:36,426 There is no question about it. 1229 00:51:38,195 --> 00:51:41,832 About six years ago, I woke up with left arm pain. 1230 00:51:41,865 --> 00:51:45,602 I went to my cardiologist, my cholesterol was 494, 1231 00:51:45,635 --> 00:51:48,305 my triglycerides were over 3200. 1232 00:51:48,338 --> 00:51:50,373 I had a stress test, it was abnormal. 1233 00:51:53,877 --> 00:51:57,781 I had a 85 percent blockage of my left anterior descending. 1234 00:51:57,814 --> 00:51:59,950 An 80 percent a little further down stream 1235 00:51:59,983 --> 00:52:03,186 and a 70 percent of my right main coronary. 1236 00:52:03,220 --> 00:52:05,188 And he said that it was too big to stent 1237 00:52:05,222 --> 00:52:07,357 so he recommended I have a triple bypass. 1238 00:52:07,390 --> 00:52:08,625 It was like a slap in the face 1239 00:52:08,658 --> 00:52:10,760 'cause it just never crossed my mind 1240 00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:11,795 that that would happen. 1241 00:52:11,828 --> 00:52:12,963 So many of our friends had, 1242 00:52:12,996 --> 00:52:14,331 you know, had this happen 1243 00:52:14,364 --> 00:52:15,365 and they went in and they had the stents 1244 00:52:15,398 --> 00:52:16,399 and they were fine 1245 00:52:16,433 --> 00:52:18,668 and that was what we were gonna do, you know. 1246 00:52:18,702 --> 00:52:22,339 So, it was, it was a real wakeup call. 1247 00:52:22,372 --> 00:52:25,475 One of my partners recommended that I read the China Study. 1248 00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:28,778 I had read that the Saturday before they arteriogram, 1249 00:52:28,812 --> 00:52:30,380 and in that book is mentioned 1250 00:52:30,413 --> 00:52:31,948 Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease 1251 00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:35,785 by Dr. Esselstyn and so I found that book, 1252 00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:37,621 read it literally that day, 1253 00:52:37,654 --> 00:52:40,891 called my cardiologist and said, 1254 00:52:40,924 --> 00:52:43,860 "I think I wanna try diet before I have bypass." 1255 00:52:43,894 --> 00:52:46,196 And it literally scared him to death. 1256 00:52:50,567 --> 00:52:53,003 Don't let your culture hold your heart hostage. 1257 00:52:53,036 --> 00:52:55,572 Hey, it's in the family genes, I'm gonna get it, 1258 00:52:55,605 --> 00:52:57,274 I'm gonna die of something, 1259 00:52:57,307 --> 00:52:58,975 why not let me eat what I wanna eat 1260 00:52:59,009 --> 00:52:59,976 and enjoy life. 1261 00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:01,244 I hear that all the time. 1262 00:53:01,278 --> 00:53:02,946 It's very common for people 1263 00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:06,416 who have a family history of heart disease 1264 00:53:06,449 --> 00:53:09,686 to have a family history of eating 1265 00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,989 a very poor, low nutritive quality diet, 1266 00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:15,525 high in junk food, high in salt, sugar and fat. 1267 00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:18,895 One of my sites that I work at is a heart hospital. 1268 00:53:18,929 --> 00:53:21,031 I see patients that come in there, not infrequently, 1269 00:53:21,064 --> 00:53:22,933 who are about my age, built like me, 1270 00:53:22,966 --> 00:53:24,501 they come in with heart attacks. 1271 00:53:24,534 --> 00:53:27,437 They're thin and healthy on the outside 1272 00:53:27,470 --> 00:53:29,573 but on the inside their arteries 1273 00:53:29,606 --> 00:53:32,742 are filled up with saturated fat and cholesterol 1274 00:53:32,776 --> 00:53:34,010 and inflammation. 1275 00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:37,013 They're very surprised by it when it happens 1276 00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:41,618 but I see how my friends eat after a bike ride for instance. 1277 00:53:41,651 --> 00:53:44,287 Exercise is great for many different reasons. 1278 00:53:44,321 --> 00:53:47,023 But exercise alone is not enough 1279 00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:50,860 and a plant based lifestyle is incredibly beneficial 1280 00:53:50,894 --> 00:53:53,029 because it reduces the risk of so many diseases 1281 00:53:53,063 --> 00:53:54,097 that affect us. 1282 00:53:54,130 --> 00:53:56,800 The whole truth will come out one of these days. 1283 00:53:56,833 --> 00:53:58,568 Truth cannot be suppressed for too long. 1284 00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:02,639 Erectile dysfunction to a urologist is ED, 1285 00:54:02,672 --> 00:54:04,941 but when a cardiologist hears ED, 1286 00:54:04,975 --> 00:54:06,643 that's early death. 1287 00:54:06,676 --> 00:54:09,579 Erectile dysfunction is sort of the bad boy in the block 1288 00:54:09,613 --> 00:54:10,880 'cause nobody wants to talk about it. 1289 00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:11,881 But in general, 1290 00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:13,984 statistics are pretty earth shattering, right. 1291 00:54:14,017 --> 00:54:16,920 Roughly, 40 percentage of men at age 40, 50 at 50, 1292 00:54:16,953 --> 00:54:19,422 60 at 60 and then by the time we are 100, 1293 00:54:19,456 --> 00:54:20,657 we're all in trouble. 1294 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,997 The problem is when person develops ED, 1295 00:54:27,030 --> 00:54:28,965 that's the first sign 1296 00:54:28,999 --> 00:54:31,668 that there is some problem in the blood vessels. 1297 00:54:31,701 --> 00:54:34,337 The pathophysiology is the same as coronary artery disease. 1298 00:54:34,371 --> 00:54:36,072 The obstruction of the arteries 1299 00:54:36,106 --> 00:54:38,975 to the penis by plaques that develop in there. 1300 00:54:39,009 --> 00:54:40,343 They're much smaller arteries going to the penis 1301 00:54:40,377 --> 00:54:41,578 than to your heart and that's what why 1302 00:54:41,611 --> 00:54:43,380 we typically see those symptoms develop first. 1303 00:54:43,413 --> 00:54:44,848 Most people don't realize 1304 00:54:44,881 --> 00:54:48,351 that cardiovascular disease is a systemic disease process 1305 00:54:48,385 --> 00:54:49,919 that means if you have a heart attack 1306 00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:52,122 you're at risk for ED and peripheral arterial disease 1307 00:54:52,155 --> 00:54:54,124 and stroke and dementia 1308 00:54:54,157 --> 00:54:55,992 and so in short people need to realize that 1309 00:54:56,026 --> 00:54:58,128 when they have a stent and they fix one little area, 1310 00:54:58,161 --> 00:55:00,030 it does not cure the problem. 1311 00:55:00,063 --> 00:55:02,599 It simply solves one little spot 1312 00:55:02,632 --> 00:55:04,134 and so ED is no different. 1313 00:55:04,167 --> 00:55:06,069 It's kind of a warning signal that 1314 00:55:06,102 --> 00:55:09,372 well, that's not working well. 1315 00:55:09,406 --> 00:55:11,374 And if that's not working well 1316 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:14,844 we know you're not getting the oxygen supply 1317 00:55:14,878 --> 00:55:17,080 to your brain and to your heart. 1318 00:55:18,481 --> 00:55:21,685 Where cardiovascular disease has its inception 1319 00:55:21,718 --> 00:55:24,621 is when we progressively destroy 1320 00:55:24,654 --> 00:55:27,490 the capacity of our lifejacket and our guardian 1321 00:55:27,524 --> 00:55:30,627 which is the inner most layer of the artery, 1322 00:55:30,660 --> 00:55:31,828 the endothelium. 1323 00:55:31,861 --> 00:55:34,497 The damage to the endothelium begins 1324 00:55:34,531 --> 00:55:38,668 when an excess LDL cholesterol is absorbed 1325 00:55:38,702 --> 00:55:40,737 The resulting inflammatory response 1326 00:55:40,770 --> 00:55:43,506 triggers immune cells called macrophages. 1327 00:55:43,540 --> 00:55:44,908 They enter the vessel wall 1328 00:55:44,941 --> 00:55:47,444 and begin to gobble up the excess cholesterol 1329 00:55:47,477 --> 00:55:49,112 creating these foam cells. 1330 00:55:49,145 --> 00:55:53,883 Now, these large cholesterol laden foam cells accumulate 1331 00:55:53,917 --> 00:55:57,187 resulting in plaque build up from the inside out 1332 00:55:57,220 --> 00:55:59,155 causing a pimple like area 1333 00:55:59,189 --> 00:56:02,158 to bulge into our artery passage ways. 1334 00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:05,161 Over time, the covering of these pimples can rupture 1335 00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:06,429 triggering a blood clot 1336 00:56:06,463 --> 00:56:08,498 that can block normal blood flow 1337 00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:13,670 to an area resulting in a heart attack or a stroke. 1338 00:56:13,703 --> 00:56:16,172 Back in 1900, we consumed about 4 pounds of oil 1339 00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:20,677 per person per year, currently 74 pounds. 1340 00:56:20,710 --> 00:56:24,581 So, we have added a tremendous amount of oil to our lives. 1341 00:56:24,614 --> 00:56:27,617 All oil is a 120 calories a table spoon, 1342 00:56:27,650 --> 00:56:28,918 and most Americans consuming 1343 00:56:28,952 --> 00:56:32,589 between 250 and 700 calories of oil a day. 1344 00:56:32,622 --> 00:56:34,524 You're taking the oil, 1345 00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:37,494 removing it from the original item 1346 00:56:37,527 --> 00:56:40,497 whether it be an olive, whether it be a Soy bean, 1347 00:56:40,530 --> 00:56:41,731 whether it be a coconut 1348 00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:43,566 and you're isolating that oil out. 1349 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,804 When you isolate that oil, you have 100 percent fat. 1350 00:56:47,837 --> 00:56:51,040 Fats in oils are a major contributor 1351 00:56:51,074 --> 00:56:53,209 to blocked heart arteries, 1352 00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:56,479 high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 1353 00:56:56,513 --> 00:56:58,148 heart attacks, heart failure. 1354 00:56:58,181 --> 00:57:01,151 Oil injures endothelial cells. 1355 00:57:01,184 --> 00:57:03,953 Olive oil, corn oil, Soy bean oil, safflower oil, 1356 00:57:03,987 --> 00:57:07,157 sunflower oil, coconut oil, palm oil, oil in a cracker, 1357 00:57:07,190 --> 00:57:10,059 oil in bread, oil in a salad dressing. 1358 00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:12,095 So I have a number of people even on a plant based diet, 1359 00:57:12,128 --> 00:57:13,229 that will come in and say 1360 00:57:13,263 --> 00:57:15,098 Dr. Stoll, I'm eating really well 1361 00:57:15,131 --> 00:57:16,733 but I'm still gaining weight. 1362 00:57:16,766 --> 00:57:17,967 And my first question to them 1363 00:57:18,001 --> 00:57:20,570 is well, how much olive oil, coconut oil etc 1364 00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:22,105 are you using in your diet? 1365 00:57:22,138 --> 00:57:23,807 When they start to add it up, 1366 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,610 sometimes they're adding five, six, tablespoons a day. 1367 00:57:27,644 --> 00:57:30,513 So, here we are, you know, 600, 700 calories 1368 00:57:30,547 --> 00:57:32,549 they're adding to their diet and they don't realize it 1369 00:57:32,582 --> 00:57:34,951 because they're adding in oils that they assume are healthy. 1370 00:57:34,984 --> 00:57:37,153 There aren't some special oils you can buy 1371 00:57:37,187 --> 00:57:38,188 that are health promoting. 1372 00:57:38,221 --> 00:57:40,190 They're all processed foods 1373 00:57:40,223 --> 00:57:42,559 with almost no levels of micronutrients 1374 00:57:42,592 --> 00:57:44,527 and phytochemicals in them, with no fiber. 1375 00:57:44,561 --> 00:57:49,199 Coconut oil is 90 percent saturated fat. 1376 00:57:49,232 --> 00:57:51,835 Lard is 43 percent saturated fat. 1377 00:57:51,868 --> 00:57:53,570 The coconut oil miracle 1378 00:57:53,603 --> 00:57:54,604 is that it's still on the market. 1379 00:57:54,637 --> 00:57:55,805 And so when we just 1380 00:57:55,839 --> 00:57:57,607 hear little clips on the news, 1381 00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,877 maybe on the internet, it says olive oil is the way to go. 1382 00:58:00,910 --> 00:58:02,278 We grab on to that 1383 00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:05,548 and unfortunately it's bad information. 1384 00:58:05,582 --> 00:58:07,150 Here I am, I'm just out of recovery 1385 00:58:07,183 --> 00:58:08,852 from my heart catheter 1386 00:58:08,885 --> 00:58:10,887 and he looks at me and says, you know, 1387 00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:14,557 "I think I'd like you to meet Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, 1388 00:58:14,591 --> 00:58:16,292 he was my mentor at medical school. 1389 00:58:16,326 --> 00:58:18,895 Sure enough the next morning, he gave me a call, 1390 00:58:18,928 --> 00:58:20,263 he said, "I want you to read this book, 1391 00:58:20,296 --> 00:58:21,664 Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease 1392 00:58:21,698 --> 00:58:22,832 and call me back." 1393 00:58:22,866 --> 00:58:24,067 There is hard science out there 1394 00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:27,737 that you can halt and reverse this disease with nutrition. 1395 00:58:27,770 --> 00:58:29,038 There is a common feeling 1396 00:58:29,072 --> 00:58:31,040 that, oh well patients won't do that. 1397 00:58:31,074 --> 00:58:32,909 Well, nothing is further from the truth. 1398 00:58:32,942 --> 00:58:35,578 I read it, within a few days I called him back 1399 00:58:35,612 --> 00:58:36,746 and I said, "I'm in. 1400 00:58:36,779 --> 00:58:38,615 I'll do whatever you want me to do." 1401 00:58:38,648 --> 00:58:41,217 When folks are willing to change their, 1402 00:58:41,251 --> 00:58:44,354 you know, 50, 60, 70 year old worth of habits, 1403 00:58:44,387 --> 00:58:46,589 it's amazing watching cure 1404 00:58:46,623 --> 00:58:47,590 for the first time in my career. 1405 00:58:47,624 --> 00:58:51,294 I really believe that diet is the primary way 1406 00:58:51,327 --> 00:58:53,162 that we need to change things. 1407 00:58:53,196 --> 00:58:55,298 I've been now plant based for almost three years. 1408 00:58:55,331 --> 00:58:58,902 What it's done is at that time my cholesterol was 310, 1409 00:58:58,935 --> 00:59:01,337 today it's at 143. 1410 00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:02,872 Plant based nutrition 1411 00:59:02,906 --> 00:59:05,675 has allowed me to have more energy 1412 00:59:05,708 --> 00:59:08,077 than I've ever felt in my life. 1413 00:59:08,111 --> 00:59:12,115 The body is a natural self healing machine 1414 00:59:12,148 --> 00:59:15,652 and disease in unnatural, avoidable 1415 00:59:15,685 --> 00:59:18,588 and in most cases reversible with superior nutrition. 1416 00:59:22,659 --> 00:59:24,627 What I thought I knew about healthy eating 1417 00:59:24,661 --> 00:59:26,629 almost killed me. 1418 00:59:26,663 --> 00:59:29,632 One moment, I was eating meat with every meal. 1419 00:59:29,666 --> 00:59:32,402 The next moment, whole food, plant based. 1420 00:59:32,435 --> 00:59:34,637 A very drastic change overnight. 1421 00:59:34,671 --> 00:59:38,942 Within six months my cholesterol was down to 115, 1422 00:59:38,975 --> 00:59:42,779 my LDL was 15, which was as low as they can measure. 1423 00:59:42,812 --> 00:59:45,782 My triglycerides had fallen to a 175. 1424 00:59:45,815 --> 00:59:47,784 The last time I had my cholesterol checked, 1425 00:59:47,817 --> 00:59:51,721 it was 96 and my triglycerides were 97. 1426 00:59:51,754 --> 00:59:55,391 And there's not a drug on the planet that can do that. 1427 00:59:55,425 --> 00:59:58,661 That is solely through diet and I'm just utterly amazed 1428 00:59:58,695 --> 01:00:01,331 that the human body has the ability 1429 01:00:01,364 --> 01:00:04,901 to heal itself so quickly. 1430 01:00:04,934 --> 01:00:08,972 You know I abused my body for 53 years, 1431 01:00:09,005 --> 01:00:11,407 I'm currently 59 and I feel better now 1432 01:00:11,441 --> 01:00:13,443 than I felt when I was 35. 1433 01:00:13,476 --> 01:00:16,112 Genetics is not our destiny. 1434 01:00:16,145 --> 01:00:20,116 Our genes can be directly affected by the food we eat. 1435 01:00:20,149 --> 01:00:21,451 We know that you can reverse heart disease 1436 01:00:21,484 --> 01:00:23,319 with plant based diet, we know this, 1437 01:00:23,353 --> 01:00:24,253 you cannot do with medication, 1438 01:00:24,287 --> 01:00:25,455 but you can do it with a plant based diet. 1439 01:00:25,488 --> 01:00:26,756 And when they ask doctors, 1440 01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:28,458 "Why don't you teach people this?" 1441 01:00:28,491 --> 01:00:29,759 They say, "They don't think 1442 01:00:29,792 --> 01:00:30,960 people are going to want to do it, 1443 01:00:30,994 --> 01:00:33,262 it's too difficult" Well, 1444 01:00:33,296 --> 01:00:34,330 let them be the judge of that. 1445 01:00:34,364 --> 01:00:36,366 I think it's too difficult to go under the knife 1446 01:00:36,399 --> 01:00:38,034 and have my chest cracked open, 1447 01:00:38,067 --> 01:00:39,268 you know, but give people the chance, 1448 01:00:39,302 --> 01:00:41,304 the opportunity. 1449 01:00:41,337 --> 01:00:42,839 Two weeks after starting 1450 01:00:42,872 --> 01:00:46,109 the whole food plant based diet with no oil, 1451 01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:48,745 my angina had all of a sudden stopped. 1452 01:00:48,778 --> 01:00:51,848 By the time I went back to my internist, 1453 01:00:51,881 --> 01:00:55,018 my hemoglobin A1C was coming down. 1454 01:00:55,051 --> 01:00:56,452 They took me off the shots, 1455 01:00:56,486 --> 01:00:59,455 they took me off of the starlix pills. 1456 01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:03,993 Within a couple months later I went off the metformin. 1457 01:01:04,027 --> 01:01:06,295 The doctor said, I don't think you're diabetic. 1458 01:01:06,329 --> 01:01:08,131 I don't have any arthritis anymore. 1459 01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:09,732 I'm enjoying life, 1460 01:01:09,766 --> 01:01:11,734 I love the food that I'm eating, 1461 01:01:11,768 --> 01:01:14,437 I would say the bottom-line to all of my health issues 1462 01:01:14,470 --> 01:01:16,472 is you don't have to suffer 1463 01:01:16,506 --> 01:01:19,142 with heart disease and diabetes, 1464 01:01:19,175 --> 01:01:21,778 because it's food borne illnesses, 1465 01:01:21,811 --> 01:01:24,347 and if food is what got you into this mess, 1466 01:01:24,380 --> 01:01:25,481 food can get you out of it. 1467 01:01:29,786 --> 01:01:33,389 By definition, a mammal makes milk for its young, 1468 01:01:33,423 --> 01:01:37,326 and so a horse makes milk perfect for its foal, 1469 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,930 and a human being makes milk perfect for the infant, 1470 01:01:40,963 --> 01:01:43,800 and a cow makes milk perfect for her calf. 1471 01:01:43,833 --> 01:01:46,502 The thing is that we have different nutritional needs 1472 01:01:46,536 --> 01:01:48,771 when we're young than a calf has. 1473 01:01:48,805 --> 01:01:49,872 They grow real fast. 1474 01:01:49,906 --> 01:01:53,443 A little baby calf grows from 60 pounds to 600 pounds 1475 01:01:53,476 --> 01:01:54,777 drinking milk. 1476 01:01:54,811 --> 01:01:57,513 If you fed a baby calf human milk, 1477 01:01:57,547 --> 01:01:58,815 the animal would starve to death. 1478 01:01:58,848 --> 01:02:00,550 So when people eat baby calf food 1479 01:02:00,583 --> 01:02:02,418 designed to accelerated growth 1480 01:02:02,452 --> 01:02:03,953 they grow, people get fat. 1481 01:02:03,986 --> 01:02:06,055 We know the protein from dairy casein 1482 01:02:06,089 --> 01:02:07,924 is a cancer promoter on the DNA level. 1483 01:02:07,957 --> 01:02:10,093 It actually tells your DNA go ahead and make some cancer. 1484 01:02:10,126 --> 01:02:15,131 The earlier you introduce young children to dairy, 1485 01:02:15,398 --> 01:02:18,534 the higher their risk, about 14 fold higher 1486 01:02:18,568 --> 01:02:20,903 to develop a devastating disease 1487 01:02:20,937 --> 01:02:23,906 called diabetes type 1, which is an autoimmune disease 1488 01:02:23,940 --> 01:02:26,542 that destroys the pancreas irreversibly. 1489 01:02:26,576 --> 01:02:29,212 Dairy calcium is kind have been made into a myth 1490 01:02:29,245 --> 01:02:31,581 that if I eat cheese or I drink milk 1491 01:02:31,614 --> 01:02:34,550 and have a good calcium intake from dairy 1492 01:02:34,584 --> 01:02:35,384 that I'll have strong bones 1493 01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:37,286 and that's actually not been proven 1494 01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:38,821 in the literature at all. 1495 01:02:38,855 --> 01:02:39,922 When I look at people, 1496 01:02:39,956 --> 01:02:41,324 and they're drinking all this milk to try to combat 1497 01:02:41,357 --> 01:02:42,925 the osteopenia and osteoporosis, 1498 01:02:42,959 --> 01:02:44,393 I tell them that the countries 1499 01:02:44,427 --> 01:02:47,530 that consume the most dairy have the weakest bones. 1500 01:02:47,563 --> 01:02:48,598 And they're like, what do you mean, 1501 01:02:48,631 --> 01:02:50,333 I say "Well, most of Asia didn't have osteoporosis 1502 01:02:50,366 --> 01:02:51,934 up until recent times 1503 01:02:51,968 --> 01:02:53,603 and they didn't drink milk at all." 1504 01:02:53,636 --> 01:02:55,071 If you don't drink milk, 1505 01:02:55,104 --> 01:02:56,205 where are you going to get your calcium? 1506 01:02:56,239 --> 01:02:58,441 Where do you think the cow gets their calcium, right? 1507 01:02:58,474 --> 01:03:02,145 They have a thousand pound skeleton, that's a lot it, 1508 01:03:02,178 --> 01:03:03,613 they get it from plants, right. 1509 01:03:03,646 --> 01:03:04,947 Start everyday 1510 01:03:04,981 --> 01:03:06,949 with milks' protein and milk life. 1511 01:03:06,983 --> 01:03:11,487 The dairy industry says, oh, milk does the body good. 1512 01:03:11,521 --> 01:03:14,390 We're believing advertising, we're not believing truths. 1513 01:03:20,930 --> 01:03:24,467 In 1999, I had that wake up call. 1514 01:03:24,500 --> 01:03:28,271 I was diagnosed with both breast and cervical cancer. 1515 01:03:28,304 --> 01:03:29,906 So the doctor said 1516 01:03:29,939 --> 01:03:32,608 you've got to have a mastectomy next week, 1517 01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:35,511 you got to have a hysterectomy immediately, 1518 01:03:35,545 --> 01:03:38,614 you got to have chemo, you got to have radiation. 1519 01:03:38,648 --> 01:03:41,150 And I was like a deer in headlights 1520 01:03:41,184 --> 01:03:43,152 and I was like, there's no way. 1521 01:03:43,186 --> 01:03:45,488 All of the doctors were pretty clear 1522 01:03:45,521 --> 01:03:47,356 that they felt that 1523 01:03:47,390 --> 01:03:50,393 I probably wouldn't live longer than a few months, 1524 01:03:50,426 --> 01:03:52,662 because I had cancerous fluid 1525 01:03:52,695 --> 01:03:56,065 that had metastasized from my ovaries, 1526 01:03:56,098 --> 01:03:57,466 all the way up the pleural cavity, 1527 01:03:57,500 --> 01:03:58,501 on my right lung. 1528 01:03:58,534 --> 01:04:00,536 Until you've seen 1529 01:04:00,570 --> 01:04:03,005 a loved one get sick and die in a hospital 1530 01:04:03,039 --> 01:04:04,373 or walk through the halls 1531 01:04:04,407 --> 01:04:06,309 or been to an intensive care unit, 1532 01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:08,044 people don't know. I mean, you drown death, 1533 01:04:08,077 --> 01:04:09,145 when you die with lung cancer, 1534 01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:13,916 I mean horrific, horrific deaths. 1535 01:04:13,950 --> 01:04:16,085 The war on cancer under President Nixon 1536 01:04:16,118 --> 01:04:17,954 started in 1971. 1537 01:04:17,987 --> 01:04:19,689 The incidents rate that is the number of people 1538 01:04:19,722 --> 01:04:23,059 that get cancer was one in eight. 1539 01:04:23,092 --> 01:04:26,262 The survival rate was about 27 percent, 28 percent 1540 01:04:26,295 --> 01:04:27,997 which means a little more than 1541 01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:29,665 70 percent of the patients died. 1542 01:04:29,699 --> 01:04:30,933 Just a couple of years ago, 1543 01:04:30,967 --> 01:04:33,703 the National Cancer Institute published their latest figures, 1544 01:04:33,736 --> 01:04:37,707 the incidents as much higher and the survival rates 1545 01:04:37,740 --> 01:04:41,043 are basically unchanged around 31, 32 percent. 1546 01:04:42,645 --> 01:04:43,512 It's a travesty 1547 01:04:43,546 --> 01:04:46,949 that people continue to suffer and die 1548 01:04:46,983 --> 01:04:49,952 when we have the tools, we have the knowledge, 1549 01:04:49,986 --> 01:04:53,022 we just the system is such, 1550 01:04:53,055 --> 01:04:56,259 it just doesn't reward that kind of behavior. 1551 01:04:56,292 --> 01:04:58,961 It doesn't make anybody money. 1552 01:04:58,995 --> 01:05:01,063 I think that the assumption there 1553 01:05:01,097 --> 01:05:05,701 is that there is a rational helpful benign process 1554 01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:07,737 that's running the show in government 1555 01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:10,439 and there isn't so what's running the show 1556 01:05:10,473 --> 01:05:13,242 is a vicious free for all 1557 01:05:13,276 --> 01:05:15,478 and that nobody is really interested 1558 01:05:15,511 --> 01:05:17,647 in helping Americans get healthy. 1559 01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:19,548 Nobody makes any money sending you home 1560 01:05:19,582 --> 01:05:21,684 to eat your vegetables and drink your water. 1561 01:05:21,717 --> 01:05:24,587 And I think that's probably 1562 01:05:24,620 --> 01:05:26,555 the base root of the whole problem. 1563 01:05:26,589 --> 01:05:29,258 In our morning rounds, how where you live 1564 01:05:29,292 --> 01:05:31,327 affects your odds of surviving cancer. 1565 01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,262 New government data shows people in the south 1566 01:05:33,296 --> 01:05:35,631 have the highest risk of dying from cancer. 1567 01:05:35,665 --> 01:05:37,400 Kentucky ranks number one. 1568 01:05:37,433 --> 01:05:40,603 Cancer defined by modern medicine 1569 01:05:40,636 --> 01:05:43,172 is essentially a wild, erratic cells 1570 01:05:43,205 --> 01:05:45,508 that's growing without control. 1571 01:05:45,541 --> 01:05:48,577 And it's very active metabolically. 1572 01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:50,713 First up, chemotherapy is standard 1573 01:05:50,746 --> 01:05:52,748 for most breast cancer patients. 1574 01:05:52,782 --> 01:05:54,717 I think the whole chemotherapy industry 1575 01:05:54,750 --> 01:05:56,352 is very sad. 1576 01:05:56,385 --> 01:05:59,588 It's based on an assumption that I find to be flawed. 1577 01:05:59,622 --> 01:06:02,358 The way that cancer is assumed to work 1578 01:06:02,391 --> 01:06:07,530 is once started progressively gets worse 1579 01:06:07,563 --> 01:06:11,500 because of certain events to come along like mutations. 1580 01:06:11,534 --> 01:06:13,336 Therefore, that leads to the idea, 1581 01:06:13,369 --> 01:06:15,438 well, how do we treat people with cancer. 1582 01:06:15,471 --> 01:06:18,774 We can't get those cancer cells to go back to being normal. 1583 01:06:18,808 --> 01:06:20,109 What are we going to do? 1584 01:06:20,142 --> 01:06:21,777 We're going to kill them. 1585 01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:23,112 And how best to kill them 1586 01:06:23,145 --> 01:06:24,680 except to have created some chemical 1587 01:06:24,714 --> 01:06:27,516 that can zap those tumors. 1588 01:06:27,550 --> 01:06:29,752 That's called chemotherapy, 1589 01:06:29,785 --> 01:06:33,089 but chemotherapy is not working for the most part. 1590 01:06:33,122 --> 01:06:36,225 The focus on cancer seems to be 1591 01:06:36,258 --> 01:06:39,295 early detection, early detection 1592 01:06:39,328 --> 01:06:43,499 and we have breast cancer awareness month. 1593 01:06:43,532 --> 01:06:47,236 I would like to see, breast cancer prevention month. 1594 01:06:47,269 --> 01:06:48,771 And that could be for all types of cancer, 1595 01:06:48,804 --> 01:06:50,239 not just breast cancer. 1596 01:06:50,272 --> 01:06:53,743 My mom and aunts had had breast, cervical, 1597 01:06:53,776 --> 01:06:55,811 uterine or ovarian cancer. 1598 01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:57,680 They did the surgery, 1599 01:06:57,713 --> 01:07:00,216 the mastectomies and the hysterectomies. 1600 01:07:00,249 --> 01:07:01,717 They did the chemo. 1601 01:07:01,751 --> 01:07:05,554 They did the radiation, and I really saw what that did. 1602 01:07:05,588 --> 01:07:08,657 I saw that not only did it not heal, 1603 01:07:08,691 --> 01:07:11,594 but it made the situation worse 1604 01:07:11,627 --> 01:07:13,863 and I was convinced that many of the people 1605 01:07:13,896 --> 01:07:16,265 that I loved the most in the world 1606 01:07:16,298 --> 01:07:18,234 had actually died 1607 01:07:18,267 --> 01:07:21,437 not as a result of being diagnosed with cancer, 1608 01:07:21,470 --> 01:07:23,839 but as a result of all of those treatments. 1609 01:07:23,873 --> 01:07:27,410 Why do chemo surgery and radiation 1610 01:07:27,443 --> 01:07:29,211 not do well for the most part? 1611 01:07:29,245 --> 01:07:31,747 because they do nothing to change the root cause, 1612 01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:34,250 the biological terrain 1613 01:07:34,283 --> 01:07:36,118 the culture medium if you will that, 1614 01:07:36,152 --> 01:07:39,255 any disease will grow in as not functioning properly 1615 01:07:39,288 --> 01:07:43,592 it's conducive to growing a cancer cell for example, 1616 01:07:43,626 --> 01:07:45,428 conventional medicine looks at the tumor and says, 1617 01:07:45,461 --> 01:07:47,196 okay, that's the disease. 1618 01:07:47,229 --> 01:07:48,864 I don't, I look at the tumor and say, 1619 01:07:48,898 --> 01:07:50,466 that's the symptom of the disease. 1620 01:07:50,499 --> 01:07:53,769 In our research, for example, we showed 40 years ago, 1621 01:07:53,803 --> 01:07:54,870 we could have a model 1622 01:07:54,904 --> 01:07:56,806 and we could turn cancer on and off. 1623 01:07:56,839 --> 01:07:59,608 And it doesn't have anything to do with mutations. 1624 01:07:59,642 --> 01:08:02,912 I went to see Dr. Joel Fuhrman who... 1625 01:08:02,945 --> 01:08:05,815 to my good fortune was my primary care physician. 1626 01:08:05,848 --> 01:08:08,417 And he examined me 1627 01:08:08,451 --> 01:08:11,153 and we talked and I just decided, 1628 01:08:11,187 --> 01:08:13,789 well it's not gonna hurt to ask another person, 1629 01:08:13,823 --> 01:08:16,592 you know, if there is a chance that I'm gonna get through this 1630 01:08:16,625 --> 01:08:19,161 and I said, "Do you think I'm going to survive this?" 1631 01:08:19,195 --> 01:08:22,631 And he said, "Yes, I do." 1632 01:08:22,665 --> 01:08:24,166 And I said, "That's wonderful, 1633 01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:25,768 because you are the only one who has said that." 1634 01:08:25,801 --> 01:08:28,170 You don't have to be sick. 1635 01:08:28,204 --> 01:08:31,173 You don't have to wait in line for a terminal illness. 1636 01:08:31,207 --> 01:08:32,608 There is something you can do about it, 1637 01:08:32,641 --> 01:08:35,411 and the time to start is now. 1638 01:08:35,444 --> 01:08:37,346 The motivating factor for me 1639 01:08:37,379 --> 01:08:39,648 to adopt a whole food plant based diet 1640 01:08:39,682 --> 01:08:41,484 was I didn't want to die. 1641 01:08:48,791 --> 01:08:53,295 My wife had adopted the whole food plant based ideology 1642 01:08:53,329 --> 01:08:54,897 for at least two to three years. 1643 01:08:54,930 --> 01:08:58,634 And I did it really purely as for health, 1644 01:08:58,667 --> 01:09:02,638 I had dragged family along fairly successfully, 1645 01:09:02,671 --> 01:09:04,773 my husband was good when he was at home, 1646 01:09:04,807 --> 01:09:06,242 and I was cooking for him. 1647 01:09:06,275 --> 01:09:08,344 We hear the term always committing, 1648 01:09:08,377 --> 01:09:10,212 committing to something 100 percent. 1649 01:09:10,246 --> 01:09:11,947 And I think for me 1650 01:09:11,981 --> 01:09:14,250 adopting a whole food plant based diet, 1651 01:09:14,283 --> 01:09:15,451 I wasn't fully committed. 1652 01:09:15,484 --> 01:09:19,989 He was diagnosed in November of 2013 with kidney cancer, 1653 01:09:20,022 --> 01:09:21,857 turned out to be stage four cancer. 1654 01:09:21,891 --> 01:09:24,793 I think at that moment 1655 01:09:24,827 --> 01:09:27,263 I never had to nag at him again, 1656 01:09:27,296 --> 01:09:30,966 I never had to convince him, he was completely onboard. 1657 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,302 We were told that given what it was 1658 01:09:33,335 --> 01:09:35,971 and the type of the cancer, renal cell carcinoma 1659 01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:38,841 in a fairly aggressive one as to what they were seeing 1660 01:09:38,874 --> 01:09:40,809 on the tests taken. 1661 01:09:40,843 --> 01:09:42,578 That it would be probably a matter of months 1662 01:09:42,611 --> 01:09:44,013 that I had to live. 1663 01:09:44,046 --> 01:09:46,916 He went through a major surgery to have the kidney removed 1664 01:09:46,949 --> 01:09:49,018 and many of the lymph nodes around it 1665 01:09:49,051 --> 01:09:51,654 and you know, they were pretty brutal 1666 01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:54,690 and they said that, you know, 1667 01:09:54,723 --> 01:09:56,825 that he might not even survive the surgery 1668 01:09:56,859 --> 01:09:58,527 because it has gone up his venae cavae 1669 01:09:58,561 --> 01:10:00,930 and they had to clamp that off and he could bleed out 1670 01:10:00,963 --> 01:10:04,033 and so that was devastating in itself. 1671 01:10:04,066 --> 01:10:05,034 And they explained that 1672 01:10:05,067 --> 01:10:08,270 chemotherapy and radiation was not effective 1673 01:10:08,304 --> 01:10:10,039 in controlling or healing 1674 01:10:10,072 --> 01:10:13,342 or working with renal cell carcinoma 1675 01:10:13,375 --> 01:10:15,277 and they said there was current research being done 1676 01:10:15,311 --> 01:10:17,947 with respect to immunotherapy drugs. 1677 01:10:17,980 --> 01:10:19,715 He recovered really well from this surgery, 1678 01:10:19,748 --> 01:10:21,383 rather quickly, 1679 01:10:21,417 --> 01:10:24,019 he was accepted into a trail study 1680 01:10:24,053 --> 01:10:27,289 and it was an immune boosting therapy 1681 01:10:27,323 --> 01:10:29,558 and we went down to Vancouver for that, 1682 01:10:29,592 --> 01:10:34,029 and after the third treatment, it attacked his liver. 1683 01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:36,765 So they explained to us that this liver attack, 1684 01:10:36,799 --> 01:10:39,301 the side effect from the drugs 1685 01:10:39,335 --> 01:10:42,304 and the rates that my liver was battling right now, 1686 01:10:42,338 --> 01:10:44,640 it could be a fatal episode. 1687 01:10:44,673 --> 01:10:47,409 So he was dismissed from the study 1688 01:10:47,443 --> 01:10:51,747 because it doesn't look good to kill your trial patient. 1689 01:10:51,780 --> 01:10:55,284 So they basically sent us home to recover from that. 1690 01:10:59,388 --> 01:11:02,558 There is no way. I'm not gonna do surgery, 1691 01:11:02,591 --> 01:11:04,093 chemo or radiation. 1692 01:11:04,126 --> 01:11:06,495 He said to me, "What do you mean, no, 1693 01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:07,663 you don't have a choice?" 1694 01:11:07,696 --> 01:11:10,366 He said, "You'll be dead in six months." 1695 01:11:10,399 --> 01:11:12,434 I said, "Well, I'll tell you what, 1696 01:11:12,468 --> 01:11:16,405 if I'm not dead in six months, I'll come back to see you." 1697 01:11:16,438 --> 01:11:18,607 Conventional medicine uses 1698 01:11:18,641 --> 01:11:21,810 the term a five year survival of a cancer 1699 01:11:21,844 --> 01:11:24,013 without a recurrence of the same cancer, 1700 01:11:24,046 --> 01:11:25,481 you might have another one. 1701 01:11:25,514 --> 01:11:27,516 But, without a recurrence of the same cancer, 1702 01:11:27,549 --> 01:11:29,051 is considered a cure. 1703 01:11:29,084 --> 01:11:30,686 For me, it really isn't. 1704 01:11:30,719 --> 01:11:32,354 For me, a cure is 1705 01:11:32,388 --> 01:11:34,823 when a patient lives the rest of their life, 1706 01:11:34,857 --> 01:11:35,991 as along as they don't mess up 1707 01:11:36,025 --> 01:11:37,993 and start doing the bad lifestyle choices 1708 01:11:38,027 --> 01:11:39,228 that they had. 1709 01:11:39,261 --> 01:11:44,500 We did a national wide survey of a total of 6,500 families 1710 01:11:44,533 --> 01:11:45,467 and what came out of that 1711 01:11:45,501 --> 01:11:48,971 was supporting what we had done initially. 1712 01:11:49,004 --> 01:11:51,073 And that was the moment, in that process 1713 01:11:51,106 --> 01:11:54,643 we turned away from vegetables, and fruits, and grains 1714 01:11:54,677 --> 01:11:56,378 which we learned how to be the whole form, 1715 01:11:56,412 --> 01:11:57,546 the entire kind of form. 1716 01:11:57,579 --> 01:12:00,716 And we put in all the animal foods 1717 01:12:00,749 --> 01:12:03,419 and all the processed foods. 1718 01:12:03,452 --> 01:12:04,186 We're making a big mistake. 1719 01:12:05,888 --> 01:12:08,457 Animal protein can turn on cancer 1720 01:12:08,490 --> 01:12:10,392 and the protein that we were using primarily 1721 01:12:10,426 --> 01:12:12,428 was the main protein in cow's milk. 1722 01:12:12,461 --> 01:12:14,530 When you are eating super inflammatory foods, 1723 01:12:14,563 --> 01:12:15,798 you're eating dairy products, you're eating meat, 1724 01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:17,032 you're eating eggs, 1725 01:12:17,066 --> 01:12:18,434 you're eating all this inflammatory foods, 1726 01:12:18,467 --> 01:12:19,301 processed foods, 1727 01:12:19,334 --> 01:12:20,803 all these oils you shouldn't be eating 1728 01:12:20,836 --> 01:12:23,439 and then you add to that pesticides 1729 01:12:23,472 --> 01:12:24,673 and all these chemicals 1730 01:12:24,707 --> 01:12:27,076 that we know can potentially cause cancer. 1731 01:12:27,109 --> 01:12:29,044 Now you're in the perfect storm. 1732 01:12:34,216 --> 01:12:36,518 So, I continued on 1733 01:12:36,552 --> 01:12:38,821 with our whole food plant based diet 1734 01:12:38,854 --> 01:12:41,924 and he just got better and better 1735 01:12:41,957 --> 01:12:45,427 and with each scan things were reducing, 1736 01:12:45,461 --> 01:12:48,597 lymph nodes were shrinking in size. 1737 01:12:48,630 --> 01:12:51,433 And initially they had said it would be naive 1738 01:12:51,467 --> 01:12:54,670 to think that this would not spread, 1739 01:12:54,703 --> 01:12:57,506 and it didn't spread and it reduced. 1740 01:12:57,539 --> 01:12:59,174 And it kept reducing to the point 1741 01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:03,045 where it was radiologically undetectable. 1742 01:13:03,078 --> 01:13:05,481 At this two year period, 1743 01:13:05,514 --> 01:13:08,784 where you're told plain and simple that 1744 01:13:08,817 --> 01:13:13,188 you're probably gonna die, if you make that outset date, 1745 01:13:13,222 --> 01:13:15,157 you're probably got to get sicker and sicker. 1746 01:13:15,190 --> 01:13:16,892 And I didn't. 1747 01:13:16,925 --> 01:13:18,927 And I got healthier and healthier and healthier. 1748 01:13:18,961 --> 01:13:21,930 And at two years, when he should have died 1749 01:13:21,964 --> 01:13:23,232 according to them, 1750 01:13:23,265 --> 01:13:26,502 he went back to work, full-time. 1751 01:13:26,535 --> 01:13:29,705 I've never been this healthy in my whole life and I just, 1752 01:13:29,738 --> 01:13:31,507 I'm carrying on, 1753 01:13:31,540 --> 01:13:34,543 what has brought me here this far, this healthy 1754 01:13:34,576 --> 01:13:36,645 and the way I am, 1755 01:13:36,678 --> 01:13:39,148 has been adopting whole food plant based, 1756 01:13:39,181 --> 01:13:40,649 there's no two ways about it. 1757 01:13:40,682 --> 01:13:42,785 My friends and family didn't believe me, 1758 01:13:42,818 --> 01:13:45,087 they didn't approve. 1759 01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,256 My doctor didn't like it. 1760 01:13:47,289 --> 01:13:51,193 But when that six month mark came, 1761 01:13:51,226 --> 01:13:52,928 I made that phone call. 1762 01:13:52,961 --> 01:13:54,229 I want an appointment. 1763 01:13:54,263 --> 01:13:56,231 When they ran all the tests 1764 01:13:56,265 --> 01:13:58,901 and I was completely cancer free. 1765 01:13:58,934 --> 01:14:00,502 Some of the things that I found 1766 01:14:00,536 --> 01:14:03,672 from those tests he ran, not only did I not have cancer, 1767 01:14:03,705 --> 01:14:05,174 but rheumatoid arthritis 1768 01:14:05,207 --> 01:14:08,076 that I was diagnosed at the age of 27 with, 1769 01:14:08,110 --> 01:14:10,112 that the doctors had told me then, 1770 01:14:10,145 --> 01:14:11,947 "You could be crippled by this, 1771 01:14:11,980 --> 01:14:13,282 you could end up in a wheel chair, 1772 01:14:13,315 --> 01:14:15,284 you're going to have to take drugs 1773 01:14:15,317 --> 01:14:17,519 for pain management on this." 1774 01:14:17,553 --> 01:14:18,654 It was gone. 1775 01:14:18,687 --> 01:14:22,257 I had always had these problems with eczema, psoriasis. 1776 01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:25,961 My skin looked better than ever and from a little girl 1777 01:14:25,994 --> 01:14:28,864 I was diagnosed with all kinds of allergies. 1778 01:14:28,897 --> 01:14:31,099 For the first time in my life 1779 01:14:31,133 --> 01:14:34,236 that I could remember I had no allergy. 1780 01:14:34,269 --> 01:14:36,672 Like this is really something. 1781 01:14:36,705 --> 01:14:41,043 I realized that this lifestyle had healed my body completely 1782 01:14:41,076 --> 01:14:42,811 from the inside out. 1783 01:14:42,845 --> 01:14:47,282 I'm Pamela Swallow, I just turned 70 this summer, 1784 01:14:47,316 --> 01:14:49,618 but I've been 18 years cancer free. 1785 01:14:49,651 --> 01:14:52,621 I was diagnosed in 1997 1786 01:14:52,654 --> 01:14:57,593 with metastatic stage four ovarian cancer. 1787 01:14:57,626 --> 01:14:59,328 My prognosis was horrible, 1788 01:14:59,361 --> 01:15:02,297 but not everybody is right all the time 1789 01:15:02,331 --> 01:15:05,300 and I was determined to live and I have and so could you. 1790 01:15:12,374 --> 01:15:15,744 I have a major blockage in my right thigh. 1791 01:15:15,777 --> 01:15:18,614 I have a lot of plaque in, I guess in major artery. 1792 01:15:18,647 --> 01:15:19,681 I was trying to find solutions. 1793 01:15:23,619 --> 01:15:28,223 When I was shooting Captain America in Cleveland, 1794 01:15:28,257 --> 01:15:30,359 I was going to the Cleveland Clinic 1795 01:15:30,392 --> 01:15:31,827 and while I was there 1796 01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:34,730 the doctor asked me about the blockage, 1797 01:15:34,763 --> 01:15:37,366 she started telling me about this doctor 1798 01:15:37,399 --> 01:15:38,834 that could possibly help me 1799 01:15:38,867 --> 01:15:41,670 and we went to have lunch with Essie and Ann 1800 01:15:41,703 --> 01:15:45,674 they're just such enthusiastic and healthy people. 1801 01:15:45,707 --> 01:15:48,110 I had already read his book. 1802 01:15:48,143 --> 01:15:51,613 I was convinced that I need to try this 1803 01:15:51,647 --> 01:15:54,349 and I decided I was gonna jump right in. 1804 01:15:54,383 --> 01:15:58,220 I was little daunted by the okay, no oil, no dairy, 1805 01:15:58,253 --> 01:16:03,125 no nuts, no sugar, no, the nos. 1806 01:16:03,158 --> 01:16:05,761 But I got to it and I started it, 1807 01:16:05,794 --> 01:16:07,629 I was getting along fine with the diet. 1808 01:16:07,663 --> 01:16:08,864 I was doing great. 1809 01:16:08,897 --> 01:16:10,399 In the middle of all this, 1810 01:16:10,432 --> 01:16:12,200 the movie that I was preparing to do 1811 01:16:12,234 --> 01:16:15,203 in the spring, the director wanted to see me, 1812 01:16:15,237 --> 01:16:16,672 because he heard I was back in town, 1813 01:16:16,705 --> 01:16:18,307 and he wanted to talk to me about the film. 1814 01:16:18,340 --> 01:16:20,342 When I left, I got a call later on that evening 1815 01:16:20,375 --> 01:16:22,077 from my agent. 1816 01:16:22,110 --> 01:16:23,245 He was like, you know, 1817 01:16:23,278 --> 01:16:26,248 director was very concerned about you, and they said, 1818 01:16:26,281 --> 01:16:28,684 "If you don't gain like, 20 pounds 1819 01:16:28,717 --> 01:16:30,385 between now and the time that movie starts, 1820 01:16:30,419 --> 01:16:32,087 they're gonna fire you." 1821 01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,691 So, contrary to my health needs, 1822 01:16:35,724 --> 01:16:39,161 I went back to flesh and not just plant based diet. 1823 01:16:39,194 --> 01:16:40,796 I gained weight by like wham, 1824 01:16:40,829 --> 01:16:42,764 it just came right back just the way, I lost it. 1825 01:16:42,798 --> 01:16:45,167 My leg cramps came back. I started to snore again. 1826 01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:46,935 I don't pop up out of bed 1827 01:16:46,969 --> 01:16:48,670 as energetically as I used to, 1828 01:16:48,704 --> 01:16:50,405 my regularity changed, 1829 01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,908 my susceptibility for catching things 1830 01:16:52,941 --> 01:16:54,810 changed drastically. 1831 01:16:54,843 --> 01:16:59,181 I get tired after I eat which is really trippy, 1832 01:16:59,214 --> 01:17:01,750 you know, it's the food supposed to give you energy. 1833 01:17:01,783 --> 01:17:05,687 I eat now and it's kinda like, I need a nap. 1834 01:17:05,721 --> 01:17:10,292 So my digestive process is very different. 1835 01:17:10,325 --> 01:17:14,696 I know that at some point, I'm gonna go back to it, 1836 01:17:14,730 --> 01:17:16,298 because I know how to do it, 1837 01:17:16,331 --> 01:17:19,201 and I know how I felt when I was doing it. 1838 01:17:19,234 --> 01:17:21,703 Mainly because I know, I could do better from myself. 1839 01:17:33,048 --> 01:17:34,750 Everything that I was ever taught, 1840 01:17:34,783 --> 01:17:36,485 everything I'd ever read, basically it was telling me, 1841 01:17:36,518 --> 01:17:40,055 "Hey Hispanics have a high percentage of diabetes." 1842 01:17:40,088 --> 01:17:41,723 I was also lead to believe it's in your genes, 1843 01:17:41,757 --> 01:17:43,492 it's just part of who you are. 1844 01:17:43,525 --> 01:17:45,427 I was a fast food junky. 1845 01:17:45,460 --> 01:17:47,863 My body was telling me, you need that sugar, 1846 01:17:47,896 --> 01:17:49,798 you need that fat, you need that salt 1847 01:17:49,831 --> 01:17:51,299 and so I was going 1848 01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:53,068 through the drive-through all the time. 1849 01:18:03,345 --> 01:18:07,215 My family has been devastated by chronic disease. 1850 01:18:07,249 --> 01:18:09,017 My mother was diabetic. 1851 01:18:09,051 --> 01:18:13,088 She had a kidney transplant. She was legally blind. 1852 01:18:13,121 --> 01:18:16,358 Many, many years of dialysis, many, many years of shots, 1853 01:18:16,391 --> 01:18:19,327 injections and pills and ultimately passed away 1854 01:18:19,361 --> 01:18:21,063 at the young age of 61 years old. 1855 01:18:21,096 --> 01:18:22,197 My oldest brother, 1856 01:18:22,230 --> 01:18:24,199 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, 1857 01:18:24,232 --> 01:18:25,901 he passed in 2002. 1858 01:18:25,934 --> 01:18:27,002 My twin brother Joe, 1859 01:18:27,035 --> 01:18:28,870 he's been diabetic over a decade 1860 01:18:28,904 --> 01:18:31,506 and just about four months ago he had a heart attack. 1861 01:18:31,540 --> 01:18:33,809 And then the youngest brother is Martin, 1862 01:18:33,842 --> 01:18:35,477 he was diagnosed with diabetes at a young age, 1863 01:18:35,510 --> 01:18:37,913 in his early teens 13 or 14 years old. 1864 01:18:37,946 --> 01:18:39,481 He has had his right leg amputated. 1865 01:18:39,514 --> 01:18:42,050 He has had a kidney and pancreas transplant. 1866 01:18:42,084 --> 01:18:43,218 He's legally blind. 1867 01:18:43,251 --> 01:18:45,487 He does dialysis three times a week, 1868 01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,824 and he takes 25 medications every single day. 1869 01:18:51,126 --> 01:18:52,360 I was headed down that same path, 1870 01:18:52,394 --> 01:18:55,797 at the age of 43 taking two insulin shots, 1871 01:18:55,831 --> 01:18:57,966 two oral medications for diabetes, 1872 01:18:57,999 --> 01:19:00,102 a high blood pressure medication 1873 01:19:00,135 --> 01:19:02,871 as well as a high cholesterol medication. 1874 01:19:02,904 --> 01:19:04,406 I even asked my doctor, I said 1875 01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:06,575 "Will I ever get off this insulin." 1876 01:19:06,608 --> 01:19:07,342 And he flat out told me, 1877 01:19:07,375 --> 01:19:08,910 "No, you're gonna be on insulin 1878 01:19:08,944 --> 01:19:10,145 the rest of your life." 1879 01:19:10,178 --> 01:19:11,580 I was very upset, 1880 01:19:11,613 --> 01:19:13,915 I was actually quite pissed off, 1881 01:19:13,949 --> 01:19:15,584 because I'd seen what this had done to my family 1882 01:19:15,617 --> 01:19:17,119 and now here I was. 1883 01:19:19,888 --> 01:19:20,856 Up until fairly recently, 1884 01:19:20,889 --> 01:19:23,125 people had a completely wrong view of diabetes. 1885 01:19:23,158 --> 01:19:25,560 They thought diabetes is caused by eating sugar 1886 01:19:25,594 --> 01:19:28,964 or eating starch and eating bread. 1887 01:19:28,997 --> 01:19:30,499 And that was somewhat logical, 1888 01:19:30,532 --> 01:19:32,434 because the carbohydrate in the bread 1889 01:19:32,467 --> 01:19:35,137 does release glucose, it releases sugar. 1890 01:19:35,170 --> 01:19:36,972 And so it will make the blood sugar rise, 1891 01:19:37,005 --> 01:19:39,107 but it turns out that was never the cause of it. 1892 01:19:39,141 --> 01:19:41,576 Type two diabetes is caused by the build up 1893 01:19:41,610 --> 01:19:45,013 of tiny microscopic fat particles 1894 01:19:45,046 --> 01:19:48,850 in the muscle cells, and what happens is 1895 01:19:48,884 --> 01:19:49,985 as the fat builds up in the cell, 1896 01:19:50,018 --> 01:19:52,154 the insulin can no longer bring the glucose inside. 1897 01:19:53,588 --> 01:19:55,891 So what's the answer, 1898 01:19:55,924 --> 01:19:57,559 the answer is get that fat out of the cells, 1899 01:19:57,592 --> 01:19:58,960 the diabetes will improve. 1900 01:20:14,676 --> 01:20:17,245 Most of us have no idea, where our food comes from. 1901 01:20:18,146 --> 01:20:20,282 I started to question, where that food was coming from 1902 01:20:20,315 --> 01:20:22,617 and how that food was raised. 1903 01:20:22,651 --> 01:20:24,653 I never made the connection 1904 01:20:24,686 --> 01:20:26,488 really between what was on my plate 1905 01:20:26,521 --> 01:20:28,890 and then that was once a living, breathing animal. 1906 01:20:28,924 --> 01:20:29,991 Once I made that connection 1907 01:20:30,025 --> 01:20:31,059 I didn't want to have any part of it. 1908 01:20:31,092 --> 01:20:33,395 I don't see animals as food anymore, 1909 01:20:33,428 --> 01:20:37,899 I see it has complete suffering and I want people to know that, 1910 01:20:37,933 --> 01:20:40,602 that animal didn't just naturally die, 1911 01:20:40,635 --> 01:20:43,205 and then they package it, and it becomes food. 1912 01:20:43,238 --> 01:20:44,472 That's not how it is, 1913 01:20:44,506 --> 01:20:47,008 the animal suffered everyday of its life, 1914 01:20:47,042 --> 01:20:48,610 it was beaten, it was tortured, 1915 01:20:48,643 --> 01:20:51,546 and then it became food for you. 1916 01:20:51,580 --> 01:20:53,615 The plight of farm animals is more than ever something 1917 01:20:53,648 --> 01:20:54,916 that really matters to me. 1918 01:20:54,950 --> 01:20:56,384 But what also surprised me 1919 01:20:56,418 --> 01:20:59,154 was how many basic human rights violations exist, 1920 01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:00,188 with humans in addition to what's happening 1921 01:21:00,222 --> 01:21:01,356 to the animals. 1922 01:21:01,389 --> 01:21:03,358 A lot of milk that we drink actually has a lot of puss 1923 01:21:03,391 --> 01:21:05,026 or white blood cells in it. 1924 01:21:05,060 --> 01:21:06,394 Largely because a lot of these animals 1925 01:21:06,428 --> 01:21:09,331 are not treated as well as they ought to be. 1926 01:21:09,364 --> 01:21:12,500 You don't have to take a life in order to sustain yours. 1927 01:21:12,534 --> 01:21:14,102 Every time we're purchasing something, 1928 01:21:14,135 --> 01:21:15,704 we're voting with our dollar. 1929 01:21:15,737 --> 01:21:18,373 So, if you choose to eat animal products 1930 01:21:18,406 --> 01:21:20,008 and you choose to take your dollar 1931 01:21:20,041 --> 01:21:21,509 and vote for cruelty, 1932 01:21:21,543 --> 01:21:24,346 and harmfulness and death you're part of the problem, 1933 01:21:24,379 --> 01:21:25,647 then you're not part of the solution. 1934 01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:26,481 I knew right then, and the other day 1935 01:21:26,514 --> 01:21:28,250 I didn't want to be part of anything 1936 01:21:28,283 --> 01:21:29,417 that promoted cruelty. 1937 01:21:29,451 --> 01:21:31,586 Informing the public to the truth 1938 01:21:31,620 --> 01:21:33,188 about what humans are suppose to eat 1939 01:21:33,221 --> 01:21:36,992 is going to be vital for the future of our health, 1940 01:21:37,025 --> 01:21:40,695 the future of the environment, the future of animal welfare 1941 01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:43,398 and the future of the finances of this country. 1942 01:21:43,431 --> 01:21:46,268 Sustainability is becoming more and more an issue. 1943 01:21:46,301 --> 01:21:48,270 So it's not just the health of people, 1944 01:21:48,303 --> 01:21:50,572 not just cruelty to animals and what not. 1945 01:21:50,605 --> 01:21:52,674 It's actually an issue of survival. 1946 01:21:52,707 --> 01:21:55,243 People are not making the connection 1947 01:21:55,277 --> 01:21:56,711 that what they're eating 1948 01:21:56,745 --> 01:21:59,714 is really affecting the environment. 1949 01:21:59,748 --> 01:22:03,018 Over a third of the landmass in the world 1950 01:22:03,051 --> 01:22:04,986 is taken up by livestock, agriculture. 1951 01:22:05,020 --> 01:22:06,721 If you look at all of the animals 1952 01:22:06,755 --> 01:22:09,291 that are being raised for consumption, 1953 01:22:09,324 --> 01:22:11,626 it totals around 70 billion. 1954 01:22:11,660 --> 01:22:13,128 Livestock are basically 1955 01:22:13,161 --> 01:22:15,397 black boxes of inefficiency, right? 1956 01:22:15,430 --> 01:22:17,499 You pour in huge amounts 1957 01:22:17,532 --> 01:22:22,003 of feed, of protein, of energy, water, 1958 01:22:22,037 --> 01:22:25,774 and these animals have the audacity to breathe 1959 01:22:25,807 --> 01:22:27,642 and move around and waste energy 1960 01:22:27,676 --> 01:22:29,444 and like, you know, live their lives 1961 01:22:29,477 --> 01:22:30,679 and then only about half of them 1962 01:22:30,712 --> 01:22:33,348 you can eat the rest is the skeleton and skin. 1963 01:22:33,381 --> 01:22:36,718 I mean it's just like, huge amount of resources 1964 01:22:36,751 --> 01:22:41,756 to get these tiny kind of scraps from them 1965 01:22:41,790 --> 01:22:44,125 when we could just be eating the food directly, 1966 01:22:44,159 --> 01:22:45,694 you know, cut out the middle moo. 1967 01:22:45,727 --> 01:22:47,595 We're having a big water shortage in California, 1968 01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:48,763 now they're rationing water. 1969 01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:50,532 Long showers 40 gallons of water, 1970 01:22:50,565 --> 01:22:52,167 short showers 20 gallons. 1971 01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:55,503 One burger is 4,000 to 18,000 gallons of water 1972 01:22:55,537 --> 01:22:58,073 to make a third of a pound burger. 1973 01:22:58,106 --> 01:23:01,609 75% of the deforestation taking place in the Amazon, 1974 01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:03,044 is because of animal agriculture. 1975 01:23:03,078 --> 01:23:04,479 We're raping the land, 1976 01:23:04,512 --> 01:23:06,147 is really what we are doing. 1977 01:23:06,181 --> 01:23:08,450 We are taking everything out of the dirt 1978 01:23:08,483 --> 01:23:10,218 that we want to have in the dirt, 1979 01:23:10,251 --> 01:23:12,687 the microbes, the organic matter. 1980 01:23:12,721 --> 01:23:16,124 We are headed towards our dirt not being viable 1981 01:23:16,157 --> 01:23:18,059 to grow anything. 1982 01:23:18,093 --> 01:23:20,161 Most people don't understand that, 1983 01:23:20,195 --> 01:23:23,064 the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases 1984 01:23:23,098 --> 01:23:25,367 more than all transportation combined 1985 01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:27,836 planes, trains, boats, automobiles 1986 01:23:27,869 --> 01:23:29,137 is animal agriculture. 1987 01:23:29,170 --> 01:23:31,139 We need to do something right now 1988 01:23:31,172 --> 01:23:32,707 to start reversing global warming. 1989 01:23:32,741 --> 01:23:34,709 Well I can do something about that right now 1990 01:23:34,743 --> 01:23:36,811 I can just stop eating, stop eating animals. 1991 01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:37,846 So, when he start thinking of world hunger, 1992 01:23:37,879 --> 01:23:39,147 and you start thinking about 1993 01:23:39,180 --> 01:23:41,116 all the water that's being wasted, 1994 01:23:41,149 --> 01:23:43,351 and transportation, not to mention the cruelty. 1995 01:23:43,385 --> 01:23:45,153 You start looking at it from a bigger picture 1996 01:23:45,186 --> 01:23:46,788 and realizing that your dollar 1997 01:23:46,821 --> 01:23:48,757 that you're voting with doesn't just affect you, 1998 01:23:48,790 --> 01:23:51,159 it affects not only your fellow human beings, 1999 01:23:51,192 --> 01:23:52,060 but also your planet. 2000 01:23:52,093 --> 01:23:54,729 So when you start to educate yourself 2001 01:23:54,763 --> 01:23:56,264 not just about the way that you feel, 2002 01:23:56,297 --> 01:23:57,866 and about the way the people around you feel, 2003 01:23:57,899 --> 01:23:59,834 but when you really start to take it all in, 2004 01:23:59,868 --> 01:24:01,669 and you've just started to lean in, 2005 01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:03,671 oh, you're in all the way. 2006 01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:05,240 The formula is clear, 2007 01:24:05,273 --> 01:24:09,110 you want to eat the foods that promote good health, 2008 01:24:09,144 --> 01:24:11,713 you want to avoid the foods that contribute to poor health. 2009 01:24:15,450 --> 01:24:18,553 Basically we don't eat anything with the mother or a face. 2010 01:24:18,586 --> 01:24:20,255 Like most people like, kind of walked away, 2011 01:24:20,288 --> 01:24:22,290 from there going, what do you eat? you know. 2012 01:24:22,323 --> 01:24:23,825 So what is whole food plant based? 2013 01:24:23,858 --> 01:24:26,261 It's a food that comes from the ground, 2014 01:24:26,294 --> 01:24:30,131 it's less altered by man, it's less processed by man. 2015 01:24:30,165 --> 01:24:33,134 Like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans 2016 01:24:33,168 --> 01:24:34,869 you know, and nuts and seeds to a lesser extent. 2017 01:24:34,903 --> 01:24:37,705 We're not talking about unhealthy plant based eating. 2018 01:24:37,739 --> 01:24:39,207 We're talking about whole foods. 2019 01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:40,875 I take away all their meat, and all their dairy, 2020 01:24:40,909 --> 01:24:43,378 and all their oil, and they look at me, 2021 01:24:43,411 --> 01:24:45,280 they go "Dr. McDougall, I got nothing to eat, 2022 01:24:45,313 --> 01:24:47,315 there is nothing for me to eat at all, nothing." 2023 01:24:47,348 --> 01:24:48,917 I say, "Yes, there is." 2024 01:24:48,950 --> 01:24:50,819 And then I show them the key which 2025 01:24:50,852 --> 01:24:53,288 you have to know, or you'll fail." 2026 01:24:53,321 --> 01:24:54,889 I show them the starch. 2027 01:24:54,923 --> 01:24:56,558 I say, "Well, do you like potatoes?" 2028 01:24:56,591 --> 01:24:57,759 "Oh, I love potatoes." 2029 01:24:57,792 --> 01:24:59,160 Beans, and lentils, and vegetables 2030 01:24:59,194 --> 01:25:00,462 you didn't even know existed 2031 01:25:00,495 --> 01:25:02,297 and even fruits from other countries. 2032 01:25:02,330 --> 01:25:04,766 Turnip, collard, mustard, kale... 2033 01:25:04,799 --> 01:25:08,736 Greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries and seeds. 2034 01:25:08,770 --> 01:25:13,274 Black beans, brown rice, salsa, avocados, quinoa. 2035 01:25:13,308 --> 01:25:16,177 Bok choy, swiss chard, kale, collards, collard green, 2036 01:25:16,211 --> 01:25:18,279 beet greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, napa cabbage, 2037 01:25:18,313 --> 01:25:19,447 brussels sprouts, broccoli, 2038 01:25:19,481 --> 01:25:21,182 cauliflowers, cilantro parsley, 2039 01:25:21,216 --> 01:25:22,750 spinach, and arugula, and asparagus. 2040 01:25:22,784 --> 01:25:23,818 You got it. 2041 01:25:23,852 --> 01:25:25,787 Always eat too much, 2042 01:25:25,820 --> 01:25:27,655 stuff yourself on those berries. 2043 01:25:27,689 --> 01:25:29,924 They feel good, they feel good in you, 2044 01:25:29,958 --> 01:25:31,292 they give you energy, 2045 01:25:31,326 --> 01:25:32,360 you don't have to drink anything, 2046 01:25:32,393 --> 01:25:34,429 they got so much liquid in them, they feel great. 2047 01:25:34,462 --> 01:25:36,498 That's one food I love. 2048 01:25:36,531 --> 01:25:40,201 Spinach or collard greens, you ever think 2049 01:25:40,235 --> 01:25:41,970 you'd ever say collard greens? I say collard greens. 2050 01:25:42,003 --> 01:25:43,338 Mustard greens. 2051 01:25:43,371 --> 01:25:47,475 Where's Jeb? Where's granny? 2052 01:25:47,509 --> 01:25:49,544 All of a sudden, Elly May Clampett. 2053 01:25:49,577 --> 01:25:50,979 You start saying things like that, Clampetts, 2054 01:25:51,012 --> 01:25:52,080 when you eat like this, you know, 2055 01:25:52,113 --> 01:25:55,216 I'll have some mustard greens, some collard greens, 2056 01:25:55,250 --> 01:25:57,719 three pounds of those steamed 2057 01:25:57,752 --> 01:26:01,256 and then like this much apple cider vinegar. 2058 01:26:03,925 --> 01:26:05,660 The first thing people say is, I don't have time. 2059 01:26:05,693 --> 01:26:08,263 When somebody says to me, I don't have time, 2060 01:26:08,296 --> 01:26:10,465 what I really hear is, I don't want to. 2061 01:26:10,498 --> 01:26:13,001 If tomorrow I'm going to be diagnosed with cancer, 2062 01:26:13,034 --> 01:26:14,836 I don't have time for that, 2063 01:26:14,869 --> 01:26:17,539 but I will have time to do chemo, radiation, 2064 01:26:17,572 --> 01:26:19,407 surgery, recuperation. 2065 01:26:19,440 --> 01:26:23,344 The hardest part about changing your diet and your health 2066 01:26:23,378 --> 01:26:24,846 is just deciding to do it. 2067 01:26:24,879 --> 01:26:27,749 Oh, plant based diet, I don't think I'd like that. 2068 01:26:27,782 --> 01:26:29,017 Well, you think that long enough, 2069 01:26:29,050 --> 01:26:30,552 you probably won't try it. 2070 01:26:30,585 --> 01:26:31,886 Don't you remember when you were little 2071 01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:33,555 and mom put something on your plate 2072 01:26:33,588 --> 01:26:36,424 and said, well just try it, "No, I don't want to try it." 2073 01:26:36,457 --> 01:26:37,859 Well, just try it. 2074 01:26:37,892 --> 01:26:40,828 It's like riding a bike, you know, you like the idea, 2075 01:26:40,862 --> 01:26:42,730 you want the outcome, 2076 01:26:42,764 --> 01:26:43,998 you can read about the technique 2077 01:26:44,032 --> 01:26:47,001 all day long but at some point you just got to get on the bike 2078 01:26:47,035 --> 01:26:48,736 and find your balance. 2079 01:26:48,770 --> 01:26:50,738 And once you find your balance 2080 01:26:50,772 --> 01:26:54,375 you just glide and it's so freeing. 2081 01:26:54,409 --> 01:26:58,046 So, I started and I started very seriously. 2082 01:26:58,079 --> 01:27:01,316 I started every meal, three meals a day, 2083 01:27:01,349 --> 01:27:04,285 which consisted mainly of fruits and vegetables, 2084 01:27:04,319 --> 01:27:08,056 some nuts and seeds, and it just worked. 2085 01:27:08,089 --> 01:27:12,060 And in about six months I lost 120 pounds 2086 01:27:12,093 --> 01:27:16,030 and then over the course of maybe another six months, 2087 01:27:16,064 --> 01:27:19,067 I lost another 100 pounds, so I lost 220 pounds. 2088 01:27:19,100 --> 01:27:21,803 The diabetes went away within weeks 2089 01:27:21,836 --> 01:27:24,472 and the hypertension also went away. 2090 01:27:24,505 --> 01:27:26,641 I started to feel great. 2091 01:27:26,674 --> 01:27:28,810 I can't she's got so much energy today, 2092 01:27:28,843 --> 01:27:31,045 I can't really keep up with her, to be honest with you. 2093 01:27:31,079 --> 01:27:34,482 Recently I was lucky enough to have an echo 2094 01:27:34,515 --> 01:27:36,985 done by my coworkers, 2095 01:27:37,018 --> 01:27:40,788 and she was overwhelmed 2096 01:27:40,822 --> 01:27:43,091 by what she saw on my echocardiogram. 2097 01:27:43,124 --> 01:27:46,327 There were no blockages, there is no plaque, 2098 01:27:46,361 --> 01:27:49,764 the elasticity in my heart is excellent and she said, 2099 01:27:49,797 --> 01:27:51,766 "We don't really see hearts like this." 2100 01:27:51,799 --> 01:27:53,635 The number one thing that she said was, 2101 01:27:53,668 --> 01:27:54,836 "Susan, I'm convinced. 2102 01:27:54,869 --> 01:27:56,771 I see what you eat everyday, 2103 01:27:56,804 --> 01:28:00,842 but this for me as a echocardiogram sonographer 2104 01:28:00,875 --> 01:28:03,911 this is what sells me." 2105 01:28:03,945 --> 01:28:05,813 I have reversed disease, 2106 01:28:05,847 --> 01:28:08,349 the damage that hypertension does to your heart, 2107 01:28:08,383 --> 01:28:09,817 and type two diabetes, 2108 01:28:09,851 --> 01:28:13,354 it was reversed in the last five years from eating this way. 2109 01:28:13,388 --> 01:28:14,822 The first thing I noticed was 2110 01:28:14,856 --> 01:28:17,592 that I didn't have all those greasy dishes, 2111 01:28:17,625 --> 01:28:20,094 and then I noticed that my food bill was lower, 2112 01:28:20,128 --> 01:28:22,764 and then I noticed that I felt better. 2113 01:28:22,797 --> 01:28:25,099 After all if you have all those greasy dishes, 2114 01:28:25,133 --> 01:28:27,535 think what the inside of your intestine must look like. 2115 01:28:27,568 --> 01:28:30,405 The vast majority of the world subsists on rice and beans 2116 01:28:30,438 --> 01:28:32,407 for fractions of what we pay for food. 2117 01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:33,541 The thing people have to understand 2118 01:28:33,574 --> 01:28:34,809 is that it is not expensive 2119 01:28:34,842 --> 01:28:36,778 to eat a healthy whole food plant based diet. 2120 01:28:36,811 --> 01:28:38,446 Sure if you go out to restaurants 2121 01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:40,048 or buy vegan processed food, it is 2122 01:28:40,081 --> 01:28:42,650 but where I live in the ethnic markets, 2123 01:28:42,684 --> 01:28:47,422 in the area of Los Angeles a pound of beans are $0.49. 2124 01:28:47,455 --> 01:28:48,656 And you get it, put it, cook it in your pressure cooker, 2125 01:28:48,690 --> 01:28:49,824 you're done in 10 minutes. 2126 01:28:49,857 --> 01:28:52,026 For me I'm not buying meat anymore, 2127 01:28:52,060 --> 01:28:53,995 I'm not buying dairy anymore. 2128 01:28:54,028 --> 01:28:56,097 When in season, I can go to my local farmer's market. 2129 01:28:56,130 --> 01:28:57,699 And when I explained to them they asked for like, 2130 01:28:57,732 --> 01:28:59,167 how can I do this really. 2131 01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:02,036 And I say well, you can actually buy a 25 pound bag 2132 01:29:02,070 --> 01:29:03,705 of brown rice for 25 bucks. 2133 01:29:03,738 --> 01:29:06,407 You can buy a 20 pound bag of whatever your favorite bean 2134 01:29:06,441 --> 01:29:09,043 is for 20 bucks, and a bunch of fresh frozen vegetables 2135 01:29:09,077 --> 01:29:12,914 for $0.99 a bag and you have meals for a month 2136 01:29:12,947 --> 01:29:15,450 for two people for 60-70 bucks. 2137 01:29:15,483 --> 01:29:17,518 And they look at me like, "Oh, I never thought of that." 2138 01:29:17,552 --> 01:29:20,455 You're not eating the cheeses, and the meats, and the eggs 2139 01:29:20,488 --> 01:29:23,591 and so the average family is gonna save a lot of money, 2140 01:29:23,624 --> 01:29:26,728 plus you're not gonna be in the line 2141 01:29:26,761 --> 01:29:28,162 at the pharmacy counter as much, 2142 01:29:28,196 --> 01:29:30,565 and if diet changes can start to cut that down, 2143 01:29:30,598 --> 01:29:32,667 you're saving serious money. 2144 01:29:32,700 --> 01:29:36,604 We went in and ransacked our pantries, 2145 01:29:36,637 --> 01:29:39,841 our refrigerators, our freezers. Started emptying things out, 2146 01:29:39,874 --> 01:29:43,077 taking out all the things with the oils, the sugars, 2147 01:29:43,111 --> 01:29:46,881 the processed foods, got rid of the meats. 2148 01:29:46,914 --> 01:29:48,783 From one day to the other, 2149 01:29:48,816 --> 01:29:51,152 our lifestyle changed completely. 2150 01:29:51,185 --> 01:29:54,789 We threw away everything we had, 2151 01:29:54,822 --> 01:29:56,758 and we went to the store 2152 01:29:56,791 --> 01:29:58,526 and bought new food and we started. 2153 01:29:58,559 --> 01:29:59,727 By the time we got 2154 01:29:59,761 --> 01:30:03,231 from the TV room into the kitchen, he said, 2155 01:30:03,264 --> 01:30:06,200 "We shouldn't have anymore animal products in our house." 2156 01:30:06,234 --> 01:30:07,368 I was like yay. 2157 01:30:07,401 --> 01:30:11,773 We just switched like that and then there was a moment 2158 01:30:11,806 --> 01:30:13,608 where we said, "Well what about the children?" 2159 01:30:13,641 --> 01:30:15,243 I said, "It's not a democracy." 2160 01:30:15,276 --> 01:30:17,145 They're just along for the ride. 2161 01:30:23,584 --> 01:30:26,087 I want to feel better. 2162 01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:30,825 Looking back at where I was just 11 months ago, 2163 01:30:30,858 --> 01:30:33,194 I don't even recognize that person. 2164 01:30:33,227 --> 01:30:36,197 I could not imagine the drastic changes 2165 01:30:36,230 --> 01:30:38,232 that we've seen in less than a year, 2166 01:30:38,266 --> 01:30:40,601 not only the physical changes 2167 01:30:40,635 --> 01:30:43,971 of the weight loss, but coming off medication, 2168 01:30:44,005 --> 01:30:48,543 I feel good on the inside, I don't hurt anymore, 2169 01:30:48,576 --> 01:30:50,511 my knees don't hurt. 2170 01:30:50,545 --> 01:30:54,782 I feel better now than I did when I was in high school. 2171 01:30:54,816 --> 01:30:57,084 Making this lifestyle change 2172 01:30:57,118 --> 01:31:00,021 to a whole food plant based way of eating 2173 01:31:00,054 --> 01:31:02,623 is the absolute best decision I've ever made in my life. 2174 01:31:08,663 --> 01:31:12,533 It's not so much about trying to invent a new way of life, 2175 01:31:12,567 --> 01:31:14,969 but rather discovering the foods that are right here 2176 01:31:15,002 --> 01:31:16,270 in front of you. 2177 01:31:16,304 --> 01:31:18,639 So it's about shopping in the produce department. 2178 01:31:18,673 --> 01:31:20,842 It's literally about knowing which aisles to walk down 2179 01:31:20,875 --> 01:31:22,176 in your supermarket, 2180 01:31:22,210 --> 01:31:24,312 which stuff to grab and which stuff to just keep 2181 01:31:24,345 --> 01:31:25,413 walking right past. 2182 01:31:25,446 --> 01:31:29,250 The first priority is to eat whole unrefined plants 2183 01:31:29,283 --> 01:31:32,987 and to avoid animal sourced foods 2184 01:31:33,020 --> 01:31:34,689 and foods that are processed. 2185 01:31:34,722 --> 01:31:38,860 A fresh roasted beet, 2186 01:31:38,893 --> 01:31:41,596 I get really excited about produce. 2187 01:31:41,629 --> 01:31:45,733 The foods that don't require a label tend to be the highest 2188 01:31:45,766 --> 01:31:48,803 in nutrients and most beneficial for your health. 2189 01:31:48,836 --> 01:31:53,174 Things like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, lentils. 2190 01:31:53,207 --> 01:31:54,909 However there are a lot of foods 2191 01:31:54,942 --> 01:31:56,043 that do have labels, 2192 01:31:56,077 --> 01:31:57,578 I'm talking about your frozen pizza 2193 01:31:57,612 --> 01:32:00,181 that's got a dozen ingredients in the crust 2194 01:32:00,214 --> 01:32:02,049 and a dozen more in the toppings. 2195 01:32:02,083 --> 01:32:05,186 My God, there are paragraphs of ingredients. 2196 01:32:05,219 --> 01:32:07,855 You don't want that, especially you don't want the mono 2197 01:32:07,889 --> 01:32:10,291 and diglycerides, you don't want the added oil, 2198 01:32:10,324 --> 01:32:13,261 and there are usually four or five or six different ways 2199 01:32:13,294 --> 01:32:15,162 that they're stuffing sugar at you. 2200 01:32:15,196 --> 01:32:17,832 For example, we'll pickup raisin bran, 2201 01:32:17,865 --> 01:32:19,166 and I'll show folks, 2202 01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:22,236 okay, "Tell me how sugar is in that per serving? 2203 01:32:22,270 --> 01:32:25,273 And how much fiber is in that per serving?" 2204 01:32:25,306 --> 01:32:28,743 They very quickly realize that often they may be eating 2205 01:32:28,776 --> 01:32:31,245 for breakfast something that is a bowl full of sugar. 2206 01:32:31,279 --> 01:32:34,048 You can pick up a jar of spaghetti sauce 2207 01:32:34,081 --> 01:32:35,683 and it will have sugar in it. 2208 01:32:35,716 --> 01:32:39,053 Now that being said, there are a plenty of packaged foods 2209 01:32:39,086 --> 01:32:41,389 that can be a part of a healthy diet, 2210 01:32:41,422 --> 01:32:45,326 for example canned vegetables, frozen fruits and vegetables. 2211 01:32:45,359 --> 01:32:47,628 However, the way they're packaged 2212 01:32:47,662 --> 01:32:48,796 matters a great deal, 2213 01:32:48,829 --> 01:32:50,932 and the way they're processed matters. 2214 01:32:50,965 --> 01:32:53,901 So in teaching people about label reading, I tell them, 2215 01:32:53,935 --> 01:32:55,870 if it has a package, 2216 01:32:55,903 --> 01:32:57,271 turn it over and look at the label. 2217 01:32:57,305 --> 01:32:58,773 So let's take a look at this one, 2218 01:32:58,806 --> 01:33:00,274 'cause it looks really promising, 2219 01:33:00,308 --> 01:33:02,310 it says 100 percent whole grain, 2220 01:33:02,343 --> 01:33:05,646 it also says heart healthy, and good source of fiber. 2221 01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:07,415 So let's take a look at the ingredients 2222 01:33:07,448 --> 01:33:09,383 just to make sure. 2223 01:33:09,417 --> 01:33:11,752 Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, 2224 01:33:11,786 --> 01:33:13,321 sugar is the third ingredient. 2225 01:33:13,354 --> 01:33:15,990 It's also got soybean oil in it, and those mono 2226 01:33:16,023 --> 01:33:17,692 and diglycerides that we don't want. 2227 01:33:17,725 --> 01:33:19,927 So again, it's so important to read those labels. 2228 01:33:26,701 --> 01:33:28,703 With nothing to lose, we decided to just try it out 2229 01:33:28,736 --> 01:33:30,338 and see how things went, 2230 01:33:30,371 --> 01:33:32,306 and so we decided to do it for a month 2231 01:33:32,340 --> 01:33:34,241 and the pounds just started to fall away, 2232 01:33:34,275 --> 01:33:36,110 I think I lost 14 pounds that first month. 2233 01:33:36,143 --> 01:33:39,246 So over the course of the next 18 months, 2234 01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,116 I proceeded to lose half of my body weight 2235 01:33:42,149 --> 01:33:44,352 for a total of about 130 pounds. 2236 01:33:44,385 --> 01:33:48,322 It's never too late to feel young, to lose weight, 2237 01:33:48,356 --> 01:33:51,392 to feel energetic, to enjoy your family, your children, 2238 01:33:51,425 --> 01:33:53,427 your grandchildren, your great grandchildren 2239 01:33:53,461 --> 01:33:56,897 and be able to help heal yourself with food. 2240 01:33:59,767 --> 01:34:04,839 I eat amazing food that tastes, smell, and look amazing. 2241 01:34:04,872 --> 01:34:08,009 I'm not eating grass. 2242 01:34:08,042 --> 01:34:10,711 I am so satisfied, I love my food. 2243 01:34:10,745 --> 01:34:12,747 I just, I eat so many different things now, 2244 01:34:12,780 --> 01:34:13,848 and I try new things 2245 01:34:13,881 --> 01:34:15,116 like I never would have tried Indian, 2246 01:34:15,149 --> 01:34:17,718 or Ethiopian, or Thai, and they're my favorite. 2247 01:34:17,752 --> 01:34:20,321 And I would have missed those had I not become plant based. 2248 01:34:20,354 --> 01:34:23,758 With plant based cuisine, we can create all the flavors, 2249 01:34:23,791 --> 01:34:25,960 textures, satisfying, feelings 2250 01:34:25,993 --> 01:34:27,762 that you always want from a meal. 2251 01:34:27,795 --> 01:34:29,196 Let's demystify this notion 2252 01:34:29,230 --> 01:34:31,432 that if you are a plant based eater, 2253 01:34:31,465 --> 01:34:33,734 you are giving up everything. 2254 01:34:33,768 --> 01:34:36,070 If food tastes good, food tastes good. 2255 01:34:36,103 --> 01:34:37,438 It's because of what it's made of. 2256 01:34:44,779 --> 01:34:46,147 Hi, good morning. Hey, doc. 2257 01:34:46,180 --> 01:34:48,015 Good to see you, welcome back. 2258 01:34:48,049 --> 01:34:49,316 - Hi, how are you, Yvonne? - Good. 2259 01:34:49,350 --> 01:34:50,317 When I first heard about this, 2260 01:34:50,351 --> 01:34:54,822 I thought it was a bunch of malarkey, you know. 2261 01:34:54,855 --> 01:34:57,091 And then the challenge was made, you know, try it, 2262 01:34:57,124 --> 01:34:58,325 what does it hurt? 2263 01:34:58,359 --> 01:34:59,393 So I tried it. 2264 01:34:59,427 --> 01:35:02,997 Without medication your cholesterol was 300 range. 2265 01:35:03,030 --> 01:35:04,098 Yes, previously. 2266 01:35:04,131 --> 01:35:07,768 Okay, and now, without medications 2267 01:35:07,802 --> 01:35:10,237 and making some changes in your diet, 2268 01:35:10,271 --> 01:35:13,074 your cholesterol is at 171. 2269 01:35:13,107 --> 01:35:14,542 - Really? - Yeah. 2270 01:35:14,575 --> 01:35:17,078 So it's almost half of what it was before 2271 01:35:17,111 --> 01:35:19,246 on no medication. 2272 01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:23,050 Your triglycerides have dropped another 20 points. 2273 01:35:23,084 --> 01:35:25,186 Both your cholesterol and your triglycerides 2274 01:35:25,219 --> 01:35:26,954 are safely in the normal range. 2275 01:35:26,987 --> 01:35:28,189 Sweet. 2276 01:35:28,222 --> 01:35:29,523 On no medication. 2277 01:35:29,557 --> 01:35:31,392 That is proof to me. 2278 01:35:31,425 --> 01:35:33,227 You can't lie in the numbers 2279 01:35:33,260 --> 01:35:36,530 and you can't lie with shedding the weight, 2280 01:35:36,564 --> 01:35:38,065 and I felt great. 2281 01:35:38,099 --> 01:35:41,836 So we kept on going with it and it's working. 2282 01:35:41,869 --> 01:35:44,872 I was told, and I was convinced by my doctor, 2283 01:35:44,905 --> 01:35:46,373 you're gonna be on this for the rest of your life, 2284 01:35:46,407 --> 01:35:49,810 cause you're just genetically predisposed to be this way. 2285 01:35:49,844 --> 01:35:53,981 And it took this to prove to me that's not true. 2286 01:35:54,014 --> 01:35:57,251 I'm eating plant based whole foods 2287 01:35:57,284 --> 01:35:59,520 and my cholesterol is no longer an issue. 2288 01:35:59,553 --> 01:36:01,288 I feel as good as I did when I was 20. 2289 01:36:09,864 --> 01:36:12,066 A lot people think that when they go plant based, 2290 01:36:12,099 --> 01:36:13,067 it's gonna be really difficult 2291 01:36:13,100 --> 01:36:14,101 and the cooking is going to be really involved 2292 01:36:14,135 --> 01:36:18,005 and involve 15 to 20 ingredients, but it's not. 2293 01:36:18,038 --> 01:36:19,140 One of my favorite things to make 2294 01:36:19,173 --> 01:36:20,975 is my garlic alfredo sauce. 2295 01:36:21,008 --> 01:36:22,610 It's just seven ingredients, 2296 01:36:22,643 --> 01:36:24,979 basically just start out with chopping some onions, 2297 01:36:25,012 --> 01:36:26,447 chopping some garlic, 2298 01:36:26,480 --> 01:36:28,015 throw it in a little bit of vegetable broth 2299 01:36:28,048 --> 01:36:29,250 on a pan, 2300 01:36:29,283 --> 01:36:30,951 sauté it for about eight minutes 2301 01:36:30,985 --> 01:36:32,586 until all the broth is evaporated 2302 01:36:32,620 --> 01:36:34,622 and then you just add it to your blender. 2303 01:36:34,655 --> 01:36:37,858 And you're gonna want to add the cooked vegetables... 2304 01:36:41,162 --> 01:36:43,898 the remaining broth which is another cup. 2305 01:36:43,931 --> 01:36:45,633 I have a half cup of cashews. 2306 01:36:45,666 --> 01:36:48,135 Now if you don't have a high powered blender, 2307 01:36:48,169 --> 01:36:49,970 you're gonna have to soak your cashews 2308 01:36:50,004 --> 01:36:51,472 for about five to six hours, 2309 01:36:51,505 --> 01:36:53,040 otherwise, they're gonna turn out gritty, 2310 01:36:53,073 --> 01:36:54,141 and you don't want that in your sauce, 2311 01:36:54,175 --> 01:36:55,643 you're gonna want it thick, and creamy, and smooth. 2312 01:36:55,676 --> 01:36:58,012 A quarter cup of nutritional yeast, 2313 01:36:58,045 --> 01:36:59,647 that's gonna give it a depth of flavor 2314 01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:01,515 and a little bit of cheesy undertone, 2315 01:37:01,549 --> 01:37:03,150 quarter teaspoon of black pepper, 2316 01:37:03,184 --> 01:37:05,019 a half a teaspoon of salt 2317 01:37:05,052 --> 01:37:07,621 and one tablespoon of lemon juice. 2318 01:37:07,655 --> 01:37:10,658 Blend it up and you got some delicious alfredo sauce. 2319 01:37:10,691 --> 01:37:12,560 You can pour it over some cooked pasta, 2320 01:37:12,593 --> 01:37:13,661 and everybody is gonna be shocked 2321 01:37:13,694 --> 01:37:14,528 that there is no dairy, 2322 01:37:14,562 --> 01:37:16,030 and there is no butter or cheese in it. 2323 01:37:16,063 --> 01:37:17,898 It's really, really delicious, 2324 01:37:17,932 --> 01:37:21,001 it's just as rich as traditional alfredo sauce, 2325 01:37:21,035 --> 01:37:22,169 but it's actually good for you. 2326 01:37:24,405 --> 01:37:25,673 It's about just being creative, 2327 01:37:25,706 --> 01:37:28,075 it's about not so much seeing road blocks, 2328 01:37:28,108 --> 01:37:29,643 but rather seeing the opportunities 2329 01:37:29,677 --> 01:37:31,178 that come with these new aspirations 2330 01:37:31,212 --> 01:37:32,213 that you may have. 2331 01:37:35,115 --> 01:37:36,984 There are three reasons to eat out. 2332 01:37:37,017 --> 01:37:41,155 One, you don't have to do the dishes, two, the ambience, 2333 01:37:41,188 --> 01:37:43,657 three, companionship. 2334 01:37:43,691 --> 01:37:46,594 You never go out to eat 2335 01:37:46,627 --> 01:37:49,663 to further destroy endothelial cells, okay. 2336 01:37:49,697 --> 01:37:51,932 Everybody says, well, gosh doctor, 2337 01:37:51,966 --> 01:37:53,534 Dr Esselson it's so hard. 2338 01:37:53,567 --> 01:37:54,935 Aren't they gonna have, 2339 01:37:54,969 --> 01:37:56,403 some of these places, have oil? 2340 01:37:56,437 --> 01:37:58,706 Yeah, all of them. 2341 01:37:58,739 --> 01:38:00,941 When the waiter or the waitress comes to your table, 2342 01:38:00,975 --> 01:38:03,677 you turn in your seat, take your glasses off, 2343 01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:05,713 look them squarely in the eye. 2344 01:38:05,746 --> 01:38:07,548 You must understand 2345 01:38:07,581 --> 01:38:11,619 that I'm deathly allergic to a single drop of any oil. 2346 01:38:11,652 --> 01:38:13,087 Now you get creative. 2347 01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:16,457 Can I have part of this item on the menu 2348 01:38:16,490 --> 01:38:19,593 mixed with part of this and put it together? 2349 01:38:19,627 --> 01:38:21,729 Then the chefs are really actually, 2350 01:38:21,762 --> 01:38:23,430 if you just ask the question, 2351 01:38:23,464 --> 01:38:26,600 they're very excited to create something for you. 2352 01:38:26,634 --> 01:38:29,570 We have to be that change, we have to be the ones to ask, 2353 01:38:29,603 --> 01:38:33,073 and hopefully soon enough demand that we have organic, 2354 01:38:33,107 --> 01:38:34,642 plant based foods in restaurants 2355 01:38:34,675 --> 01:38:35,943 across the country. 2356 01:38:40,648 --> 01:38:43,717 We'd adopted this lifestyle on December 3rd of 2011. 2357 01:38:43,751 --> 01:38:45,719 Within days, three to four days 2358 01:38:45,753 --> 01:38:47,588 I start to see my sugars plummet 2359 01:38:47,621 --> 01:38:49,657 and I'm seeing my weight drop anywhere 2360 01:38:49,690 --> 01:38:52,293 between five to seven pounds per week. 2361 01:38:52,326 --> 01:38:55,162 My psoriasis went away, my heart burn, 2362 01:38:55,195 --> 01:38:57,765 I've not had heart burns since I adopted this lifestyle 2363 01:38:57,798 --> 01:39:00,234 and I'm Mexican, I love spicy food, 2364 01:39:00,267 --> 01:39:03,103 I eat jalapeños and spices, Indian food. 2365 01:39:03,137 --> 01:39:06,707 And lo and behold, by the end of January 2012 2366 01:39:06,740 --> 01:39:09,276 so not quite 60 days later, 2367 01:39:09,310 --> 01:39:11,512 I was off all five of my medications. 2368 01:39:11,545 --> 01:39:13,013 Four to five months in, 2369 01:39:13,047 --> 01:39:15,316 my erectile dysfunction went away, 2370 01:39:15,349 --> 01:39:18,018 so here we are three and half going on four years later, 2371 01:39:18,052 --> 01:39:20,020 my health continues to be normal. 2372 01:39:20,054 --> 01:39:22,690 My A1c levels, my cholesterol levels, 2373 01:39:22,723 --> 01:39:23,624 my blood pressures, 2374 01:39:23,657 --> 01:39:26,794 I'm healthier than I was even 20 years ago. 2375 01:39:26,827 --> 01:39:28,529 So when my wife and I adopted 2376 01:39:28,562 --> 01:39:30,698 a whole foods plant based lifestyle, 2377 01:39:30,731 --> 01:39:31,565 we basically changed 2378 01:39:31,598 --> 01:39:35,035 the trajectory of my family's future. 2379 01:39:35,069 --> 01:39:36,770 So we're gonna make the cauliflower hot wings, 2380 01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:39,273 which you're just gonna love, they're really easy. 2381 01:39:39,306 --> 01:39:41,208 So you start with a head of cauliflower, 2382 01:39:41,241 --> 01:39:44,211 or you can cheat like me and buy pre-cut florets. 2383 01:39:44,244 --> 01:39:47,381 Just set those aside and whisk together 2384 01:39:47,414 --> 01:39:48,749 one half cup of plant based milk, 2385 01:39:48,782 --> 01:39:50,484 such as soy milk or almond milk, 2386 01:39:50,517 --> 01:39:53,654 one half cup of flour, I'm using chickpea flour today, 2387 01:39:53,687 --> 01:39:56,156 but you can use any flour that you happen to have, 2388 01:39:56,190 --> 01:39:59,293 whisk in some garlic powder or some onion powder 2389 01:39:59,326 --> 01:40:01,528 or even cayenne if you want it to be hotter, 2390 01:40:01,562 --> 01:40:02,796 or little nutritional yeast, 2391 01:40:02,830 --> 01:40:05,566 then pour your almond milk into your flour 2392 01:40:05,599 --> 01:40:07,468 and mix it so it forms a batter. 2393 01:40:07,501 --> 01:40:10,237 Take each floret and dip it into the batter 2394 01:40:10,270 --> 01:40:12,206 and shake it off just to coat it. 2395 01:40:12,239 --> 01:40:15,342 Put it on your baking sheet, bake it for about 12 minutes 2396 01:40:15,376 --> 01:40:19,580 at 450 degrees, just until it's golden and fork tender, 2397 01:40:19,613 --> 01:40:22,583 and then when you're done, toss it with some hot sauce, 2398 01:40:22,616 --> 01:40:24,852 or teriyaki sauce, or barbecue sauce. 2399 01:40:24,885 --> 01:40:25,853 Just mix it together 2400 01:40:25,886 --> 01:40:29,089 and then you have your hot wings ready to go. 2401 01:40:30,724 --> 01:40:33,093 When we're looking at this plant based nutrition data, 2402 01:40:33,127 --> 01:40:35,529 it's more than heart disease and risk factors, 2403 01:40:35,562 --> 01:40:39,433 it's actually a lot of cancer, lot of inflammatory diseases, 2404 01:40:39,466 --> 01:40:41,235 such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, 2405 01:40:41,268 --> 01:40:42,503 and rheumatoid arthritis 2406 01:40:42,536 --> 01:40:44,805 and so you know plant based nutrition 2407 01:40:44,838 --> 01:40:47,107 and good lifestyle are good for a variety of things, 2408 01:40:47,141 --> 01:40:48,075 not just heart disease. 2409 01:40:53,480 --> 01:40:55,783 At the time my husband was working for MTV, 2410 01:40:55,816 --> 01:40:58,452 and he was helping recording artist, 2411 01:40:58,485 --> 01:41:00,754 get really fit for videos, you know, 2412 01:41:00,788 --> 01:41:03,123 and I said I want to look like one of them. 2413 01:41:03,157 --> 01:41:05,459 It was purely vanity. We're gonna go to Maui, 2414 01:41:05,492 --> 01:41:07,227 we're gonna get married and I just want, 2415 01:41:07,261 --> 01:41:10,130 I want to look as good as I feel emotionally. 2416 01:41:10,164 --> 01:41:11,799 And I want to do it in a healthy way 2417 01:41:11,832 --> 01:41:12,866 and that's what he did. 2418 01:41:12,900 --> 01:41:14,201 It wasn't about starvation, 2419 01:41:14,234 --> 01:41:15,769 it wasn't about hurting your body, 2420 01:41:15,803 --> 01:41:17,905 it was about learning how to take care of your body, 2421 01:41:17,938 --> 01:41:20,774 learning how to nourish my body in a way that would 2422 01:41:20,808 --> 01:41:22,776 cause me to have a fast metabolism. 2423 01:41:22,810 --> 01:41:25,245 And most people think about fuel in terms of, 2424 01:41:25,279 --> 01:41:26,647 these big building blocks 2425 01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,816 like protein and carbohydrates and fat, 2426 01:41:28,849 --> 01:41:30,250 but that's not what it's about. 2427 01:41:30,284 --> 01:41:32,219 It's about vitamins, and minerals, 2428 01:41:32,252 --> 01:41:33,921 and phytonutrients, and enzymes, 2429 01:41:33,954 --> 01:41:35,889 and things that your cells actually need. 2430 01:41:35,923 --> 01:41:39,793 I had to eat so much food, more than I'd ever eaten before 2431 01:41:39,827 --> 01:41:41,562 and drink all this water and take, you know, 2432 01:41:41,595 --> 01:41:43,864 do all this, eat more than I ever had before, 2433 01:41:43,897 --> 01:41:44,932 and he told me that was going to make me 2434 01:41:44,965 --> 01:41:46,400 actually lose weight. 2435 01:41:46,433 --> 01:41:48,235 So even though I was skeptical I did it, 2436 01:41:48,268 --> 01:41:50,437 and in the four months not only did I go 2437 01:41:50,471 --> 01:41:54,942 from the size 10 to a size 3 but I was really fit 2438 01:41:54,975 --> 01:41:57,945 and I felt the best I'd ever felt in my entire life. 2439 01:41:57,978 --> 01:42:01,181 I had no more aches and pains, my joints felt great, 2440 01:42:01,215 --> 01:42:02,316 I was energetic. 2441 01:42:02,349 --> 01:42:06,186 When it was time to get my blood test and everything, 2442 01:42:06,220 --> 01:42:07,955 I didn't really think it was going to affect them, 2443 01:42:07,988 --> 01:42:09,656 because that was impossible, 2444 01:42:09,690 --> 01:42:11,692 I just, you know I thought this was just something 2445 01:42:11,725 --> 01:42:12,960 that improved how I felt. 2446 01:42:12,993 --> 01:42:16,663 And so I told my husband, well, whatever this is that you did, 2447 01:42:16,697 --> 01:42:18,298 I'm gonna eat this way from now on, 2448 01:42:18,332 --> 01:42:19,933 because I feel so good. 2449 01:42:19,967 --> 01:42:22,703 When I got my next round of blood test a few months later, 2450 01:42:22,736 --> 01:42:24,671 all the lupus indicators were negative. 2451 01:42:24,705 --> 01:42:26,673 The doctor had a medical student with him and he said, 2452 01:42:26,707 --> 01:42:28,876 this woman alleges to have lupus, 2453 01:42:28,909 --> 01:42:31,678 but we are not finding any evidence of it. 2454 01:42:31,712 --> 01:42:32,813 Maybe there is just an error in the test. 2455 01:42:32,846 --> 01:42:36,450 Go have your wedding, come back and we'll test again. 2456 01:42:36,483 --> 01:42:37,818 And we tested again few months later 2457 01:42:37,851 --> 01:42:39,319 and now even the antibodies 2458 01:42:39,353 --> 01:42:40,854 for the clots were completely negative. 2459 01:42:40,888 --> 01:42:43,290 And my blood pressure was coming down 2460 01:42:43,323 --> 01:42:46,827 to that of an athlete, and my "genetically high cholesterol" 2461 01:42:46,860 --> 01:42:47,961 that I was told that I could do nothing, 2462 01:42:47,995 --> 01:42:49,329 but blame my parents, 2463 01:42:49,363 --> 01:42:51,331 that's what my doctor told me as a kid, 2464 01:42:51,365 --> 01:42:54,301 that was completely normal and in fact optimal. 2465 01:42:54,334 --> 01:42:55,802 And that's what's happened ever since then 2466 01:42:55,836 --> 01:42:57,037 and right now I'm sitting here 2467 01:42:57,070 --> 01:42:59,973 and it's been 10 years since that first negative blood test, 2468 01:43:00,007 --> 01:43:02,910 and there has been no sign of lupus coming back, 2469 01:43:02,943 --> 01:43:06,713 in spite of me continuing to go on and not only expose myself 2470 01:43:06,747 --> 01:43:08,815 to those things they said I shouldn't like 2471 01:43:08,849 --> 01:43:11,919 going out in the sunshine but also having two children. 2472 01:43:11,952 --> 01:43:14,755 I have continued to actually get healthier and stronger 2473 01:43:14,788 --> 01:43:15,789 as the years have gone by. 2474 01:43:22,529 --> 01:43:24,031 You know, I think we all love process food 2475 01:43:24,064 --> 01:43:25,832 for their convenience. 2476 01:43:25,866 --> 01:43:27,367 But what if you could have the convenience 2477 01:43:27,401 --> 01:43:29,603 without the processed food part. 2478 01:43:29,636 --> 01:43:32,773 You know, one of my favorites is macaroni and cheese in a box 2479 01:43:32,806 --> 01:43:34,875 which I grew up with like everybody else 2480 01:43:34,908 --> 01:43:36,076 and used to love. 2481 01:43:36,109 --> 01:43:38,579 So I've come up with a vegan version that's whole foods. 2482 01:43:38,612 --> 01:43:41,315 It's something you can keep in your pantry in a jar, 2483 01:43:41,348 --> 01:43:43,684 pull it out and take a little cup of it 2484 01:43:43,717 --> 01:43:46,286 and just mix it up with some non-dairy milk 2485 01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:47,888 and just pour it over some noodles 2486 01:43:47,921 --> 01:43:50,791 and you got an instant easy dish. 2487 01:43:50,824 --> 01:43:52,593 Comes together in about 30 seconds, 2488 01:43:52,626 --> 01:43:54,962 so you better watch carefully or you'll miss it. 2489 01:43:54,995 --> 01:43:57,030 All right, first I've got a cup of cashews, 2490 01:43:57,064 --> 01:43:59,933 they go right into my food processor, 2491 01:43:59,967 --> 01:44:01,735 along with some nutritional yeast, 2492 01:44:01,768 --> 01:44:04,037 and some herbs and spices. 2493 01:44:04,071 --> 01:44:05,038 Put it in your food processor, 2494 01:44:05,072 --> 01:44:07,774 you just let it whirr for about three minutes 2495 01:44:07,808 --> 01:44:10,077 and that's it, that mix is ready, 2496 01:44:10,110 --> 01:44:11,945 good to go in your pantry, 2497 01:44:11,979 --> 01:44:13,480 ready for you anytime you want it. 2498 01:44:18,485 --> 01:44:19,486 Free. 2499 01:44:21,355 --> 01:44:25,626 At 43 years old, I am free. 2500 01:44:25,659 --> 01:44:29,763 I spent a decade and half trapped. 2501 01:44:29,796 --> 01:44:34,334 My body I thought was my tomb, this is where I'm gonna be. 2502 01:44:34,368 --> 01:44:37,804 I have no way out, there's no escape. And then to find out 2503 01:44:37,838 --> 01:44:39,473 that not only can I escape 2504 01:44:39,506 --> 01:44:40,641 but I can come out on the other side, 2505 01:44:42,009 --> 01:44:43,677 like a whole different person. 2506 01:44:43,710 --> 01:44:44,811 This doesn't take a lifetime. 2507 01:44:45,946 --> 01:44:47,814 You can fix you. 2508 01:44:47,848 --> 01:44:51,418 In the first three months, I lost 70 pounds. 2509 01:44:51,451 --> 01:44:55,355 I was too big to do any kind of rigorous exercise, 2510 01:44:55,389 --> 01:44:59,459 I was 15 minutes on a flat slow treadmill, 2511 01:44:59,493 --> 01:45:00,694 because that was all I could do. 2512 01:45:00,727 --> 01:45:04,097 By the six month mark, I was down 107 pounds. 2513 01:45:04,131 --> 01:45:08,635 If you'd told me from 60 plus inch waist to 30 inch waist 2514 01:45:08,669 --> 01:45:10,137 in less than two years. 2515 01:45:10,170 --> 01:45:12,372 I had to say no way. 2516 01:45:12,406 --> 01:45:15,108 I didn't just lose weight, I'm not just thinner, 2517 01:45:15,142 --> 01:45:18,378 I'm healthier, completely healthy. 2518 01:45:18,412 --> 01:45:21,048 The thing about Dr. Stoll that set him apart 2519 01:45:21,081 --> 01:45:24,985 from every other doctor, he sat me down and said, 2520 01:45:25,018 --> 01:45:27,120 "Let me write you some recipes" 2521 01:45:27,154 --> 01:45:28,622 and him writing those recipes, 2522 01:45:28,655 --> 01:45:31,425 he was more willing to write the recipes first 2523 01:45:31,458 --> 01:45:32,125 before the prescriptions 2524 01:45:32,159 --> 01:45:33,960 and it changed everything. 2525 01:45:33,994 --> 01:45:35,729 There are doctors that are waking up, 2526 01:45:35,762 --> 01:45:37,431 because you can't deny 2527 01:45:37,464 --> 01:45:39,900 the result, I'm just one person, 2528 01:45:39,933 --> 01:45:42,035 but there's millions of me out there, 2529 01:45:42,069 --> 01:45:44,171 that are experiencing the same results 2530 01:45:44,204 --> 01:45:47,841 that we didn't receive on meds. 2531 01:45:47,874 --> 01:45:50,077 I look in the mirror now and I think that 2532 01:45:50,110 --> 01:45:51,445 we're not talking ten years ago. 2533 01:45:51,478 --> 01:45:54,414 We're talking 20 months ago. 2534 01:45:54,448 --> 01:45:56,883 And I don't even know that person, 2535 01:45:56,917 --> 01:45:58,185 when I see those pictures. 2536 01:45:58,218 --> 01:46:00,087 It's a lifestyle. And that's the key thing. 2537 01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:04,458 People ask me all the time, so how long are you gonna do this. 2538 01:46:04,491 --> 01:46:09,496 And I tell them, planning on living to about 2539 01:46:11,465 --> 01:46:14,034 Because I'm never going back, I'm never going back. 2540 01:46:19,172 --> 01:46:22,476 After about two weeks the things I noticed was I had 2541 01:46:22,509 --> 01:46:24,845 a lot more energy, I could walk a lot further 2542 01:46:24,878 --> 01:46:26,613 and I could walk a lot faster. 2543 01:46:26,646 --> 01:46:28,115 I dropped a bunch of weight. 2544 01:46:28,148 --> 01:46:30,951 My cholesterol dropped like a rock. 2545 01:46:30,984 --> 01:46:32,753 Everything seemed to come back into line. 2546 01:46:32,786 --> 01:46:34,855 He now rides a bike. 2547 01:46:34,888 --> 01:46:36,690 I mean we go for long bike rides. 2548 01:46:36,723 --> 01:46:38,458 When I got out of the hospital, 2549 01:46:38,492 --> 01:46:40,594 I don't know how many medications I had, 2550 01:46:40,627 --> 01:46:42,028 and I'm off all that now. 2551 01:46:42,062 --> 01:46:47,000 He walks miles and it's giving Greg back to me. 2552 01:46:47,801 --> 01:46:52,806 There's all kinds of diets, but this is a way of life. 2553 01:46:53,273 --> 01:46:57,244 Most wives take for granted what a gift a husband is, 2554 01:46:57,277 --> 01:46:59,679 and to be able to do those things with their husband, 2555 01:47:01,014 --> 01:47:03,550 and I'm telling you, I'm so thankful. 2556 01:47:03,583 --> 01:47:05,252 Doctor called me at home 2557 01:47:05,285 --> 01:47:07,220 and he says, "Hey, I just got your blood work 2558 01:47:07,254 --> 01:47:10,624 back from the lab and I was reviewing your results, 2559 01:47:10,657 --> 01:47:12,225 and you are no longer diabetic." 2560 01:47:14,694 --> 01:47:15,629 That was really good. 2561 01:47:22,135 --> 01:47:22,936 Sorry. 2562 01:47:24,271 --> 01:47:28,942 We've had this astonishing experience 2563 01:47:28,975 --> 01:47:31,144 that we've lived through 2564 01:47:31,178 --> 01:47:33,780 and it's kind of shaken us awake 2565 01:47:33,814 --> 01:47:36,016 as far as what's important in life. 2566 01:47:36,049 --> 01:47:38,685 That's what so many of us in healthcare want 2567 01:47:38,718 --> 01:47:42,255 is to make these changes in peoples' lives. 2568 01:47:42,289 --> 01:47:45,792 It's the most effective and powerful way 2569 01:47:45,826 --> 01:47:48,628 to treat the broad range of illness 2570 01:47:48,662 --> 01:47:51,598 that a primary care doctor confronts. 2571 01:47:51,631 --> 01:47:55,235 It's just a easiest thing you can do to have better health. 2572 01:47:55,268 --> 01:47:58,538 It's low hanging fruit literally and figuratively. 2573 01:47:58,572 --> 01:48:03,577 I did not know how bad I felt, until I felt good. 2574 01:48:03,977 --> 01:48:05,979 I'm sure there are times in my life 2575 01:48:06,012 --> 01:48:07,280 when I was younger that I felt better, 2576 01:48:07,314 --> 01:48:09,216 but there is no time I remember feeling better. 2577 01:48:09,249 --> 01:48:11,551 You will lose weight, 2578 01:48:11,585 --> 01:48:13,620 you will lose your high blood pressure, 2579 01:48:13,653 --> 01:48:17,290 you will lose your diabetes, you will feel better, 2580 01:48:17,324 --> 01:48:19,559 you will lose your risk for stroke, 2581 01:48:19,593 --> 01:48:21,661 you will lose your risk for dementia, 2582 01:48:21,695 --> 01:48:23,230 so there are side effects. 2583 01:48:24,865 --> 01:48:26,800 Dr. Esselstyn entered in my life 2584 01:48:26,833 --> 01:48:28,635 at the worst time in my life. 2585 01:48:28,668 --> 01:48:31,571 And I felt like he was a God send. 2586 01:48:31,605 --> 01:48:33,206 My life changed, 2587 01:48:33,240 --> 01:48:36,610 it's the single best thing I've ever done, by far. 2588 01:48:36,643 --> 01:48:37,978 I believe that my chance 2589 01:48:38,011 --> 01:48:41,314 of getting coronary artery disease is zero. 2590 01:48:41,348 --> 01:48:43,049 Whole food plant based nutrition 2591 01:48:43,083 --> 01:48:44,985 is indeed the answer 2592 01:48:45,018 --> 01:48:47,187 to the healthcare crisis in America. 2593 01:48:47,220 --> 01:48:50,357 It's all about sustainability of the mind, of the body 2594 01:48:50,390 --> 01:48:51,858 and of the planet. 2595 01:48:51,892 --> 01:48:53,260 Change doesn't come from the leadership down, 2596 01:48:53,293 --> 01:48:54,394 leadership only changes 2597 01:48:54,427 --> 01:48:57,297 when people wake up and demand it. Demand that change. 2598 01:48:57,330 --> 01:48:59,232 You know today is a different day, 2599 01:48:59,266 --> 01:49:00,700 today is a new opportunity 2600 01:49:00,734 --> 01:49:02,202 to live the life that you want to live. 2601 01:49:02,235 --> 01:49:03,236 Not just the one that you're living, 2602 01:49:03,270 --> 01:49:05,338 but the one that you truly really want to live. 2603 01:49:05,372 --> 01:49:08,074 Two weeks, three weeks, all you got to do is try it. 2604 01:49:08,108 --> 01:49:11,378 There are people in the world that do it for ethical reasons. 2605 01:49:11,411 --> 01:49:13,113 There are people that do it for health reasons, 2606 01:49:13,146 --> 01:49:15,615 and there are people that do it for environmental reasons. 2607 01:49:15,649 --> 01:49:17,350 And ultimately it doesn't matter 2608 01:49:17,384 --> 01:49:19,953 why you do it, because it's a win, win, win. 2609 01:49:19,986 --> 01:49:23,323 Finding the plant based diet gave me freedom. 2610 01:49:23,356 --> 01:49:27,727 Freedom that all the other fad diets and gadgets 2611 01:49:27,761 --> 01:49:31,865 and even my doctor didn't give me. 2612 01:49:31,898 --> 01:49:33,967 I've been on medicine for over 30 years, 2613 01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:36,703 and for the very first time, 2614 01:49:36,736 --> 01:49:38,905 I can truly look someone in the eye 2615 01:49:38,939 --> 01:49:42,642 and I can say, I can heal you. 2616 01:49:42,676 --> 01:49:44,144 Realize that there are people who love you, 2617 01:49:44,177 --> 01:49:45,412 who need you to do this, 2618 01:49:45,445 --> 01:49:48,248 because they need you in their life as well. 2619 01:49:48,281 --> 01:49:50,383 It's the best thing that ever happened to me, 2620 01:49:50,417 --> 01:49:53,653 it saved my life, it saved my marriage. 2621 01:49:53,687 --> 01:49:55,388 I am very proud of her. 2622 01:49:55,422 --> 01:49:57,924 This is progressive medicine, this is correct medicine. 2623 01:49:57,958 --> 01:49:59,793 This is where medicine should be. 2624 01:49:59,826 --> 01:50:01,761 The vegetables, and the fruits, and the whole grains, 2625 01:50:01,795 --> 01:50:02,762 and the beans, 2626 01:50:02,796 --> 01:50:06,700 those foods have power that you never imagined. 2627 01:50:06,733 --> 01:50:07,667 And It's time to put it to work. 2628 01:50:07,701 --> 01:50:10,670 Come on, what's on your plate? 206668

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