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?