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To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the.Facts. org has ramped up to a total of 2. People are hungry for evidence- based nutrition. In my 2. 01. 2 year- in- review, I explored the role a healthy diet may play in preventing, treating, and reversing our deadliest diseases. In 2. 01. 3, I covered our most common conditions. This year, I’d like to address some of our leading causes of disability. We want to live a long healthy life, not a long miserable one. Heart disease is not only our leading cause of death, but also our leading cause of death, and disability. Dr. Dean Ornish proved, with his plant- based diet and lifestyle program, that cardiac patients had “9. In contrast, control group patients, who were instead told to listen to the advice of their doctors, had “a 1. This “marked reduction” in chest pain “was sustained” five years later—a “long- term reduction in . Forks over knives; soup over saws. But this was back in the 9. Ornish was only studying a few dozen patients at a time. How about a thousand patients on a whole food, plant- based diet? Within three months, nearly three- quarters of angina patients became “angina- free.” 7. Now, Ornish didn’t just put people on a plant- based diet. He also advised moderate exercise, like walking. So, how do we know what role the diet played? Well, if you go back to Ornish’s first publication, he put cardiac patients on a quasi- vegan diet, with no added exercise—just diet and stress management—and got a 9. Esselstyn was able to improve angina using a plant- based diet as the only lifestyle intervention. So, we know diet is the active ingredient. But you know, they weren’t the first. There are case series going back to the 1. We’ve known about this for decades. Chest pain so severe he “had to stop every nine or ten . Put people on a plant- based diet for a year, and their clogged arteries literally get cleaned out—2. Put people on a low- carb diet—a meat- heavy, Atkins- like diet, though—and their condition worsens. Here’s some representative heart scans. The yellow, and particularly red, represents blood flow to the actual heart muscle through the coronary arteries. The genus Homo evolved and diverged from other hominins in Africa, after the human clade split from the chimpanzee lineage of the hominids (great apes) branch of the. This patient went on a plant- based diet, and their arteries opened right up, increasing blood flow. This person, however, started out with pretty good flow, but after a year on a meat- based diet, their blood flow significantly clogged down. This isn’t measuring risk factors, but actual blood flow to the heart muscle—plant- based versus meat- based diets. No wonder a recent meta- analysis found that low- carb diets “associated with. And, in any case, angina patients deserve to be offered the . Costs about $2,0. Collectively, the studies show that at the highest dose, the drug may prolong exercise duration in angina patients as long as “3. It does not look like those choosing the drug route will be climbing mountains anytime soon. Plant- based diets aren’t just safer and cheaper, but can work better. I’ve talked about COPD as a leading killer. What about low back pain, like sciatica? Now, “. Are people just lifting more heavy stuff? Well, then, what causes it? I’ve touched on it before. Those with narrowed arteries appeared about eight- and- a- half times “more likely to . You know, the discs in our low back are “the largest avascular tissue in the body”—meaning they have no blood vessels. So, nutrition just kind of has to diffuse in from the edges, so they’re particularly vulnerable to deprivation. Using MRIs, you can measure the effects of this impaired blood flow on the diffusion, and you can see how this can turn into that. By age 4. 9, “9. 7% of . Starting in our teens! Our discs are already starting to degenerate by age 1. As I’ve talked about, nearly all kids eating the Standard American Diet have the beginnings of atherosclerosis “by age 1. And, sadly, low back pain is now “common . Just like children getting adult- onset diabetes; teenagers starting out their life with a chronic disease. That’s why it’s never too early to start eating healthy. To get you back into circulation, you need to get circulation, to your back. Skipping down a few in the interest of time, having a stroke can be severely disabling. Thankfully, a “high dietary fiber intake,” which is to say whole plant foods, may help “prevent. This “belief that dietary fiber intake” is protectively associated with some chronic diseases was “postulated” 4. Today, we therefore believe that eating lots of fiber—eating a lot of whole, unprocessed plant foods—helps “prevent. Notably, increasing fiber just seven grams a day may decrease stroke risk 7%. And seven grams is easy—like a small serving of whole- grain pasta with tomato sauce, and an apple. Easy. But, if you really don’t want a stroke, we should all try to get 2. One would have to eat an extraordinarily healthy diet to get 7. Or, do we just want to have them tell us what the science says, as they did here, so we can make up our own minds? Now, someone funded by Kellogg’s wrote in to complain that, in practice, such fiber intakes are unachievable. Kellogg—who was actually one of our most famous physicians, credited for being one of the first to sound the alarm about smoking—may have been “the first American physician to have recognized the field of nutrition as a science,” would today be rolling in his grave, if he knew what his company has become. Diabetes, our seventh leading cause of loss of life, is also our eighth leading cause of loss of health. It can be “very painful, and the pain is frequently resistant to conventional treatments.” In fact, supposedly, “no effective treatment . Years and years of suffering, and then, “. And the side effects were all good. They lost ten pounds; blood sugars got better; “insulin needs. Normal blood sugars; off of all medications. Diabetics for up to 2. And, their triglycerides and cholesterol improved, too. High blood pressures got better. In fact, gone in about half the hypertensives—an 8. Now, we’ve known plant- based diets can reverse (cure) type 2 diabetes and hypertension, but this was new. Years of painful suffering, then complete relief of pain in 8. Now, this was a live- in program, where, you know, patients were actually given meals. You know, what happened when they were sent home, and kind of had to go back to the real world? Well, the 1. 7 folks were followed for years, and in all except one, the relief of painful neuropathy continued, or improved even further. How’d they get that kind of compliance with a strict plant- based diet? Because it works. One of the most painful and frustrating conditions to treat in all of medicine, and three- quarters cured in a couple days with a natural, nontoxic—in fact, beneficial—treatment, a diet composed of whole plant foods. Should have been front page headline news. So, how could nerve damage be reversed so suddenly? Well, it didn’t appear to be the improvement in blood sugars, because it took about ten days for the diet to control the diabetes, whereas the pain was gone in as few as four. They found a significant percentage of the fat under the skin of those who eat meat, or even just dairy and eggs, was trans fats. Trans fats stuck inside their bodies, under their skin, whereas those who had been on a strictly plant- based diet, whole food plant- based diet, “had no detectable trans fats” within their body. The researchers stuck needles in the buttocks of people eating different diets, and nine months or more on a strict plant- based diet appeared to remove all trans fat from their bodies, or at least their butts. But their pain didn’t take nine months to get better; more like nine days, right? So, more likely, the amazing reversal was due to an improvement in blood flow. But, what about treating retinopathy? Kempner at Duke used a plant- based diet composed mostly of rice and fruit, to document, for the first time, the reversal of diabetic retinopathy in a quarter of his patients—something never even thought possible. For example, 6. 0- year- old diabetic woman, already blind in one eye, can only see “contours of large objects” with the other; effectively blind. Five years later, on the diet, instead of it getting worse, it got better. She “could . Since the initial report of neuropathy reversal was published twenty years ago, it’s been replicated by other researchers. So, why didn’t we learn about this in medical school? Who cares if you live to be 1. In 1. 90. 1, Auguste was taken to an insane asylum by her husband. She was described as a “delusional, forgetful, disoriented. She was seen by a Dr. Alzheimer, and was to become the case that made his a household name. On autopsy, he described the plaques and tangles that would go on to characterize the disease. But, lost in the excitement of discovering a new condition, a clue may have been overlooked. He described “atherosclerotic change. Autopsy studies, for example, have shown that individuals with Alzheimer’s have significantly more atherosclerotic narrowing of arteries within their brain. This is what cerebral arteries should look like: open, clean, allowing blood to flow.
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