068: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. - Prevent And Reverse Heart Disease (minicast)

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Jesse Chappus

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🗓️ 13 November 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today's minicast, we are speaking with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., a medical doctor who promotes a plant-based diet. He is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and is a former Olympic gold medalist in rowing. Recently he was in Windsor doing a talk on his revolutionary, scientifically-proven, nutrition-based cure for heart disease. After the talk we were able to pull him aside for a short interview.

In this episode, we discuss:

Cardiovascular disease is preventable
Consuming oil is detrimental to your health
The magic molecule that protects our blood vessels
The Mediterranean diet isn't healthy
How to get through to a "healthy" younger population
Changes in the natural health world over the past 30 years
How Dr. Esselstyn's career evolved

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. - Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (book)

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.'s website

Follow Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

Forks Over Knives (documentary)

Rip Esselstyn (Engine2Diet)

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0:00.0	Hello Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and today we have with us Dr. Esleston and he just did a fabulous talk here in Windsor, Ontario on heart health and a plant-based diet and how that can, well I'll let him do the explaining
0:16.9	but how that can reverse plaque in the arteries and just why this diet is doing so much amazing stuff for people and
0:28.0	really helping boost their heart health.
0:30.8	Well thank you, Mark.
0:31.8	And really it's quite exciting to be with this charming couple. My only message
0:36.3	today to Windsor was that I just want them to be aware of the fact that right now medicine
0:42.4	has within its toolbox what almost seems to be a secret
0:46.6	but by no means do we want it to be a secret and that is that perhaps never
0:52.3	before in the history of medicine have we had really as I said a tool in our toolbox that is so profoundly
1:01.0	absolutely changed the health of literally all the planet
1:06.0	because with whole food plant-based nutrition all the common chronic
1:11.0	killing diseases 75 to 80 percent are totally vanquished.
1:14.5	No, we can't do anything with automobile accidents and trauma and that sort of thing.
1:19.1	That's food won't change that.
1:21.5	But the example that I was using today, of course,
1:24.9	was heart disease, which is the leading killer
1:27.4	of women and men and Western civilization.
1:30.0	And let's just start with the fact
1:32.3	that there are literally millions on the planet today
1:35.6	who by culture, heritage, and tradition will never ever have cardiovascular disease.
1:41.1	Who are they?
1:42.2	Okinawa, the Papua Highlands. of
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