251: How I reversed my type 2 diabetes | Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Eric Adams: “No matter if you are eight or 80, you can be the person you want to be by taking healthy steps forward.” Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss what he's learned about health since reversing his type 2 diabetes, plus: *Low-lift ways to focus on your health right now* *How to exercise every day without any actual workouts* *Why we aren't talking enough about nutrition amid COVID-19* *How a "100 point plan" can better your mental health* *Why we tend to normalize discomfort and disease* Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Also be sure to check out Adams' book, Healthy At Last, which you can find at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652065/healthy-at-last-by-eric-adams/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.3	Eric Adams is the Brooklyn Borough President. Yes, that's my beloved Brooklyn. He's also a former New York City police
0:55.6	officer for more than two decades and now he's an advocate for a plant-based
1:00.8	nutrition and reversing diabetes and chronic illness, as Eric has a remarkable
1:06.8	health story. He had severe vision loss and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which he reversed.
1:13.1	Yes, he reversed all through the power of nutrition.
1:16.8	His doctors were so shocked that he was able to do this.
1:20.1	But here at my muddy green, that doesn't shock us. He now tells his incredible story in his first book
1:26.4	Healthy at Last, a plant-based approach to preventing and reversing diabetes and other chronic illnesses. He's an inspiration and I'm
1:35.6	honor that he's with us today. Eric, welcome as I mentioned before we got
1:41.9	started as a Brooklyn resident since 2009
1:46.8	I love the city I love our borough and thank you for taking good care of us.
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