74-Year-Old Has Never Eaten Meat: What's Mark Huberman's Secret?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How long have you been plant-based? Chances are, not as long as Mark Huberman. The director of the National Health Association has spent his entire 74 years as a vegan. And his health has never been better.
He joins Chuck Carroll on the Exam Room to talk about growing up vegan in the 1950s, his parents' role in the plant-based movement, and how he continues their work today by leading by example.
If you're looking for a history lesson in the plant-based movement, or just curious how Mark could eat plant based in the 1950s, this is the episode for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | 74 years in this movement, never a piece of meat. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, I would ask you what that's like, but I'm sure you would just say normal. |
| 0:12.0 | I'd truthfully never met anybody like me that was born from day one on raw fruits and vegetables. |
| 0:18.0 | But to me, it really was normal. |
| 0:21.6 | There's a concept that, you know, taste is kind of a learned behavior. |
| 0:25.6 | For me, my lunch at school, when I was in grade school, |
| 0:28.6 | was a peach cut in half with some cashew butter in the middle, |
| 0:31.6 | and trail mix, before people knew what trail mix, |
| 0:34.6 | I had caches and raisins in a little bag. |
| 0:36.6 | But that was normal for me. |
| 0:38.2 | And I didn't miss what I didn't know. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the |
| 0:48.0 | weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:53.6 | Hi to the exam room. He's listening in |
| 0:55.4 | Denver, Colorado, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Dublin, Ireland. Wherever you are, we appreciate |
| 1:02.4 | you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 73 of season 8, number |
| 1:08.6 | 672 overall. |
| 1:16.1 | And if you want to help us out, help us in our mission to make the world a healthier place, |
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| 1:23.9 | Just leave a five-star rating and a nice review for the exam room on Apple Podcast, Spotify, |
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