Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Cherzai.

We are so excited to broadcast this amazing episode with Brooklyn Borough

President Eric Adams. This man is an awe-inspiring leader and a true community hero. He previously

served three terms in the New York State Senate and 22 years in the New York City Police Department.

In 2016, he got very sick and after some diagnostics was found to have type 2 diabetes.

He soon learned about the profound effect of food on his health and adopted a whole food plant-based

diet and successfully reversed his diabetes.

Since then, he has been a vocal proponent of a plant-based diet and has encouraged all Brooklynites to eat healthier.

He has launched multiple initiatives to provide resources to the community regarding healthy nutrition

and also hosts

various events at the Brooklyn Borough Hall to educate citizens on different health topics.

He also prompted the city council to pass a resolution called Ban the Bologna, which aims for schools

across the city to stop serving processed meats to school kids

based on a 2015 World Health Organization report that labeled these products as group 1 carcinogens

that increased the risk of diabetes, multiple cancers, and respiratory illnesses.

He has also been an avid supporter of Meatless Mondays in

public schools. He's dedicating so much of his efforts to empowering the community with new

models of health. You know, our entire life has been focused on evidence-based research and

translating it to populations. And that's what

we think is the missing link, the translation of preventive medicine to populations, which is not

really addressed in standard medicine, sadly. And that's what inspires us so much about Eric's work, who is making Brooklyn

a role model city for other cities in the U.S. He's a luminary who is changing health care as we know it,

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