Aidan Gallagher: Young Vegan Game Changer
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Aidan Gallagher is a young plant-based game changer! Not only is he a tv star, he's also a heck of a musician who is already using his celebrity status to advocate for animal welfare and promote the health benefits of a vegan diet.
The 15-year-old is best known for starring on the long-running Nickelodeon show "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn" as well as the Netflix series "The Umbrella Academy" but did you know that he's also the youngest goodwill ambassador ever appointed by the United Nations thanks to his environmental advocacy? Not too bad for someone still a few years shy of college age!
He joined "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll from his home in California to talk about keeping it plant-based on the set and in the music studio, "doing alright" in the kitchen, his philanthropic efforts, and his upcoming EP, Blue Neon.
Then, Chuck learns about the big impact that one small device — about the size of your finger — is going to have on the future of healthcare as he's joined in-studio by Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H. Kristie is the Vice President of Research Policy with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and an expert on the modern medical marvel known as organ-on-a-chip!
The device can replicate human organs and give researchers insight on how cells will respond to prospective medication! Not only will it accelerate the speed at which new medicine becomes available, but it is also expected to bring the skyrocketing cost of healthcare back down to earth. The organ-on-a-chip will also eliminate the need for animal testing in drug trials.
Research combining artificial intelligence and heart-on-a-chip technology was recently profiled in the media.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello. |
| 0:08.1 | This is the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:11.3 | Hello, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:14.1 | Thank you for giving the show a download, a listen, a view, wherever it is that you're |
| 0:18.5 | hearing this seeing this, we do ever so much. |
| 0:22.1 | Greatly appreciate it. |
| 0:23.1 | Hope that you get a lot out of the next hour. |
| 0:25.5 | Hopefully, we're going to educate and inspire. |
| 0:29.1 | You know, it has been a big week, a very big week here at the Physicians Committee because |
| 0:34.2 | we were recognized as one of China's 10 biggest health influencers of 2018 for the entire |
| 0:42.2 | country. |
| 0:43.2 | You know, we've touched on it a little bit here on the show in the past. |
| 0:46.4 | Our own doctor, Zhao Zhu, he is a celebrity in China in his own right. |
| 0:52.8 | He leads this cross-country bicycle caravan, this grassroots effort, teaching residents |
| 0:59.1 | about the research that shows the effect of a plant-based diet on improving health and |
| 1:04.8 | combating disease. |
| 1:06.8 | And among those diseases, of course, we're talking about diabetes. |
| 1:10.6 | Because what Dr. Zhu points to is a rise in meat consumption over there. |
| 1:15.8 | He blames that for the escalation in diet-related disease. |
| 1:20.3 | Check out the statistic, okay? |
| 1:22.6 | Studies there show that meat consumption has risen by a staggering 700% over the past |
| 1:30.7 | three decades, 700%. |
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