Today on the exam room.

So one of the things on my daily does and I encourage people to eat legumes every day.

Beans, split, peat, chickpeas, or lentils, the healthiest source of plant protein.

In fact, the food associated with the greatest extension of longevity.

If there's one thing we can eat to make ourselves live longer, it would be legumes. Okay, but how can we tweak the beans to lower LDL further?

A single tablespoon of black soybeans significantly lowers LDL cholesterol.

It turns out there's these anthocyan and pigments in the seed coat in the black seed coat

that actually pull our cholesterol down. I mean, show this in

actually a placebo control, double-blind, randomized control trial.

Welcome to the Examroom podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll,

raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. This is episode

100 of season 8, number 699 overall. And today we are going to be looking back at three of our

biggest episodes of 2025. Three powerful podcasts that put the power of your health right smack dab in the palm of your hands.

And our countdown begins at number three with a familiar face in the nutrition space, Dr. Michael

Greger. And the goal of this episode was simple. Answer the question. how can you lower cholesterol naturally and without the

use of medication? And the conversation begins with a closer look at the biggest problem so many

of us face, the way that we eat. We call it the standard American diet, but you may simply call it dinner. Dr.

Greger, meanwhile, he calls it a recipe for disaster. It is a deadly thing, man.

It is indeed. In fact, according to the gold burden of disease study, the largest study

of disease risk factors in human history, the number one cause of death.

And these United States is the American diet, bumping tobacco smoke to number two.

Cigarettes only kill about a half million Americans every year, whereas our diet kills many more.

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