Best Way to Lower Cholesterol | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 17 June 2021
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Summary
Learn the best foods and diet for lowering cholesterol on this episode of The Exam Room! Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to answer viewer questions about cholesterol, including whether the keto diet can help lower cholesterol or send it even higher.
Plus, Dr. Barnard answers other questions:
- Can plant-based foods raise cholesterol?
- Should you stop eating seeds when trying to lose weight?
- Why are B vitamins important?
- Does a vegan diet cause children to have weaker bones?
- And many more!
Also, doctors are reportedly seeing "astronomical" weight gain among children since the beginning of the pandemic. Chuck welcomes Fit Fathers founder Kimatni Rawlins to talk about the reasons why this is happening and ways to reverse the unhealthy trend. Kimatni also shares details on the 8th annual Fit Father's Day event that you can participate in from anywhere in the world!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | heart disease is extremely common and high cholesterol is one of the big |
| 0:03.5 | drivers of it. Let's take the first part of what you said. A whole food plant |
| 0:07.1 | based that I can help yes. Just get the animal product off your plate is going |
| 0:10.2 | to help a lot because that's the main source of saturated fat that causes |
| 0:14.2 | your cholesterol to go up. And it also, cholesterol is an animal product and really |
| 0:19.2 | isn't a plant product, it's any significant degree. So just getting the animal |
| 0:23.3 | products off your plate, that's job one. If you're not doing that or if you're |
| 0:26.6 | doing sort of halfway, like there's little cheese every now and then don't do |
| 0:30.6 | that. Get rid of it all. No animal products for most people that really solves |
| 0:35.0 | the problem. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I |
| 0:45.6 | am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for |
| 0:49.3 | raising your health IQ with us. This is episode 49 from season four, number 244 |
| 0:57.9 | overall. And today we are talking about cholesterol on the show. What is the |
| 1:05.3 | best diet for someone who has high cholesterol? Well, we hear from someone who's |
| 1:10.3 | being told two different things. They're being told that it's the keto diet |
| 1:14.8 | and they're being told that it's a plant-based diet. So which is it? Well, Dr. |
| 1:21.5 | Neil Barnard is here with his answer when we open up the doctor's mailback |
| 1:25.6 | also on tap today. Are there any plant-based foods that can actually raise your |
| 1:30.9 | cholesterol? And which plant-based foods are best for bringing that high |
| 1:35.4 | cholesterol back under control? Other questions sent in by you Exam Roomies, |
| 1:41.2 | should you stop eating seeds if you're trying to lose weight? And what do B |
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