Can Vegan Diet Help Beat Drug and Alcohol Addiction? | Adam Sud and Tara Kemp, PhD
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible for diet changes to help someone recovering from drug or alcohol abuse? A recovering addict teamed with researchers to find out.
Adam Sud has used a plant-based diet as a key component to his continued ability to maintain sobriety for many years. He wanted to see whether it was possible to replicate the success.
He and lead researcher Tara Kemp, PhD, join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to talk about what happened when patients at a rehab facility began eating a plant-based diet as part of their recovery program.
The results of the study appear to offer hope to those struggling with drugs, alcohol, and depression.
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Tara Kemp
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| 0:00.0 | So what we saw is when they got to the outpatient experience where they were purchasing and cooking |
| 0:08.4 | their own meals was that the intervention group, the plant-based group, actually maintained |
| 0:12.3 | their healthy diet for a longer period of time. |
| 0:14.9 | They actually adhered to the diet when they were on their own making their own decisions. |
| 0:19.1 | So that was really exciting to see. |
| 0:21.1 | We also saw that over time, the plant-based group had higher resilience and self-esteem. |
| 0:28.7 | And so that was also really exciting to find. |
| 0:30.7 | And some people see self-esteem as a component of resilience, but both have been found to |
| 0:35.0 | be very important in long-term, sobriety, long-term recovery. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:51.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 0:59.7 | more than 150 countries. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi to everyone listening in Chula Vista, California, Denton, Texas, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
| 1:09.6 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:14.7 | This is episode 15 of season 6, number 411 overall. |
| 1:22.0 | More than 65 million adults in the US will binge drink in any given month. |
| 1:28.7 | And more than 35 million more say that they've abused drugs or prescription pain relievers. |
| 1:35.1 | And those numbers, those are just from 2019. |
| 1:38.2 | That was before the pandemic. |
| 1:40.4 | And now we find ourselves in a place where addiction rates have exploded thanks to a combination |
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