Can Vegans Get COVID-19? He Did.

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Physicians Committee

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible for someone who eats a healthy vegan diet to become infected with the coronavirus? As much as you may wish to say no, the fact is that no diet can offer immunity to COVID-19. However, a healthy diet may still make a huge difference in the outcome of the case.

On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, Eric O'Grey joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to share his experience with COVID-19. At one point Eric weighed 340 pounds and was on 15 different medications. Doctors even told him that he would die if he didn't change his ways. He began eating a vegan diet and with the help of a loving dog, Peety, whom he adopted from a local shelter, began to lose weight and reclaim his health. He says that going vegan saved his life once. Now, after getting COVID-19 he thinks it may have saved it for a second time.

Eric also speaks about mother-in-law who didn't begin eating a plant-based diet until she was 96 and in poor health. Within weeks of making the change doctors took Josephine off of all her medication and she began walking 2 to 3 miles every day! She is proof that it is never too late to get healthy!

Also on the show, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Jim Loomis answer your questions!

Is it healthy to eat oatmeal for breakfast every day?
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Tips for someone with osteoporosis who is going vegan?
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0:00.0	And I think that it's obvious that if I was not in this level of health,
0:05.2	from a whole food plant-based diet, after I got the virus, I don't know how I could
0:10.9	have possibly survived it. That really helped me through and minimized my symptoms
0:16.2	and helped me get through it in the shortest period of time possible.
0:19.4	Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:33.2	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thanks so much for giving the show a listen,
0:38.1	or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact that you
0:46.0	are here. And you are here as we address an important question and one that has been
0:53.2	asked now for months since the beginning of this pandemic really. And that question is,
1:00.5	if I eat a healthy vegan diet, can I still become infected with the coronavirus?
1:09.6	If I eat nothing but plants, can I still get COVID-19?
1:15.9	Well, today you will be hearing from a gentleman by the name of Eric O'Gray,
1:22.0	an Eric dramatically overhauled his diet and improved his health,
1:28.0	went whole food plant-based years ago, and still became infected with COVID-19.
1:39.0	So, we will be speaking with him on the show today. What was that experience like for him?
1:45.6	How sick did he get? What was it like going through it?
1:49.7	But perhaps most importantly for Eric, the question becomes how differently
1:56.3	may things have played out? Had he not been eating a healthy diet?
2:02.2	We are going to find out when we speak with him. You know, his wife also became infected.
2:09.4	And they live with her 96-year-old mother.
2:18.0	So you can imagine that this was quite an ordeal for the O'Gray family.
2:26.3	And here's the really interesting thing about this 96-year-old mother,
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