Hey, everybody. So today I'm interviewing someone who is really, really special, really remarkable

human. His name is Mike Fremont in 1991 at 69 years old. Mike was diagnosed with colorectal

cancer. His doctors at the Cleveland Clinic told him he would die in three months unless he had an operation to remove the tumor.

He declined the operation.

He adopted a whole food plant-based diet.

Two years later, he did have surgery, and there was no metastasis, which is amazing.

Now, not only that, but he's a lifelong athlete. He has the fastest marathon time for an 88-year, a 90 year old, and a 91 year old.

At 96 years old, he set the American one mile record for the 95 to 99 year old age group.

And as a lifelong canoe racer at 99, he was the oldest person to race the canoe national championships.

He's still out there running and staying active.

So, Mike, it's great to connect with you.

Great to have you on.

How are you?

I'm fine.

I may have trouble expressing this, but the Cleveland Clinic put a television receiver inside of me so I could see this and I could see that one.

They were making the diagnosis, and they said it has metastasized. And I didn't really connect what happened after that.

But I refused the operation. And the two years elapsed with no problems at all. As a matter of fact,

what the two years did was to

verify to me that the arthritis I had in the back of my neck and this shoulder, the fingers

of this hand, had absolutely disappeared in a matter of weeks after the diagnosis,

because I was on the diet. The diet did that. And what was the diet? What did you eat?

Vegan diet. We called it at the time macrobiotic.

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