Do Some Vegans Have Naturally High Cholesterol? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to eat a vegan diet and still have high cholesterol? What should you do if that is you?
Dr. Neal Barnard has advice for those who seem to have stubborn high cholesterol no matter what they eat!
Find out why this might happen and options to lower cholesterol when Dr. Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Topics
- Genetics of high cholesterol
- Sneaky foods can raise cholesterol
- Best foods for lowering cholesterol
- Refined sugar’s influence on cholesterol
- Processed food and cholesterol
- Coffee and cholesterol
- How exercise affects cholesterol levels
- Statins and alternatives
- Habits that can lower cholesterol
- And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.0 | Let's say there's somebody that's eating a really healthy diet with a lot of fruits and vegetables and whole grains, no meat and no dairy, |
| 0:11.0 | but their cholesterol is still elevated. Are they at any less risk, any more danger |
| 0:16.8 | than somebody that's eating that high-fat diet that's got a lot of steak and hot dogs |
| 0:21.3 | and hamburgers in it? You know, that very question came up in one of Dr. Ornish's studies, |
| 0:26.6 | Dr Dean Ornish, medical genius, where he used a plant-based diet |
| 0:31.2 | along with a healthy lifestyle. |
| 0:33.5 | Modest exercise, don't smoke, handle stress. |
| 0:37.1 | And he showed remarkably cholesterol levels dropped like a stone, |
| 0:40.2 | people lost weight, their arteries started opening up again. |
| 0:43.0 | There was one person in this study, |
| 0:45.6 | who despite following a really healthy diet |
| 0:48.0 | and not smoking and everything, |
| 0:49.4 | could not get his cholesterol level down. |
| 0:51.3 | But even he had reversal of his heart disease. In other |
| 0:55.8 | words the arteries were opening up again in Am just like others and that raised |
| 0:59.5 | the question. If I can't get my cholesterol down but my diet is really clean and my lifestyle is otherwise good, |
| 1:05.7 | maybe that alone is going to have a very protective effect. Now there are plenty of other doctors who would say |
| 1:11.2 | I don't know I wouldn't I don't want to put my money all |
| 1:13.2 | on that I would add a stat as well and that that controversy continues to this day. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. |
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