Doctors Said She Was Dying. Plants Saved Her Life.
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Doctors told Kate McGoey-Smith she had only a few years to live. She was suffering from a rare heart condition and required an oxygen tank just to breathe. As if that weren't enough, Kate also lost her vision and had diabetes.
But that diagnosis was made well over 10 years ago. Since then, Kate has reclaimed her health! She no longer needs supplemental oxygen, has reversed her diabetes, and has regained the ability to see!
Her recovery isn't the result of a new miracle drug. Rather, everything began turning around when she changed the way she was eating.
She explains to "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll that her new diet has given her her life back!
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Kate McGoey-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | I was told I only had two to five years to live. |
| 0:03.4 | All I knew is the only possibility of me living a little longer was a lung transplant. |
| 0:10.1 | And so all I cared about was, could I last long enough to have a lung transplant and |
| 0:15.6 | try to get my body as healthy as possible? |
| 0:18.8 | In the meantime, I had the side effects or the side benefits of not being diabetic anymore, |
| 0:25.9 | many my eyesight back after 15 months of following a whole plant-based diet. |
| 0:30.5 | I lost over 100 pounds. |
| 0:32.4 | I was off almost all my medications. |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.6 | This is episode 68 of season 4, number 263 overall. |
| 1:00.7 | There's a song called, Live Like You Were Dying. |
| 1:04.7 | And in a way, that Tim McGraw hit is very appropriate for today's show. |
| 1:10.8 | But we're going to tweet that title just a little bit. |
| 1:14.7 | Instead of just live like you were dying, we're going to call it, Live Like You Were Told |
| 1:21.5 | You Were Dying. |
| 1:23.6 | Because that is what happened to Kate McGoy Smith. |
| 1:26.7 | She was diagnosed with an ultra rare heart condition and given a grim prognosis. |
| 1:32.7 | Matter of fact, the doctor has told her she only had two to five years to live. |
| 1:38.1 | And there were even more health challenges that she was facing. |
| 1:41.9 | She had lost the ability to see she had gone blind and she was relying on an oxygen tank |
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