Dr. Dean and Anne Ornish: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases (Sept 25, 2019)

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Best of Oprah's Super Soul | This Episode Was Originally Published on September 25th 2019 Oprah Winfrey invites medical pioneer Dr. Dean Ornish and his wife Anne to her vegetable garden in Maui. They talk about their book, “Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases.” The book, which is now out on paperback, highlights four lifestyle changes they claim can reverse both chronic disease and the aging process.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.6	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:25.1	Today on Super Soul Sunday, Dean Ornish is a world-renowned doctor, best-selling author, researcher
0:30.8	and professor. His patient list includes President Bill Clinton, Senator Cory Booker, and Country
0:36.8	Legend Garth Brooks. For more than 40 years, Dr. Dean Ornish has conducted revolutionary
0:42.4	research proving that simple diet and lifestyle changes can dramatically improve our health.
0:48.6	Dean Ornish has been married for 13 years now to Anne Ornish. Anne is the vice president
0:54.2	of program development at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. It's a nonprofit organization
0:59.6	dedicated to preventing and reversing most chronic diseases.
1:05.7	Now in their groundbreaking best-selling book, Undo It, the Ornish is introduced a new
1:11.1	radical theory. The couple believe that by focusing on four components, you can reverse
1:16.9	the progression of most common chronic diseases, slow down the aging process and lead a happier,
1:24.0	more fulfilled life.
1:26.6	So here we are in my organic garden in Maui, no better place I thought to discuss. I'm
1:33.4	doing it. Undoing it. It's beautiful here.
1:36.0	How simple lifestyle changes can reverse most chronic diseases. You've been talking about
1:40.5	this for a long time and now you and your wife Anne are talking about it. That's right.
1:44.6	Together we'll be joined by Anne in a little bit. But I think the very idea that you can
1:50.4	change and reverse chronic diseases is what you're saying in Undo It. By changing your habits,
2:00.2	changing the way you love and changing the way you eat.
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