Hey everybody got an interview for you today with the legend himself, Dr. Dean Ornish.

Dr. Dean Ornish is a medical doctor. He's clinical professor of medicine and he's the founder and president of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute.

For over 43 years, he has directed clinical research demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes

can reverse heart disease without drugs or surgery. Dr. Ornish directed the first randomized control

trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or reverse the progression of early stage prostate cancer.

His research showed that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression, turning on

disease preventing genes, and turning off genes that promote cancer and heart disease,

as well as the first controlled study showing that these lifestyle changes may begin to reverse cellular aging by lengthening your telomeres. That's pretty cool, right?

Dr. Ornish has a diet named after him. It's called the Ornish Diet and it's been rated number one for heart health by US News and World Report for 10 years in a row. Dr. Ornish is the author

of seven bestselling books. His latest book is co-authored with his wife, Ann. It's called

Undo It, How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Disease. So I'm it's called undo it how simple lifestyle changes can reverse most chronic disease so i'm

really excited to talk to you dr ornish thank you so much for taking the time to do this well

chris i appreciate the chance to be on your show and to share our information with your viewers

so can we start way back in the very young Dr. Dean Ornish days?

Because I'd love to know how your career took a different trajectory.

Most doctors, they don't go down the diet and lifestyle transformation path.

So what happened in your life to turn you on to this?

Because, you know, I know for many, many decades, and even the notion of diet for disease

was, you know, was either dismissed or just considered quackery.

Well, do you want me to begin with why I changed my diet initially in my own?

Or later when I became a doctor why I began doing this thing.

I'd love to know what the catalyst was in your life. Yeah.

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