Drop Cholesterol 150 Points In 15 Days? Dr. Ted Barnett Breaks Down The Science
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Can your cholesterol drop more than 150 points in just 15 days without medication?
Dr. Ted Barnett joins Chuck Carroll at the International Conference on Nutrition and Medicine to reveal the stunning results he's seeing with patients who adopt a whole food plant-based diet.
Inside Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds, Dr. Barnett has witnessed cholesterol levels fall by 150–200 points in two weeks, average drops of 64 points, and dramatic improvements in blood sugar, inflammation, and energy — often outperforming the results of statins.
This episode dives deep into why lifestyle changes can be more powerful than prescriptions, what's holding back the medical system from using these tools, and how simple foods like arugula, broccoli, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, and black-eyed peas can transform your health quickly.
What You'll Learn:
- How patients are lowering cholesterol 150+ points naturally
- Why whole food plant-based diets outperform many medications
- The 15-Day Jumpstart program and its life-changing results
- Why the medical system overlooks lifestyle solutions
- The top foods Dr. Barnett "prescribes" to every patient
- How doctors collaborate in Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds
- How you can experience similar results at home
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | We've had incredible results. |
| 0:06.0 | Some people's cholesterol will drop 150, even 200 points. |
| 0:09.0 | In the 15 days? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | Wow. |
| 0:12.0 | We have people draw their labs just before and just after. |
| 0:14.0 | And the average drop in cholesterol, if your cholesterol is over 240 when you start, |
| 0:18.0 | the average cholesterol drop will be about 64 points. |
| 0:20.0 | Holy smokes. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:21.5 | And some people will drop even more than that. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi to the exam room. |
| 0:35.9 | He's listening today in Tucson, Arizona, Charleston, South |
| 0:39.4 | Carolina, and Toronto, Canada. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a |
| 0:45.5 | healthier place. This is episode 94 of season 8, number 693 overall. And today we bring to you an |
| 0:53.6 | episode that was recorded at the International |
| 0:55.7 | Conference on Nutrition in Medicine right here in Washington, D.C. And we will be joined by |
| 1:01.6 | the high-tech doctor with low-tech solutions. He is our friend, Dr. Ted Barnett. And we're |
| 1:08.6 | going to be diving into why some of his patients are seeing their |
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