Eating to Save Your Life: High-Risk Cardiovascular Disease | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The power of food is extraordinary. Every 33 seconds in the U.S. someone will die of cardiovascular disease, but you do not have to be a statistic.
For the first time, groundbreaking research is proving definitively that even patients who already have the disease, as well as those who are at high risk of developing it, can dramatically improve their heart health.
Dr. Neal Barnard and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll discuss the analysis of nearly 2,000 patients and the effect that an infusion of nonanimal foods had on their cardiometabolic function.
The results point directly to the benefit of vegan and vegetarian diets to both prevent and, in many cases, reverse heart disease.
Topic Discussed
- How these findings differ from previous heart disease research
- Alcohol's effect on blood pressure
- Which foods are healthiest for the heart
- The effect of animal protein on heart function
- And more
Dr. Barnard will be speaking at the 2023 International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine.
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | It was back in the late 1940s when researchers decided maybe heart attacks don't have to |
| 0:08.4 | happen. Let's see if we can understand the risk factors. And they discovered that if |
| 0:12.2 | you lose weight, if your blood pressure comes down, if you have high cholesterol and it |
| 0:17.0 | can come down, all of these things can affect your risk in a really big way. But so then |
| 0:22.8 | ever after in all the decades that followed, the question was, well, how do you do that? |
| 0:27.8 | Do you take a drug to lose weight or to get your cholesterol down? Or do you follow a low |
| 0:32.4 | carb diet or you try to starve the way to offer, or what should you actually do? And |
| 0:36.9 | so what came in just now is looking at plant-based diets. And they looked at vegetarian diets, |
| 0:43.2 | but especially vegan diets, vegan low fat diets. And they found, if you zero in on three |
| 0:48.6 | big targets, one is how much you weigh. The other is how high is your cholesterol? And |
| 0:53.3 | the third is what about diabetes and blood glucose control? If you want to tackle all |
| 0:59.6 | those, this is the diet that hits every one of those points simultaneously. |
| 1:04.7 | And when you extrapolate all of that data from all of the studies, we're looking at data |
| 1:09.6 | from close to 2,000 people from all across the US, Asia, Europe, New Zealand. I would |
| 1:15.7 | think that with that large of a sample size, the findings here are going to be pretty |
| 1:20.1 | hard to poke holes in. It's really quite definitive. I mean, that's why the American Medical |
| 1:24.8 | Association wants to put its name on this journal and say this is something that everybody |
| 1:28.9 | needs to know about. |
| 1:37.8 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I am |
| 1:43.0 | the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ |
| 1:47.6 | with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. Hi to everyone listening |
| 1:53.9 | in Spokane, Washington, Clarksville, Tennessee, and Cartoum, Sudan. Wherever you are, we appreciate |
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