Ep 1: Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr and an Intro to Joe Inga

PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Rip Esselstyn

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Meet Joe Inga, a New York City firefighter with Engine 72 in the Bronx. Joe decides to buck the firehouse culture by doing something as nutty as eating plant based! That’s right – no meat, no dairy, and nothing that came from something with a face or a mother. As you can imagine, change is hard. But Joe is on a mission and damn the torpedoes! Between being a new father, battling addiction, and recently coming face to face with his own mortality, Joe needs support. In season 1 we’ll follow Joe’s ups and downs as he moves towards becoming the plant-strong man he knows he can be!

Also meet Rip’s dad, the world renowned Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., from the Cleveland Clinic and learn how he trekked upstream against all the naysayers to discover the causation of heart disease and how our fork can be our most powerful ally in halting and even reversing the #1 killer of Americans!

Hear why you should care about nitric oxide and the four reasons it’s critical for cardiovascular health. Discover what foods have the highest antioxidant value, plus why and how you should eat them. And most importantly, understand all the life-saving benefits to eating a plant-strong diet from the man who pioneered the research.

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0:00.0	I got this email and I want to read it to you.
0:07.3	It says, Rep, Good evening, exclamation mark.
0:11.3	My name is Joe Inga.
0:12.6	I am a huge fan of yours and the documentary Forks overnight.
0:16.2	I was having some major personal issues.
0:18.9	I was battling addiction with alcoholism and I kind of was in denial over the whole thing.
0:24.4	I didn't realize that I had this issue.
0:27.4	I am an FDNY firefighter assigned to engine 72 in the Bronx.
0:31.9	I am 5'6 and weigh over 210 pounds with extremely high cholesterol and triglythroid numbers.
0:38.0	I actually was home one day and I saw Netflix.
0:41.0	They had just put on the Forks overnight documentary so I put it on and it was, I had sat
0:45.7	up in my chair when it happened and I was like, this is unbelievable.
0:49.5	Over the past seven years I've adopted a whole food plant-based diet on several occasions,
0:54.5	usually once a year for 90 days as a cleansing method.
0:58.6	But it's very difficult to do in my line of work.
1:02.4	So I ended up fading from that.
1:06.0	I really would like to adopt this program regularly but I desperately need your help as a
1:12.8	fellow firefighter.
1:14.4	If I was climbing a ladder but I wasn't in the shape or I was groggy or I was tired
1:18.9	or I wasn't in the shape that I should have been in, I got two kids at home.
1:23.7	As a fellow firefighter and the only one I know who does this as well, I could use your
1:28.7	input on handling these situations since you are familiar with them.
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