Ep. 126: Dr. Dean Ornish - UnDo Chronic Disease with These Four Simple Steps
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
“What you will gain is so much more than what you will give up.” - Dr. Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish, M.D. is highly regarded as “The Father of Lifestyle Medicine,” which is the fastest-growing trend in medicine today, and today's discussion with Rip dives deep into the vast body of work and groundbreaking research that Dr. Ornish has conducted for decades.
As the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) for over 40-years, he and his team of researchers have demonstrated time and again how lifestyle medicine can reverse, treat, and prevent chronic disease.
How is this possible? Eat Well, Love More, Stress Less, and Move More – all of which are outlined in Dr. Ornish’s latest book, “UnDo It - How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases,” which has just been released in paperback.
From the beginning, Dr. Ornish was met with criticism and skepticism, which would cause even the strongest of physicians to reverse course. But, because of his conviction and the overwhelming data he has produced, the only thing reversing is YOUR chronic disease including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, early-stage prostate cancer, and now – the evidence is showing - even the progression of Alzheimer’s.
Medicare and many insurance companies are now covering Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic diseases because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported—based on 40 years of clinical research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Recently, Medicare even agreed to cover Dr. Ornish’s program for reversing heart disease when offered virtually via Zoom.
Our bodies often have a remarkable capacity to begin healing if we treat the underlying lifestyle factors that cause them—and more quickly than we had once believed. All of this is great news because, as Dr. Ornish stresses, "We don't want take hope away. In fact, we want to give people a sense of hope."
He's been giving us hope for over 40 years and, thankfully, he's just getting started.
About Dr. Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the UCSF, and the author of seven books, all national bestsellers. He received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Public Health Hero Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was recognized as a “TIME 100 Innovator;” by Life magazine as “one of the 50 most influential members of his generation;” by People magazine as “one of the most interesting people of the year;” and by Forbes magazine as “one of the world’s 7 most powerful teachers.”
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| 0:00.0 | when you make big changes, and especially if you change a lot of things at the same time, |
| 0:04.6 | most people feel so much better. |
| 0:06.2 | So quickly, get reframed and redefined what's possible, not to prevent something bad from |
| 0:12.4 | happening years down the road, but I feel better. |
| 0:15.0 | My chest pain goes away. |
| 0:16.6 | And for someone who, in most cases, and for someone who can't walk across the street without |
| 0:21.5 | getting chest pain or make love with their spouse or play with their kids or go back to |
| 0:25.4 | work without getting chest pain within a few weeks, they can do all those things. |
| 0:28.1 | And they say things like, well, I like eating junk food, but not that much because what |
| 0:31.9 | I gain is so much more than what I give up. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Rick Eustelston, and welcome to the Plan Strong podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | The mission at Plan Strong is to further the advancement of all things within the plant-based |
| 0:44.0 | movement. |
| 0:45.2 | We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based living and envision a world |
| 0:50.7 | that universally understands, promotes, and prescribes plants as a solution to empowering |
| 0:57.2 | your health, enhancing your performance, restoring the environment, and becoming better guardians |
| 1:03.7 | to the animals we share this planet with. |
| 1:06.2 | We welcome you wherever you are on your Plan Strong journey, and I hope that you enjoy |
| 1:11.7 | this show. |
| 1:14.1 | Hello, my Plan Strong cousins, and welcome to another episode of the Plan Strong podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | Next week we had Dr. Kim Williams talking all about heart disease. |
| 1:27.6 | And I thought it was only fitting that this week on the heels of Dr. Kim Williams, we |
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