Ep. 164: Dr. Baxter Montgomery - A Modern Day David vs. Goliath: Slaying the Cardiovascular Disease Giant
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Today, we share a modern-day story of David and Goliath with Dr. Baxter Montgomery.
In 1997, Dr. Montgomery opened Montgomery Heart and Wellness in Houston, Texas right in the shadows of the powerful and world-renowned campus of the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical center.
As a board-certified cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Dr. Montgomery has treated thousands of patients with severe cardiovascular diseases, but he started to notice something.
Even though he employed state-of-the-art procedures, interventions, ablations, and medications, his patients continued to grow weaker and sicker.
Montgomery, instead, started researching nutrition’s role in disease reversal and found that - you guessed it- PLANTS were the common denominator in determining wellness.
Today at Montgomery Heart and Wellness, Dr. Montgomery helps patients achieve optimal health and wellness through various nutrition programs. His goal? To get his patients to think beyond the script, improve their health, and reverse these chronic lifestyle diseases.
He truly is a modern-day David fighting a giant Goliath medical system, but much like David, he’s ready, willing, and able to slay the dragon of lifestyle disease.
Episode Timestamps
6:00 Why he was inspired to take a different approach to medicine
12:45 His own personal journey back to health that inspired his nutrition protocols
16:45 Just do this for seven days!
22:50 The results are astounding
24:30 Changing the Health Care Paradigm - “Heart and Souls of a Champion” upcoming program
29:50 Is his facility and in-patient center?
31:20 What’s an LVAT?
32:40 What is Lipoprotein a?
35:00 Are his colleagues on board, or still resistant?
39:00 Dr. Montgomery’s 3 pillars of optimal health
41:50 How can the human body heal itself so quickly?
45:35 Moderation is like running through quicksand.
47:40 How do his patients respond to his protocols and advice?
49:00 Why does he prescribe raw foods only for his patients?
57:00 All about the upcoming four-day Open House and Red Carpet Gala
1:02:00 How he is living his God-given passion
1:05:00 Bonus - Dr. Montgomery’s take on A-Fib and PVCs
Episode Resources
Montgomery Heart and Wellness Website
Learn More About Montgomery Heart Open House and Gala - October 19th-22nd, 2022
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