Ep. 185: Adam Sud - Can a Plantstrong Diet Aid in Addiction Recovery? The Results Are In!
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
For almost 15 years now, we’ve been beating the drum about the positive health impacts of a whole-food plant-based diet.
We know that it can improve your physical health in remarkable ways but, surprisingly, no research study has ever been done on the impact of a plant-based diet on addiction and recovery— until now.
Enter our friend, Adam Sud and the Infinite Study. Inspired by his own addiction and mental health recovery, Adam sought to prove that his own recovery wasn’t a fluke so he piloted the first controlled trial to investigate the impact of nutrition and nutrition education on early addiction recovery outcomes.
The long-awaited results of his groundbreaking research study are out and let’s just say we think they’re pretty plantstrong.
About Adam Sud
Adam Sud is a behavioral wellness & nutrition expert, international speaker, and the founder and CEO of Plant Based for Positive Change, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing research and understanding of how nutrition impacts mental health and addiction. He has studied the use of nutrition in disease reversal under the mentorships of leading plant-based physicians and has worked in mental health and behavioral health treatment centers using plant-based nutrition as a tool for strengthening recovery and relapse prevention.
In 2012 Sud was personally struggling with multiple addictions, serious chronic diseases, and mental health disorders. His life nearly came to an end when he attempted suicide by drug overdose. With the help of treatment and the implementation of a plant-based diet, he began a journey that led to the reversal of his chronic disease conditions, the cancellation of all medications, and the lowering of his weight from Class III Obesity levels. He is currently 10 years sober.
Episode Resources
The Infinite Study from the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Forbes Magazine Article on The Infinite Study results
Psychology Today - Can Plant-Based Diets Help Us Overcome Addiction?
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| 0:00.0 | And are you're going to be joining me and the whole plan strong crew in black mountain black mountain for spring for our next six day retreat |
| 0:08.6 | Yeah, and I promised I'm going to buy back accident at the start |
| 0:12.3 | And could you just like give it a quick like cell because we got about 20 spots left. Yeah, it is an opportunity for you to |
| 0:22.4 | Step outside of the life that you live right now. Hmm |
| 0:25.8 | Come come and be with us because we've intentionally designed and created an environment and an experience that is for the entire purpose of you discovering what's possible |
| 0:37.1 | Mm-hmm, and if you come hearing you spend five days with us |
| 0:40.3 | You are going to discover what's possible you will see it because we give you no other option |
| 0:45.4 | At the end of the five days you're going to notice what is possible for you in your body after five days of completely |
| 0:51.9 | Six six days six days living a plant strong lifestyle with movement with proper sleep with everything with social activity social engagement fun learning to have fun again learning to play learning to laugh all the things and eat |
| 1:06.8 | Copious amounts of food exactly at the end of those five days. You're going to notice the effect that that has on six days six |
| 1:13.4 | I know |
| 1:15.2 | Six days you're gonna you're gonna be confronted with the reality that this lifestyle could mean for you |
| 1:21.0 | Just got you up and you're likely gonna be inspired by that and motivated to repeat it if you come I guarantee you I |
| 1:29.2 | Guarantee you you lose nothing by coming |
| 1:34.0 | But you might miss out on the most important thing in real life if you don't come |
| 1:38.6 | Mm-hmm |
| 1:39.7 | And instead of telling someone all they have to do is stop using what we should be doing is replacing the use |
| 1:45.5 | With appropriate and valuable behavior patterns that are likely to create a better life for that person a better sense of the world for them |
| 1:53.1 | And a safer experience for them inside of their bodies and outside of their bodies moving forward that starts with plant-based nutrition |
| 1:59.8 | It starts with movement of course it includes therapy |
| 2:02.1 | But the fact that nutrition has never been measured until now was very upsetting to me because |
| 2:08.5 | I probably attribute one or two other things to being as equally powerful as what nutrition offered me in recovery and |
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