Ep. 227: Chris Miller, MD - Playing the Long Game of Healing From Autoimmune Disease
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the PLANTSTRONG Podcast, Rip Esselstyn speaks with Dr. Chris Miller, a former emergency room physician who shares her journey with autoimmune disease and her commitment to a whole food plant-based diet.
Imagine being a young and rising emergency room physician when you start to notice alarming changes in your own body- including chest pains and stiff, painful joints.
At the age of 36, Dr. Chris Miller started experiencing these and other symptoms and her subsequent bloodwork lit up with many autoimmune markers, including systemic lupus.
Dr. Miller discusses the challenges she faced and why some individuals may not experience immediate improvement on a plant-based diet. She emphasizes the importance of individualizing the diet and eliminating pro-inflammatory foods. Dr. Miller also highlights the role of stress management, mind-body work, and incorporating micronutrient-rich foods like leafy greens and sprouts. She provides insights into gut health and the importance of addressing triggers and making necessary changes to heal the gut.
As challenging and frustrating as it was, Dr. Miller played the long game with her health. She knew that a whole food plant-based diet was the best path, but it took time to figure out what worked best for her and her healing journey certainly wasn't linear.
Today, she practices telemedicine where she is well equipped to uncover the many nuances of autoimmune disease and get her patients on their own paths back to health.
As she says, "There is hope! Even though that path may not be easy, it’s always worth it."
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rup Eustleston and welcome to the Plant Strong podcast. The mission at |
| 0:05.9 | Plant Strong is to further the advancement of all things within the plant-based |
| 0:11.0 | movement. We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based living |
| 0:16.0 | and envision a world that universally understands, promotes, |
| 0:21.0 | and prescribes plants as a solution to empowering your health, enhancing your |
| 0:26.3 | performance, restoring the environment, and becoming better guardians to the animals |
| 0:31.6 | we share this planet with. |
| 0:33.2 | We welcome you wherever you are on your plan-strong journey, |
| 0:37.4 | and I hope that you enjoy the shelf. |
| 0:41.4 | Imagine, if you will, being a young and rising emergency room physician, and then you suddenly |
| 0:48.8 | start to notice these alarming changes in your own body, |
| 0:53.0 | including chest pains and stiff and painful joints, |
| 0:57.0 | that potentially hinder your work |
| 1:00.0 | and could threaten your whole career. |
| 1:03.6 | At the age of 36, Dr. Chris Miller |
| 1:06.2 | started experiencing these and other symptoms, |
| 1:09.3 | and her subsequent blood work lit up |
| 1:11.9 | like a Christmas tree with many autoimmune markers and she was |
| 1:16.4 | diagnosed with systemic lupus and as Chris says her body was literally on fire from the inside out. |
| 1:25.0 | As you're going to hear today, her journey to healing wasn't linear |
| 1:30.0 | and simply changing to a plant-based diet didn't cure her. |
| 1:34.0 | In fact, for almost five long years, |
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