How to Change Your Life In Order to Save It—Dean Ornish, MD—A Leading Expert in the World of Health and Wellness
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
"Bypass surgery became a metaphor for an incomplete approach; we're literally bypassing the problem without also treating the cause, and I wondered what would happen if we treated the cause, which to a large degree is the lifestyle choices we make each day," says Dr. Dean Ornish, as he reflects on his experience during medical school. Dr. Ornish has since become a well-known and well-respected physician who emphasizes the impact of diet and lifestyle on overall health.
On today's episode, he discusses a growing amount of research which shows that a whole foods plant-based diet, moderate exercise, stress management, and love can reverse countless chronic diseases, including early prostate cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, and that it can even reverse ageing at the cellular level.
He also discusses numerous specific benefits associated with a whole foods plant-based diet, some of the main topics in his latest book Undo It! How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases, how loneliness and depression affects physical health, his perspective on the ketogenic diet, and how to begin changing your life in ways that will improve and lengthen it.
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| 1:08.5 | podcasts and I have Dean Ornish and Dean has been pretty famous in the Diet, Health, and Lifestyle World for a long time, probably as long as I've been alive is my guest, but he's a multiple time author. He has a new book out called Undo It. He's directed anti-aging research. He's just been involved, like it said, in health and wellness for many, many, many years. So Dr Ornish, thank you for coming. |
| 1:30.6 | Thanks for your interest. I'm happy to be here. Yeah if you don't mind going |
| 1:34.2 | back in time what started your interest in health and your health journey? Oh gosh well when I |
| 1:39.6 | was in medical school I was learning how to do bypass surgery with Dr Michael de Baiki, one of the pioneers who invented the operation. |
| 1:46.0 | And at first it was fun and exciting to expose a beating heart, there's kind of an Aztec priest's quality to the whole thing. |
| 1:52.0 | But it was ultimately disheartening in every sense of There's kind of an Aztec priest's quality to the whole thing. |
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