Quick one. My team tells me we actually have very few reviews relative to the weekly audience

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I was taught like most doctors to view heart disease and diabetes and high blood pressure

and high cholesterol and prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease as being fundamentally

different diseases, different causes, different diagnosis and different treatments. But what

I'm saying here is they're really the same disease, manifesting and masquerading in different

forms. Because they all share the same underlying biological mechanisms, things like chronic inflammation,

oxidative stress, changes in the microbiome and telomeres and gene expression and angiogenesis

and oversimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and immune function. And every one of these

mechanisms in turn is directly influenced by what we eat, how we respond to stress, how much

exercise we get and how much love and support we have. And the more diseases we study and the

more evidence we look at, the more science we have to prove that. My approach is always to

tell you what's true and what's real and what we've proven actually works.

That's Dr. Dean Ornish and this is the proof podcast.

Playing people. Here we go. Pretty great to have you back here with me today. For new listeners,

my name is Simon Hill, physiotherapist currently finishing my master's in nutrition and

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