Hey there, this is Ari. Welcome back to the show. In this episode, I'm talking to Dr.

Joel Furman, who is a board-certified family physician, seven-time New York Times best-selling

author and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease

through nutritional methods. Specifically, a nutrition approach centered around a plant-based diet

and his specific version of that. He also holds the Eat to Live retreat in San Diego, California,

and through his books, television specials,

and virtual speaking engagements, Dr. Furman shares his life-saving nutritional protocols with

hundreds of thousands of people around the world seeking to recover from obesity, food

addictions, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, and other serious health conditions. In this episode,

I talked to him about his nutrition approach, how he would compare and contrast it to other

nutritional approaches as well as his critiques of other approaches. And I have a very frank and

honest and direct conversation with him. In some cases, I play devil's advocate

to challenge certain positions or ask him what he thinks of other views of his positions. And I

think you'll get a lot of value from hearing this conversation. So without any further ado,

enjoy this conversation with Dr. Joel Furman. Dr. Furman, welcome to the show. Such a pleasure to have you.

Great to be here. So you have coined the term nutritarian. Can you tell people what that means

and why you coined that term? Well, it means to eat a diet that's optimally designed to be an excellent health and promote

lifespans, slow aging.

But I coined the term because there was no term that adequately described a diet that was

based on the right nutritional portfolio of healthy foods.

Like you can be on a vegan diet or a plant-based diet, but you can eat unhealthy

plant foods that are based from plants.

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