Michael Klaper, MD Is Educating The Next Generation of Doctors

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Today we honor this long-standing tradition with one of my favorite medical minds. Meet Michael Klaper, MD. For the past 40 years, Dr. Klaper has distinguished himself as a gifted general practitioner, internationally recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet, health, applied plant-based nutrition and integrative medicine. I became acquainted with Dr. Klaper during his eight-year term at the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. A nutrition-based medical clinic specializing in therapeutic fasting and health improvement through a whole-food, plant-based diet, TrueNorth is renowned for successfully navigating people to better well-being through non-intervention lifestyle protocols. In addition, Dr. Klaper served as an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project on nutrition for long-term space colonists on the moon and Mars. He was also a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association and served as the Director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research. Diet is key to reversing many of the most feared degenerative diseases known to medicine. And yet, applied nutrition is not typically integral to medical school curriculums. To solve this problem, Dr. Klaper partnered with PlantPure Communities to form Moving Medicine Forward, a medical school nutrition education initiative designed to change the way future doctors treat their patients through improved nutrition and lifestyle education. The most important work of his career, Dr. Klaper lectures at medical schools nationwide, educating students on using plant-predominant nutrition and positive lifestyle changes to truly heal their patients -- and ultimately improve the health of future generations. Early in his career, Dr. Klaper realized that many of the diseases his patients brought to his office were made worse, or actually caused by the high-fat, high sugar, overly processed Standard American Diet. When he began treating his patients not with pharmaceuticals and surgical interventions but instead with diet and lifestyle protocols -- specifically a whole-food, plant-based diet and active lifestyle -- he started getting unprecedented results. Over time, he observed his patients miraculously reverse a litany of chronic ailments, including atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, hypertension, obesity, adult onset diabetes, and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and autoimmune disease. Today Dr. Klaper shares his wisdom and experience, picking up where we left off in our first podcast conversation, published six years ago to the day (RRP #77). We discuss his mission to help empower the next generation of doctors to better heal their patients. And we explore his dream of eradicating the chronic lifestyle epidemics that unnecessarily afflict millions of people every single year. The visually inclined can watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The most energetic and youthful 72-year old I've ever met, I aspire to this beautiful and gentle man's enthusiasm for life and commitment to service. I sincerely hope you enjoy the exchange. In the meantime, stay safe everyone. We're in this together. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	It's inevitable that the current edifice is just paying doctors to do things to patients
0:06.7	after the disease has already started to do these very expensive band-aid procedures, a
0:11.6	quarter million dollar operation, and the patient limps out the hospital to go eat more cheese
0:15.3	burgers and pizzas and clog up their graphs so they can come back in and have another one.
0:19.8	That's bankrupt medicine.
0:20.8	And if they do know harm, applies to dietary advice as well.
0:24.6	And you can really hurt somebody with a raw diet.
0:26.9	And I think a lot of wrong advice is being given.
0:29.9	We're not homo carnivorous.
0:31.5	We're not flesh eating apes.
0:33.4	And our simian ancestors have been on this planet for 20 million years eating leaves and
0:38.3	fruits.
0:39.3	Our binobo and gorilla cousins are up in the trees today eating leaves and fruits.
0:44.2	Basically, we were planting creatures.
0:46.1	And as long as we eat a plant predominant diet, whole plant foods, leaves and greens
0:51.1	and fruits and vegetables, your body to thrive on that.
0:54.9	And we talk about disease reversal.
0:56.7	I was a physician 45 years before anybody even put those two words in the same sentence
1:02.5	for me that these are reversible diseases, the diabetes and the high blood pressure and
1:08.0	the inflammatory arthritis.
1:09.8	These diseases go away with a healthy diet.
1:13.2	That's Dr. Michael Clapper, this week on The Retroll Podcast.
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