What we've seen over and over again with a wide variety of conditions is to clean

your diet, the more your diet is plant-based, the better off you're going to be. If you get

infected, your course is likely to be much more benign or even asymptomatic. When people

are on diets that are very high in animal products, they tend to do much worse.

Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I am

the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health

IQ with us in more than 130 countries and healthy cities coast to coast. Alpina, Michigan,

Sierra, Vista, Arizona, Kalma, Sweden. We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier

place.

This is episode 45 of season 5, number 344 overall.

Here we are still in the midst of one pandemic and then low and behold, along comes this little

known virus that begins to spread. But unlike the coronavirus, this one isn't exactly novel.

It's not new. In fact, the origins of monkeypox trace back nearly 70 years. And we will be

getting into where it actually came from and how it's spreading today. And the lessons

we can learn from the current COVID-19 pandemic and how they might apply to monkeypox. But most

importantly, perhaps, we'll also be talking about how your pre-existing health can help

when this war on infection as well. So we're talking about diet and monkeypox. What do we

know there? Talking about plant-based diets versus the standard American fast food high-fat

diet. And does anything on your plate actually matter in this case?

For those answers today, we will be turning to infectious disease expert and phirologist

Dr. Sarai Stansick. She is the current director of medical education at the Physicians Committee,

as well as the former chief of infectious disease for the Veterans Administration in Hudson

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