One Twin Goes Vegan, One Does Not: 8 Weeks, Big Results | Dr. Christopher Gardner
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The premise: 22 sets of healthy twins are put to the test. One identical twin begins to eat an entirely plant-based diet while their sibling eats a meaty omnivorous diet.
While 70% of the diets were identical, 30% of the omnivorous diet was comprised of meat and other animal foods. It would be that 30% that proved the difference maker in terms of the cardiometabolic health of the twins.
In just eight weeks the changes were nothing short of astounding.
On average, the twin eating the plant-based diet lost an additional four pounds, lowered their LDL ("bad") cholesterol by 15 points, and experienced a 20 percent improvement in fasting insulin compared to their meat eating sibling.
Go inside the remarkable study that was the basis for the hit Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat.
Nutrition scientist and Stanford professor Christopher Gardner, PhD, is one of the lead researchers of the study. He outlines the findings and takes you behind the scenes of the documentary when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Topics Discussed
- Telomeres lengthening with plant-base diet
- Genetics, biological clocks, and aging
- Cholesterol effects on twins
- Challenges of the study
- Responding to criticism
- And more
This episode was recorded at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine in Washington, D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. The study was funded by the guy who produced the Netflix. |
| 0:08.0 | His idea was working with identical twins as this interesting hook, but he doesn't run studies, he makes movies, so he said, |
| 0:15.0 | what would it look like? |
| 0:16.0 | I said, ah, well, if you were going to interest me in this study, I would want to give the two diets the best |
| 0:22.1 | chance they could. |
| 0:22.9 | So in the vegan world, French fries and Coke are vegan, |
| 0:26.0 | but that's not a great way to go vegan. |
| 0:27.8 | So this is gonna be beans and whole grains |
| 0:31.0 | and Mediterranean Latin American Middle Eastern great dishes and the omnivore diet likewise |
| 0:36.5 | isn't going to be a crappy comparison diet. In fact, we're going to make an omnivore diet |
| 0:40.6 | that's better than the diet that they normally eat because at one level we |
| 0:45.3 | basically randomized one of each pair of the twin to be vegan and one to not and so |
| 0:50.4 | the not was you're all omnivores you get to keep by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:08.4 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:15.0 | High to the exam room he's listening in El Paso, Texas, Stanford, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 1:23.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:27.8 | This is episode 74 of season 7, number 573 overall. |
| 1:35.0 | You know that big Netflix documentary about Twins, |
| 1:38.0 | you are what you eat? |
| 1:40.0 | Well, we have one of the stars of that feature with us today, one of the lead researchers of the study that the film was based off of, |
| 1:48.0 | and we are going behind the scenes of the documentary and diving into a whole lot of data today. the Dr. Christopher Gardner is here with us once again and here is the premise of his study. |
| 2:07.7 | You have 22 sets of healthy twins and you have them participate in a randomized control trial. |
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