Plant-Based Diet and COVID-19: What Science Shows | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A plant-based diet can help prevent severe cases of COVID-19 and may reduce the risk of becoming infected altogether, according to two studies.
Dr. Neal Barnard explores research analyzing the diets of healthcare workers in six countries. The findings show that eating less meat and dairy and more fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of severe infection by as much as 73%. However, a low-carb keto diet appears to significantly increase the likelihood of becoming severely ill.
Dr. Barnard and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll also discuss a second study of nearly 600,000 people that not only confirms the protection against severe symptoms, but also reveals that a plant-based diet can provide protection from becoming infected at all.
Data on vaccine efficiency and safety, the delta variant, breakthrough cases, and infection trends is also discussed.
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Plant-Based Diet COVID-19 Study
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Healthcare Worker COVID-19 Study
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COVID-19 Vaccine Safety
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| 0:00.0 | What if you actually are following a mostly plant-based diet? |
| 0:03.4 | Will that help you? |
| 0:04.7 | The answer seems to be, yes, |
| 0:07.3 | there were health care workers in six different countries, |
| 0:09.2 | they tracked what they ate and they raided them |
| 0:11.4 | for more plant-based or less plant-based. |
| 0:14.7 | In other words, if you were less plant-based, |
| 0:16.3 | that meant you were eating chicken, fish, and beef, |
| 0:19.0 | and cheese, and kind of neglecting your vegetables and fruits. |
| 0:22.3 | And the people who were more plant-based |
| 0:23.8 | had a 73% reduced risk of severe COVID. |
| 0:30.0 | But I got to tell you the flip side of this was, |
| 0:31.7 | they looked at people who were doing keto |
| 0:34.2 | and they did substantially worse. |
| 0:35.8 | What if you were more plant-based? |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast, brought to you |
| 0:43.0 | by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.4 | This is episode 63 of season four, number 258, overall. |
| 0:58.6 | The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that it is far from over. |
| 1:03.8 | Case loads are again exploding |
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