Plant-Based Diet Revolution: Healthier Gut, Happier You | Dr. Alan Desmond
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Discover why more people than ever are turning to plant-based diets to revolutionize their health!
Dr. Alan Desmond joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to reveal the biggest health benefits of going vegan during a special live healthy gut Q&A on The Exam Room™. He also shares tips and secrets from his new book, The Plant-Based Diet Revolution, and answer questions from The Doctor's Mailbag.
- What are the best foods for a healthy gut?
- What does eating fast food do to your gut?
- How much less likely are you to get cancer if you stop eating meat and dairy?
- How much can a plant-based diet help with Crohn's disease and IBS?
- And many more!
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | Which is the bigger detriment to gut health? |
| 0:03.0 | Is it the sugar or is it the fat? |
| 0:05.1 | Oh, do I have to join one team? |
| 0:06.8 | Is it one of these things? |
| 0:08.2 | Am I team sugar or team fat? |
| 0:10.2 | Okay, neither are health foods. |
| 0:13.2 | Okay, but if we're talking about the gut microbiome, |
| 0:16.1 | the purified sugar never gets their chuck. |
| 0:18.1 | It never gets to meet the gut microbiome |
| 0:20.8 | because it's absorbed in the small bowel, |
| 0:23.0 | gets in there, does all that damage, |
| 0:24.6 | but it never gets to the large bowel, |
| 0:26.2 | doesn't meet the gut microbiome. |
| 0:28.0 | Whereas when that fat gets down to the gut microbiome, |
| 0:31.3 | what it does is it promotes the growth |
| 0:34.3 | of unhealthy bacteria. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, |
| 0:42.5 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:47.9 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:53.0 | This is episode number 37 of season four, |
| 0:56.4 | number 232 overall. |
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