Plant-Based vs. Ketosis: Diet Wars With Cardiologist Joel Kahn, MD

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

"More produce and less loneliness keep the heart doctor away.” Joel Kahn MD Recent years have seen the ascendency of low-carb, high fat diets. Indeed, the ketogenic lifestyle has been heralded as a veritable health panacea. In parallel, we bear witness to mainstream acceptance of the plant-based approach to vitality, lifestyle disease prevention and reversal. The debate pitting these distinct approaches to nutrition is as emotional as it is divisive — an impassioned war for hearts and minds waged across the scientific literature, mainstream publications and the internet that can leave even the most intelligent and well-intentioned consumer utterly baffled. So who's right? To help divine the line between truth and fiction, Joel Kahn, MD joins the podcast for his third appearance. Dr. Kahn is an Interpreventional Cardiologist, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Michigan, and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan’s prestigious Inteflex program (a 6-year undergraduate / graduate program that developed doctors fresh out of high school). He’s authored hundreds of articles on heart disease, is a frequent lecturer on heart disease and its prevention, has performed thousands of cardiac procedures, and is the owner of GreenSpace Café in Ferndale and Royal Oak Michigan. In addition, Dr. Kahn is the author of five books, including The Whole Heart Solution* and his newest offering, The Plant-Based Solution*. This a comprehensive and highly instructive conversation that endeavors to provide needed clarity when it comes to the aforementioned debate — a deep dive into the veracity of nutritional research findings to provide the information you need to promote maximum health, hinder lifestyle disease, and abet longevity. In addition, we explore emerging research on the benefits of intermittent fasting and why everyone should get a coronary calcium scan. Amazingly informative, this is straight talk from a trusted and experienced man I'm proud to call friend. As a final note, this podcast episode is also available in video format on YouTube. If you are enjoying the video version of the show, please subscribe to my channel at youtube.com/richroll to be alerted when new videos post. Finally, if you missed our previous conversations, check out episodes #44 & #128. For the visually inclined, you can watch watch (& subscribe!) to the podcast on YouTube here. I sincerely hope you find our conversation instructive — because health is wealth. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Quick announcement before we get into it. I am very excited to announce that Julie and I have a brand new cookbook coming out
0:06.4	April 24th. It's called the Plant Power Way, Italia. We're very proud of it. If you enjoyed our first book the Plant Power Way
0:13.8	I think you're gonna freak for this one. It's inspired by our retreats in Tuscany and the cuisine of the Italian countryside.
0:21.3	It's super next level, incredible photography,
0:25.1	125 entirely new and of course delicious plant-based Italian recipes
0:29.9	and it's available for pre-order now from all your favorite online booksellers. You can learn more at ritual.com
0:36.8	pre-orders are very important to the book's viability and so it would mean a great deal to us if you reserved your copy today.
0:45.5	Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it and now onto the show.
0:52.0	The single most powerful
0:55.0	activity you can do to prolong your life is eat less every day and that's a message that is so needed right now
1:01.1	and then we can talk about what that is but start out with that in your mind. Shut your mouth, your kitchen, your refrigerator and
1:08.9	watch your health bloom. That's Dr. Joel Khan. This week on a Retroll Podcast.
1:24.0	The Retroll Podcast.
1:28.0	The conversation that tends to swirl around nutrition is as emotional as it is confusing.
1:34.6	Capable of confounding even the most intelligent and well-intentioned among us.
1:40.5	So in an effort to
1:42.5	gain some much needed clarity in this battle over hearts and minds in which we find ourselves embroiled,
1:48.4	today we focus on the impact of our dietary choices on a number of things.
1:53.0	Maximizing health, promoting longevity and preventing disease.
1:57.7	My name is Rich Roll and today's co-pilot is my friend Dr. Joel Khan making his third appearance on the show.
2:04.2	His first being back in August of 2013, episode 44, and then again in February of 2015, episode 128.
2:13.1	Dr. Khan is an inter-preventional cardiologist and clinical professor of medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine,
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