Protecting Your Heart With Plants - Dr. Robert Ostfeld
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of heart disease by up to 40 percent? Keep that in mind as esteemed plant-based cardiologist Dr. Robert Ostfeld joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll for a special episode of The Exam Room™ podcast!
The pair sat down together at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City to discuss the way Dr. Ostfeld is revolutionizing cardiac care for his patients by encouraging them to adopt a plant-based diet. As you'll hear, many of those patients have experienced incredible health transformations and have incredible success stories to share.
Dr. Ostfeld also discusses in depth why he views the Keto Diet as a medical mistake that can put your heart health at risk. He also expresses his concerns about misleading marketing and facts being used to promote the diet's alleged health benefits.
Join Dr. Ostfeld on July 25 at the International Conference On Nutrition In Medicine in Washington, DC.
Also, revisit a special one-on-one interview with the former president of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Kim Williams who shares how a one patient's remarkable turnaround from heart disease inspired him to adopt a plant-based diet himself. After seeing his own cholesterol plummet, he began prescribing the same diet for his patients and is now a leader in preventative medicine through nutrition!
Then we'll be examining the most anticipated presentations at the upcoming International Conference On Nutrition In Medicine in Washington, DC with organizer Natalie Hardcastle. She also happens to be Dr. Neal Barnard's assistant extraordinaire!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:08.3 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:11.4 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:13.7 | Thanks for giving the show a download this week. |
| 0:15.8 | Listen, maybe you're watching on YouTube. |
| 0:18.8 | Wherever it is that you are, we are so grateful that you are here. |
| 0:25.2 | We have a huge name on the show this week. |
| 0:28.9 | The man is a Titan in the plant-based community and a Renaissance man in the medical world. |
| 0:35.3 | He is turning cardiac medicine as we know it upside down thanks to his innovative yet science-driven |
| 0:42.6 | approach to treating, preventing, and even reversing heart disease. |
| 0:48.2 | I am talking about Dr. Robert Osfield. |
| 0:51.3 | I want to share with you an actual headline from a story in USA today that was published |
| 0:57.3 | earlier this year. |
| 0:59.1 | The headline reads, nearly half of Americans have heart disease. |
| 1:04.0 | Study says, half, half. |
| 1:07.9 | That's roughly 122 million of us in the United States alone. |
| 1:14.3 | Now researches believe that that jump was driven by the shift in hypertension guidelines. |
| 1:18.8 | The definition, the clinical definition of high blood pressure was lowered from 140 over |
| 1:23.7 | 90 down to 130 over 80. |
| 1:27.5 | But even if you take the hypertension out of the equation, you take that shift out of the |
| 1:32.4 | picture altogether, the rate of heart disease is still about 9%. |
| 1:37.3 | And that makes it the leading cause of death in the US. |
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