The Big Changes That Happen When You Eat Healthy For Just Two Weeks | Dr. Neal Barnard
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Your body reacts to a healthy diet far faster than numbers fall on a scale.
Long before you begin losing weight your body begins to transform radically inside. One of the biggest benefits is dramatically reduced cellular inflammation. This subsequently lowers the risk of chronic diseases, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Neal Barnard reviews a South African study showing how quickly the benefits of a healthy diet can take shape as he joins Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
The study examines people who are put on a predominantly whole food plant-based diet for two weeks and compares them to those eating a popular higher fat Western diet, and vice versa. The results are incredible!
This episode 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 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Most of us have this idea that if you're going to make some diet changes, you'll get sort of a little result and it'll be really gradual. |
| 0:11.0 | In 18 months from now, you'll have lost some weight and so forth. That is not what they found. |
| 0:15.0 | Chuck, what you said is exactly right is that it happens really very fast. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the |
| 0:25.7 | Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast |
| 0:31.1 | and around the world. Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Davy, Florida, Concord, California, and Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| 0:40.6 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.6 | This is episode 41 of season 8, number 640 overall. |
| 0:50.5 | And it features a really cool conversation about a study that was done in Africa. |
| 0:57.5 | And what they did was they took young people and they switched them from their traditional |
| 1:02.1 | healthier whole foods diet and put them on a Western diet like we love to eat here in |
| 1:08.4 | the United States. |
| 1:09.2 | You know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:10.3 | Lots of fat, lots of |
| 1:11.5 | calories, lots of unhealthy food. And the metabolic changes that they saw in just two short weeks |
| 1:19.3 | were eye-opening. And so when you think about the things that can happen inside your body, |
| 1:27.2 | the improvements that you can see in just two weeks, think about the study. |
| 1:31.7 | Because you better believe that then they also took a group of people and put them from the unhealthy diet onto that healthy diet. |
| 1:38.0 | And they measured their metabolic markers as well. |
| 1:42.1 | Very cool science that we're about to delve into right now with Dr. Neil Barnard |
| 1:47.4 | from the exam room live. And as a reminder, you can join us every Wednesday, noon Eastern, |
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