Top Doctors on Longevity, Healing and What Whole Food Plant Based Means | Fuhrman, Grega, Esser
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Three leading voices in lifestyle medicine, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Meagan Grega, and Dr. Stephan Esser, take the stage with Chuck Carroll at the National Health Association Conference in Cleveland. Together, they dive deep into the science of nutrition, longevity, food addiction, athletic performance, and community health.
In this episode of The Exam Room, you'll learn:
- The key differences between a whole foods plant-based diet and a Nutritarian Diet
- Why top athletes are opting for a Nutritarian Diet
- What studies say about the impact of diet on longevity (and why it's never too late to eat healthy)
- How to kick food addiction for good
This episode of The Exam Room is powered by Dr. Brooke Bussard.
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Dr. Joel Fuhrman
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Dr. Meagan Grega
https://www.truehealthinitiative.org
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Dr. Stephan Esser
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French Fries Diabetes Study
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International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine
Where: Washington, DC
When: August 14-16, 2025
Tix & Speakers: https://www.pcrm.org/icnm
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Fit Vegan Workshop
Where: Vancouver, BC, Canada
When: Sept. 20-21, 2025
Tix: https://fitvegancoaching.com/vancouver-2025
Use code CHUCK to save $112
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Wellness Weekend
Where: Canaan Valley Resort - Davis, WV
When: Sept. 26-27, 2025
Tix & Speakers: https://www.brendaworkmanspeaks.com/wellness-weekend
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | If you switch from a Western diet and at age 20, you go over to an optimal diet. |
| 0:11.0 | The modeling study based on this massive data set says, for women, you'll get an extra 13 years of healthy life expectancy out of that. |
| 0:19.0 | And for guys, it's 10. |
| 0:20.0 | If you wait until age 60, |
| 0:22.5 | and then you switch, you still got over eight years of healthy additional life expectancy |
| 0:26.9 | based on this modeling study. And even at age 80, which blew my mind when I read this study, |
| 0:32.7 | you get an additional 3.4 healthy years of life expectancy. So we can't tell anybody what they'll get back if they |
| 0:39.8 | change, but we know that they will get back something and that it's not small. It is years of |
| 0:46.1 | healthy life expectancy. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the |
| 0:55.6 | weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi to the |
| 1:01.5 | exam room. Me's listening in Fullerton, California, Sandy Springs, Georgia, and Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 1:07.9 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:12.1 | This is episode 64 of season 8, number 663 overall. |
| 1:18.1 | Three leading voices in lifestyle medicine are on the show today, and you're going to get to |
| 1:23.5 | know them like never before. Or maybe you're going to meet them for the first time. |
| 1:28.5 | You see, I had the pleasure of hosting an episode of the exam room live on stage at the |
| 1:33.7 | National Health Association conference with Dr. Joel Furman, Megan Grega, and Stefan Esser. |
| 1:40.2 | And it turned into a robust deep dive into the science of nutrition, food addiction, athletic performance, and community health as well as longevity like you heard at the top. |
| 1:53.1 | And we also had a very interesting discussion about the term whole food plant based. |
| 1:59.8 | Dr. Furman has a really insightful thought about that, |
| 2:05.7 | that I think that you are going to enjoy. So today, you are going to learn the key differences |
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