Unclogging Arteries: Surgery or Broccoli? | Dr. Ted Barnett

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Carroll, Health & Fitness, Diabetes, Science, Nutrition, Vegan, Pcrm, Barnard, Weightloss, Food, Health, Recipes, Medicine, Diet

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

“I can fix your arteries with balloon angioplasty and put a stent in there or I can fix it with broccoli.”

Those are the words of Dr. Ted Barnett who calls himself the “High-Tech Doctor With Low-Tech Solutions.”

Carving out a career has been a delicate walk for Dr. Barnett who practices as an interventional radiologist but would much prefer to treat patients with affordable fruits and vegetables rather than expensive and invasive procedures.

While the former still pays the bills, Dr. Barnett and his wife volunteer their time at the Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute, which he co-founded. It is there that he is able to write prescriptions for produce that are often more effective than the medicines patients were previously prescribed.

One of the newer methods of treatment offered by Dr. Barnett is a 15-day intervention to address the root cause of potentially life-threatening chronic illnesses. The courses are now being offered on a global level.

He sits down with “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll to talk about his patients’ success and what he believes the future of health will look like.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the exam room.
0:03.0	Every month we would bring 24 patients into our office and we were doing finger sticks and we found it's what that actually works.
0:10.0	It's amazing.
0:11.0	Yeah, people's cholesterol drops 50, 150 points, was our record at the time
0:16.4	for two weeks. Somebody comes in with a total cholesterol of 299 and on day 15 it's 149.
0:22.0	Whoa.
0:23.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:24.0	Talk about exceeding expectations.
0:26.0	It was pretty exciting.
0:27.0	And then a guy with diabetes who came in with a hemoglobin
0:30.0	at a 1C of 13.6.
0:31.0	So if people don't know in the audience what that means this is
0:34.3	average blood sugars were 350 for the last three months 350 which is
0:38.0	totally abnormal and not in any medication as doctors are saying you know know, you need to go on medication and he came
0:44.6	to our office and said, I'd like to try this first.
0:46.6	I said, well, you know, okay, give it a shot.
0:50.1	And by three months later, his hemoglobin A1C
0:52.8	was 6.0, which is just in the non-diabetic range.
0:57.0	And now it's 5.4.
0:58.4	If it goes to a doctor now, they would say,
1:00.7	you don't have diabetes.
1:02.0	And he's been on that ever since it's five years ago now. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
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