Plant Based Health Australia promotes and supports whole food plant-based nutrition in Australia. We provide programs to support those wanting to transition to a whole food plant-based diet, including a 7-day immersion run twice each year in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, and an introductory webinar series run 3-4 times per year. We began regular public live streams early in 2024.
Who we are: Dr Malcolm Mackay is a GP and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner in Melbourne, Australia. He has a special interest in managing chronic diseases using a whole food plant-based diet and other lifestyle interventions. He is available for Telehealth consultations within Australia. Telehealth bookings are via drmalcolmmackay.com.au
Jenny Cameron is a nutritionist and health coach and works with Malcolm, offering plant-based nutrition education seminars and webinars and running lifestyle medicine immersion retreats in Victoria.
One good thing that came about Dr. McDougall's death is that I got to know about you two; I'm so glad. there's someone following on his steps in Australia.
Shalom love to you and thankful …..and thank you both for sharing , I am kinda of new to your channel but also new to Mc Dougall “ I have learned so much and I know there is plenty more to come “ I will miss him very much 🙏💜
Dr McDougall ( RIP 🙏 ) was passionate about his cause but no one is talking about his notable weight loss and looking emaciated, frail and elderly.. its clear he was suffering from " Sarcopenia " ( age and diet related muscle loss ) which may certainly have been a contributing factor in his early death...Too many starchivores , vegans etc with Sarcopenia after a decade or so , and appearing emaciated and elderly....protein / Amino acids and fat are especially crucial as we enter middle age and beyond....he was eating the best diet for humans whilst looking emaciated, frail and elderly !!! .. .im in my 60's and have no lines or wrinking anywhere, I engage in weekly strength training, I eat similar to McDougall but always include around 20 % animal nutrition as this makes an enormous difference to my mental and physical well-being and quality of life... finally.... lack of adequate protein/ essential Amino Acids and fats are the cause of rapid aging after the age of 50 ... this has science behind it....
Sad news indeed. Using nutrition can help with frailty as we get older, and hopefully people can see what to and what not to do looking at these clips on youtube.
Conspiracy theorists make me laugh. Their immaturity blossoms during times like these. When Steve Jobs died, all the armchair experts claimed “you see… he was vegan he didn’t get enough of this or that”. When DrMcD went down the rabbit hole he scientifically proved (yes, even the biographer retracted the vegan comments) that if Jobs were not vegan he most likely would’ve died much earlier. To zero in on your suitable agenda to attempt to mock or disprove DrMcD would have been welcome by the very legend himself. But get your pathetic arse out of the armchair and spend 55 years 24-7 passionately devoted to laying claim to your facts. The ignorant spewing of nonsense, at least here in the US, is the new in thing for the ignorant. We nickname it the MAGA movement. It’s a group of uneducated and or the selfish, greedy and intolerant trying to disprove the educated through screaming the loudest. And in the end nothing but hot air to show for it all. DrMcD saved my life. To this minute I subscribe to his recommended lifestyle 90% or so. I used his theories as a foundation and then along the way I listened to others (some in complete disagreement to DrMcD) and created my own hybrid version that works for me. If I live to 77 my passing thoughts will not be “how could this happen to me? I followed McD to the T I should be living to 99+”! But rather I’ll have a smile knowing most likely because of the love of body and mind backed by science and common sense, because of McD, I most likely wouldn’t have made it to 67.
You've managed to talk yourself into a ridiculous position. A mans lifestyle gives him the same longevity as the people who drink, smoke, and eat McDonald's, but you say: "see, imagine how short his life would be if he wasn't doing the right thing". The real-world result of going vegan is right in front of your eyes.
John McDougall was truly one of the Greats. He clearly cared about people and their health, which is a quality so sadly lacking in most doctors these days. He will be sorely missed.
I’ve never seen you folks before so happy to see your tribute to the great Dr. John McDougall …thank you..you guys got to have some really awesome quality time with him and his family learning and sharing what you’ve learned!!!he will be greatly missed and my heart goes out to his family and close friends🙏found him on Chef AJ..much aloha to you both🌺
You poor souls are starving for the complete protein found only in animal products. N o amount of combined incomplete vegetable protein will ever duplicate the essential amino acid profile of an egg. You and all plant based believers are living without the complete protein the body needs to rebuild . It is sad that so many still believe the falsehoods promulgated in the '7O's by Frances Moore Lappe's book, Diet for a Small Planet, in which she claims that a complete protein can be created by pairing the incomplete protein in grain and legumes.
McDougall and the people in this video have zero credentials or Ph.D in nutritional science with no awards, honors, inventions, patents, Nobel Prize or long term track record in anything this is why it's best to only get diet advice from a real Ph.D in nutritional biochemistry with awards and honors and or a Nobel Prize with a long term track record of being right such as Roger J. Williams, Fred Kummerow, George H. Whipple, William Parry Murphy, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Zheng Ji, all 8 would say that single ingredient meat, poultry, fish and eggs are good for you in moderation and that dairy is ok in small amounts if you like it and are not allergic to it but a human is an omnivore and they should still consume a balanced diet in the four basic food groups.
I, too, received the heartbreaking announcement from the McDougall Program. It left me breathless. John McDougall was the David to the Medical Industry's goliath. He was an astounding man and we all love him for who he was. It will now be up to all of us to carry the torch and widen the crack in truly healthy information that John McDougall chipped away at with his relenetlessly singular energy. We, now, must build on that energy. John McDougall gave us the information and the tools. We must now put it to good use. We must now use this grief-energy to plow forward in memory of his love for all of us. Thank you Australia!
I was looking up tributes to Dr McDougall and came across years thank you very much. I want to say, I'm going to subscribe to your channel also. Yes, what you shared .. about Dr. McDougall "always" being seen and "out there" speaking and champion-ing us onward is going to be missed more than anything. Just like you said. I feel the same sorrow and loss. But then we can surely hear John telling us all that he has as if a video is playing in our mind seeing him and hearing him and that will help us to carry on into our futures heeding his instructions. Thank you for sharing your heaviness and tributes.....all of our testimonies are a tribute to Dr. McDougall as we continue on in his shoes, telling others of Dr. McDougall's teachings and the change that following his instructions made in our own lives. His voice, smile, boldness, u ashamedness, passion, just even seeing his face, will be missed forever. I'm thankful to have found him 10 years ago. I feel tremendously blessed, as you too - I know. Thank you. It's nice to have come to your channel today.
Thank you both for your memories of Dr McDougell and Mary. He lives on in your life’s purpose in making this a better world. His generosity was epic as he would say in watching his patients get well he was the luckiest doctor. ❤
Who is Dr Morrison? At 12 minutes on this video, it says Dr McDougall stood on the shoulders of Dr Morrison. I've tried to look up Dr Morrison, but can't find who he is.
Dr Lester Morrison was a cardiologist who pioneered a low fat, low-cholesterol diet and Nathan Pritikin talked about him to Dr McDougall. You can read a little about him here - www.pritikin.com/home-the-basics/about-pritikin/38-nathan-pritikin.html
If I had felt great following the Starch Solution which I did not I would have continued. And the fact that we will never know the cause of death for Dr MCDougall lacks integrity. For someone who was so critical during his life of how and why other people died he should have made sure that when whe died we would all know exactly why and we never will. That lack of integrity is how I know he was not totally in line with truth.
We are sorry that you did not feel great following the starch solution. We know many people who are thriving eating this way, as we are. Regarding the cause of death - please have respect for his family at this very sad time. His passing was less than a week ago. Please give them time before making the accusations you have made. We knew Dr McDougall as a man of the highest integrity who gave so much of his time to help others.
Dr. McDougall said he treated 12,000 people. Dr. Leila Denmark who lived to age 114 with a faultless track record and perfect Wikipedia page with no controversial claims treated 250,000 people and warned people about those who promote a non accredited scam fad diet such as McDougall. She said each meal should contain a high quality protein and the best protein is from eggs, lean meat and black eyed peas and has 15 awards and honors and helped invent the Pertussis vaccine and McDougall invented nothing but a money making resort. There is no such thing as a starch procedure or starch solution or any other such nonsense for any omnivore, algivore, detritivore, carnivore or herbivore.
This is great! I am enjoying the tributes to this great man that helped so many thousands of people world-wide improve their lives, and reverse major chronic diseases. He will be sorely missed! Thank you for your tribute from Australia!
Sorry I missed you doing this live. Like you both I was of course shocked and saddened yesterday to hear of John McDougall's death. Great information and tribute, and it was good to hear the story of the Pritikin tapes again Malcolm.
I read the email from the McDougall Program yesterday, and it floored me. I was shocked and saddened. I had emailed Dr. McDougall last year to wish him a happy birthday, and thanked him for the positive impact he's had on my life. He replied back, "Helping others is the greatest gift in life."
Thank you for posting such a lovely tribute to Dr. McDougall. I was so shocked when I read he passed. I thought/hoped it was a hoax. I only found him on RU-vid this year. I wish I could have met him and Mary. Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences of meeting them. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to more videos. I love following Dr. McDougall's followers who have channels.
Vale to the great man- from Narrogin WA. Curmudgeon, but a Saint amongst the Nutritionists.I learned more than anything from him as well as all the cohorts, Ornish, Essie, Barnard, Klaper, T Colin Campbell, etc etc and Nathan P.who I came across originally. Dr Mac was no nonsense, no agenda. To question Dr Mac's cedibility was like to tell Michael Phelps how to swim, to give batting tips to Sachin Tendulkar, to instruct a politician how to lie. He's just looking down from above us cheering us on. He set the path, the path is the way home.
Wonderful presentation! Thank you! I just recently had a micro biome test and had a hair analysis (very different results to my blood tests) all through a homeopath. I almost needed a biochemistry degree to work this out! I have CFS and Fibromyalgia. I’m glad I found you Dr Mackay and I’m booked to come in and see you in person soon ☺️🤞🏻
Graham Elliss is the functional fitness expert we discussed in the live stream. He comes to our 7-day immersion and delivers an inspiring lecture on the importance of physical activity and also takes two functional fitness classes. He runs programs in Melbourne's east and via Zoom. You can contact him via renewedafter50.com.au/
@plantbasedhealthaustralia great article..thank you... for the life of me, I cannot maintain a vit d level satisfactory for my GP....it goes to 50 with stacks of effort in summer....but goes as low as 11 in winter here in Wollongong NSW, even with stripping down to a tank top and shorts walking beside the beach in the middle of the day...on a cold winters day. Currently it's 25L and so she is again saying I should be taking 10, 000 intern units every 2nd day for a month..(10000 ???) .and to do this until it hits at least 80..THEN to go permanently on 2000 per day to get and keep it higher? .(I suspect it'll take longer than a month and even when mine hit 80 one time, she still wasn't happy). I am very wary of vit d supplements or anything besides B12 and am wavering as to whether to follow these directions or not.....I have never taken them before but she's kind of trying to scare me into it now Her reasons for pushing are bc I was diagnosed with osteopaenia about 5 yrs ago and she worries about my bone health as I've had a couple of weird breaks from bad falls...a PCL injury with a small internal fracture at the back of the knee...5 years ago..from road race ..an elbow fracture from another bad fall in a road running race 1 year ago and 7 yrs ago I broke my lil toe on furniture. ..walking barefoot But I am a fit, healthy, slim (19 BMI) 63 yr old female plant based eater....7 years following Dr Esselstyns strict diet.....all my figures are very good....with no health conditions...other than the label of osteopaenia.....I haven't been running for a while now but bike and walk briskly most days. Swimming now and then too...I DO need to do more in the way of resistance training and plan to shortly..supervised with a trainer....but again she will insist on a dexa to check it again..... In the meantime she is obese and has a long history of diabetes...just sayin 🫣 . I'm wondering if I should just take the 10, 000 every 2nd day for a month and be done with all this pressure but I am concerned re taking supplements that I'm not sure what it is doing to me? .any feedback is appreciated? Wish there was a local plant based Dr to see? Thank you for listening 😘
Dr Mackay Ate you able to provide the papers details fir the Australian study on weights & none density that yoyre talking about? I know about the Onero prog but they didn't do arm curls last time I looked so I assume you're talking about another study? Thank you
There isn't yet a published paper as far as we know, but this article reports on findings presented at the 2023 Australasian Menopause Society Congress - www.medicalrepublic.com.au/lift-heavy-for-bone-health/17927
