Chuck, I was thinking the same thing! Dr. Barnard is so honest, easy to understand and he's got a GREAT sense of humor 😂 My friend just told me her husband had a kidney stone so I passed it along! LOVE you both, you've changed my life! 🌞
The biggest mistake I made in life was not changing to a WFPB life sooner. I am amazed at how the animal consumers are digging in and eating more meat it is so unhealthy!
hello Dr. Neal Barnard, I LOVE YOU!!! i hope you see this. im so grateful i found you!!! youve helped me so much. i tell everyone about you!!!! i hope u live a long happy life filled with love 🥰🥰🥰
Hi guys! I have been watching several of your shows recently and I have to say I love the subject matter and you are both great conversationalists. I am a nursing student, and I am really passionate about health and nutrition. The information presented here is all very useful for me to incorporate into my education. Dr. Barnard is a wonderful teacher and very easy to understand. He is kind and actually makes sense, and I like how he uses evidence-based research to back up his claims. He's also funny, which is a bonus. I went vegan this summer and I am absolutely loving my new diet and lifestyle. I can already feel the difference in my body and I am working on moving my 5-year-old daughter to a completely vegan diet as well. I have never eaten much meat, even before I was a vegan, but wish that I had known about all the dangers associated with dairy products before I got my daughter started on them!
After an oxalate type kidney stone a urologist told me no spinach, rhubarb, cranberries or beets. This discussion is interesting and I note other than spinach, these are not mentioned. I think I’ll go with the idea that my switch to a WFPB no oil diet means I can occasionally eat any of these foods and focus on hydration.
Anecdotal: I never drank water...just didn't feel thristy, yoga teacher ex, after being sedentary during Coivid suddenly did intense yoga, BACK BENDING, blood in urine then 3 days later kidney stones. So doc is right, the movement shifted the stones that were bult up from lack of hydration over years..but glad that exercise made me aware of the stones! So now I hydrate and no new ones!
When you go to the International Conf. on Nutrition and Medicine- PLEASE pay attention to Saturday Aug 12, 1:15-2:00 p.m.: New Findings on Statins Virend Somers, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic **** I am very interested in what is said. My doctor insists I continue statins, but my LDL (is low) and HDL (high) are good. I've lost over 60 pounds since WFPB, no oil eating. Statins now confusing me. HOPE YOU DO AN INTERVIEW w/ VIREND SOMERS that we can watch in the future. Thank you Chuck and Dr. Barnard- we think you're wonderful- OH SO HELPFUL!
We went no oil, plant based two years ago and since then my husband no longer gets his yearly kidney stone. We are pretty sure it was the excess meat but never thought about sugar being the cause.
Doesn't excess Fructose (fruit juice, high fructose corn syrup, sugar) raise uric acid raising chances of kidney stones? Doesn't Phosphoric Acid in soft drinks leach calcium? My doctor says soft drinks leading cause of kidney stones.
Hi. I am looking for information on histaminintolerance on a plantbased diet. I know it’s called a psudo sience, but I had so many problems on a plantbased diet until I eliminated histamin. I am figuring these things out on my own, so any helpful knowlege from you guys would be greatly appreciated.
My largest kidney stone was from vegan protein powder and meal replacement shakes twice a day to help lose weight. Think I was using 2 scoops per meal. After 2 months I had a stone the size of a split navy bean.
Why not just eat healthy and exercise to lose weight? Powders and meal replacements aren’t health and aren’t sustainable. Just curious-no hate or anything :-)
@@tdgdbs1 I switched to whole food plant based (no junk food vegan) November 2020 to lower the burden on my kidneys. Eating beans and drinking cherry juice gave me problems as does eating too many beans. All the supplements I need to take to compensate for malasorption is a burden too, etc..
Oxalates in certain foods are what cause kidney stones. The oxalates in fruits and veggies don't dump in urine like they are supposed to and they bind to calcium and make stones.
Sadly, a lot of stuff talked about here is just plain wrong. Cherry picking studies is always dangerous. Yeah, plant based is great. But alone the fact you cant survive healthy this way without supplements says it all…
Who's cherry picking now? Studies are so conflicting on B12 that it's been claimed it can take up to 20 years to get depleted of it. I've looked into the subject quite a bit and I personally believe that it's safer not to take any. But research for yourself and consult your physician before... etc.
There's no dietary approach that doesn't require supplementation unless you eat a whole foods omnivorous diet. The Keto/Carnivore people require exogenous electrolytes. The strict vegans B12. And then there still are individual differences as well. You have to really know your own biochemistry well, and where you source your food from.
