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Both my parents (close to being 90), have high cholesterol, one had a mild stroke, other has mid level dementia. Over the yrs., their (SAD) diet has been awful. I went whole food plant based 6 yrs ago. I often ask myself how different could it have been if they had gone vegan. My respects to you for being curious & inquisitive & trying things out. All the best of continued good health.

Nice to hear. I been vege 50yrs now plant based. I am 75. I love his work.❤

How long have you been a vegetarian ?

Please .have saplements ? Do you drink coffee? Tea

It's easy for people to feel immortal when they're young... Until they get sick. Then they care.

@@collinmilliron6717 The vast majority of people are overweight, which means, the vast majority of people are sick and they still don't care. It's actually rare for people to go out and find the info for themselves. Most people are sheep and will only change habits, when it's 'socially acceptable' to them. Otherwise, 'everyone else does it' is all they need to tell themselves to keep on. It's really sad.

*couldn't care less

If health professionals would know and share the information, it would make a change. But we physicians are educated by Food and Pharma industries and THEY certainly couldn't care less!

I have close family member that is very sick, tried to help but they got rude and angry, baffles my mind, but they dont know that they dont know

Is this WFPB American speak, means nothing to me.

It is short for Whole food plant based

YAY for you! Following him since like 2008......He was presenting on the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii back in the day! LOVE HIM!

that's awesome, good luck with your journey : )

Then why are obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer up since Americans have lowered their red meat intake 30% since 1970 and saturated fat intake is much lower since the 70s as well?

@@demoskunk americans are eating more sugar now

@@demoskunk chicken and egg consumption has increased along with processed foods and oils

The china study is v good

Also mine.... oxalates in spinach, mushrooms sunlight and D3. Randomised double-blind placebo controlled, petrie dishes, mouse saliva...usually a little bit of my host Dr Michael Gregor making interesting conversation over dinner with long suffering dinner friends. 🤭😏🍴🥗🕯️MUCH respect Dr Gregor xx

I adopted a whole plant-based vegetarian diet a decade ago and at 62 my total cholesterol is around 160, triglycerides are about 59, and my LDL is around 70. I also eat three cups of cooked beans a day because of their association with longer life. Give it a try and see what happens.

My total cholesterol is in the 120s and LDL in the 80s. The LDL is usually in the 60s but I ate more garbage (meat, cheese pizzas, sweets when I was high and got the munchies) in the last year. The real good LDL years I had 10-20 non-vegan meals out of about a thousand for the year. I also walked an hour about half the days in the year. Joel Fuhrman in Eat to Live says eat gbombs daily. That's the foundation of my diet. G reens, B eans, O nions, M ushrooms, B erries, S eeds. Sometimes I run out of mushrooms. Otherwise, I get my daily gbombs. I found Greger after Fuhrman and follow him like an obedient dog. I've made dozens of adjustments to my diet from watching his videos. I've given his book How not to Die to two nieces for wedding presents with an inscription like "The greatest gift I can give you newlyweds is more time, a longer life to enjoy each other's company. That why you're getting this book." I belong to a CSA farm and get a box of organic veggies every week during the growing season. I get so many dark green leafies that I juice them with water and ground flaxseeds to drink down, just to keep up. Dark green leafies are the # 1 best category of food, just like dairy is the #1 worst category of food. I avoid fast foods, processed foods, sweets and junk. Hope this helps you Pat.

My grandfather was exactly the same, except he ate a lot of red meat and pork, so how do you explain that?

@@demoskunk because that is anecdotal, there will always be outliers. my great grampy passed away last year at the age of 100 and he smoked his pipe like a chimney every day... there are exceptions to every rule. that doesn't mean red and processed meats aren't class 1 carcinogens.

@@aimsaoirse Processed meat is a carcinogen. Unprocessed red meat isn't. The main cause of clogged arteries and heart disease is inflammation from processed seed oils and sugars.

​@@demoskunk oooh bold claim. Source?

@Eilís Ní Aisí Heart attacks were extremely rare before the switch from cooking with lard to cooking with corn oil during WW1. Look it up. Added processed sugar is the other main cause of arterial plaques that cause heart disease. Cholesterol repairs cells, which is why it's at the damaged part of the arteries, but it's not the reason for arterial sclerosis. Many studies have shown this, which is why the AHA finally changed its recommendations recently

Wouldn't it just be better to add it to your tea at night or in your food

turmeric needs oil, heat and black pepper, for better absorption.

@@yt-qg8ui The nature's bounty turmeric with black pepper didn't have the oil and I paid 18 dollars for 90 1000mg capsules! I could make a paste with olive oil and fill the capsules.

Le Curcuma et le Poivre noir sont des aliments Alcalins, ils font baisser l’acidité, du coup « calment » le mercure

@@isabellefaverjon8578 Mercury good for the brain.

This is podcast.

And about 70 years ago, I enjoyed your namesake with the funnel for a hat on TV. Are you related?

I read a lot of the works written by all the great vegan Doctors & i watch a lot of their videos. What they all seem to share is their belief in the WHOLE FOOD VEGAN DIET with NO OIL. It seems to be the common denominator for most disease reversal AND prevention. It specifies WHOLE FOODS (as unprocessed as possible) such as: Vegetables, fruit, legumes, wholegrains. No oils. No animal foods. No dairy. Drink water. Oh...and i believe if u have not had a cardiac event (& if u are not trying to lose weight) small amounts of nuts & seeds are okay also.

Check out his book and his daily dozen! It's VERY clear about specific foods

There are different types of dementia. The worst of all is double ApoE4. If you're cursed with this genetic combo and the first signs of dementia kick in there is no diet in the world to stop the process. Proper diet, however, can significantly slow the process.

Usually diet. They say that the cause of dementia is clogging of the arteries. Might not have eaten a bad enough diet to clog her brain enough until her 90s. Vegetables widen the arteries to stop them getting clogged.

As someone with Crohn's disease, I very much agree!

@@smudge8882 Oh man, I am so sorry to hear that! I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. We both share that dreaded HLA-B27. And while I don't disagree with this video and other videos made by this guy, it bothers me when anyone uses expressions that makes it sound so simple. You and I live the existence of constant modifications; meaning we keep finding more and more things we can't do physically, and things we cannot eat!

@@bundletesla5882 Goodness it seems my comment was auto-deleted. I very much agree with you! It takes a lot more than a whole foods plant based diet to put people like us in remission a lot of the time. There's actually some research into Crohn's disease that none of the plant based doctors have been reporting on, and it's frustrating. Maybe it would be relevant to you though, since our conditions are caused by the same gene?

@@bundletesla5882 It seems that when I link something or recommend specific free databases, it deletes my comment. Find a database and search for "IgG and Crohn's disease" and you'll find research that shows a patient's triggers can be detected by food specific IgG antibodies. Those antibodies also go away with traditional Crohn's disease meds. There's also research into common triggers for Crohn's disease patients based on food specific IgG antibodies. Surprisingly, one of them was rice, and reading that helped me recognize that rice was a trigger for me personally. There doesn't seem to be similar research for AS unfortunately, but maybe it's still worth looking into because it's caused by the same gene as Crohn's?

@@smudge8882 That's interesting. Thanks for sharing that. Did you take specific tests to find that out? For AS, I kept a diary back in my 20s, writing down everything about diet and any reactions. The problem is I never have any reactions I can associate with any particular foods. I read about the typical red meat issues, but even that was difficult to associate with AS flare ups. But I haven't eaten red meat for years anyway. I worked hard at fitness and diet all my life, but the disease continued hounding me in internal ways (regardless of my efforts), and in connective tissue, not to mention fusions and movement limitations. AS is systemic, and it appears nothing is off limits to its destruction!

Where did you read that? Is it true? If so, why might it be true? Does anyone know?

@@DrGayleDelaneyDreams I saw it in some scientific research published by the researchers who are studying the Loma Linda Adventists. it should be pretty easy to Google. The study didn't speculate as to why it was, it just was.

I would really like Dr Gregor to respond!

@@Greentrees60 So would I.

Omega 3 dha formed fatty acid intake might have something to do with it, but there’s plant based options..

@@Goodmorning1221- Rude!

​@@CastledarkDweller27it's not rude. His newest book is called "how not to age"

That's because of the research often being limited to vegetarian and vegans being included in that category.

That is exactly what im wondering

That's what I want to know

Cos he's obviously brain dead

And Dr. Bredsesen recommends a keto diet, as does his colleague Dr. Perlmutter, who also has a podcast on RU-vid. It would be nice to see a debate pitting some of the big names in the vegan world, versus some big names in the keto world. I'd like to know how Dr. Greger would respond to Bredesen, Perlmutter and others. All I know is I became a vegan about three years ago and lost 10 lbs in the first three months, (180 down to 170) and that's all, despite the fact that I was told my weight would come "melting off." I went off my statin because my total cholesterol was at 120. But, without the statin it went to 170, which I wasn't satisfied with, so I went back on the statin, taking the same dosage, but every other day instead of every day. I still take a blood pressure medication, even though I was led to believe I would come off all medications. Btw, I work out five days a week, and eat very clean. I could never eat meat or poultry, but I'm beginning to think that the vegan diet doesn't works for everyone. I'm thinking maybe I should consider a keto-vegetarian diet, which reduces the amount of carbs. I feel betrayed by all of the vegan doctor's promises.

​​@@buckets212there's a huge difference between plant based diet and plant-exclusive which is what I am. Oreos are plant based. I'm guessing if you still have high blood pressure you're still eating oil, sugar, salt and flours. Watch Chef AJ weightloss Wednesday episodes. I lost 126 in 15 months without even trying. The Weight dropped off me.

Sorry for your loss. Wholefood plant based diet is not toxic but adding processed food does cause disease- Dr Caldwell Esselstyne quotes eating animals as by far the most processed as there is no plant protective fibre preventing dementia noone said vegan was healthy but more so eating animals increasing risk much more than a vegan diet. If one chooses vegan burger or real burger the vegan burger is still a less toxic choice

@@lilo4235 totally not true

Sorry for your loss. How did you know it was from TVP?

Side effects of jabs, please see Dr John Campbell video on RU-vid for further information, when given the jab the syringe need to be aspirated otherwise it will become intravenous injection instead of intramuscular injection causing heart attack and strokes.

​@@isobel8788he's probably a carnivore. They'll say anything to discredit vegans

Totally agree. So much energy. No lethargy.

Troll...?

Proven by peers doing reviews. That's the point. He's using those that passed reviews as reference.

Wow that's a great logical fallacy argument.

@@Max.Resilience Vegans have lower rates. Oxidized cholesterol is main culprit and it comes solely from animal products.

@@Max.Resilience Humans haven't eaten the majority of their calories from meat for millions of years. You should read some actual science. Consumption of meat causes the production of uric acid. Of all animals that include meat in their diet, humans are the only animal unable to break down uric acid to allantoin. This is because humans do not have the necessary enzyme uricase. This leads to an increased possibility of an accumulation of uric acid in the body when animal products are eaten. Humans do have a gene for urate oxidase, but it is nonfunctional. Thus uric acid is the end product of catabolism of purines in humans. Excessive concentration of uric acid in the blood stream leads to gout.

@@Max.Resilience There have been many well respected studios on seed oils vs animal products. Unfortunately for you the animal products are the main cause of disease in countries that eat excessive amounts of animals. It's just science.

@@Max.Resilience There were cultures that did rely on meat through ice ages. They still exist. Inuit only live to an average age of 60 years dying of heart disease. You are painting a false narrative vs the current science on this.

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yes, i'm surprised a vegan diet doesn't help with male pattern baldness. :)

@@yt-qg8ui What's gone is gone. Western diets have increased boldness among Asians. It's the uncompensated oxidative stress.

Useful comment. Thanks

Where have you gotten your idea of what healthy looks like? Remember nature doesn't support body building...etc.

Why do people say things like that? Dr. Greger is a very healthy weight. He has no complexion problems. He behaves as if he has a lot of energy. Just because you are vegan does not mean it it will make men end up looking like George Clooney. Dr. Greger looks fine!

@annemccarron2281 delusion is a mental illness, I suppose.

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Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮😀

@@soilikasanen After i started doing Saunas several times a week, my respect for the finns have increased, and it was already really high. Thank you for the gift you gave of Sauna, Without you Saunas would not be so normal around here.

@@BeavisandButthead-z8h I'm grateful for it's Inventor, too. But although I've enjoyed sauna most of days of my life, it only gave 2 hour reliefi to my itches, pains and respiratory problems. I had to eliminare the causes behind symptoms to get well. That is, vegan and later WFPBD. Now I 'm free from asthma, neural pains, arthritic pains and my skin is so much better - don't need tacrolimuse any more. And I don't suffer from narcolepsy either no longer. Nutrition was the only lifestyle change I made. Finnish milky and meaty food culture does so much harm! Our food choises do matter. I recommend a documentaries Food choices and Forks Over Knives if you have any health issues left. Have a wonderfull week!