Found the wheat berry salad recipe online for interested parties: WHEAT BERRY SALAD 2 c wheat berries, cook in veg broth 1/2 crisp apple 1/2c dried figs 1/2c pecans 2 celery stalks 1 sm red pepper 3-4 grn onions 1/2c parsley (dice/chop all above, very small) Zest from a lemon 1/3c olive oil 1/4c lemon juice Drizzle w/pomegranate molasses
Gardner is great! A very engaging scientist. My food choices are not just about me and my health - it's about the animals ❤, and the environment, too. Thanks for this- keep learning all the time.
Great interview and a lot of great information. I went whole food plant based five years ago for health reasons, and never looked back. Thanks for doing this interview. 👍🙏🙏
Love this interview thank you so much so true if keto qnd vegan get rid of the refine crap you would become low carb Whole foods is the key and legumes are sooooo yummy 😋
I am 74 and have been a raw foodist for over 24 years. Eating only fresh raw food and drinking only water will facilitate radiant health. Thank you both for this great presentation, you rock!
Are oat groats edible if you just soak them overnight? I don't like cooking my oats because I don't like mushy oats. I find that I like my rolled oats with only 5 minutes of soaking, 5 grain cereal (oats, rye, barley, wheat, triticale) requires a half hour of soaking, steel cut oats take overnight. I'm guessing oat groats would require cooking. I might try them anyway, but I'll cook them the night before in the microwave in the same bowl I eat them in.
@@jakubchrobry3701 Oat groats are the whole oat kernel, not rolled or cut. They cook to the chewy texture of brown rice--they don't get mushy. Eat with sweet or savory.
@@XX-qi5eu Maybe I'll first try them for dinner as a substitute for brown rice rather than for breakfast, which I like to keep simple. But I like variety, so it's unlikely that I would continue to eat them for dinner when eating rolled oats (5 grain cereal) for breakfast. Different rice (e.g. brown vs wild vs black) cooks differently, so I'm guessing they cook like brown rice. I'm also guessing that bring them to a boil in a pyrex bowl, then removing from the heat and left to sit coverd overnight might not work. That's what I was hoping for. Yes, and even rolled oat are whole grain oats, but just rolled, so being whole grain doesn't tell me much. Thanks.
@@jakubchrobry3701 If you only soak the oat groats overnight they'll still be pretty hard in the morning, sort of like sunflower seeds. It's better to cook them for 20 minutes. They won't be mushy, they keep their shape after being cooked and are much harder in texture than brown rice or barley.
@@sunnybutter2364 Thanks for the info. I only eat oats at room temperature, so if they don't taste good at room temp, I'll probably stick with my 5 grain cereal. I'll have to give them a try.
0:57 um... those 7 pillars of Health are not connected to the 7th day Adventists' pillars of Health, is it? If it is, that's scary, if it's not, you might want to consider a rebrand.
Allowing a pop tart, or some other CRAP (Calorically Rich And Processed) "food" is like saying to a recovering alcoholic: "You have stayed away from drinking all week, you deserve a drink" or to a smoker: "You have not smoked all week, you deserve to smoke a cigarette." Do you see the insanity!?
If you start following him and his agenda, you will find this to be one of the most sane things he has done. I agree it's still insanity, but this stealthy anti-meat/glucose apologist message is getting out of hand.
@@Caladcholg Nothing about Christopher Gardner is insane, and he has no agenda, other than promoting human health based on scientific research. Maybe you're the one with an agenda.
So Dr. Gardener completely confused me. I’ve been watching Esselstyn and love his videos. Dr. Gardener who is Plant based said that Esselstyn’s diet increases your triglycerides and lowers your HDL. What’s the difference between plant-based diet Gardner is eating and the plant based diet is eating ? Gardner said the Esselstyn diet is high in legumes, nuts and seeds so is Dr Gardner not eating nuts and seeds? I wish he would’ve explained the difference. I rewatch that section several times but couldn’t get a straight answer. So confused right now.
Having watched both Esselstyn and Gardner, it seems Esselstyn is far more concerned about added fats when it comes to heart disease, even in the form of nuts, seeds and avocado. Added oils are out! Gardner, like the folks at ZOE believe added unsaturated fats, especially extra-virgin olive oil, nuts, seeds and avocado, and even cultured dairy products are actually good for you and anti-inflammatory. This is a huge contradiction with the plant-based doctors, and can be extremely confusing, as you say. It may be difficult, but we have to ultimately find the diet that is right for us through our own trial and error, and examining our beliefs about what is really good or not good for our bodies.
@@AlaOM7149 thank you for the enlightening answer. He even following Gardener my cholesterol drop from 220 to a healthy 186 and my lipid panel is stellar so I’ll stick with Gardener. I have zero added oils in my diet at this point and I actually don’t miss them. I took a tiny bite of something that was fried and oil the other day just to see what I remember how things like that tasted, and it tasted very greasy to me.
An addendum to Dr Gardener’s comments about bread: there is some evidence that sourdough bread has a lower GI than that prepared with a faster fermentation, and that sprouted grain breads (which actually don’t use flour) might be lower still. Another way in which the food matrix and preparation method matters.
I'm healthier with animal diet low carbs because that's what we need. Btw..I don't need to eat 1 kg Greens to get the Amino I need. Which...in animal version are higher quality ☕
The big takeaway. When doing a documentary, don't grow a beard and keep your hair the same. Otherwise, eat healthfully all the time and everyday except when you fast!
A few things. Is ldl bad? Or is it only bad when it’s oxidized ? And, when people have leaky gut or mental health issues stating keto just got a lot easier
What changed my diet 15 years ago was Gary Taubes’s sentence that cultures that eat their traditional diets don’t get our diseases until they import sugar, flour, and seed oills.
Apparently, as he says, apologizing is not high on Mr. Gardner's list, at least not he does not refer to Essylsten, Pritikin, and Ornish, as the "Nazi-mafia" as he did in his America's Protien Obsession video from February 20th 2017 at the 1:43:00 mark. As far as I am aware he has not apologized for that slander. Now he agrees with the my plate, and looks to the protein section which to Gardner means meat, fish and dairy? Isn't that curious when he clearly explains in his America's Protien Obsession video that anyone can get all their protien from plants. It is curious that Mr. Gardner who claims over and over again that he has been plant based for years has a fascination with animal products. Waiting for your apology Mr. Gardner. Respectfully, I won't hold my breath.😔
Start very slowly (even just a teaspoon) and very gradually build up. Keep the focus on low FODMAP choices of whole grains and legumes and in very small quantity. Add meats or dairy if well tolerated, and as needed, until your gut can handle the plants. The gut has to get properly adapted. And give yourself permission to be flexible … plant-based with some added meat, fish, foul, or dairy, if you feel your body needs it.
LOVE your podcast BUT I don't believe either extreme (Vegan or Carnivore) is the optimal diet. I am 75 years and I eat "mostly" plant based but I do eat red meat, fish, eggs and cheese. I've maintained a 19.5 BMI my entire life. Last time I was at a doctor's office was in 1969. I've only had one prescription in my adult life (antibiotic for root canal). Henry Kissinger lived to 100 eating bratwurst ((sausage) and wiener schitzel (fried meat patty).
Yes, exactly, "It depends". Research has shown that vegans have a lower BMD than omnivores and it is unfortunate that male scientists, who will most likely never be at risk of ostoporosis, forget to mention that and caution against it. And lets not forget that much of the research available to date was predominantly done on males. If there is a documented way to go vegan and consistently manage to absorb the required calcium intake while offsetting the negative effect of oxalates, then I would love to hear about it. But until that happens, I don't see the point of having the biological age of a teenager if I am setting myself up to die of a hip fracture. As for plants not having a dietary intake limit, researchers studying nut intake and kidney stones would beg to differ... Finally, I really respect Prof. Gardner's work and I think that it really unfortunate that his well-intended study turned out to be a means for Netflix to advertise businesses that make ultra-processed food that just happens to be vegan. I would love to hear his opinion of the final cut of the documentary and the message it transmits to viewers.
Most people don't need to follow any special diet. If you really pay attention to your body, it WILL tell you something you are eating is not a good idea. For exemplee, if you nearly always have digestive issues after a specific kind of meal, then break it down and try each components alone to figure out the culprit and remove it. Taking on weight? Look at the calories and carbs, then cut one food for a week and se if there is any positive change. If not, take it again and remove another. That's it. Over time, you will create your own super diet.
That sounds like a marvellous idea but unfortunately the negative effects of certain foods can take years to appear, such as heart problems. You can feel great at the time but the issues appear over a large span of time.
Your digestive system is not the digestive system of a sheep, cow or horse. Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus and homo Sapiens left plants for meat around 2.5 million years ago. Over consumption plants causes arthritis, migraines and a reduction in overall health that is measurable!!! Granted, eliminating the processed foods will absolutely result in better health, but plants do plant things and animals do animal things. Your very short digestive system cannot absorb the beneficial nutrients from. Additionally, you do not have the bacteria in your digestive tract to convert cellulose to fat like the gorillas or any of our great ape ancestors.
Dude respectfully as I can that’s a load of rubbish. I eat meat but I know that plant based is better. We have a long alimentary canal which is not conducive to digesting meat
I’ve been watching and reading so much about food over the last few months I’m completely confused now. I’m trying keto to help with mental health issues thanks to Chris Palmer but now my LDL levels have gone up to 5.5 (212.7) and according to some doctors that’s awfully high, others say it’s expected. I just don’t know who to believe or what to think now. Plus I’m in menopause so I think my LDL goes up because of that. And now I’m reading that old people are protected with higher LDL levels!! OMG 😱
@aubreyvandyne5284 God is carnivore. He likes smoke from animals meat and its blood on altar in Jerusalem. Its " favourite Lords fragrance" 😜( not Chanel Armani or Dior)but meat &blood
@@LucyFreAfter the flood Genesis 8:21 shows God's disappointment in Noah after Noah willfully decided to kill an animal on his own decision and not waiting for God's instruction to do so. God had cleansed the earth from willful men and then Noah gets out of the boat and into pristine land and thinks he can take the initiative to sacrifice without being given any instructions. Oh and just so you know, the smell of flesh, whether burning or left rotting in a ditch somewhere still has a sweet smell along with the stench which accompanies it. Meaning God wasn't praising Noah he was being discriptive. So anyway, Noah let God down by practicing this will. Remember God told Adam in the Garden to eat plants and God didn't change that rule until after the flood. Genesis 8:21 God said he was not going to curse the ground anymore for man's sake! Why, because when Noah took upon himself to kill a lamb without being told, God was disappointed and God said, "I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of man is EVIL!" This means, it won't be worth the trouble to destroy the land for man, therefore even Noah showed rebellion and evilness. But there was only one man left, Noah, and God in his mercy blessed him and and decided to allow the sacrifice and eating of flesh since God wasn't going to change the imaginations of man. Layer 8:22 God did tells Noah not to eat the blood of the animal, being that it is the life force....and so on and so forth. But we see even today people eat bloody steaks
Too much protein harms the kidneys, causes cancer. Too much sugar harms the arteries. But non-saturated fat, eat all you want? It can't be true. There's a glycemic index for carbs but there should be a lipid index for fats cause too much can't be healthy.
Oh, shucks!! How did you know? They told us at our last Vegan Cult monthly meeting to NOT let people know how MOST diseases can be reversed, prevented, or arrested on a whole plant foods diet, eating foods grown from the ground, minimally cooked or eaten raw. We messed up telling others about the power of plants.
The high degree of conformation bias here is nauseating. The omission of certain metabolic science, past and present, is egregious. Stating “we should not eat like our ancestors” without evidence as to why, is at best, misleading. “Healthy unsaturated fats”? Have they not read the RCT studies that show that unsaturated fat leads to higher all-cause mortality compared with saturated fats? People should set aside their Balanced Diet biases long enough to seek out evidence-based truths about our metabolism that may challenge their dietary beliefs. This balanced diet approach to a dietary lifestyle continues to confound our ability to be healthy. This is the same message that’s been drilled into our heads for decades, while chronic disease has been skyrocketing around the world.
The Netflix film is so biased, I could barely watch til the end. It didn’t really prove anything. It’s not about Omnivore versus Vegan ....it’s simply about eating only unprocessed whole foods.
@@annettestephens5337 What Netflix film? Nobody said anything about a Netflix film. Odd reply. You must be lost. Are you not eating any unprocessed whole foods? Sugar-glazed bacon will do that to you.
