I has my gallbladder removed. Then my appendix burst. Then colon /rectalsurgery. Finally fundoplication surgery for extreme GERD before I finally got the message. Say whatever you want. Whole food plant based gave me my life back. ❤
I read the starch solution... Feb. 14th 2019..... I weighed 283 lbs.... I now weigh 150 lbs.... I have & continue to work on my mind set.... I now eat whole food....plant based ....THANK YOU for the interview.....GREAT
I like to say that I’ve learned how to “taste with my stomach”. In other words, I imagine how I’m going to feel a couple hours after I eat. I know plants will make me feel good. Processed or meat based meals are going to make me feel bloated, experience heart burn and have higher blood pressure and swollen limbs. Taste with your stomach!
I agree, we spend way more time in a ‘post-prandial’ or fasted/non-eating state than we do actually eating, so it seems pretty clear to me what to give more priority.
At 59 that’s how I do it. Imagine myself after I eat the cheesesteak sandwich or after the pizza and it’s pretty easy to pass. Now caffeine I have to argue with myself to abstain. Pure pleasure. Again I can think about the anxious energy and possible sleep issues poorer food choices afterwards as well.
Right, and feel your overall body response. I've been eating alot cleaner, if I even take a small bite of an preocupa, my bloodstream reacts, it's so weird, it feels the poison coming in the body and automatically and I mean instantly I can feel the blood inside "panic". I feel sad for my body feeling that way, I dont crave cookies or any junk food, your body repells it.
Yes, and what's worse you have doctors promoting dead flesh diets and manipulating people to eat dead animals for health. Eventually, they'll know it's not a long term sustainable forever healthy diet.
Thank you Joe Best and Dr.Davis for sharing your journey and discoveries along the way. Thank you Dr.Davis for your compassion and expertise. With your many years of study and experience with scientific evidence based research and practice… your authenticity, values and compassion for your patients is on full display. I can speak from my heart that both of you truly are shining stars in this challenging field of study. I and I’m certain many of us struggling with obesity and chronic health issues, appreciate you sharing. I appreciate this interview so much as I am who are looking for validation for the steps I am now taking and welcome the support and guidance on this journey to regain my health. 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ Thanks again for this brilliant interview Joe!! Thank you for your time Dr. Davis, you have touched many lives with your expertise. 😘🤗🎆🇺🇸☮️
When I was pregnant with my twins, I failed (just) the glucose test. I tested my blood sugar religiously after that, and not once did it go up, which appeared to shock the medical staff involved with me. I always knew that I couldn't handle sugar - a glass of apple juice has pretty much the same effect on me as a glass of wine - and have avoided it as long as I can remember. People used to think I was just "disciplined" but it was never that. I just hated the way it made me feel.
So glad to see Dr. Davis speaking out on this topic. My 86 yo mother is desperate to find Ozemic for weight loss, so she can keep eating high in saturated fat! She says she "can't swallow string beans" 😭. Sending her this video!
People who say they "can't swallow" something healthy lack maturity. I've heard people say "lettuce gags me," or "I could never give up meat." What they mean is they aren't willling to try, they aren't disciplined enough to make an effort. I ate green beans today, I eat hoards of greens, I can't stomach a lot of meat now. It all has to do with how much you want to be healthy.
@32:00 Who can eat two apples? Um, We had an apple tree in Washington. I would regularly make an "apple cobbler" with 7-10 apples, rye flakes, cinnamon, lemon rind and apple juice and date chunks. That was dinner. I still eat 2-3 apples on my kale and pasta salad.
What, I often eat two apples back to back while maybe reading a book. They're easy to grab rather than cook something when you're involved in something else.
While I was never particularly interested in potato chips and snack foods of that kind I do crave intense flavor. Indian and Thai cuisine are my weakness. However, I also know how to cook. I can read cookbooks and smell and taste all the happy smells, tastes, and textures. Spices are natures pharmacy and teas of all kinds are an easy and healthy taste to acquire.
Excellent interview. Dr. Davis is so incredibly intelligent, by his recommendations and several other plant based doctors made me aware of the benefits of a healthy whole plant based diet and the extremely cruelty of animal farming. I haven’t eaten meat for almost four years now. Always learning from your interviews. Thank you
Thank you, PBN, for making this video. Thank you, Dr. Davis, for talking about when plant-based or vegan isn't working for a person's health. Fat shaming overweight and obese plant-based eaters is REAL! I stopped being a plant-based eater because of it. I am getting back into it slowly, but it is hard. Pringles call out in the night. My BMI is 33, so you can imagine the looks I get when I tell people I am plant-based with very mild hypertension (not high enough for drugs, but not healthy either) and no other co-morbidities, just fat and mildly unhealthy. They look at me like, "Why" It's not doing anything for you. Anyway, it's about the animals and environment now because when I was strict about it all, it didn't change my health markers.
This is what I got from this video the most. I ate perfect plant based 8 months, lost almost 40 pounds before I plateaued. Still overweight, and I don't think I could have done better than that. My best still left me with an A1C of 6.1 without metformin and people still giving me side eye to hear the vegan has diabetes. If ozempic is the tool I need, then it's the tool I need. We don't shame the paralyzed for needing a wheelchair.
It's not the plants fault you didn't loose weight, it's the wrong food choices, junk food, etc. Exercise is a big part, but most people want an easier solution. I started exercising, eating only plant food, no dairy, no meat, no sugar, no oils, mineral salt only, no soda, only spring water, natural extracted juices I make myself . I used to weigh 133 lbs 33 in. waist, anf with weight training, yoga, sprinting, HIIT, cardio, and a good lifestyle, no junk food, I quickly trimmed my waist to 27in and 115 lbs. Most people would get a cold sculpt, fat loss injection, tummy tuck, but I went all natural, the normal way. I feel very strong, built muscle, I don't take any plant protein powders bc I get all the protein I need from plants. My body looks great and fit better than ever. I love it.
Go vegan for your health, whole food plant based. Go vegan for the animals. Go vegan for the planet. Go vegan and be healthier and happier. A lower risk of heart disease and cancer for you and a better planet for everyone, human and animals. Eating healthy is not a diet it is a healthy life style. Go out and look around. The vast majority of people you see are obese or al least over weight. People do not need to be fat shamed BUT being over weight is not healthy and leads to a host of illnesses. When you look around you can see all the unhealthy people without taking a blood test or a fitness test "NORMAL" for the average American is "UNHEALTHY" The health of society is in decline.
Yes and the rest of the world is following America rapidly, sizes are growing in Europe very fast too and they're just as deaf to the message of dr. Davis, mcDougall, Barnard, Ornish, Klaper, Greger, Rogers, Esselstyn, Campbell and the list goes on.
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I was going to leave the same comment. I so appreciate Dr Davis's articulation skills and knowledge. I appreciate his willingness to participate in another interview.
I'm a compulsive overeater. I enjoy eating food. I don't enjoy getting overweight and rushing toward obesity. I need help. Food is always on my mind. I don't want bariatric surgery: I need brain surgery.
I hope you can improve ❤ Some things that helped me: Keep busy Have hobbies Mindfulness/meditation Limit hyperpalatable in the house Love yourself Don't feel guilty! Best of luck ❤
Choose foods that have rich texture and avoid anything that's soft and easy to swallow without chewing. So eat more fiber and protein i.e. apples with skin, celery, beans, chickpeas. When choosing grains always look for the hard ones like whole oat groats (not flakes), millet, whole barley. If looking for a fat source choose whole nuts, not oils or butters. Whole minimally processed food is digested for a longer time and has higher volume making you feel full easily. Also the longer process of chewing is related to appetite control and higher satisfaction from food. After a while on such diet your appetite will become smaller and your obsession with food will decrease.
"Atomic Habits" by James Clear. I started changing my eating habits with the first 'atomic habit' - I stopped putting creamer (Oat Milk Caramel 4g sugar per tbsp) in my morning coffee. It oddly gave me a huge win. I began eliminating sugar, processed, fast food, and animal products. Within a week my inflammation dropped by at least half and I started feeling more energetic. Haven't lost much weight but I feel better for sure.
I’ve been an obese vegetarian, sometimes vegan, for 20 years and I hate telling people I’m vegan because of the look on their faces. It’s embarrassing. I feel like such a failure. Thank you so much for talking about this.
I lost all faith in a major carnivore influencer when I came upon a post she videoed 6 months ago from her tropical paradise; her morning routine included a self-injected dose of “peptides” that nourish and energize her and she said she wasn’t free to say names of products online because Pharmaceutical companies would be on her. She charges big bucks for individual and collective consultations for a wide range of devastating illnesses and weight loss strategies. I educated myself on what Ozempic and Knock offs were and how the FDA shepards them through the system and realized that’s probably how she stays stick thin and eats loads of fatty meat in between higher protein, lower fat days of PSMF philosophy
@@FruigivoreI’m not one to name names for unfounded suspicions I have, but I gave enough clues so those familiar with the rhythm of the eating pattern she espouses for ketogenic/carnivore/ketovore will know. I haven’t found any other RU-vid post she has made that refers to the injections.She has many cookbooks for sale.
Peptides are strings of amino acids. Every vegetable and fruit has all 20 amino acids. These carnivores are weird with their peptides and elektrolytes (which are the magnesium and potassium, sodium and calcium that also naturally come from... plants (well the soil, but via plants)).
Thank you for your question regarding obesity/dieting messing up metabolism permanently. I was morbidly obese as a teen and lost over 100 lbs in my early 20s. I’m now 44 and felt like I have been white knuckling to keep the weight off for two decades. I am plant based for my health and I’ve always been an exerciser, but as I age I haven’t been able to keep the weight at bay. There’s a deep shame in that. And all the time people say “oh you’re vegan? I thought vegans were skinny….”. All my blood work is gorgeous and I am very healthy. But now I’m 20 lbs overweight. And the only solution that works is a near starvation diet. And frankly, I’m tired after decades of eating so low calorie that I feel weak. Of being hyper vigilant. The mental and emotional and physical battle every day fighting myself. It’s exhausting. It’s validating to hear what I’ve always thought: my metabolism is perhaps permanently fucked. So instead of size and weight, I just focus on inflammatory markers, cholesterol, blood pressure, hormones etc. I’m great there and that is good enough for me now.
I'm sorry you're struggling with this. Have you been doing heavy resistance training with progressive overload all this time? If not, it may help. I wish you the best.
So, so sad to see people kiIIing themselves with quick "fix" weight loss fads instead of putting the work into a healthy diet & exercise. A whole foods plant based diet is easy and budget friendly. Ozempic as weight loss is extremely scary, its harming the body terribly 😞 Please take care of yourself 💙
I have lost about 100lbs 4 times over in my life doing whole food plant based, exercising for hours each day, fasting 23:1, counting every calorie and macro. And it just comes back. If you learn about the science of weight gain and how it changes the body and that it’s a metabolic problem that often cannot be fixed long term you might stop using the insulting word ‘work’ as if most overweight people didn’t already work really hard to try lose and keep weight off. This is pure ignorance. Ozempic doesn’t harm bodies terribly. Rare cases it can cause problems but it isn’t just harming people. It is saving lives.
Some good points here. And a few bold admissions, but oddly enough, not much about the actual drugs in question. Sadly, the quick fix is being peddled, even though the problem the quick fix seeks to fix almost always took years--decades even--to produce. And it always has root causes that have nothing to do with biology or physiology. That said, however, biology, physiology and evolution combined with the root causes always beget problems with various and often conflicting and confusing signs and symptoms. So don't confuse signs and symptoms with the root problems, and definitely don't treat symptoms. Treat the underlying problem instead. Also, keep in mind that a morbidly obese binge eater who gets bariatric surgery and loses the weight will, if given enough time, put all of the weight back on (and then some). Which is why surgeons now recommend counseling, therapy and lifestyle modification over the course of a few months before the actual surgery (in effect, the patient is modelling the habits and behavior that they need to implement in order to keep the weight off). And it comes as no surprise that a large proportion of people who do this eventually choose not to have the surgery. Why do they opt out of surgery? Simple: they are successfully getting at the root cause of their problems, feeling better and losing the weight as a result. All the surgery would have done for them is provide them with temporary relief by attacking the signs and symptoms. That morbidly obese binge eater has to work on their binge eating in order to get somewhere on the health front. There are no quick fixes, people. And it's only a matter of time before people realize that the latest iteration of quick fixes not only don't work, but also come with serious problems. Peace!
What you say feels intuitively true. I would add that doctors don’t deny people with hypertension immediate medication to lower it and instead tell them to lose weight. They do both. The safe with type 2 diabetes and metformin. The same with statins and heart disease etc. Without lifestyle change the underlying problem will remain but medication can reduce the risks of catastrophic consequences arising from them sooner. I think it is the same with ozempic. Without lifestyle change the weight loss will last only as long as the medication works, but with lifestyle change the medication will provide rapid reductions in the immediate risks from all the above mentioned threats and the lifestyle changes will allow the drug to be discontinued and the health benefits sustained. If someone can do it all without the drug, great, but if they can’t, this can be the difference between success and failure.
I think the #1 obstacle for the industry to recognize that diet is the main driver for premature death and disease is money. Not much to be made by telling people to eat green.
Processed food manufacturers need to hear from consumers that less ADDED chemicals, sugar, oil and salt is wanted in their food products. Why is there so much ADDED sugar in everything, even bread. That's just crazy Email, text, tweet or phone your favorite producer of poison and let them know consumers want less salt, oils and sugars in their products. Let their customer service department know that all the extra added salt, oil and sugar is not necessary or desired and is causing health issues. Reduce or eliminate highly processed food from your diet if you can.
Companies only listen to what makes them money. Those additives don't deter enough of their customer base to care. There is only 2 ways to improve this. Customers need education to not buy these products, then companies will listen. Or regulation needs to regulate these additives out of the food supply. Their should be sugar regulations though. One big change that could happen right now is they could regulate that sugar can't make up more than x amount of your product. The regulations could start at one level and then every few years that level drops. So like say sugar can't make up more than 40% of your product, then in 2 years it's 38%, and continue until it's at a healthy level. That way products have time to adapt but also consumers have time to acclimate their tastebuds to enjoy things with less sugar. Just complaining to companies won't make a difference if they are still making money.
Customers are free to buy what they want, healthy processed foods are available but the fact is junk food tastes better and clearly people prefer this. Junk food in moderation is ok.
A local radio station has an advertisement for a generic,cheaper version of Ozempic with doctors standing by for online consultations including meal plans and follow up strategies to minimize the bothersome side effects that some patients incur; all for a mere fraction of the cost for Big Pharma’s product
32:26, I do eat an apple and then another one, apples are my healthy snacks, I don't ever consume unhealthy snacks. Sometimes I add Tajin (mexican chile blend to spice them up). Or, for another healthy snack I dice apples, mix them up with cubed mangoes and kiwi. All fresh and absolutely, delicious!
Truth be told WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT. What I eat I would never expect others to eat. Listening to ALL this was interesting. Thanks for your viewpoint. I can eat two apples, two bananas and watermelon but that’s just ME.
When I was a teen my mom and I went on Atkins diet. After a short time on that it caused me to throw up blood. My mom was kind of freaked out and said l have to stop that diet. After that we changed to Weight Watchers and did much better. Years later on a road trip with my husband l decided to buy some beef jerky which is something I never eat usually. And l got terrible bloody diarrhea. But l lost 100 pounds on initially a vegetarian diet and after that a plant based diet. So many health benefits! 🥳🥳👍🌷
I just realized that the perfect paleo diet would be to eat as much as you want of anything you can hunt and gather using only the resources available during the stone age.
Would the perfect while good plant based diet therefore be to eat as much of the fruit and starchy tubers as you like as they existed in the Stone Age with the tools that existed in the Stone Age (no blender). Good luck surviving a single winter in the northern hemisphere. A modern wfpb diet is great for many people, but let’s not pretend it was always that way.
@@davidr1431 Meat is an unreliable source of calories. Not only do you have to know where the animals are, you have to kill them - which is something they are trying very hard to avoid. We call Stone Age man a hunter-gatherer, but we should change that to gatherer-hunter. Or even gatherer-gatherer-gatherer-hunter. Most of the calories still came from plants. We see this in the few remaining tribes that still gather and hunt for their food. I was pointing out that early humans couldn't go to the store and buy marbled steaks and cutlets. The notion that they had meat-centered diets is not accurate.
@@janerkenbrack3373 I’m still wondering how they survived a Northern European winter. Months with no fruit and frozen ground. Also wondering what happened to all the megafauna? What are your thoughts?
@@davidr1431 I cannot claim expertise in the subject, but my thoughts - for what they are worth - are along these lines: There is evidence that early humans migrated seasonally in pursuit of megafauna, and it is likely that the hunting of those animals aided in their demise, or were the primary cause. But just because people hunted these animals does not mean that they only or mostly ate these creatures. We have evidence of humans grinding grains tens of thousands of years before what we call agriculture. People were gathering wild grains and converting that into food, and it was this that appears to have sparked settlements. They were gathering wild grains, along with tubers, and were stored for future use,, even in the pre-pottery neolithic. When researchers investigate early human sites such as caves, they often find bones of animals. But bones will survive where plant foods will not. So a site with a pile of bones accumulated for decades or centuries will give a misleading impression of diet. It didn't help that researchers failed to find the evidence of grain consumption until much more recently. Our digestive structure has evolved to eat plants, and there is evidence that we always did this. I do not think humans first ate meat and then added plants, but the reverse, with meat being added later. An adaptation, very early, and which helped the survival of our species. I don't mean to suggest that early humans were vegan, or that they didn't eat meat. But rather that the gathering portion of the diet provided the majority of the calories up until very modern times.
I just started the starch solution vegan diet which is plant based and I feel great have more energy to do things I dont stay hungry, so far I lost 4 pounds, I started the diet weighing 206. I walk and do some dancing exercises at home. Plus I am a certified nursing assistant which I am on my feet running after call lights 8hrs a day so hopefully through this diet and exercise I will lose weight. Plus I did not like my cholestrol level really high, I am anemic with a iron defeciency. Have other things that are going on. Plus I have chronic osteoarthritis in my right ankle due to an injury I had 15 years ago. So hopefully this diet works and make me healthy enough to take care of some or most of these things.
I had an experimental drug, designed to lower triglycerides and decrease appetite. It worked well but aftee the large dose wire off, i could not be satiated for a month.
@@BNJ24 yes that’s why I thought the pro surgery talk was confusing. But as I listened to the end, I realized he is pro natural first! Good diet and exercise!
No, the last main point is to make lifestyle changes to whole food plant based and if those changes still don't get a person to their weight goal consider surgery or drugs.
I think he is talking about the drug to lose weight, it helped diminish the stress of carying excess weight for the joints, and help with arthritis as a side effect
I am carnivore...diabetes has improved, vision improved, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema gone. My skin looks great, lost weight and have more energy. My fibromyalgia and arthritis pain is almost gone. If I eat plants, everything flares up.
It’s starting to threaten the procreation of humans….have you seen lately the size of kids in an avg school? And ask an OB what their avg pregnant pt weighs. The infertility business is booming too. Health system is keeping us ticking, but in a SHTF triage scenario…..thin (& fit) will win, I’m afraid.
A lot of this also is because young people don't move....not only do they not exercise...but they walk slow...they walk sloppy....They're physiologically lazy because 8 hours a day of video games and social media destroy the body.
Eat most of your meals without meat or dairy, just have meat and dairy a few times a week... is the healthiest way to go. No seed oils apart from olive oil. High calcium veg to combat the oxalates in some veg. As much organic produce as you can afford to support the businesses and nature. When you get older eat more protein. Thats it simple, plant based mostly and you will thrive, oh and maybe an algae omega 3 supplement a few times a week
