Triglycerides 346 to 145; LDL down 195 to 95 in 10 months. Diligently followed a whole food plant based plan and listened to so many Exam Room episodes for support. (Was a junk food vegan). Thankful. ❤
so what is your hdl? Actual heart risk indicator is TGs/Hdl, (not Ldl) which you would like to be 1.5/1 or even lower would be better. Mine is 0.6/1, but my lcl is twice yours Also, Ldl is not "bad" cholesterol. DAMAGED Ldl is bad for you. It is damaged by eating piles of simple carbs and getting little exercise. And that also liwers your Hdl
12:06 If we can't overdo it on broccoli then let's go 🥦 Not sure why this still mystifies so many people who have questioned why I add so many vegetables to my food 😶
Hi Chuck. I cannot eat one nacho, one scoop of ice cream, one cookie ... etc. I can, however, eat a few olives, a few slices of avocado, or ONE handful of nuts or seeds, and then stop. These foods used to incite overindulging, but not anymore. I haven't tried the nachos, or ice cream, but I have no desire to eat them, so I see no need to try them. However, I suspect that they would still be problematic because they have been engineered to cause cravings. Avocados have fat, but they don't also contain salt and sugar. Neither do olives (although they do contain salt, I eat low salt ones), or nuts (I eat only raw nuts, so no roasting or added salt and oil.) Cookies, nachos, and ice cream, however, do have fats, plus salt, and sugars, plus no fiber.
All so true, plus junk foods like the ones you mention have a lot of marketing behind them, and I think that adds a lot to their addictive nature as well.
I can't tell you how many times I have refused pizza, alcohol, ice cream, etc. & people (even fellow nurses) have said, "A little bit isn't going to hurt you." Comments like that annoy me so much!
Great Interview Chuck! Just got my labs a few weeks ago and my doctor (a life style medicine/ vegan doctor) was also very concerned about my LDL of 38 🤔. Doctors always talk about high cholesterol but we need doctors to talk about the people on the low end of the spectrum as well. I don't want to eat saturated fat to bring my cholesterol to a 50. Can someone live healthfully with a cholesterol this low???
Your brain is made up of 60% fat and the myelin that wraps around your nerves and protects them is also made partially from fat. There are also fat soluble vitamins that your body needs which means you need fat to store them in. Don't be afraid to eat good fats.
@@snowps1 Hello! Thank you for your message 🙏. I do eat good fat sources (hemp, chia, flax...) but LDL comes from saturated fats found in animal protein, tropical oils..... and those are the ones I don't eat and my LDL went down to 38.
@@snowps1 If his kids ever grow up, more than likely they will quit this vegan trip. Everything in moderation. Wheat and simple carbs in extreme moderation If his kid actually has "LDL of 15", he is taking his kids on one extremely bad trip. They will pay the price for his obsessions
Could you address the subject of oral health, I have noticed since I became plant based that I no longer have any plaque buildup on my teeth. Is it related to not having plaque buildup in your veins from not eating animal products. I was wondering if you or anyone else has experienced this? I also don’t have problems with body odors like I did when I consumed animal products. I’m I crazy or is this really something, let me know,please.
Thanks for this interview! One thing though- the real pioneers were people who first began eschewing all animal products (some vegans were Jains - a religion in India dating back to first century BCE) and in the west, some began to do this in the early 1800s and in 1944 the UK Vegan Society was formed. While I appreciate the work of all the plant based doctors, they did not invent veganism or plant based diets!
I’d like to say that Dr. Campbell, Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Mcdougall, and Dr. Goldhamer are pioneers in their own right - Veganism and plant based diets are nothing new - but WFPB SOS-free, heart disease reversing, diabetes reversing, and certain cancers reversing diet, is fairly new.
Jains consume dairy (like milk, cheese, yogurt and ghee), so technically they are not Vegan. So much of heart disease and inflammation is caused by consumption of saturated fat.
Theosophists were among the first western vegans as well. Those people were so brave: they gave up on animal products without knowing what the health effects would be. However, the vegan doctors also deserve a lot of credit.
So what do you EAT just Broccoli? I am Type 1 and wanting to figure out what to eat I am picky eater but i do like broccoli not sure how you would eat it everyday?
My Mom was Type 1 for 79 years...had a heart attack, quadruple heart bypass surgery, then 10 years on kidney dialysis. Had she eaten more vegetables and less processed food, the last 30 years of her life would have been healthier and vibrant.
Broccoli was a generalization for eating green leafies/cruciferous daily. I ate broccoli today, will eat brussel sprouts or kale tomorrow, spinach the next. These are almost always for most vegans a side dish to other veggies, potatoes, quinoa, rice, etc.
Broccoli in a pasta dish, broccoli in soups, broccoli with brown rice or any type of grains.... please try to eat a variety of vegetables if possible not only broccoli.
Chef AJ eats broccoli & purple sweet potatoes everyday & never tires of them. She said given her choice of foods right before death ( if she were ever convicted of a crime she did not commit) it would be broccoli & sweet potatoes!
Why for some people work keto- carnivore to fix diseases ( autoimmune, diabetes heart) and for other people works vegan - vegetarian? I think they can work both as long they are low carb
Doesn't the evidence show from the blue zones that not only consumption of a moderate amount of animal products like fish and olive oil is actually good for you?
Make that a small amount. Compared to what people generally eat today, those people were flexitarians. They certainly didn't eat meat several times a day. But yes, certainly people like Dr. Longo advise 2 pieces of fish a week. Not more than that though.
@@k.h.6991 The average person in the US consumes about 2.5 ounces of beef per day. Are you saying those 150 calories from red meat are less than blue zones consume and are the cause of health problems in the USA?
If I'd have been raised this way I'd never have grown up with obesity, a ruined life because of obesity and all of the ill effects of the Standard American Diet. Kudos to this wise Doctor's like Dr Ted and other rock stars like Esselstyn, McDougall, Dr Brooke Goldner, Dr Barnard, et al.
If he did, it would have been human milk meant for a human child. Not sure what you are getting at by asking. I suppose you want to suggest he isn't vegan since he's had animal milk. If that is the angle, good grief.
no, I am a fellow vegan, I was just curious that someone would describe an infant as being vegan before birth, and if they were considering breast milk as vegan? It just got me thinking about breast milk and it's status as a food. I am a big supporter of breast feeding, I fed my girls well past their second birthdays@@InTheSkyGirl
we haven’t been eating plants until the agricultural revolution which in the time compared to how long we’ve been on the planet. Also your argument falls flat as the standard American diet started in 1948 That caused us to have the most obese country in the world. We were meant to eat meat.
