How to Boost Your Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) for Heart Health
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- Food and lifestyle for heart health. How can we improve the capacity of our blood vessels to repair themselves?
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My husband ate a sad diet, drank green tea and jogged 5 kilometers a day religiously for years and at age 54, suffered a near death widow maker heart attack. He’s Whole Foods Plant Based, plant perfect now, according to Dr. Esselstyn, in hopes to save his life from a further heart attack and strengthen his heart muscle to normal again.
Scary for sure, glad to hear he’s still here and striving to recover! ❤
I have a similar story. At 63 years old, I was 12 years vegan but not SOS. Feb 7 2023 I had a cardiac arrest while playing hockey. My hockey buddies saved my life. I was dead for about a minute. I recovered quickly and was back skating in 3 months. I had the privilege to meet Dr. Greger again and talk later that year. I also met with Dr. Esselstyn and I’m now SOS too.
At only 26 I was noticing issues with my body and heart, then was told by my father that he has an enlarged heart - I’m extremely thankful to have come across Dr. Esselstyn and the WFPBNO way of eating. So here’s to hopefully a brighter future. I’m glad your husband is doing better, and hope his future is brighter as well.
That is awesome! What you are doing is a gift to your future self so you can be active and loving life for DECADES to come! #Impressed@@explorerquestioner9365
That's so scary! I hope he's doing better now!
My heart must be a toddler at this stage - I drink pints of green tea and eat berries with porridge every morning, and - of course - I am WFPB!
Go to your room!!!
Amazing research as always
Yes🫀More heart health stuff please. A Dr. Esselstyn talk would be awesome with you
Thank you for sharing
Muchas gracias al Doc y a las personas q traducen! ❤
👍 Whole food plant based for the environment and health; vegan for the victims!
Same here! Thank you for being vegan 🌱❤️
Thank you!
I would also say, don't be lazy and grow most of your food yourself. Even if you don't have a garden you can grow a variety of shrooms to eat.
100% agree! Grow your own mushrooms and also sprouts and microgreens. I am constantly growing 14 indoor crops of sprouts and microgreens, which supply all the fresh greens we need for one of our 3 meals a day. When it’s snowing outside I am still growing my indoor crops!
I grew kale and Swiss chard in 4 plastic tubs when I lived in Idaho. I kept picking almost through winter. Only when 24 Temps were below 32 did they stop producing. They bounced right back in early spring.
@@BarbinAZ That’s why I grow indoors. I can grow all year round indoors, even when it’s -17 outdoors. I live in North Idaho.
Thanks
I saw you're doing a video conference on your book tour in Sedona, AZ. I was like "aw man, but I want him to sign my book!" Haha 😅
LOL that's not always possible even when the talk is in person. I saw him in Portland just before the pandemic, and there were so many people in line for book signing that he had to leave to catch a plane before I even got halfway through it. He's a popular guy!
Thats all we wanted to hear!
Someone needs to invent green tea that taste like black tea.
I mix my green tea and black tea together. Both have unique antioxidants and taste that compliment each other
@@davidjknellYou can't add milk to green or you lose the benefits . If you drink green matcha tea it is quite palatable.
I "brew" my green tea in cold water ..then Down the hatch daily..tastes OK
I love this channel!
Please provide link to RCT mentioned. I would have expected it present within the description.
Not onions-onion peel extract-but nobody eats onion peels-maybe cooking whole onion with the peel in soup-I do that sometimes.
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So would taking a Bone Marrow supplement help repair damaged blood vessels? would i help make these EPC Cells ls your talking about?
So, eat berries and onions and drink green tea ......as much as possible...especially if you smoke........
And eat saturated fat as little as possible
@@botzer8817 ah yes......thanx for the add on!
I have 0 problems smoking Cosher Cigars organically grown no chemicals added no synthetic filters added no 4000 chemicals no heavy metal smoke. I had a customer smoke 1 just 1 Nooport Cigarettes around me and I was in bed sick for 3 days weezing. I Swear.
Dr Rhonda Patrick said that non-smokers with low levels of Omega 3 scored the same in terms of heart disease and cancer as smokers with high levels of Omega3.
Fish are vegetables.
Also, if you want to get your Omega3 from algae it seems like your choices are kind of limited if you don't want to take pills.
@@celerywarrior6493why would anyone choose to get omega 3 from algae? DHA and EPA maybe, but omega 3 is readily available in flax and chia among other nuts and seeds.
What does this mean
@@slimelove3493 For best health take Omega 3 and do not smoke.
@@celerywarrior6493 Fish are not vegetables. I take Chia seeds twice a day. You need to soak them in water for at least 5 to 10 minutes. I take it with other supplements.
Anyone recommend a good Green Tea brand that can be drunk right from the bottle? Thanks in advance.
Lipton. It's cheap and found in stores world-wide. Don't drink the crud from the prepackaged bottle. Just make a pitcher full and fill your own bottle.
Help! I've just discovered 85% fat butter. I've been eating 2-3 Tablespoons worth per day for the last 60 days. I can't seem to stop. Butter use to just be bleh and I hardly ever ate it until I stumbled upon this high fat butter!
Butter is 82% fat, and you found 85% fat butter... OMG, what a huge difference!!!! Are you high or something? 82% fat butter was bleh, but 85% is like crack? Yeah you definitely on crack boy.
All butter is high fat. What are you on about, or simply, what are you on? Seems like you have been having some hallucinogenic butter.
Well that last sentence of yours wasn't nice. In the culinary world, European butters have higher fat content usually 85% and higher. American butter runs 80-82%. I use to think what a big fn deal, a few percentage difference so what. But then I tried it and compared it and Yes, it makes a big difference: it's creamier to the touch, use it in baked goods and the food comes out more flavorful and texture is better. There is a noticeable difference. It has amazing mouth feel. I'm trying to stop eating it. I even used it on my cracked fingers and skin. Wow!@@trapezius77
It never ceases to amaze me the number of BAD things that are associated with SMOKING, yet, people just continue to PUFF away like there is nothing wrong with doing it..............even the younger generation........????? I suppose I will never understand this self destructive behavior and the inability to STOP when its been documented and tested to be harmful in so many ways.....????
Nicotine is extremely addictive, and the brain downregulates nicotinamide receptors when it's constantly flooded with nicotine every day. It takes a long time for those receptors to come back and for the brain to start making its own nicotinamide when the cigarettes are gone, causing horrible cravings, which is why it's so hard to quit. It can make even the strongest, most resolute person cave under the biological pressure. Ex-smokers can have cravings even years after quitting. No amount of messaging can overcome that kind of biological drive. Quitting is not at all easy.
I want to cry sometimes when I keep learning things like this but have many obstacles to quitting. Mine smoking is tied to cannabis and cannabis is tied to my cognitive problems and sleep problems (not with falling asleep or staying asleep, but with measurable quality). I could put these down today if I didn't know already from trying before that I will be in a life threatening situation within 48hours of no deep sleep. I'm confident that at 48, I will figure this thing out in time.
@@pjaworek6793 Well, you probably should make sure to eat berries and onions and drink green tea to try to counter act the negative effects of smoking then.....I'm sad to hear you feel like you have no alternative for what ails you other than smoking as the answer.......I realize this next comment may have already been explored by you, but have you consulted some type of physician or specialized physician regarding sleep ailments??? Apologizes if so, but just trying to help......
@@pjaworek6793 Yeah, my step-son has the same problem with cannabis and sleep. He gets insomnia whenever he tries to quit. It's hard to know how to solve the issue. Some research papers I read on PubMed said it takes a month for the effects of withdrawal to subside, but for him it's longer. In general, there's not a lot of research out there because it's been illegal for so long, so they're not totally sure how long withdrawal lasts.
When you feel fine and can easily afford to smoke there is zero incentive to quit . I had an uncle who smoked 80+ cigarettes a day . He tried many many times to give them up , failed every time . The day the doctor told him they would have to remove his toes he quit immediately . Incentive !
I stopped clubbing at age 62 after my joblessness
I want to follow a Whole Foods plant based diet but it seems like the more plant foods I eat the sicker I get and I my nerve pain gets so bad I wind up in bed for two days. How can all this research point to a whole plant food diet and my experience be so different? 😔
There are always exceptions to everything. People's bodies are different. There are people in their 80s and 90s who have been smoking for decades and still smoke cigarettes everyday.
Perhaps an allergy/inflammation to a specific plant food commonly eaten?
I agree that food sensitivities can contribute to this, but also if your microbiome or bacterial balance is off you can get those symptoms. Find a good functional nutrition diagnostic practitioner to run your labs
Perhaps it’s kinda like me and poison oak. I’ve never ever had a single problem with it and I bike and hike in and amongst it regularly and two of my buddies who I go with almost always have poison oak rashes. Kind of a lame analogy but the point is you could have an allergy to wheat or nightshades or something. But most likely you just need to titrate up all plants instead of going all in right out the gate. Just bear in mind any severe reactions and eliminate as necessary. Humans are plant eating creatures, this is a fact. We have simply forced our bodies to reject certain plants because we just don’t eat enough of them over time. Stick with it friend……😁
Are you able to exercise at all? That is supposed to help.