I have worked in the medical field for 40 years. I have seen so many diabetics and hypertensive people "managed" by medications and their health gets worse and worse leading to inevitable outcome. Its rare if a doctor recommends plant based diets - even today. Many thanks to Rip Esselstyn, his father and Dr. Ornish for giving people are real self-help tool! I've been plant based for going on 6 years and vegan for over 10. I don't think I would be here if it wasn't for this diet. Thank you for this interview!
Please spread the word! Oh how I wish there was a medical practitioner in my area that followed this approach. I'm basically on my own, but doing very well :)
Would you not agree that Dr. Ornish should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology? It seems more than deserved at this point! It is truly fantastic that Medicare now covers the Ornish heart care program. Bravo to Dr. Ornish! And to Rip for having him as a breakthrough guest. Rice University must be really proud to have Dr. Ornish as an incredible alum! My grandfather was a member of Rice’s first class and would be really happy to learn about Dr. Ornish!
I was ketovore for 3 years. Felt good. Lost weight. Then began getting respiratory infections, flu, pneumonia. A lot! My immunity is compromised. Am going plant based. I need to rebuild my immunity!
My only regret is that I cannot super like this content . Thank you both for such valuable information. I thought I was doomed to a life with diabetes like most of my family until I found about a plant based lifestyle. Thank you so much for this message of hope.
Dean Ornish book was 1990. Keep learning and keep healthy. God blessings. His book changed my surgical practice since1996 and my willingness to change my life .
I love this so much! I remember Dr. Ornish from long ago and I’ve gotten away from his teaching. I’m laying here with COVID and want to get healthy! One problem I’ve always had is that I read everything but don’t act on it but I’m getting a wake up call!!! Thank You!
I do the rereading and hope it keeps me locked into the program. I haven't read his book but I watch his and many other videos fairly often, and I will search for new videos, such as on you tube search for 'whole food plant based or 'wfpb' and search in the last 1 month or so. I bookmarked my favorites so i go through them.
I was expecting a great conversation. I was NOT prepared for the jaw-dropping candid interview that came out of this video!! Wow! If it hadn't been for Dr. Ornish's own honesty and willingness to confront his own self-doubts, he may never have become the fearless and courageous investigator who spearheaded an entire health recovery movement! The ironies of life. Fantastic podcast! Please keep them coming.
When I was a new employee at Highmark BCBS in 1998 Dean Ornish came to talk to employees .... I will never forget a fellow employee stood up and thanked Dr.Ornish for saving her Father life. His heart was so diseased that his angina was so bad he couldn't walk 10 feet. After going through the program he was able to walk normally. His heart disease was CURED! God bless Dean Ornish!
Here’s my testimony: I am a Survivor: Covid hit me July, 2021. Just 2 1/2 months prior, I had switched to a Vegan diet, lost 17 pounds, more energy, better sleep, ya-dah-ya-dah. Wednesday July 14th I attended a neighbor’s funeral (not Covid), I came home so fatigued I slept the rest of the day, didn’t feel like eating. I repeated this for 3 more days, woke up on the 4th evening a little hungry, ate a bowl of oatmeal, and bounced right back. Not bad for a diabetic, cancer survivor, quintuple bypass surgery, with HITT complications survivor.! Yes, I’m an advocate for “Plant Strong” Lifestyle! 🎉🎉🎉
@jacqueline hill. God bless you Jill. Please say a prayer for me, I have pulmonary sarcoidosis,asthma, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis and hypothyroidism. I'm almost 53 years old.🙏
Gratz on survival. I just heard on the Twiv virology podcast that diabetes is the big risk factor. You are a real survivor. It is a distinct pleasure to hear your story as it and those of many others keep me on the path. I joked with my brother and his family when I visited, pointing out the dishes I consider 'food poison'. I stopped after awhile but I wanted them to know the mindset I use, based on the Mcdougall diet, to stay strong, and avoid moderation of the unhealthy foods.
So grateful for you Rip, Dr.Ornish, Dr.Esselstyn and all the doctors that have taken on medicine that treats the "cause" and not the "symptoms". Over the years I have I have asked many doctors if there is any way to find out what is causing my problem??? ... silence... they didn't like that question 😕. I am now "doing" the plant based lifestyle and loving it. I am determined to reverse my diabetes... thanks to you and your whole family I know I'm on the right path now. I made it to 78 so my new lifestyle should take me a bit further 🤞💜
I'm in tears.. I'm so grateful 🙏 your still here. I appreciate you and so many more people. I feel you all support me in my new jour ey of plant base living.. many blessings to you all. Thank you
AMAZINGGGGG! What a deep and profound gratitude I have for Dr Ornish. His and Anne's book, Undo It!, is simply wonderful. A thank you is soooo inadequate...Dr Ornish, you have changed the world and everything in it by opening our eyes to how we can save ourselves, the animals, and the planet. Thank you, Rip, for this stellar platform and all that you and your family do...again, no words are enough for the Esselstyn family either. HUGS!
Survived a Widowmaker at 43 in Poland.... They saved my life. I recovered but still minor issues here and there. Exercise always and light weights does the trick. Didn't really change my diet.... 57 now and it's trying to catch up to me with angina and arythmias. 5 years of high cholesterol and LDL did it. I saw your dad's video and then both you and Dr. Ornish's. Bought your dad's and your book and went plant based on 13 Jan cold turkey. I am going to knock this out once and for all. I'm remarkably better already after 2 1/2 weeks. I want my life back and with your help I should get there. Finally something to really beat this! 20 plus years of eating poorly around the world with the military.... I have the dedication so I should be fine once through this hurdle.
@@robertkane4438 Thanks so much for telling your cholesterol numbers! That is better than I did in total drop. I went from 210 total cholesterol to 125, went from 120 to 75. Glad you joined the whole food-plant based team!
Thanks for another Great interview. As a newly converted Whole Foods Plant base physician I am more excited to be in medicine than I have been in 30 years. Thank you Dean, I wish I had known about you 20 years ago.
Oh how as a nurse, healthy living coach, I wish I would have heard this months ago. I live close to Black mountain & would have loved to have attended.
The magic message is simply “the same life style chages can prevent and even reverse the chronic life style diseases. “ This is a wonderfull message that everybody should know. I wish I had known it Long ago, but better late than never - I am 80 and I have reversed my rheumatoid arthritis and I feel deep joy and hope for this research and the honouring of all life and planet Earth. 🙏for sharing this magic life changing message 🎵🐦⬛🎶🖤
THX !!! Dr Ornish, you are a true pioneering hero. Will be sharing this interview. We get prayer requests DAILY for people having heart issues, high BP, etc. At this point I almost am annoyed when these folks won't consider food to be the culprit. Last church breakfast featured ham, bacon & sausage, links & patties, biscuits & gravy !!! Also eggs, pancakes & frozen waffles. On my behalf they had a bowl of fruit lol. It's like putting water in your car and wondering why it won't run, or standing on the interstate and then wondering why you keep getting hit by cars.
It can be hard to stay joyful when people are ignoring the obvious. It's likely folks are taking notice of your quiet example. You may be surprised at the impact your choices are having on those around you.
Dr dean ornish and Dr esselyne both great are great .leaving normal medical practice they preferred to serve humanity . our regards to two most compassionate doctors. Dr nasir .
Rip, can you please pass my thanks to your father for his book on making someone 'Heart Attack Proof'. In April last year I broke a shoulder, and had a heart attack on a Bank Holiday, so because of the time in the UK I couldn't get a cab, a lift and had to physically walk 9 miles to hospital during a cardiac event. Needless to say I made it, spent 4 days in hospital, but when I had my angiogram, the surgeon who examined my heart couldn't believe how I managed to get to hospital and more astonishingly he remarked in front of all the staff in the theatre that they should look at the monitor of the camera of my heart as they will see the inside of my heart and it maybe the only case they see in their entire medical career. In short I didn't do any damage to my heart, which the surgeon found amazing so I spent some time with him and explained how I managed the feat and the science involved by pumping more of the correct gases through the system to scrub the arteries clean. The source for the science was of course your fathers book, and I passed on the information to the cardiac team and I'm now a 'lab rat' to see how a cardiac department can get patients to do something to improve themselves as I clearly managed. I spent 4 days in hospital on a cardiac ward and was the only one not to be sent for surgery to have a stent fitted, though I was scheduled for the surgery until my angiogram! I was discharged from hospital later that day with the staff in complete disbelief! It's about a good as a testimonial for eating a lot of broccoli as one can get, and it's verifiable and 100% true. There's now a cardiac team in the UK and one surgeon in particular who was amazed what a patient achieved as a result from dietary changes!
Oh my gosh, the prospect of seeing good video that helps me understand what Alzheimer's patients go through and then just see them get better and have hope! That's going to be a great thing to see. Thank you Dr Ornish! ❤️
One of the most important points, and this should be a pinned comment is: that Medicare now pays for it. Dr. Dean Ornish was able to get Medicare to pay for people to become well, by using his programs, throughout the united states. It’s important to Find where in your area his program is being offered, so that your loved ones, including yourself, can become well, regain vitality, and live joyfully. Best wishes everyone.
Thank you both. I love this I’m 77 no medications I was sick 35 I had a total hysterectomy due to an IUD, and I changed my whole life and I didn’t listen to doctors anymore
This is great. MY dad is currently in hspital with heart disease, and this is one of the many episodes that he has had be admitted to hspital. Pills and pills not helping and off course his diet. Im trying to find a doctor in Portugal or Europe that can explain to my family the benefits and that he can be cured with this diet.
@@nilza3263 hi! just in case it helps with your family, how not to die from heart disease: czcams.com/video/LXigmGZk5FU/video.html keep trying to get them healthy! maybe one day they find someone they resonate with and go along...
Smart lady! I have concluded that those so-called wellness checks are just a reason to make money from invasive tests. Sounds like you're doing great without all of that nonsense. Keep up the good work!
Went plant base 1 week ago after a CT calcium score of 549 which is terrible. I'm 53 workout all the time and am only 12% body fat with perfect blood pressure and fasting insulin. My A1c was 5.0 HDL 90 LDL 120 and low triglyceride of 65 and still have heart disease. I was upset with results of calcium score but I'm so happy I have a solution.
Congratulations on taking the steps to get screened and to now get in the driver seat to reverse your heart disease. YOU CAN DO IT. Pick up a copy of Dr. Esselsyn's book, Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease at any bookstore or library, and Rip's book, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet. Packed with data and recipes - they have all you need to kick heart disease to the curb!
Dr. Ornish is amazing and inspirational. So thankful to him for his work and his tenacity. Thanks to Plantstrong for highlighting his work in this podcast. ❤
I have done a ketogenic diet and lost weight short term, only to gain most of it back. And my cravings for junk food only increased. I listened to this entire interview while doing dishes and cooking supper. When I finish eating, I will be cleaning out my cupboards and refrigerator. My guard feline will be the meat eater here. Thank you!
I found that I’m really not interested any more in junk food, or cheese, or all other sorts of rubbish. My taste buds have definitely changed and I enjoy eating well so much.
YAAAS. I am so excited about watching this today! Thank you both! (just got the notification haha wanted to thank you both in advance for the time and effort of putting this together!)
Thank you so much for that amazing interview with Dr. Ornish and thank you Dr.Ornish for the life changing research and willingness to share it so clearly. Peace and blessings to you and your family Thank you.
Thanks for interviewing the great Dean Ornish. As far as advertising is concerned, I do believe, like Dean Ornish, that much of the world view of many people is shaped by advertising. In going whole food-plant based, I realized how powerful the food commercials are. They me hungry on the spot. I cut back on programs and media that have advertising and one thing I did to avoid (at least at first) was to take driving routes which don't have my favorite fast food restaurant. I don't watch standard television any longer and I believe that's the biggest change. I also am careful with excessive advertising at times on radio and the internet. I think it helped me quite a bit and not just on food. I'll skip videos of specific topics, including excessive over-consumption, war, violence, vulgarity for example, because it's real easy to get inundated with it if not careful. What we see everyday, and not just advertising, shapes us. Bad friends can shape us and our activities. There are good people as friends who can help keep the right behavior patterns and worldview. As it concerns general mental health, I am very careful about following current events. I have been food tempted a little bit when visiting family, but driving by restaurants can't get me now, especially when I can readily get some fruit or have some. Edit: spelling
Thanks for sharing, Joe. These are incredibly helpful insights and we are certain many will appreciate and benefit from your experience. Congratulations on identifying hurdles that have tripped you up in the past. Glad you are doing well! If you need recipes, resources and support, join our free community at : community.plantstrong.com
absolutely a real treat. Thank you for hosting the absolute legend. An inspiration to many. I'm here from Physician's Committee - Dr. Barnard keeps mentioning his influence.
Oh my gosh, this is my first time listening to this podcast but the intro is so amazing I'm blown away, it was literally like poetry about how the world could be and what we should all aspire too, seriously I paused the vid to write this out. Omg it was so great I'm not even joking😭😂
My chest pain goes away....mine did too! An increase in Whole foods & Plant Based foods for a year. No junk food, allot less processed foods, very little red meat, chicken, fish, cheese, eggs, milk and returned to Brock University and started exercising again. Three times a week....20 minutes on the Treadmill, 20 minutes on the Stationary bicycle and 20 minutes jogging. Blood Pressure is way down....120/60. Heart rate standing is 50 BPM. Lost 25 pounds. Eye sight is improving, hearing is better, short and long term memory is improving. I want more......Mr. Phillips - Canada - retired
Interesting and very frank opening with Dr. Ornish. Meditation played a significant role in his transition to a healthy life along with his nutritional revelations on the plant based diet.
I been recommending Undo It to pretty much everyone i run into for years now :) Got a hard copy for my father as well. :D I think the biggest tidbit to make it all work for me was to get the 10-20% fat from whole foods while eating all plantbased. I counted the macronutrients and ate enough sunflower seeds or walnuts to account for the fats and suddenly i felt amazing on this lifestyle. Liquid iodine supplements help too :p Many people feel very bad on wholefood plant based diet simply because they do not get enough seeds in through the day. Add a few handful of seeds to whatever they were eating and suddenly weakness and mental fogginess goes away :)
I don’t doubt what you are experiencing, I’m on a whole food plant based diet and eat very little seeds, nuts and high fat food and I feel great but everyone is different. If they ever do a study saying your lifestyle works for someone like me than I’m in.
I appreciate all the info, research, and dedication to changing peoples lives. It’s hard to dismiss the research findings. It’s also hard to look at all the pubic figures eating this whole food plant base lifestyle, yet they look older than their age. Dean ornish is 68 in this interview, however to my eye he appears well into his 70s. The same goes for Dr Barnard and all the others.
A friend of mine had debilitating rheumatoid arthritis for a decade. She must have inherited it from her father. She required NSAID medication to control the symptoms. After two years on a plant-based diet, she's medication-free, symptom-free, lost weight, and can run 5 km, all at 51 years of age!
A fascinating way of explaining the benefits of meditation - not to bring us happiness, but to stop disturbing the peace and happiness that is already there, already within us.
Changing to a plant-based diet has helped my wife and I’s health. Afterwards we flushed out our clogged liver and gallbladder by doing “The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush” each month until we were stone free!
Imagine what an incredible loss to humanity it would have been if Dean Ornish had taken his life at 19 ? To anyone else out there struggling with suicidal thoughts please take note that you too could be a huge loss to humanity in the future for no-one can say the great you may come to achieve one fine day just like Dean.
Its a phantastic interview, so strong, so lifeschanging in every possible way and so filled with hope and radikal knowledge - Strange to know that it is still not used by “traditionalist medicine” - 🙏🦋🍀💚🐸
I would like to know what the meals are that are in the study. All these studies should have cookbooks with the individual serving sizes so we can follow too.
Was scrubbed in with a cardiologist yesterday doing a pacemaker implantation. Got to talking about the carnivore diet. He mentioned a couple physicians he knows who were quite fit and low risk for coronary disease. Both were doing the carnivore diet and wound up getting coronary bypass surgery. I know, just anecdotal, but is there anything remotely as consistently as beneficial as a Whole Foods plant based diet?
Dr. Ornish is an angel - thank you Doc for everything you taught me - I was able to help my mom live so much healthier for years and I tried to get her to you because western medicine didn’t believe her brain could recover. I bet you’re proving that wrong and I can’t wait til that goes public! xoxox
Absolutely wonderful podcast! Thank you so much for this interview with Dean Ornish. Can't wait to read his Undo It, which I just checked out of my local library! May you be blessed with this amazing work in healing our own bodies through lifestyle changes.
I saw this Dr. Thomas Seyfried go through a lot of great cancer info to then end with saying we evolved to eat meat and that plant based vegans are extremists and eating meat is part of who we are now. Can we get a podcast with this guy and one of our rockstar vegan doctors like Milton or Barnard? That would be interesting.
seems from the videos ive seen of Dr Ornish, a similar mechanism works for enlarged Prostate and even Prostate cancer. havent come across specific studies though.
I'd like to know about that 30% of patients in the Ornish study that had future cardiac problems: how many didn't really stay strict on the diet. I'd go out on a limb and suspect most, maybe even almost all of them weren't strict. I think there are so many more benefits to eating healthy than we know about now. I don't doubt a significant amount of disease isn't totally related to diet, but we've only touched the surface of what this superpower diet can do.
I think it would be helpful if you put the links for more information Re: this particular show right here on CZcams, rather than having people go to your website and take extra steps
I’ve passed your you tube video to three people that should really benefit from it . One person asked if the blood vessels naturally clean the plaque from the body with the diet is it more dangerous with all fat flowing round or will it naturally be excreted by the body and how does this happen
Watch some of Dr Esselstyn's videos, too. From reviewing that information, I'd say, yes, the body, safely, eliminates plaque from the arteries if you adhere to this way of eating as a lifestyle change.
Ive been listening for 40 minutes and have no idea what the protocol is. I love what Dr Ornish has done for health but he seems very stressed to me and listening to him stressed me out he went non stop so fast without a breath.
The man has had a difficult life. He, as so many orher progressive doctor's, has been accused of being a quack. Not everyone has perfect speaking skills. I love the content! He is amazing!
Thank you for another great interview.. I have been transitioning to a more WFPB eating, I was about 80-90%, then I did my annual labs.. and the great news is cholesterol is great (it was borderline); however my hgb (hemoglobin) is low again for the second time in my life..😞 I’m a healthy 52 year old trying to do the right thing for my body. Already went through menopause 3 years ago-naturally, don’t take any prescription meds. History of CVD in the family and my lp (a) marker is positive. What do people do to prevent this? It’s disheartening bc I eat a lot, and I mean a lot of beans, legumes, nuts. I’m caught between cholesterol or anemia..😭😭😭open to suggestions.. 🙏🏼
@@marly1869 Hi Marly, the powder that I use is called Greens Blend Superfood by Amazing Grass. My health coach recommended that one or something with chlorella which is really good for anemia. All greens are good for cholesterol. I started a plant based diet and cut off oil, friend, processed foods, sugar, etc. I've lost some weight and cut my triglycerides by half. As far as my anemia, I have a condition since starting perimenopause, so I am under treatment but I also take liquid iron. My levels are really low. At this point, I'm experimenting and trying to get healthy with different sources. 😊
Thank you Terry..🙏🏼🙏🏼 that’s good that you are working with a coach, I’m kinda my own experiment too..☺️ I will definitely look for that one. I’m about 90% WFPB now and very little oil/sugar, no fried or processed either. May your journey be blessed 🙏🏼💜
I am going to tell you the truth. I have been trying to do Whole Food Plant-Based for the past 3 years and I only lost maybe 10 pounds. What sucks is that my Keto friends did lose weight. They have really bad lab results, so I am not jealous of that part. But I really haven't succeeded in losing weight. I guess it is that I am not good at cooking, so I do things like eating Amy's non-dairy bean burritos every day for lunch. With a bag of Brad's Vampire killer kale chips. I don't do good serving sizes. The bag of kale chips is supposed to be 2 servings and I eat the whole thing. Not sure I will ever succeed but I don't have as bad labs as my thin Keto friends. (They both lost 100 pounds on keto while I lost only 10 or so pounds) My friend was at the ER last night and her doctor has said more than once that she has the worst labs he has ever seen and I asked what she eats and it was like bacon and cream.
Thanks for sharing your story- hope your friend is okay and they find the path to plants. we Also hope you'll join our free community where we have tons of recipes and other resources to help you find support and inspiration. You can learn more at community.plantstrong.com
@@Engine2PlantStrong Yes, I am praying for them to transition to plants. Gundry and Keto have scared them but this ER visit has one of them looking for information again. Thanks for being part of the inspiration movement.
@@wishingb5859 Amy's products and kale chips are high in saturated fat and oil as well as sodium. This may be slowing or blocking your weight loss efforts. It's really hard to lose weight when eating commercially produced foods; they are made to be super tasty and to stimulate the pleasure spots in the brain. Are you able to cook for yourself? Or heat up some bowls of simple foods like canned beans or chickpeas, frozen or precooked rice, and salsa? Rip's Seven Day Rescue book has lots of ideas for quick, easy, low prep meals that will help you feel fabulous, totally satisfied and full while losing weight. It may come off more slowly than those on keto, but it will be more lasting because you will be losing fat, not water or losing muscle mass. Good luck! You will feel and look amazing within s few weeks. Go for it!
I have worked in the medical field for 40 years. I have seen so many diabetics and hypertensive people "managed" by medications and their health gets worse and worse leading to inevitable outcome. Its rare if a doctor recommends plant based diets - even today. Many thanks to Rip Esselstyn, his father and Dr. Ornish for giving people are real self-help tool! I've been plant based for going on 6 years and vegan for over 10. I don't think I would be here if it wasn't for this diet. Thank you for this interview!
Please spread the word! Oh how I wish there was a medical practitioner in my area that followed this approach. I'm basically on my own, but doing very well :)
Would you not agree that Dr. Ornish should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology? It seems more than deserved at this point! It is truly fantastic that Medicare now covers the Ornish heart care program. Bravo to Dr. Ornish! And to Rip for having him as a breakthrough guest. Rice University must be really proud to have Dr. Ornish as an incredible alum! My grandfather was a member of Rice’s first class and would be really happy to learn about Dr. Ornish!
Go Owls!
Wow. Such a wonderful interview. Thank you.
In the comments there are frequent comments advocating for plantbased physicians or research scientists to receive the nobel prize.
I was keto for probably 5 years, and I liked it ~ felt good, lost weight.
But began to have cardiac issues, so I’m switching to the Ornish Program.
I was ketovore for 3 years. Felt good. Lost weight. Then began getting respiratory infections, flu, pneumonia. A lot! My immunity is compromised. Am going plant based. I need to rebuild my immunity!
My only regret is that I cannot super like this content . Thank you both for such valuable information. I thought I was doomed to a life with diabetes like most of my family until I found about a plant based lifestyle. Thank you so much for this message of hope.
@@danacaro-herman3530 I think he means that he can click the "like" button but there is no "super like" button
@@kingofmaine9896 Yes, I reread what he wrote sometimes I'm not the brightest bulb on the string😂
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@@danacaro-herman3530 i had to re-read it like 3 or 4 times to finally have the AHA moment.
don't worry - I'll cry the tears for those million likes you could've given this video
Dean Ornish book was 1990. Keep learning and keep healthy. God blessings. His book changed my surgical practice since1996 and my willingness to change my life .
I love this so much! I remember Dr. Ornish from long ago and I’ve gotten away from his teaching. I’m laying here with COVID and want to get healthy! One problem I’ve always had is that I read everything but don’t act on it but I’m getting a wake up call!!! Thank You!
God be with you and heal you! 🙏✌💜
Praying for you Patricia, health and well-being to you return!
Hope you are feeling better Patricia!
@Patricia Cook. Same here!! God bless and feel better 🙏
I do the rereading and hope it keeps me locked into the program. I haven't read his book but I watch his and many other videos fairly often, and I will search for new videos, such as on you tube search for 'whole food plant based or 'wfpb' and search in the last 1 month or so. I bookmarked my favorites so i go through them.
I was expecting a great conversation. I was NOT prepared for the jaw-dropping candid interview that came out of this video!! Wow! If it hadn't been for Dr. Ornish's own honesty and willingness to confront his own self-doubts, he may never have become the fearless and courageous investigator who spearheaded an entire health recovery movement! The ironies of life. Fantastic podcast! Please keep them coming.
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When I was a new employee at Highmark BCBS in 1998 Dean Ornish came to talk to employees .... I will never forget a fellow employee stood up and thanked Dr.Ornish for saving her Father life. His heart was so diseased that his angina was so bad he couldn't walk 10 feet. After going through the program he was able to walk normally. His heart disease was CURED! God bless Dean Ornish!
Here’s my testimony: I am a Survivor: Covid hit me July, 2021.
Just 2 1/2 months prior, I had switched to a Vegan diet, lost 17 pounds, more energy, better
sleep, ya-dah-ya-dah.
Wednesday July 14th I attended a neighbor’s funeral (not Covid), I came home so fatigued I slept the rest of the day, didn’t feel like eating. I repeated this for 3 more days, woke up on the 4th evening a little hungry, ate a bowl of oatmeal, and bounced right back. Not bad for a diabetic, cancer survivor, quintuple bypass surgery, with HITT complications survivor.!
Yes, I’m an advocate for “Plant Strong” Lifestyle! 🎉🎉🎉
@jacquelyn hill - YOU GO, GIRL!!!
@jacqueline hill. God bless you Jill. Please say a prayer for me, I have pulmonary sarcoidosis,asthma, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis and hypothyroidism. I'm almost 53 years old.🙏
Come on Dana you can do it ,,
@@lynlawley8903 Thank you Lyn. God bless you dear🙏
Gratz on survival. I just heard on the Twiv virology podcast that diabetes is the big risk factor. You are a real survivor. It is a distinct pleasure to hear your story as it and those of many others keep me on the path. I joked with my brother and his family when I visited, pointing out the dishes I consider 'food poison'. I stopped after awhile but I wanted them to know the mindset I use, based on the Mcdougall diet, to stay strong, and avoid moderation of the unhealthy foods.
I love the phrase “ when you change your Life style you change your genes” its really a way to optimize life 💜🦋
So grateful for you Rip, Dr.Ornish, Dr.Esselstyn and all the doctors that have taken on medicine that treats the "cause" and not the "symptoms". Over the years I have I have asked many doctors if there is any way to find out what is causing my problem??? ... silence... they didn't like that question 😕.
I am now "doing" the plant based lifestyle and loving it. I am determined to reverse my diabetes... thanks to you and your whole family I know I'm on the right path now. I made it to 78 so my new lifestyle should take me a bit further 🤞💜
I'm in tears.. I'm so grateful 🙏 your still here. I appreciate you and so many more people. I feel you all support me in my new jour ey of plant base living.. many blessings to you all. Thank you
Great interview. You both are fine role models for this world. Thank you for everything you do to help decrease our sick people.
Thank you so much!
AMAZINGGGGG! What a deep and profound gratitude I have for Dr Ornish. His and Anne's book, Undo It!, is simply wonderful. A thank you is soooo inadequate...Dr Ornish, you have changed the world and everything in it by opening our eyes to how we can save ourselves, the animals, and the planet. Thank you, Rip, for this stellar platform and all that you and your family do...again, no words are enough for the Esselstyn family either. HUGS!
Just for the record - I believe the book this person's talking about is the UnDo It! book
Survived a Widowmaker at 43 in Poland.... They saved my life. I recovered but still minor issues here and there. Exercise always and light weights does the trick. Didn't really change my diet.... 57 now and it's trying to catch up to me with angina and arythmias. 5 years of high cholesterol and LDL did it. I saw your dad's video and then both you and Dr. Ornish's. Bought your dad's and your book and went plant based on 13 Jan cold turkey. I am going to knock this out once and for all. I'm remarkably better already after 2 1/2 weeks. I want my life back and with your help I should get there. Finally something to really beat this! 20 plus years of eating poorly around the world with the military.... I have the dedication so I should be fine once through this hurdle.
How are you now on the diet? Have a cholesterol test? It's always great to hear about people who dropped their cholesterol by about 80 points :-)
@@RiDankulous I’m doing way better And still going on the diet. Cholesterol went from 234/177 LDL down to 133/70 in 6 weeks!
@@robertkane4438 Thanks so much for telling your cholesterol numbers! That is better than I did in total drop. I went from 210 total cholesterol to 125, went from 120 to 75.
Glad you joined the whole food-plant based team!
The most down to earth Dr ...pioneer in life style as Medicine & plant base diet ...Admire him and learn fr him alots ..
Thanks for another Great interview. As a newly converted Whole Foods Plant base physician I am more excited to be in medicine than I have been in 30 years. Thank you Dean, I wish I had known about you 20 years ago.
Welcome aboard. I hope you can convert your fellow health care workers.
Oh how as a nurse, healthy living coach, I wish I would have heard this months ago. I live close to Black mountain & would have loved to have attended.
The magic message is simply “the same life style chages can prevent and even reverse the chronic life style diseases. “ This is a wonderfull message that everybody should know. I wish I had known it Long ago, but better late than never - I am 80 and I have reversed my rheumatoid arthritis and I feel deep joy and hope for this research and the honouring of all life and planet Earth. 🙏for sharing this magic life changing message
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THX !!! Dr Ornish, you are a true pioneering hero. Will be sharing this interview. We get prayer requests DAILY for people having heart issues, high BP, etc. At this point I almost am annoyed when these folks won't consider food to be the culprit. Last church breakfast featured ham, bacon & sausage, links & patties, biscuits & gravy !!! Also eggs, pancakes & frozen waffles. On my behalf they had a bowl of fruit lol. It's like putting water in your car and wondering why it won't run, or standing on the interstate and then wondering why you keep getting hit by cars.
It can be hard to stay joyful when people are ignoring the obvious. It's likely folks are taking notice of your quiet example. You may be surprised at the impact your choices are having on those around you.
Have been plant strong for over nine years. Never looked back.
Dr dean ornish and Dr esselyne both great are great .leaving normal medical practice they preferred to serve humanity . our regards to two most compassionate doctors. Dr nasir
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This was incredible. One of the best interviews. Very enlightening, inspiring, and entertaining!! Thank you so much!! 👏
Our pleasure!
These people are doing great service to humanity.
Rip, can you please pass my thanks to your father for his book on making someone 'Heart Attack Proof'.
In April last year I broke a shoulder, and had a heart attack on a Bank Holiday, so because of the time in the UK I couldn't get a cab, a lift and had to physically walk 9 miles to hospital during a cardiac event. Needless to say I made it, spent 4 days in hospital, but when I had my angiogram, the surgeon who examined my heart couldn't believe how I managed to get to hospital and more astonishingly he remarked in front of all the staff in the theatre that they should look at the monitor of the camera of my heart as they will see the inside of my heart and it maybe the only case they see in their entire medical career.
In short I didn't do any damage to my heart, which the surgeon found amazing so I spent some time with him and explained how I managed the feat and the science involved by pumping more of the correct gases through the system to scrub the arteries clean. The source for the science was of course your fathers book, and I passed on the information to the cardiac team and I'm now a 'lab rat' to see how a cardiac department can get patients to do something to improve themselves as I clearly managed.
I spent 4 days in hospital on a cardiac ward and was the only one not to be sent for surgery to have a stent fitted, though I was scheduled for the surgery until my angiogram! I was discharged from hospital later that day with the staff in complete disbelief!
It's about a good as a testimonial for eating a lot of broccoli as one can get, and it's verifiable and 100% true.
There's now a cardiac team in the UK and one surgeon in particular who was amazed what a patient achieved as a result from dietary changes!
Wow! We have shared your story with the Esselstyn family. Thanks for posting and wishing you continued health in the years ahead!
Oh my gosh, the prospect of seeing good video that helps me understand what Alzheimer's patients go through and then just see them get better and have hope! That's going to be a great thing to see. Thank you Dr Ornish! ❤️
I love that email you read. Makes me excited to hear real people talk about how it works.
One of the most important points, and this should be a pinned comment is: that Medicare now pays for it.
Dr. Dean Ornish was able to get Medicare to pay for people to become well, by using his programs, throughout the united states. It’s important to Find where in your area his program is being offered, so that your loved ones, including yourself, can become well, regain vitality, and live joyfully. Best wishes everyone.
Thank you both. I love this I’m 77 no medications I was sick 35 I had a total hysterectomy due to an IUD, and I changed my whole life and I didn’t listen to doctors anymore
This is great. MY dad is currently in hspital with heart disease, and this is one of the many episodes that he has had be admitted to hspital. Pills and pills not helping and off course his diet. Im trying to find a doctor in Portugal or Europe that can explain to my family the benefits and that he can be cured with this diet.
@@nilza3263 hi! just in case it helps with your family, how not to die from heart disease:
czcams.com/video/LXigmGZk5FU/video.html
keep trying to get them healthy! maybe one day they find someone they resonate with and go along...
Smart lady! I have concluded that those so-called wellness checks are just a reason to make money from invasive tests. Sounds like you're doing great without all of that nonsense. Keep up the good work!
Thanks to you both, but of course also acknowledging/thanks to your team of helpers and makers on all matters of technical and family support!
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Went plant base 1 week ago after a CT calcium score of 549 which is terrible. I'm 53 workout all the time and am only 12% body fat with perfect blood pressure and fasting insulin. My A1c was 5.0 HDL 90 LDL 120 and low triglyceride of 65 and still have heart disease. I was upset with results of calcium score but I'm so happy I have a solution.
Congratulations on taking the steps to get screened and to now get in the driver seat to reverse your heart disease. YOU CAN DO IT. Pick up a copy of Dr. Esselsyn's book, Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease at any bookstore or library, and Rip's book, The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet. Packed with data and recipes - they have all you need to kick heart disease to the curb!
Try D3 and K2
Another excellent video! Thank you for all your contributions Dr. Ornish and to you Rip for keeping us informed.
Absolutely amazing interview! I'm so pumped about the Alzheimer's Study.
Dr. Ornish is amazing and inspirational. So thankful to him for his work and his tenacity. Thanks to Plantstrong for highlighting his work in this podcast. ❤
I have done a ketogenic diet and lost weight short term, only to gain most of it back. And my cravings for junk food only increased. I listened to this entire interview while doing dishes and cooking supper.
When I finish eating, I will be cleaning out my cupboards and refrigerator. My guard feline will be the meat eater here. Thank you!
Way to go, Lynne! YOU CAN DO IT! If you need recipes, resources and support, join our free community here: community.plantstrong.com
I found that I’m really not interested any more in junk food, or cheese, or all other sorts of rubbish. My taste buds have definitely changed and I enjoy eating well so much.
Thank you! As a wellness coach,yogi and advocate for our health just grateful to you two for never giving up and I am with you ! ❤️🌱🧘♀️❤️
YAAAS. I am so excited about watching this today! Thank you both! (just got the notification haha wanted to thank you both in advance for the time and effort of putting this together!)
Thank you so much for that amazing interview with Dr. Ornish and thank you Dr.Ornish for the life changing research and willingness to share it so clearly. Peace and blessings to you and your family Thank you.
Pioneer. Tireless visionary brilliant mind and manifester. God speed.
This interview was EXCELLENT! Thanks for letting Dr. Ornish actually talk. You're an excellent interviewer Rip!
Thanks for interviewing the great Dean Ornish. As far as advertising is concerned, I do believe, like Dean Ornish, that much of the world view of many people is shaped by advertising. In going whole food-plant based, I realized how powerful the food commercials are. They me hungry on the spot. I cut back on programs and media that have advertising and one thing I did to avoid (at least at first) was to take driving routes which don't have my favorite fast food restaurant. I don't watch standard television any longer and I believe that's the biggest change. I also am careful with excessive advertising at times on radio and the internet. I think it helped me quite a bit and not just on food. I'll skip videos of specific topics, including excessive over-consumption, war, violence, vulgarity for example, because it's real easy to get inundated with it if not careful. What we see everyday, and not just advertising, shapes us. Bad friends can shape us and our activities. There are good people as friends who can help keep the right behavior patterns and worldview. As it concerns general mental health, I am very careful about following current events.
I have been food tempted a little bit when visiting family, but driving by restaurants can't get me now, especially when I can readily get some fruit or have some. Edit: spelling
Thanks for sharing, Joe. These are incredibly helpful insights and we are certain many will appreciate and benefit from your experience. Congratulations on identifying hurdles that have tripped you up in the past. Glad you are doing well! If you need recipes, resources and support, join our free community at : community.plantstrong.com
absolutely a real treat. Thank you for hosting the absolute legend. An inspiration to many. I'm here from Physician's Committee - Dr. Barnard keeps mentioning his influence.
Wonderful interview 👍🏼thank you as always Rip
Great podcast. So empowering. Huge thanks.
Oh my gosh, this is my first time listening to this podcast but the intro is so amazing I'm blown away, it was literally like poetry about how the world could be and what we should all aspire too, seriously I paused the vid to write this out. Omg it was so great I'm not even joking😭😂
Thank you for such kind feedback! Glad you enjoyed (and found us!). =)
My chest pain goes away....mine did too!
An increase in Whole foods & Plant Based foods for a year. No junk food, allot less processed foods, very little red meat, chicken, fish, cheese, eggs, milk and returned to Brock University and started exercising again. Three times a week....20 minutes on the Treadmill, 20 minutes on the Stationary bicycle and 20 minutes jogging. Blood Pressure is way down....120/60. Heart rate standing is 50 BPM. Lost 25 pounds. Eye sight is improving, hearing is better, short and long term memory is improving. I want more......Mr. Phillips - Canada - retired
IS CHICKEN AND EGG AND FISH ARE GOOD?
Wow, just listening to Dr. Dean's intro and already mind-blown. So appreciate your sharing this journey.
Great topic, content and format. Thank you.
Interesting and very frank opening with Dr. Ornish. Meditation played a significant role in his transition to a healthy life along with his nutritional revelations on the plant based diet.
Thanks again to get to hear the interview of such a legend 🙌 Dr Dean orinish
You guys really are the real rockstars! Great interview.
I been recommending Undo It to pretty much everyone i run into for years now :)
Got a hard copy for my father as well. :D
I think the biggest tidbit to make it all work for me was to get the 10-20% fat from whole foods while eating all plantbased. I counted the macronutrients and ate enough sunflower seeds or walnuts to account for the fats and suddenly i felt amazing on this lifestyle. Liquid iodine supplements help too :p
Many people feel very bad on wholefood plant based diet simply because they do not get enough seeds in through the day. Add a few handful of seeds to whatever they were eating and suddenly weakness and mental fogginess goes away :)
I don’t doubt what you are experiencing, I’m on a whole food plant based diet and eat very little seeds, nuts and high fat food and I feel great but everyone is different. If they ever do a study saying your lifestyle works for someone like me than I’m in.
I appreciate all the info, research, and dedication to changing peoples lives. It’s hard to dismiss the research findings. It’s also hard to look at all the pubic figures eating this whole food plant base lifestyle, yet they look older than their age. Dean ornish is 68 in this interview, however to my eye he appears well into his 70s. The same goes for Dr Barnard and all the others.
Never can get enough of Dr. Dean Ornish. ❤
Can I get on his Christmas card list? 😂
A friend of mine had debilitating rheumatoid arthritis for a decade. She must have inherited it from her father. She required NSAID medication to control the symptoms. After two years on a plant-based diet, she's medication-free, symptom-free, lost weight, and can run 5 km, all at 51 years of age!
A fascinating way of explaining the benefits of meditation - not to bring us happiness, but to stop disturbing the peace and happiness that is already there, already within us.
Just ordered your book on Amazon eager to go all in hope it helps 🙏
Changing to a plant-based diet has helped my wife and I’s health. Afterwards we flushed out our clogged liver and gallbladder by doing “The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush” each month until we were stone free!
Plant based diet, Meditation. I have been doing for
5 year. I feel amazed. Love from Pakistan.
Wow! So much more than I was expecting...
@A. Miller. Yes, I thought so too until he mentioned the poison death💉
Imagine what an incredible loss to humanity it would have been if Dean Ornish had taken his life at 19 ? To anyone else out there struggling with suicidal thoughts please take note that you too could be a huge loss to humanity in the future for no-one can say the great you may come to achieve one fine day just like Dean.
Thank you for adding this!
Its a phantastic interview, so strong, so lifeschanging in every possible way and so filled with hope and radikal knowledge - Strange to know that it is still not used by “traditionalist medicine” - 🙏🦋🍀💚🐸
Thank you. This is beautiful.
22 min in and still waiting for the autobiography to end. Just get to the information already
Doctors on CZcams and there are many promoting a carnivore diet is a great disservice to all human beings!
This was amazing. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
New to the channel. Loving it!
Welcome aboard!
I have frontal lobe dementia and have been on a whole food plant diet including sprouts for over 10 years and couldn't imagine getting it
I would like to know what the meals are that are in the study. All these studies should have cookbooks with the individual serving sizes so we can follow too.
Hope lots of people watch this!
Thank you!
Was scrubbed in with a cardiologist yesterday doing a pacemaker implantation. Got to talking about the carnivore diet. He mentioned a couple physicians he knows who were quite fit and low risk for coronary disease. Both were doing the carnivore diet and wound up getting coronary bypass surgery. I know, just anecdotal, but is there anything remotely as consistently as beneficial as a Whole Foods plant based diet?
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Dr. Ornish is an angel - thank you Doc for everything you taught me - I was able to help my mom live so much healthier for years and I tried to get her to you because western medicine didn’t believe her brain could recover. I bet you’re proving that wrong and I can’t wait til that goes public! xoxox
~ 12:00 ‘ Meditation & Yoga, etc - don’t bring peace but stop the disturbance of peace ‘
That’s interesting 👍
another legend
The Alzheimer and Prostate studies being documented sound fascinating!
How beautifully ironic that Dr. Ornish offers a firehose of information to Rip. I am trying to keep up.
Absolutely wonderful podcast! Thank you so much for this interview with Dean Ornish. Can't wait to read his Undo It, which I just checked out of my local library! May you be blessed with this amazing work in healing our own bodies through lifestyle changes.
I saw this Dr. Thomas Seyfried go through a lot of great cancer info to then end with saying we evolved to eat meat and that plant based vegans are extremists and eating meat is part of who we are now.
Can we get a podcast with this guy and one of our rockstar vegan doctors like Milton or Barnard?
That would be interesting.
Whoa! What an incredible fact about Cameron and the Avatar super-production!
seems from the videos ive seen of Dr Ornish, a similar mechanism works for enlarged Prostate and even Prostate cancer. havent come across specific studies though.
I'd like to know about that 30% of patients in the Ornish study that had future cardiac problems: how many didn't really stay strict on the diet. I'd go out on a limb and suspect most, maybe even almost all of them weren't strict. I think there are so many more benefits to eating healthy than we know about now. I don't doubt a significant amount of disease isn't totally related to diet, but we've only touched the surface of what this superpower diet can do.
Is there a link to the British Medical Journal Study for a plant based diet and CoVid?
Excellent
I think it would be helpful if you put the links for more information Re: this particular show right here on CZcams, rather than having people go to your website and take extra steps
Just got the buy one get one daily optimal multivitamin chewables and I love them 🙏🏼 very high quality and for that great price
Could you put the 4 items in point form with the time stamp for each? 🙏🏼
I think he said Eat well. move more, stress less and love more..👍🏼
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When you are talking about heart disease, does it include afib or just CAD?
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I’ve passed your you tube video to three people that should really benefit from it .
One person asked if the blood vessels naturally clean the plaque from the body with the diet is it more dangerous with all fat flowing round or will it naturally be excreted by the body and how does this happen
Watch some of Dr Esselstyn's videos, too. From reviewing that information, I'd say, yes, the body, safely, eliminates plaque from the arteries if you adhere to this way of eating as a lifestyle change.
Ive been listening for 40 minutes and have no idea what the protocol is. I love what Dr Ornish has done for health but he seems very stressed to me and listening to him stressed me out he went non stop so fast without a breath.
I fixed that for myself by going to settings in upper right corner of video and changing the speed. Slowed him down and was able to listen and absorb.
The man has had a difficult life. He, as so many orher progressive doctor's, has been accused of being a quack. Not everyone has perfect speaking skills. I love the content! He is amazing!
I’m confused how Medicare and other insurance cover this......how does it work?.......thank you
Would the Ornish Plan help autoimmune?
Thank you for another great interview.. I have been transitioning to a more WFPB eating, I was about 80-90%, then I did my annual labs.. and the great news is cholesterol is great (it was borderline); however my hgb (hemoglobin) is low again for the second time in my life..😞 I’m a healthy 52 year old trying to do the right thing for my body. Already went through menopause 3 years ago-naturally, don’t take any prescription meds. History of CVD in the family and my lp (a) marker is positive. What do people do to prevent this? It’s disheartening bc I eat a lot, and I mean a lot of beans, legumes, nuts. I’m caught between cholesterol or anemia..😭😭😭open to suggestions.. 🙏🏼
Me too! I started a super clean green powder in hopes to get my anemia levels up with smoothies too.
Hi Terry, thank you for sharing your comment 😊 would you mind sharing what smoothie or powder you use and what made you choose it?
@@marly1869 Hi Marly, the powder that I use is called Greens Blend Superfood by Amazing Grass. My health coach recommended that one or something with chlorella which is really good for anemia. All greens are good for cholesterol. I started a plant based diet and cut off oil, friend, processed foods, sugar, etc. I've lost some weight and cut my triglycerides by half. As far as my anemia, I have a condition since starting perimenopause, so I am under treatment but I also take liquid iron. My levels are really low. At this point, I'm experimenting and trying to get healthy with different sources. 😊
Thank you Terry..🙏🏼🙏🏼 that’s good that you are working with a coach, I’m kinda my own experiment too..☺️ I will definitely look for that one. I’m about 90% WFPB now and very little oil/sugar, no fried or processed either.
May your journey be blessed 🙏🏼💜
@@marly1869 thank you so much Marly. You as well. 😊😇🧡
What type of vitamin d for winter? What about omega 3?
Dean Ornish for Nobel ❤
I am going to tell you the truth. I have been trying to do Whole Food Plant-Based for the past 3 years and I only lost maybe 10 pounds. What sucks is that my Keto friends did lose weight. They have really bad lab results, so I am not jealous of that part. But I really haven't succeeded in losing weight. I guess it is that I am not good at cooking, so I do things like eating Amy's non-dairy bean burritos every day for lunch. With a bag of Brad's Vampire killer kale chips. I don't do good serving sizes. The bag of kale chips is supposed to be 2 servings and I eat the whole thing. Not sure I will ever succeed but I don't have as bad labs as my thin Keto friends. (They both lost 100 pounds on keto while I lost only 10 or so pounds) My friend was at the ER last night and her doctor has said more than once that she has the worst labs he has ever seen and I asked what she eats and it was like bacon and cream.
Thanks for sharing your story- hope your friend is okay and they find the path to plants. we Also hope you'll join our free community where we have tons of recipes and other resources to help you find support and inspiration. You can learn more at community.plantstrong.com
@@Engine2PlantStrong Yes, I am praying for them to transition to plants. Gundry and Keto have scared them but this ER visit has one of them looking for information again. Thanks for being part of the inspiration movement.
@@wishingb5859 Amy's products and kale chips are high in saturated fat and oil as well as sodium. This may be slowing or blocking your weight loss efforts. It's really hard to lose weight when eating commercially produced foods; they are made to be super tasty and to stimulate the pleasure spots in the brain. Are you able to cook for yourself? Or heat up some bowls of simple foods like canned beans or chickpeas, frozen or precooked rice, and salsa? Rip's Seven Day Rescue book has lots of ideas for quick, easy, low prep meals that will help you feel fabulous, totally satisfied and full while losing weight. It may come off more slowly than those on keto, but it will be more lasting because you will be losing fat, not water or losing muscle mass. Good luck! You will feel and look amazing within s few weeks. Go for it!
@@karena.627 The kale chips say no oil and zero saturated fat. 5 grams fat - so that would be 10 grams fat 140 calories per bag.
@@karena.627 The non dairy burrito has 8 grams fat, 1 gram of that is saturated fat. 320 calories.
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