I'm 83, and have been on this path for about 40 years. No one is perfect, so I've been through that time when I took back dairy, got sick, and fat, and had to make the decision to go back to 100% plant based. I lost my mom to colon cancer and decided that I'd never eat anything that didn't grow from the ground. Thank you, Dr. Barnard for all this information, and to you, Chuck, for hosting the interviews.
A dear friend buys Coconut oil for my kitchen every time she visits from California. I live in the Mediterranean. With all this oil around, I began using it as a hand and foot moisturizer as I hate to have it wasted.
@@vascom3 Well, then look at the science. The vast majority of studies on olive oil shows that it is very healthful. There is zero proof that it is bad for you.
@@gardenofeels6872 that's a pretty big fat claim you've got there, while you contradict yourself. hahaha, hilarious really. did you even watch the video? hopefully you're not giving any nutrition advice but to yourself.
@@vascom3 There's a huge difference between an anecdote and example, and I'm pretty sure Darlene is using her grandparents as an example. You would do well to get the overused and confused word 'anecdote' out of your vocabulary.
I can confirm that cholesterol levels can be significantly reduced on a plant-based diet. After a 7 week trial, my numbers came down to normal levels. Ttl Chol:148 from 277. LDL down to 92 from 158. I will continue on with this new lifestyle.
Can we take a minute to appreciate that Dr. Barnard is still answering questions like “Is olive oil healthy?” even after all these years? I swear if someone’s asking “Where do vegans get their protein?”, He’d be answering it patiently for the 50th time, too! 😂😍✨
That's the idea of FAQ.... any person just discovering this lifestyle will have these questions. And tomorrow the next persons wanting to go plant based will have these questions. Next year newcomers will have these questions. I think it is even good to hear this repeated no matter how long you are plant based. Spaced repetition, best way to memorise and learn.
There are people out there who still think that oil is healthy. When coconut oil first become a big craze, it makes most of us here in coconut land of Indonesia’s jaws drop all the way to the floor. We’ve known for years it’s great in hair & on skin but terrible for cholesterol & arteries. But then again we’re a nation of oil eater aka deep fried food eaters despite the fact it would one day kill us😂😂😂
He's an international treasure. I'm from Australia and have been watching these PCRM videos, and they are so informative and valuable. Thank God he set up PCRM all those years ago - they do amazing work, and have saved countless lives. And the message is getting through, as the increase in the number of vegans seems to be speeding up.
Thank you so much for the important information! I’m on the Plant Based Diet now for one year - I have never felt better! :) and I have a new convert: my daughter. She is losing weight, her last blood test was excellent. So thank you again for steering us in the right direction … 🌿
I cut out all added sugar and grain, upped my fat intake, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, and some saturated fat in meats. Since then, I have been losing weight without even trying, also clearing up issues I had with my stomach.
Dr. B, you changed my life these past couple of weeks!!! You are so informative and you explain the biology of how food effects your body organs and or lab results.
I feel way better on vegan diet. Wish I'd known years ago. I had endometriosis, breast cancer & 2 hip replacements. My prior diet almost killed me but I wasn't overweight.
Good morning Chuck & Dr. Barnard, thank you kindly for this information, I take one tablespoon of olive oil every morning, been doing it for over 20 years, never had no problems with constipation or skin wrinkles or dry skin. I will never stop using this. Very good for the system.
These talks offer a constant reminder and motivation to keep my food cleaner than would otherwise happen. Thanks for your diligence and Dr Barnard's expertise!
For arthritis he should try never to have more that one nightshade at a time. Nightshades are plants that include tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines, capsicums and chilli peppers (tobacco is also a nightshade). I have found that having a meal which includes two or more of these can cause arthritis to flare - although I can have just a baked potato with beans and be fine or just a little canned tomato incorporated into a pasta sauce ; however that is just me - maybe try eliminating them altogether and then reintroducing slowly, one at a time to see what happens.
I would LOVE to see an episode or two about plant based diet and pregnancy and postpartum!! Especially when diagnosed with gestational diabetes! I started plant based diet with my last pregnancy and had a difficult time getting my midwife on board but my baby came perfectly and she was born literally 5 minutes after my midwives arrived! My easiest birth by FAR! 🙌👏
Thank you!! She is a complete joy! I am so excited to have the knowledge now to start her out on foods completely healthy and nutritious! ❤️❤️ My husband and all my kiddos eat a whole food plant based diet now and are doing wonderfully!! ❤️🙌 My husband has been able to waaayy exceed his previous "records" in bike riding and in general exercise! The endurance is REAL! 🤯👏
Was Vegan my 2 pregnancies, my kids perfectly fine. Gained minimal weight snd was back to my pre-pregnancy weight by 9 months!! Been Vegan for 14 yrs 🙌🙌🙌 Plus no epidural, no tears 🤩🤩🙌 best thing ever!! Breastfed to 15 and 12 months with no problem with milk production!!
Surprised you’re not stressing organic and non-gmo . What’s the point of going on the diet if we are ingesting roundup. I’ve gone mostly raw and have changed my health for the better drastically. My cholesterol lowered in 2 weeks! I have a low white blood count. Thank you for normalizing it. I don’t have any inflammation because I’m on this diet.
Please don't take any advice from people in the chat. They are disagreeing with Dr Barnard and saying olive oil is good and that Dr Barnard is wrong. DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. Listen to an expert rather than another listener
If this works for you--great, but don't tell other people they are wrong. There's a lot of information that completely contradicts what this doctor is saying that fats are bad.
Several highly qualified and distinguished doctors and medical professors contradict Dr. Barnard. Listen to both sides , ask for the RCT from both sides, get your labs done after trying each method and make up your own mind.
Thank-you so much, Dr Barnard, and Chuck!! What are the SAFEST brands of RICE, that have the LEAST AMOUNT OF ARSENIC? (All rice has ARSENIC, so how much may we eat?? ) How do we get rid of ARSENIC in our bodies, and are there foods we can eat, that may counteract or reduce the daily and yearly accumulation of eating ARSENIC-laden RICE, (already in our bodies,) such as cilantro, garlic?? Thank-you, I hope Dr BARNARD or his team may be able to answer these questions, esp since Dr Barnard often recommends eating rice...
I have heard Lundberg brand is a good choice b/c it is grown in California. Have also heard to cook it similar to pasta and that helps get rid of some of the arsenic.
No, never. The water to rice ratio should never be more than 1.5 to 1. More than that and it is awful. I would rather never eat rice again than to cook it with more water than that.
@@dj-fe4ck Your Suppose to SOAK The Rice for approx 20 mins (forgot how long exactly) n RINSE a FEW TIMES BEFORE Cooking it...helps REDUCE ARSENIC...GOOGLES IT...THX!
Move to Europe. Arsenic & rice only allowed in the USA. Eggs with their natural protection washed off, so with increased salmonella risk, only in the USA, forbidden elsewhere. So many food people in the US have to be wary of because of the use of food processing methods and chemicals that are forbidden in many parts of the world.
I dropped statin (Lipitor) after reading all the negatives and my glucose level dropped to less than it was 7 years ago when I 1st started testing even though I was already mostly plant based!
Thanks for this service. Dr Barnard is a gem. We appreciate Dean Ornish’s contribution to our understanding about CVD issues, but why is Nathan Pritikin never mentioned? He was possibly the first to reverse heart disease when he was told repeatedly that reversal was impossible, and included exercise when advised not to because it would probably kill him. We also owe a lot of our knowledge to him and many owe increased life in years and health to him. He also funded his study himself because no one else would fund such “impossible” ideas. I find it sad that he is given little/no credit these days.
The reason Pritikin is rarely mentioned by vegans is because he developed two different types of cancer at a relatively young age on a low -fat vegan diet. He ended up killing himself because of the pain of the cancers. I would hardly call that a good example of great health on a vegan diet. He is the last person advocates of a low-fat vegan diet want to talk about.
@@gardenofeels6872 Yes, he did develop cancer, but as I understand it the cancer was due to exposure to certain chemicals during the war. None of the vegan doctors ever say that a healthy vegan diet will protect from all ills, just reduce the risk.
@@gardenofeels6872 , Pritikin did not develop the cancers because of a vegan diet, but despite it. I suspect the problem was that it wasn't a whole foods diet but relied heavily on processed foods. I tried the diet years ago and so many recipes contained canned this and canned that, so the diet was frankly nutritionally deficient - especially their extreme, ultra low calories version. Since then, it's been recognised that refined and processed foods are a problem whether people are omnivores, keto or vegan followers. So the key is to eat the majority of foods whole or minimally processed, and include enough fresh produce. If Pritikin was relying on too much processed foods, he wasn't getting enough of the protective factors from fruit and vegs. He was a pioneer, finding his way, and that means making mistakes. Later researchers and vegan proponents have learned from these mistakes, and these days the best sources urge people to minimise processed foods.
@@citadelofwinds1564 I never said Pritikin got cancer because of the vegan diet, but it surely did not protect him from cancer either. I remember seeing interviews he did and he claimed to eat a pretty much whole foods plant diet. He was especially fond of whole grains. But his main claim to fame was the miniscule amount of fat in the diet he recommended. Neither you nor I really know how much processed foods he ate as opposed to whole foods. We only have his words and his books. His recipes weren't necessarily what he was eating himself, but rather an attempt to make his diet easier to follow. All we can do is speculate. One thing I do know. Fat is a very important macro nutrient, and your immune system will ultimately fail with too little of it. That is one of the reasons for the high vegan failure rate.
@@gardenofeels6872 cancer is caused by multi environmental variables that can switch on or off a gene. Fat is important but it's not that important. An apple contains saturated fat so does a lettuce but the amounts are miniscule. You don't actually need very much even when keeping calorie density low. So by avoiding high calorie density foods you can get enough to ensure hormones function properly.
Dr Bernard you need to do gentle neck exercises to strengthen your sternocleidomastoids, levator scapulae, trapezius, and your platysma. Your neck is too thin.
I’m over eighty I can’t face vegan meals . I don’t like pulses or grains. I have solve the problem by making liquidised soups and smoothies . I’m 95% vegan for concern for animals. I’m a lifelong vegetarian. If you are old and sick as I have been try soups and smoothies. They are easy to prepare, give you concentrated nutrition and are easy to digest.
Honestly listening to this guy really tells me one thing. Its different for everyone, ive lost alot of weight while eating avocados, i was killing it the gym at the same time tho, just eating stuff will never start weight loss without some extra work
Not only that it's different, but there isn't much depth honestly eating healthy is very hard, i'm on a information binge right now about sugars right now, but overall I here alot of oils when cooking isn't the best but olive oil as a tbsp or on some salad good now I don't know if this doctor is specially talking about losing weight but they're many benefits to olive oil. Like the high polyphenol content in it
@@tlallas What you pay for is irrelevant in this matter. Companies should not be mislabeling it as such if the contents are adulterated with other types of oils. You are clearly gullible to fraudsters that convince you to pay more for their un-corruption.
I found a non stick pan that my family have not touched for so long and I have been sautéing my food with it without any oil and oddly enough, the pan works so much better than I remember. It is much easier to sauté without oil or butter even than I Imagined, and it’s even crazier because I thought the pan I was using was ruined for years. I just think I was using it wrong.
So for diabetics, they certainly should lower carbs intake as much as possible. And if they cut down fat as the doctor suggested, what do they eat? Protein is the only thing left but you know you cannot do protein too much neither.
Gosh Dr. Barnard. I have learnt so much from you this year. Life changing advice as always. I feel like you’re my actual doctor. Thank you PCRM, Chuck and Dr Barnard for these mail bag episodes.
It seems crazy that we’re questioning whether or not to have an avocado because of a potential weight concern. I think we can get caught trying to be too perfect.
I heard dr Gundry saying eat as much as you can of olive oil ,my question is does not he contradict other doctors abut the olives oil ?like you dr Barnard ,Esselstyn and dr Gregor,please I want to hear an explanation,Thank you in advance .
Solomon chula Nzano BEING A KENYAN IAM VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN OLIVE OIL HEALTHY IN KENYA REPUBLIC TAITA TAVETA COUNTY. God bless. us all. Solomon chula Nzano
What about the affect on the liver? Should these oils be avoided or at least minimal use? It's so confusing because we get told we need healthy fats but then in the cirrhosis groups we're told no fats even the healthy fats. So frustrating!
The only healthy fats you need are the essential fats -- ie, omega 3 & 6 which come from plants. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or ignorant. Your body is perfectly capable of making other kinds of fats, you don't need to consume them from oil or animals. The animals make fats from the plants they eat. You don't need to consume them from animals because you are an animal that can also make fats.
@@eatplantsloveanimals thank you! Yes I've been eating vegan for 6yrs now. It just gets confusing with all the back and forth with telling me I need to cut back on things like nuts, seeds and avocado. Even healthy fats. I get so frustrated. My damage was caused by autoimmune so I decided to treat naturally. Got off the immunosuppressive meds and got a supplement protocol and started juicing as well as plant based. I even see people in cirrhosis groups say to cut back on fruits. All the back an forth eat this or that or oh that's wrong don't eat that 🥴🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@eatplantsloveanimals DHA and EPA are two essential Omega 3 fats, and they are NOT found in plants. You are quite mistaken. The body must convert the ALA in plants into DHA and EPA, and that process is very difficult for many people. Many vegans test low in Omega 3 fats. Anyone who tell you otherwise is either lying or ignorant.
I'm taking Dr Barnard's advice and not using oils in my food. One to lose weight and two because I have a blood vessel in my brain partially blocked by cholesterol, Eek
Annie - what about taking a baby aspirin everyday to help prevent a brain clot - ? I had a coronary artery stent put in four months ago and I take Plavix in the morning and a baby aspirin in the evening to help prevent clots - I think it's a smart idea if we have a higher chance of getting clots. Also, you can stimulate Nitric Oxide in the blood to help keep the endothelial layer of blood vessels healthier thus reducing chances of a clot. You can research this, if you want.
How does vegan diet make any sense when you can't have optimal levels of choline , vitamin k2 , omega 3 and other minerals just to name a few on a plant based diet? Animal fat is not the problem but how the animal we eat is raised that lies the problem.
Doctors are something. See how he back tracks on aspirin tablets. One minute he say they good for you. Now he say they bad. Olive in the Bible. Way before all this new Technology mess was here. And way before he was here. And some doctors have a agenda. I've heard they push stuff on people for certain drug companies. They wants to treat and not heal you. I'm hearing this more and more. Also it seems to me now thinking about this. If we all got well. He wouldn't have no job. Eat your olive oil
This was a FANTASTIC video! And Chuck - your questions were outstanding! You moved quickly from one question to the next which made this video very, very informative!! Thanks for this great information tonight!
Thank you so much for the information. Lots to continue learning and correcting the way we did things and what we ate. I would love the schools to educate our children with this valuable life saving information. It would be a benefit to start when they are young. Our survival on food is important. Dying at young ages due to lack of knowledge. So many wild foods too that are extremely important on the grounds of our Earth with things God is giving us. We don't know if it's poisonous are very nutritious. They are finding out which plants we can eat and can survive if there is no electricity or an attack. We need to learn more
Hello! Please excuse my english since I am french canadian. ☺ In a low fat diet with no oil and no nuts, where does the body get the fat it needs for the cells and brain to function properly. And how much does it need?
I totally agree Daniel. The brain is made up most of fat so olive oil and nut oil is vital. My brain fog disappeared when I increased my intake olive oil.
Eat some nuts but eat then raw since roasting changes the fats and use the olive while skipping the oil as it is concentrated from more olives than you would eat normally. This is the healthier option and still gives you a moderate amount of fat.
It's better to consume the olives instead of the olive oil. It's not acceptable to compare white sugar and olive oil. Always consume organic olive oil.
All the fruit and vegetable grains seeds that's mentioned in the Bible are healthy for us. Of course, these days, we have to make sure most things we eat are vegan Happy healty eating!!
Why people who consume vegetable oils and low fat high carb diet have high incidence of heart attacks. What about new research that shows that saturated fats (butter, lard, tallo, olive oil، mustard oil , coconut oil) are better option than vegetable oils, which are all highly processed and high in omega 6 that causes metabolic syndrome.
You go grab thousands of Olives and extract the oil by yourself, let's see how you naturally do that, the fact is you couldn't you naturally wouldn't ever consume olive oil
Okay, I've got to say it. What is that annoying noise through the whole interview? LOL -- Yeah, the BMI thing isn't great because people who are super muscular can seem unhealthy over the BMI range. I'm actually under the lowest allowed...uh oh. But, I'm also VERY small boned. My recent blood work was gorgeous except that my B12 was close to being too high.
Nine years a strict Vegan. Did not change anything in my diet for nine years. First year cholesterol dropped to 180, then gradually went back to 230 until now. I guess there is nothing I can do.
Look up the etymology of the word salad. Salad comes from latin sal, ie salt. That is telling and a hint about thousands of years of accumultated cultural wisdom.
I got real humans testimonial that since they switched to only use pure Xtra virgin olive oil on their diet, the level of insulin in the body were getting greater than without using Xtra virgin olive oil from the same year harvest.
When Dr. Barnard talked about olive oil, he mentioned its negative effects for weight loss, insulin resistance, hormonal issues and the issue of saturated fat raising cholesterol. Dr. Joel Kahn just did a podcast discussing 2 studies showing EVOO users actually showed a benefit to endothelium and reduced IMT shown with an ultrasound of the carotid artery. Yes these studies were funded all or in part by a Spanish company, but Dr. Kahn said there were no conflicts of interest reported and the studies were well designed. While one study was listed as low-fat, it was not low fat at all in terms of 10-15% of calories, but the higher fat group, about 35% are the ones who showed benefits with EVOO. I would love to hear Dr. Barnard speak specifically to these kind of studies, CORDIOPREV and tell us if he has a different perspective than Dr. Kahn for example specifically in terms of heart health.
There are many studies done on olive oil that show it is very healthy for many reasons. The trick is to make sure you get real extra virgin olive oil, and not the phony stuff found in most grocery stores.
105 year old longevity expert Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara said he consumes a small glass of milk with a tablespoon of olive oil every day for smooth skin and smooth arteries among many other good life long health tips that have stood the test of time. Was he right?
DR. Shigeaki eats fat and is 105 years old. Nathan Pritikin was an advocate of extremely low fat diets, and he developed two forms of cancer in his 50s, and ended up killing himself.
@@jitrapornpha5104 I'm not aware of any ailment he had that they radiated him for. Do you know what the disease was, if in fact what you said really happened? I've never heard that story before. I've seen interviews with him before, and he never mentioned that. He just kept talking about his plant diet and the dangers of fat.
In elmentary school I learned about fats, carbs and proteins. Ok. You said stay away from fats, and all kinds of oils. If you do that, where do You get your fats? Arent they esencial for proper nutrition?
my newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic husband was told to be careful eating fruits as they are full of sugar..ie/ grapes? for migraines i cannot eat Chocolate, cheese, cured meats, citrus and coffee
I'm very interested in hearing Dr. Barnard's answer about platelet count. My platelets have been going down gradually over the last number of years, I'm vegan and have been for years. It's now at 119. I really enjoy and appreciate all the wonderful information!
My platelet count went down to 55 then the VA Hospital did a bone marrow biopsy on me and determined that I had Hairy Cell Leukemia. They gave me a chemo drug called Claudrabine thru a central pic line into my heart for 8 days and three months later my platelet count was over 200! That was 7 years ago - the VA does a blood draw on me every 9 months to keep me checked for problems - so far so good. I feel real lucky.
I’m trying to eat healthy.Dr. Gundry, majorly pro- olive oil. Dr. Barnard majorly anti olive oil…. I’m confused. Can they help us out and have a conversation…. Is there a consensus anywhere?
Yes I agree a lot of these seed oils and oils in general have other great uses like for our skin and for external use. I love olive and avocado and coconut oil, though I think they serve a better purpose than to be eaten or cooked with.
@@gardenofeels6872 but we got high rate of type 2 diabetes. If u eat the coconut flesh, it got fiber. We often use toasted shredded coconut as thickener of curry. We also use the pulp of coconut milk to make cookies.
I am 73 and I still keep active in fitness training...I have been using vegan plant base protein in smoothies.... what is your view on this...PS I take prescription statin for my cholesterol
I 100% disagree that coconut oil is not good for you my grandparents and made it and use is as their only oil. They live into their 90's organic coconut oil is great for you
I'm 83, and have been on this path for about 40 years. No one is perfect, so I've been through that time when I took back dairy, got sick, and fat, and had to make the decision to go back to 100% plant based. I lost my mom to colon cancer and decided that I'd never eat anything that didn't grow from the ground. Thank you, Dr. Barnard for all this information, and to you, Chuck, for hosting the interviews.
I am 62 and not a day goes by without me eating olive oil, and I am very healthy,
A dear friend buys Coconut oil for my kitchen every time she visits from California. I live in the Mediterranean. With all this oil around, I began using it as a hand and foot moisturizer as I hate to have it wasted.
Being italian, I can never give up Olive oil! My parents are in their 90s and they don't have a wrinkle.
Culture and anecdotes over science is not a good way to go.
Italian here too.
@@vascom3 Well, then look at the science. The vast majority of studies on olive oil shows that it is very healthful. There is zero proof that it is bad for you.
@@gardenofeels6872 that's a pretty big fat claim you've got there, while you contradict yourself. hahaha, hilarious really.
did you even watch the video?
hopefully you're not giving any nutrition advice but to yourself.
Darlene devegan my gran swore by olive oil for her skin.x
@@vascom3 There's a huge difference between an anecdote and example, and I'm pretty sure Darlene is using her grandparents as an example. You would do well to get the overused and confused word 'anecdote' out of your vocabulary.
I can confirm that cholesterol levels can be significantly reduced on a plant-based diet. After a 7 week trial, my numbers came down to normal levels. Ttl Chol:148 from 277. LDL down to 92 from 158. I will continue on with this new lifestyle.
Hi MArak, congratulations, did u eat any kind of nuts and salmon? Thanks
Same
@@mariselamonterroza6882 no she just said plant based so no animals
Only carnivore
Dump plants
@@robertgoldstein52 i love lions, they are so beautiful
He’s so patient and amazing! Thank you Dr. Barnard
Can we take a minute to appreciate that Dr. Barnard is still answering questions like “Is olive oil healthy?” even after all these years? I swear if someone’s asking “Where do vegans get their protein?”, He’d be answering it patiently for the 50th time, too! 😂😍✨
Thank you so much, God bless you and the work of your hands all the more helping people live helthier, longer, better lives.
That's the idea of FAQ.... any person just discovering this lifestyle will have these questions. And tomorrow the next persons wanting to go plant based will have these questions. Next year newcomers will have these questions. I think it is even good to hear this repeated no matter how long you are plant based. Spaced repetition, best way to memorise and learn.
Dr. Barnard is cool plus he has a rock band ! ! We can honestly say "Rock-ON Dr. Barnard ! !"
yeah theres still people on the chat asking if they can drink cows milk and eat bacon fat every morning??
jesus.
There are people out there who still think that oil is healthy. When coconut oil first become a big craze, it makes most of us here in coconut land of Indonesia’s jaws drop all the way to the floor. We’ve known for years it’s great in hair & on skin but terrible for cholesterol & arteries. But then again we’re a nation of oil eater aka deep fried food eaters despite the fact it would one day kill us😂😂😂
Dr. Barnard is a national treasure. Thank you for your tireless work for improving our health.
Totally agree!
He's an international treasure. I'm from Australia and have been watching these PCRM videos, and they are so informative and valuable. Thank God he set up PCRM all those years ago - they do amazing work, and have saved countless lives. And the message is getting through, as the increase in the number of vegans seems to be speeding up.
Absolutely! I second the idea that he's an international treasure. I'm watching him up here in Canada.
Thank you so much for the important information!
I’m on the Plant Based Diet now for one year - I have never felt better! :) and I have a new convert: my daughter. She is losing weight, her last blood test was excellent. So thank you again for steering us in the right direction … 🌿
Excellent! Keep spreading the good word!
Carnivore
Olive oil is misunderstood, proper AUTHENITC olive oil is good
@@partlysimpson5154 I agree, I use a little olive oil in my diet.
Do you follow plant based? @@madamecurious
I cut out all added sugar and grain, upped my fat intake, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, and some saturated fat in meats. Since then, I have been losing weight without even trying, also clearing up issues I had with my stomach.
Dr. B, you changed my life these past couple of weeks!!! You are so informative and you explain the biology of how food effects your body organs and or lab results.
I feel way better on vegan diet. Wish I'd known years ago. I had endometriosis, breast cancer & 2 hip replacements. My prior diet almost killed me but I wasn't overweight.
Good morning Chuck & Dr. Barnard, thank you kindly for this information, I take one tablespoon of olive oil every morning, been doing it for over 20 years, never had no problems with constipation or skin wrinkles or dry skin. I will never stop using this. Very good for the system.
Please tell me if extra virgin first presses cold press I'd good olive oil
My fiance's mom went vegan around 80 & lost 35 lbs. 86 now.
The sound is way out of sync! Please could you sort it out Chuck? Thank you
These talks offer a constant reminder and motivation to keep my food cleaner than would otherwise happen. Thanks for your diligence and Dr Barnard's expertise!
Food is not dirty
For arthritis he should try never to have more that one nightshade at a time. Nightshades are plants that include tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines, capsicums and chilli peppers (tobacco is also a nightshade). I have found that having a meal which includes two or more of these can cause arthritis to flare - although I can have just a baked potato with beans and be fine or just a little canned tomato incorporated into a pasta sauce ; however that is just me - maybe try eliminating them altogether and then reintroducing slowly, one at a time to see what happens.
Thanks for sharing the wonderful posting every day, listening to your program change many lives. Thanks for been a blessing. 👏👍
I would LOVE to see an episode or two about plant based diet and pregnancy and postpartum!! Especially when diagnosed with gestational diabetes! I started plant based diet with my last pregnancy and had a difficult time getting my midwife on board but my baby came perfectly and she was born literally 5 minutes after my midwives arrived! My easiest birth by FAR! 🙌👏
Congrats!! Wow!
Thank you!! She is a complete joy! I am so excited to have the knowledge now to start her out on foods completely healthy and nutritious! ❤️❤️ My husband and all my kiddos eat a whole food plant based diet now and are doing wonderfully!! ❤️🙌 My husband has been able to waaayy exceed his previous "records" in bike riding and in general exercise! The endurance is REAL! 🤯👏
Was Vegan my 2 pregnancies, my kids perfectly fine. Gained minimal weight snd was back to my pre-pregnancy weight by 9 months!! Been Vegan for 14 yrs 🙌🙌🙌
Plus no epidural, no tears 🤩🤩🙌 best thing ever!! Breastfed to 15 and 12 months with no problem with milk production!!
Thank you for sharing this information!
eating the way God intended. Fruits, vegetables, nut, and seeds. Read the bible. It is all there
Surprised you’re not stressing organic and non-gmo . What’s the point of going on the diet if we are ingesting roundup.
I’ve gone mostly raw and have changed my health for the better drastically. My cholesterol lowered in 2 weeks!
I have a low white blood count. Thank you for normalizing it. I don’t have any inflammation because I’m on this diet.
This is awesome news. Will check out raw for sensitive stomach issues
I'm glad you have covered the low LDL because it has happening to me ever since I went WFPB. Thanks!
Great video. Thank you Dr.Barnard and Chuck 😊
Please don't take any advice from people in the chat. They are disagreeing with Dr Barnard and saying olive oil is good and that Dr Barnard is wrong. DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. Listen to an expert rather than another listener
If this works for you--great, but don't tell other people they are wrong. There's a lot of information that completely contradicts what this doctor is saying that fats are bad.
Several highly qualified and distinguished doctors and medical professors contradict Dr. Barnard. Listen to both sides , ask for the RCT from both sides, get your labs done after trying each method and make up your own mind.
Thank-you so much, Dr Barnard, and Chuck!! What are the SAFEST brands of RICE, that have the LEAST AMOUNT OF ARSENIC? (All rice has ARSENIC, so how much may we eat?? ) How do we get rid of ARSENIC in our bodies, and are there foods we can eat, that may counteract or reduce the daily and yearly accumulation of eating ARSENIC-laden RICE, (already in our bodies,) such as cilantro, garlic?? Thank-you, I hope Dr BARNARD or his team may be able to answer these questions, esp since Dr Barnard often recommends eating rice...
I have heard Lundberg brand is a good choice b/c it is grown in California. Have also heard to cook it similar to pasta and that helps get rid of some of the arsenic.
No, never. The water to rice ratio should never be more than 1.5 to 1. More than that and it is awful. I would rather never eat rice again than to cook it with more water than that.
Don't eat American rice unless it's from California. If it's not American rice then it's probably ok.
@@dj-fe4ck Your Suppose to SOAK The Rice for approx 20 mins (forgot how long exactly) n RINSE a FEW TIMES BEFORE Cooking it...helps REDUCE ARSENIC...GOOGLES IT...THX!
Move to Europe. Arsenic & rice only allowed in the USA. Eggs with their natural protection washed off, so with increased salmonella risk, only in the USA, forbidden elsewhere. So many food people in the US have to be wary of because of the use of food processing methods and chemicals that are forbidden in many parts of the world.
Thank you for all the great work you do at the Physicians' Committee! You are doing so much good for so many people.
I dropped statin (Lipitor) after reading all the negatives and my glucose level dropped to less than it was 7 years ago when I 1st started testing even though I was already mostly plant based!
Can I recommend watching Dr Sten Ekberg?
IS he a plant base doctor?
Thanks for this service. Dr Barnard is a gem.
We appreciate Dean Ornish’s contribution to our understanding about CVD issues, but why is Nathan Pritikin never mentioned? He was possibly the first to reverse heart disease when he was told repeatedly that reversal was impossible, and included exercise when advised not to because it would probably kill him. We also owe a lot of our knowledge to him and many owe increased life in years and health to him. He also funded his study himself because no one else would fund such “impossible” ideas. I find it sad that he is given little/no credit these days.
The reason Pritikin is rarely mentioned by vegans is because he developed two different types of cancer at a relatively young age on a low -fat vegan diet. He ended up killing himself because of the pain of the cancers. I would hardly call that a good example of great health on a vegan diet. He is the last person advocates of a low-fat vegan diet want to talk about.
@@gardenofeels6872 Yes, he did develop cancer, but as I understand it the cancer was due to exposure to certain chemicals during the war. None of the vegan doctors ever say that a healthy vegan diet will protect from all ills, just reduce the risk.
@@gardenofeels6872 , Pritikin did not develop the cancers because of a vegan diet, but despite it. I suspect the problem was that it wasn't a whole foods diet but relied heavily on processed foods. I tried the diet years ago and so many recipes contained canned this and canned that, so the diet was frankly nutritionally deficient - especially their extreme, ultra low calories version.
Since then, it's been recognised that refined and processed foods are a problem whether people are omnivores, keto or vegan followers. So the key is to eat the majority of foods whole or minimally processed, and include enough fresh produce. If Pritikin was relying on too much processed foods, he wasn't getting enough of the protective factors from fruit and vegs. He was a pioneer, finding his way, and that means making mistakes. Later researchers and vegan proponents have learned from these mistakes, and these days the best sources urge people to minimise processed foods.
@@citadelofwinds1564 I never said Pritikin got cancer because of the vegan diet, but it surely did not protect him from cancer either. I remember seeing interviews he did and he claimed to eat a pretty much whole foods plant diet. He was especially fond of whole grains. But his main claim to fame was the miniscule amount of fat in the diet he recommended. Neither you nor I really know how much processed foods he ate as opposed to whole foods. We only have his words and his books. His recipes weren't necessarily what he was eating himself, but rather an attempt to make his diet easier to follow. All we can do is speculate.
One thing I do know. Fat is a very important macro nutrient, and your immune system will ultimately fail with too little of it. That is one of the reasons for the high vegan failure rate.
@@gardenofeels6872 cancer is caused by multi environmental variables that can switch on or off a gene. Fat is important but it's not that important. An apple contains saturated fat so does a lettuce but the amounts are miniscule. You don't actually need very much even when keeping calorie density low. So by avoiding high calorie density foods you can get enough to ensure hormones function properly.
Everything you put in your body should be in moderation just to be safe. Thx for this info. 👍💞🙏
Dr Bernard you need to do gentle neck exercises to strengthen your sternocleidomastoids, levator scapulae, trapezius, and your platysma. Your neck is too thin.
I’m over eighty I can’t face vegan meals . I don’t like pulses or grains. I have solve the problem by making liquidised soups and smoothies . I’m 95% vegan for concern for animals. I’m a lifelong vegetarian. If you are old and sick as I have been try soups and smoothies. They are easy to prepare, give you concentrated nutrition and are easy to digest.
Honestly listening to this guy really tells me one thing. Its different for everyone, ive lost alot of weight while eating avocados, i was killing it the gym at the same time tho, just eating stuff will never start weight loss without some extra work
Not only that it's different, but there isn't much depth honestly eating healthy is very hard, i'm on a information binge right now about sugars right now, but overall I here alot of oils when cooking isn't the best but olive oil as a tbsp or on some salad good now I don't know if this doctor is specially talking about losing weight but they're many benefits to olive oil. Like the high polyphenol content in it
My skin got so dry when I stopped consuming oil which I didn’t like but I was less hungry and was able to lose weight.
The other concern about olive oil is its authenticity in that some commercial olive oil is adulterated.
You get what you pay for, period!
@@tlallas What you pay for is irrelevant in this matter. Companies should not be mislabeling it as such if the contents are adulterated with other types of oils. You are clearly gullible to fraudsters that convince you to pay more for their un-corruption.
What the heck is that noise??!!!! Just know it’s very noticeable on this side 🤦🏻♀️
It is distracting; I think he is drumming on the desk with his hands.
I think his mic is tapping on his shirt collar.
Nope…I’m wrong. The tapping is distracting but the info is great! 😄
Yah, such annoys. :(
I found a non stick pan that my family have not touched for so long and I have been sautéing my food with it without any oil and oddly enough, the pan works so much better than I remember. It is much easier to sauté without oil or butter even than I Imagined, and it’s even crazier because I thought the pan I was using was ruined for years. I just think I was using it wrong.
You're poisonin yourself with the Teflon non-stick coating.
DuPont loves you
New nonstick pans are not Teflon coated.
Appreciate both of you. Thanks for all you do
who's playing bongoes? lol
me. but im out the back yard.
So for diabetics, they certainly should lower carbs intake as much as possible. And if they cut down fat as the doctor suggested, what do they eat? Protein is the only thing left but you know you cannot do protein too much neither.
Gosh Dr. Barnard. I have learnt so much from you this year. Life changing advice as always. I feel like you’re my actual doctor. Thank you PCRM, Chuck and Dr Barnard for these mail bag episodes.
So, what oil should we use? What is a good oil?
Another great documentary to follow up after What the Health is The Game Changers
It seems crazy that we’re questioning whether or not to have an avocado because of a potential weight concern. I think we can get caught trying to be too perfect.
Right avocado are so nutritious and healthy and u need healthy fats instead bad fats
I heard dr Gundry saying eat as much as you can of olive oil ,my question is does not he contradict other doctors abut the olives oil ?like you dr Barnard ,Esselstyn and dr Gregor,please I want to hear an explanation,Thank you in advance .
Solomon chula Nzano
BEING A KENYAN
IAM VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN OLIVE OIL HEALTHY IN KENYA REPUBLIC TAITA TAVETA COUNTY.
God bless. us all.
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I've switched to a plant based diet but I'm not going to eat a Dry oil free diet ; my God I love food and not cardboard and straw.
What if you use olives instead of olive oil?
The oil is in the olive all natural sometimes these people are afraid of their own shadows
What about the affect on the liver? Should these oils be avoided or at least minimal use? It's so confusing because we get told we need healthy fats but then in the cirrhosis groups we're told no fats even the healthy fats. So frustrating!
The only healthy fats you need are the essential fats -- ie, omega 3 & 6 which come from plants. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying or ignorant. Your body is perfectly capable of making other kinds of fats, you don't need to consume them from oil or animals. The animals make fats from the plants they eat. You don't need to consume them from animals because you are an animal that can also make fats.
@@eatplantsloveanimals thank you! Yes I've been eating vegan for 6yrs now. It just gets confusing with all the back and forth with telling me I need to cut back on things like nuts, seeds and avocado. Even healthy fats. I get so frustrated. My damage was caused by autoimmune so I decided to treat naturally. Got off the immunosuppressive meds and got a supplement protocol and started juicing as well as plant based. I even see people in cirrhosis groups say to cut back on fruits. All the back an forth eat this or that or oh that's wrong don't eat that 🥴🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@melissamccumbee8121 A tablespoon of ground flax seed gives you enough omega 3. You don't need added oils and to load up on avocado or nuts/seeds.
@@eatplantsloveanimals DHA and EPA are two essential Omega 3 fats, and they are NOT found in plants. You are quite mistaken. The body must convert the ALA in plants into DHA and EPA, and that process is very difficult for many people. Many vegans test low in Omega 3 fats. Anyone who tell you otherwise is either lying or ignorant.
I'm taking Dr Barnard's advice and not using oils in my food. One to lose weight and two because I have a blood vessel in my brain partially blocked by cholesterol, Eek
That will go away with the correct diet. No animal foods and no oils. Lots of veggies and fruits No processed foods made by man! Best wishes!
Annie - what about taking a baby aspirin everyday to help prevent a brain clot - ? I had a coronary artery stent put in four months ago and I take Plavix in the morning and a baby aspirin in the evening to help prevent clots - I think it's a smart idea if we have a higher chance of getting clots. Also, you can stimulate Nitric Oxide in the blood to help keep the endothelial layer of blood vessels healthier thus reducing chances of a clot. You can research this, if you want.
God made your body to need some oils.
@@statutesofthelord Natural oils like the oils in olives and in all leafy greens and in avacadoes and nuts and seeds. Not in processed oils.
@@debbimorgon2988 You are correct, Debbi. This video by the doctor has mistakes.
Love that garlic recommendation at 30:37!
Thank you so much for these videos. Such vital information!
How does vegan diet make any sense when you can't have optimal levels of choline , vitamin k2 , omega 3 and other minerals just to name a few on a plant based diet? Animal fat is not the problem but how the animal we eat is raised that lies the problem.
I love olive oil and will die for it if need be.
Doctors are something. See how he back tracks on aspirin tablets. One minute he say they good for you. Now he say they bad. Olive in the Bible. Way before all this new Technology mess was here. And way before he was here. And some doctors have a agenda. I've heard they push stuff on people for certain drug companies. They wants to treat and not heal you. I'm hearing this more and more. Also it seems to me now thinking about this. If we all got well. He wouldn't have no job. Eat your olive oil
This was a FANTASTIC video! And Chuck - your questions were outstanding! You moved quickly from one question to the next which made this video very, very informative!! Thanks for this great information tonight!
eating the way God intended. Fruits, vegetables, nut, and seeds. Read the bible. It is all there
Thank you so much for the information. Lots to continue learning and correcting the way we did things and what we ate. I would love the schools to educate our children with this valuable life saving information. It would be a benefit to start when they are young. Our survival on food is important. Dying at young ages due to lack of knowledge. So many wild foods too that are extremely important on the grounds of our Earth with things God is giving us. We don't know if it's poisonous are very nutritious. They are finding out which plants we can eat and can survive if there is no electricity or an attack. We need to learn more
Hello! Please excuse my english since I am french canadian. ☺
In a low fat diet with no oil and no nuts, where does the body get the fat it needs for the cells and brain to function properly. And how much does it need?
I totally agree Daniel. The brain is made up most of fat so olive oil and nut oil is vital. My brain fog disappeared when I increased my intake olive oil.
Eat some nuts but eat then raw since roasting changes the fats and use the olive while skipping the oil as it is concentrated from more olives than you would eat normally. This is the healthier option and still gives you a moderate amount of fat.
It's better to consume the olives instead of the olive oil. It's not acceptable to compare white sugar and olive oil. Always consume organic olive oil.
Can someone explain how Eskimo people transcend with exclusively meat diet?
All the fruit and vegetable grains seeds that's mentioned in the Bible are healthy for us. Of course, these days, we have to make sure most things we eat are vegan
Happy healty eating!!
Why people who consume vegetable oils and low fat high carb diet have high incidence of heart attacks. What about new research that shows that saturated fats (butter, lard, tallo, olive oil، mustard oil , coconut oil) are better option than vegetable oils, which are all highly processed and high in omega 6 that causes metabolic syndrome.
Excellent info! Thank you. I especially needed the discussion re white blood cell count.
Olives are OK since they are fruit?
What is that tapping sound in the background?
Where are the studies to back up the assertion he makes against olive oil. (Which features so strongly in the Mediterranean diet).
You go grab thousands of Olives and extract the oil by yourself, let's see how you naturally do that, the fact is you couldn't you naturally wouldn't ever consume olive oil
Imagine how embarrassing it must be to be an MD who still in 2021 believes that saturated fat is bad to eat? Shameful.
Please explain.
Dr. how can anyone get rid of enlarged prostate?
Coconut oil is _so_ good at so many levels!
thank you fo this. i've been on for 8 months. from the philippines...
Doesn't olive oil contain healthy polyunsaturated fats and has been shown to be efficacious with the Mediterranean diet?
Garth Davis advocates Olive oil
Awesome! Thanks for sharing all this information.
Okay, I've got to say it. What is that annoying noise through the whole interview? LOL -- Yeah, the BMI thing isn't great because people who are super muscular can seem unhealthy over the BMI range. I'm actually under the lowest allowed...uh oh. But, I'm also VERY small boned. My recent blood work was gorgeous except that my B12 was close to being too high.
Thought I was the only one about the noise!🤪 LOL!
Nine years a strict Vegan. Did not change anything in my diet for nine years.
First year cholesterol dropped to 180, then gradually went back to 230 until now.
I guess there is nothing I can do.
Is that too high?
@@ingevonschneider5100 Shouldn't it be below 200?
@@karinaalexander1385 I have no idea but it is not all to eating habits, but genetics too. And important is the ratio hdl/ldl.
@@ingevonschneider5100 Thank you! Good to know
try keto...
If you eat salads what dressing do you put on it ???
Look up the etymology of the word salad. Salad comes from latin sal, ie salt. That is telling and a hint about thousands of years of accumultated cultural wisdom.
I got real humans testimonial that since they switched to only use pure Xtra virgin olive oil on their diet, the level of insulin in the body were getting greater than without using Xtra virgin olive oil from the same year harvest.
You look at olive oil, and is oxidized. So is flaxseed
When Dr. Barnard talked about olive oil, he mentioned its negative effects for weight loss, insulin resistance, hormonal issues and the issue of saturated fat raising cholesterol. Dr. Joel Kahn just did a podcast discussing 2 studies showing EVOO users actually showed a benefit to endothelium and reduced IMT shown with an ultrasound of the carotid artery. Yes these studies were funded all or in part by a Spanish company, but Dr. Kahn said there were no conflicts of interest reported and the studies were well designed. While one study was listed as low-fat, it was not low fat at all in terms of 10-15% of calories, but the higher fat group, about 35% are the ones who showed benefits with EVOO. I would love to hear Dr. Barnard speak specifically to these kind of studies, CORDIOPREV and tell us if he has a different perspective than Dr. Kahn for example specifically in terms of heart health.
Interesting! Do you have a link to this Dr. Kahn podcast you're referring to?
Where are the links to the studies?
@@alanle1471 indeed
There are many studies done on olive oil that show it is very healthy for many reasons. The trick is to make sure you get real extra virgin olive oil, and not the phony stuff found in most grocery stores.
thank you for teaching
If olive oil is so bad, why is it consumed in large amounts in several blue zones where many healthy Centurions live?
eating the way God intended. Fruits, vegetables, nut, and seeds. Read the bible. It is all there
@@pastorpeteonthestreet3112 The bible mentions olive oil many times. It was a biblical staple.
Their health is due to the OTHER things they're eating: lots of vegetables, fruit & beans.
@@k.h.6991 Fish, eggs and some red meat as well.
@@alanle1471 now days they are all polluted with antibiotics and pesticides and pollution in the oceans
105 year old longevity expert Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara said he consumes a small glass of milk with a tablespoon of olive oil every day for smooth skin and smooth arteries among many other good life long health tips that have stood the test of time. Was he right?
Guess it's fine, 1tbsp is nothing in the context of a healthy diet, although larger consumption of olive oil might be detrimental for sure
DR. Shigeaki eats fat and is 105 years old. Nathan Pritikin was an advocate of extremely low fat diets, and he developed two forms of cancer in his 50s, and ended up killing himself.
@@gardenofeels6872 wasn’t his cancer due to radiation treatment, I think for an ailment long before he went vego
@@jitrapornpha5104 I'm not aware of any ailment he had that they radiated him for. Do you know what the disease was, if in fact what you said really happened? I've never heard that story before. I've seen interviews with him before, and he never mentioned that. He just kept talking about his plant diet and the dangers of fat.
@@plantbasedethos5726 do you consume or did you consumed any olive oil extra virgin in your diet?
In elmentary school I learned about fats, carbs and proteins. Ok. You said stay away from fats, and all kinds of oils. If you do that, where do You get your fats? Arent they esencial for proper nutrition?
Johnnie, Mic the Vegan had a good video on hair loss prevent worth watching.
my newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic husband was told to be careful eating fruits as they are full of sugar..ie/ grapes? for migraines i cannot eat Chocolate, cheese, cured meats, citrus and coffee
I'm very interested in hearing Dr. Barnard's answer about platelet count. My platelets have been going down gradually over the last number of years, I'm vegan and have been for years. It's now at 119. I really enjoy and appreciate all the wonderful information!
My platelet count went down to 55 then the VA Hospital did a bone marrow biopsy on me and determined that I had Hairy Cell Leukemia. They gave me a chemo drug called Claudrabine thru a central pic line into my heart for 8 days and three months later my platelet count was over 200! That was 7 years ago - the VA does a blood draw on me every 9 months to keep me checked for problems - so far so good. I feel real lucky.
@@travelguy1564 Thank you travel guy, i hope that's not what I have, I have a doctor's appointment in a few weeks.
Missed live stream
Thanks for info
Where do I find show that I can get my question in? Always watch but shows are from past. Thanks.
you have to make sure you are watching when the video goes LIVE. Then you can ask in the chat
@@Annie1962 Thank you! But where can we find the schedule ahead of time?
What is the background racket its very annoying/
What do you mean by Vegan??
Sooo what oil should you cook with?
> Sooo what oil should you cook with?
None.
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I’m trying to eat healthy.Dr. Gundry, majorly pro- olive oil. Dr. Barnard majorly anti olive oil…. I’m confused. Can they help us out and have a conversation…. Is there a consensus anywhere?
Coconut oil is the best for hair and olive oil is the second best moisturizer after cocoa butter in my opinion. They got no place in anyone’s kitchen.
Yes I agree a lot of these seed oils and oils in general have other great uses like for our skin and for external use. I love olive and avocado and coconut oil, though I think they serve a better purpose than to be eaten or cooked with.
Pacific Islanders eat a ton of coconuts and coconut oil and have very low rates of heart disease and cancer. Explain that.
@@gardenofeels6872 but we got high rate of type 2 diabetes. If u eat the coconut flesh, it got fiber. We often use toasted shredded coconut as thickener of curry. We also use the pulp of coconut milk to make cookies.
Thanks Dr for this great information
Yes. Olive oil is healthy. Don't listen to anyone who tries to convince you of the opposite.
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Please include Caldwell Esselstyn talks too
I am 73 and I still keep active in fitness training...I have been using vegan plant base protein in smoothies.... what is your view on this...PS I take prescription statin for my cholesterol
I 100% disagree that coconut oil is not good for you my grandparents and made it and use is as their only oil. They live into their 90's organic coconut oil is great for you
How much I Take Olive Oil a day nd How TNX nd God bless