The passion that keeps me going is I feel that we're
literally on the cusp or
What could truly be a seismic?
revolution in health and
This seismic revolution is never going to come about
From the invention of another pill or a drug or a procedure or an operation?
this seismic revolution will come about
When we have the will and the grit and the determination to share with the public what?
Is the lifestyle and most specifically?
What is the nutritional literacy that will empower them as?
the locus of control
To vanquish chronic illness
When you eat this way
It's the way people in Okinawa have been eating for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years
They live longer than anybody else. There are no gymnasiums. They're
the most strict
Draconian severe diet on the planet is the one that you have been eating all your life to have this disease
It is absolutely crushed your vascular system
But we're going to turn that all around
And this is not only that this is the diet that is destroying the wealth of America
18% of our gross national product is now going into the health industry. That's insane
We can eliminate chronic illness if we can get people to eat whole food plant-based nutrition
And what are you gonna do with all that money?
tow Pell and Murphy who are economists
from
Chicago
University of Chicago in 1999
reporting in the University of Chicago Press
They estimate that the savings in this country was the elimination of cardiovascular disease alone
forty trillion dollars
No, yeah
Pretty exciting stuff
when you see evidence of an angiogram, but we have
Where the angiogram shows the blockage in the heart they come on our program
we repeat that the intagram was repeated and some of those original patients and there you see this reversal and
Anybody that wants to challenge us I will simply say to them look
We're delighted with our message because in half the planet it shows that this
chronic illness is eliminated when you eat this way and
We have experimental data that we took patients who were absolutely
seriously ill with triple vessel coronary disease or carotid disease or in their leg disease, and we absolutely
Halted, it stopped it reversed it
They have to show me the same with their diet
And they cause I haven't seen it
So why do you think it sells so many bags?
Well, you know people as my friend John McDougall says people love to hear good things about their bad habits you
Know a low-fat diet. You're still eating because let's face it. The Western diet is the way it's kind of cocked
It can be quite delicious
but also
So a whole food plant-based nutrition your pet taste buds changed and it's just delightful
I've been doing this now for 34 years. I grew up on an Aberdeen Angus beef farm in a dairy farm
Can you imagine how I felt when the research clearly shows that these products?
That we were raising when I was growing up. We're destroying people's health. Let's say that you take a thousand people and
they all eat plant-based and
You take a thousand people and they all eat the Western diet. Okay
starting
In the thousands who are eating the Western diet
There will be some where somewhat genetically disposed predisposed don't have their heart attack at 30 or 40
Well, maybe they'll have it at 60 or maybe they won't have their heart attack until they're 85 or 90
On the other hand these thousands who are plant-based
Are never going to have their heart disease because they are not injuring
The capacity of their endothelial cell to make nitric oxide. I
Mean when it was interesting when Bill Conner
Went down to to study the Tarahumara Indians
So I think there was some
583
0 obesity
0 heart disease
Pretty exciting stuff
Yeah and zero hypertension
But what happens to the targa mara, the minute they crossed the border and started heating our diet. This whole thing is really based on
Rock-solid
scientific data, it was never gonna sell if it's hype or hyperbole all it takes for any physician even those that are
devoted to this low-carb business
If they take one patient of theirs who's sick and you really get them to do whole food plant-based nutrition
And they suddenly see huh how powerful and wrap it and enduring this can be
They're hooked. They're absolutely hooked
You know how many articles had to be published before the Surgeon General of the United States put out a warning against cigarettes
7,000 studies, right
Before they would be alerted
Do you think that there was a tough Lobby in Congress against?
Killing the tobacco industry. I mean it can you imagine the power something like well here we are trying to kill the meat
dairy egg
pork and
Sugar industry. I think there's any power against this, huh?
listen, it's the challenges in life that are exciting and
The word is the word. Is he going to get out there? Yeah, and
There's been a basic
covenant of trust
since the days of Hippocrates
That whenever possible the caregiver will share the patient. What is the causation of their illness and
sadly today in
Cardiovascular medicine that's not happening. Not through any malice of forethought on the part of the cardiologist
It's just that they have never had any training in nutrition
either during medical school or during their cardiovascular training
So it really is pretty dismal to think that we are we have created a specialty
To take care of this disease and they do not understand the causation of the illness
now every officer in the USDA has previously been a president or officer in
the Cattlemen's Association
The dairyman's League
The pork board the Egg Board. They are enormous ly conflicted
enormous ly conflicted
So that's a problem then there's industry
The statin drug industry is what's 30 billion?
Now do you see them tripping over each other trying to get and delighted with every elimination?
of heart disease there goes 30 billion
And then there of course, there's my own profession. I mean how many
Persons who as livelihood depends upon stents and bypass
surgery how many of them are
Urgently looking for fewer and fewer patients well industry
Obviously is involved heavily with medical schools
industry involved with individual doctors
Always trying to and look at the advertising on television
Every time you're getting another drug
It'll tell you what it does in about
3 to 5 seconds
The other 40 seconds tells you about all the hideous
side effects
That may occur you take this drug
Well, there's another side effect. If you just treat the causation of the illness it goes away
When I was starting on my main concern was cardiovascular disease and it still is but there are some
other things that have happened along the way where I have begun to
develop
relationships with
other physicians
Who are finding that?
Cardiovascular disease isn't the only disease that
Has turned around by this we mentioned diabetes. We mentioned hypertension. We mentioned strokes we mentioned vascular dementia
Ulcerative colitis Crohn's disease
Rheumatoid arthritis lupus
Multiple sclerosis
Allergies asthma renal disease the list goes on never before in medicine
Have we had a tool so powerful in our toolbox
No, nothing Trump's food. I have had so many patients who will call me and say dr. Esselstyn
I just don't understand this I go to the gymnasium every day and yet I've had to have this stent or I've had this bypass
Wait a minute. This is foodborne
How many people in Okinawa?
Go to the gym every day or in rural China or the Papo Highlands. Come on
They eat whole food plant-based nutrition
The reason I take all these phone calls and stay with it is it?
It's so exciting to me
To see these patients who were ill
After a 20 or 30 minute conversation
Begin to recognize
that they themselves
Have the power to vanquish
their illness and
that is
For people who would feel that they're doomed
That physicians have told there's no way to stop this
You'll just have to take these drugs and do the best with it
How can it be more exciting than that?
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