DR. MASON: So we start thinking about strokes and heart attacks and peripheral vascular disease.
Those things aren’t different diseases.
They’re different manifestations of the same disease.
So what we’ve done in America is we’ve made the American public think they have all
these different things and that we have different things that we want to do for you for those
things. But it’s not. It’s one thing.
And the source of all of these things come back to what we eat.
And so we take lots of pills for cholesterol control. And yes, everybody does make cholesterol.
Some people make more than others. But most people, their bad cholesterol, they’re getting
from the only places where you can get bad cholesterol. And that’s out of animal and
animal by-products. Animals make cholesterol. You and I make cholesterol.
DR. PINEDA OCHOA: And we don’t need to consume any cholesterol,
because we make all the cholesterol.
DR. MASON: We make all the cholesterol that we need.
DR. PINEDA OCHOA: So what is a diet that you recommend to your patients
from a health perspective, and why?
DR. MASON: Well, I — let me just back up for a minute because I don’t see patients anymore.
So you should know that. But the diet — the “live it,” I recommend. I don’t like
the word diet because the word diet has — the first three letters are die, D-I-E.
So the “live it,” the thing I recommend for people to have the best life, is a whole
food plant-based diet.
And it does not matter whether you’re sick or not sick, whether you’re suffering from
a cancer or not, but I think that the — from what I understand today — I would have to
say that the whole food plant-based way of eating, or the “live it,” is the best
way to eat.
DR. PINEDA OCHOA: So it’s whole foods, no animal products, no eggs, no dairy, no fish or chicken.
DR. MASON: When I say whole food, plant-based, that means if it’s not a plant — if it didn’t grow
out of the ground — that’s not what I’m recommending. So if it walks, hops, crawls,
flies, swims, slithers, got eyes, a mom and a daddy, that’s not on the menu.
DR. PINEDA OCHOA: Can you tell me, first, what is the role of diet in erectile dysfunction?
DR. MASON: Oh, there’s a huge role. The penis has a lot of those endothelial cells. And the penis
depends on those cells in order to function properly to let blood in and keep it in to
create the erection.
The damage to the endothelial cells just doesn’t happen in the blood vessels lining the heart.
It actually happens, also, in those blood cells of those sinusoids lining inside the penis.
And when they’re damaged, it can’t expand. It can’t keep that blood where it needs
to be. And therefore, the man doesn’t have an erection. It is absolutely a critical part
of the problem of erectile dysfunction.
DR. PINEDA OCHOA: So what kind of diet — would the same kind of diet — a plant-based, vegan diet
for everyone?
DR. MASON: I think there’s one way. See, this is the beauty of a whole food, plant-based way of
eating. You don’t need a certain one for this and a certain one for that. That’s garbage.
If you just eat the right foods, you’ll have the right results.