- Well you know in medicine,
doctors just aren't taught about the power
that their force can have.
So doctors graduate without this powerful tool
in their medical toolbox.
About 80% of what primary doctors see these days,
are these chronic lifestyle diseases,
but instead of treating the underlying cause,
they just medicate the symptoms
and hope to slow down the rate
at which their diabetics go blind
and go on dialysis and lose their lower limbs,
rather than treating the cause and reversing the disease
in the first places, that's possible,
with plant based nutrition,
but doctors weren't taught it.
Doctor Dean Ornish published
the Lifestyle Heart Trial,
proving July 21st, 1990,
in the most prestigious medical journal in the world,
that with a controlled, randomized, trial,
that heart disease could be reversed,
arteries opened up without drugs, without surgery.
So we effectively have had the cure
to the number one killer since 1990, yet, to this day,
hundreds of thousands of men and women
continue to needlessly die from what we learned decades ago,
it was a preventable, arrestable, reversible condition.
If that's all a plant based can do,
reverse the number one killer of men and women,
shouldn't that be the default diet until proven otherwise?
And the fact that it can also be so effective
in preventing, arresting,
and reversing other leading killers
like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure,
would seem to make the case for plant based
being simply overwhelming.
I think there's this concept
that food is just fuel, a calorie's, a calorie.
So a 100 calories of carrots
is the same as 100 calories of Coca-Cola, it's just fuel,
nothing beyond that,
and whereas it's the opposite,
it is the greatest exposure of our bodies
to the external environment.
We have a few square feet of skin exposed,
our lungs actually stretched out,
actually we'd get quite almost a tennis court
with all the little folds, but our gut, is even more,
with all the tiny folds, it's our greatest exposure,
not just day after, three times a day,
to our external environment.
So all the toxins that we're exposed to,
it's really what we eat that's more important
than what we're breathing or what we're physically touching
and so that's why it's critically important
to have a clean diet, low in pollutants,
which are particularly polluting the aquatic food chains.
So the highest levels of dioxins and PCBs
and toxic heavy metals like mercury,
are actually in the fish and seafood.
All the mercury from all the coal plants in China
eventually settles down into the sea,
everything eventually flows down into sea,
basically our oceans are humanity's sewers at this point.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study,
the largest study of human risk factors
for disease in history,
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the number one cause of death in these United States,
is the American diet,
bumping smoking to number two,
now cigarettes only kill about
a half a million Americans every year,
whereas our diet kills many many more.
So if most deaths are preventable and related to nutrition,
then obviously, nutrition is the number one thing
taught in medical school, right?
It's obviously the number one thing our doctors
talks to you about every single visit.
How could there be this disconnect
between the science and the practice of medicine?
Well, all one has to do, a little thought experiment,
go back to the 1950s,
imagine yourself a smoker in the '50s,
the average per capita cigarette consumption,
4000 cigarettes a year,
the average person walked around, smoked a pack a day,
the government was telling people to smoke,
the medical profession itself,
said smoking on balance is good for you.
So smoking was normal, most physicians smoked cigarettes,
the AMA came out, saying, smoking in moderation,
oh that's fine, that sound familiar?
And so on the one hand, you have all of society,
the government, the medical profession itself,
telling you to smoke,
and on the other hand, all you had was the science,
you had studies going back to the 1930s,
linking lung cancer to smoking,
yet effectively ignored off the face of the Earth.
Until, 1964, the peak of smoking in the United States,
and then every year basically, dropped ever since.
One of the greatest public health victories
of all time, what happened in 1964?
The Surgeon General's report against smoking came out,
just this public acknowledgement by the powers that be,
that smoking's linked to lung cancer,
it took more than 7000 studies
before the first Surgeon General's report
against smoking came out.
You'd think maybe after the first 6000,
he could've given people a little heads up or something?
Powerful industry.
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And so that's where we are today,
most doctors are continuing to eat foods
that are contributing to our epidemics of dietary disease,
no wonder, they're not telling their patients,
just like they weren't telling their patients between puffs,
to stop smoking cigarettes.
The system is just set up to reward unhealthy behavior.
Think about the foods that are being sold,
fruits and vegetables are perishable,
they're not branded, there's not mark up.
What you want is something that's sit on the shelf
for a couple of weeks, great for shelf life,
not good for human life.
Until the system changes,
until society catches up to the science,
we have to take personal responsibility,
for our own health, for our family's health,
we can't wait because it's a matter of life and death.
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