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S2, Ep17: Your Body in Balance with Dr.Neal Barnard, MD
Dr.Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, speaks to The ChickPeeps about his work in the medical field advocating for the many health benefits and healing properties of a plant-based diet. He shares a bit about his groundbreaking work that proved that eliminating animal products from one’s diet can reverse type 2 diabetes. He also talks about his new research that explains how hormones can be brought into balance by what we eat, curing things like menstrual cramps, endometriosis, infertility, cancer, erectile dysfunction and many other conditions. Also on this episode… This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com! How working as an autopsy assistant made Dr.Barnard start seeing meat as ‘dead bodies’ rather than food. ‘Getting the animals off your plate isn’t the end goal’ - how eliminating animal products is just step 1 to cultivating optimal health. How Dr. Neal started a movement that succeeded in eliminating every animal lab from every medical school in the US and Canada. ‘Of all the people who are taking a cholesterol drug, probably 90% of them would not need them because a diet change could accomplish this.’ ‘The body can heal.’ Dr.Neal shares stories of patients who have been fully cured of type 2 diabetes. How do plant based burgers compare to meat burgers from a nutritional standpoint? Robbie outs himself as a Ravenclaw once again by quoting a bunch of medical studies... Dr.Neal explains how the lack of integrity in medical publishing and reporting is due to a notable conflict of interests. We all rag on the nutritional and moral issues of dairy milk for a bit. Should we be limiting our intake of soy? How soy reduces the likelihood of getting breast cancer. Dr.Barnard brands the ‘carnivore diet’ as ‘a silly, childish, macho thing’. Neal shares his latest research into how a plant-based diet can actually make menstrual cramps go away!! How one woman solved her lifelong infertility issues after a month on a plant-based diet. Links Get a copy of Dr.Barnard’s new book - Your Body In Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones and Health. Read more about Dr.Barnard’s work at The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Attend a talk by Dr.Barnard on his book tour. Greta Thunberg article mentioned at the end of the episode. Social Media Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
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