Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death

in past years I've addressed the most pressing dietary issues of our time like what's the healthiest variety of apple or what's the most nutritious nut or or dried fruit or what's the best Bean what's the best Berry what's the best bowel movement right we had fun people got to vote you know some PE some folk came away all huffy you know especially the New Yorkers back there um but this year I thought I'd lighten it up and answer what's the best way to prevent death every year the CDC updates the latest leading causes of death

in the United States so let's start at the top and go down the list see what's new in each category heart disease number one the 35-year followup of the Harvard nurses health study just published now the most definitive longterm study on older women's health we have since the study started thousands of participants died but that allowed them to study the risk factors for mortality because heart disease was the leading cause of death it comes to No Surprise the dietary cholesterol intake right with significant risk factor for dying the second leading cause of smoking related cancer

deaths but what's so neat about this study is that it's a competing risks analysis right so it allowed them to compare different risks to one another so consuming the amount of cholesterol found in just a single egg a day appears to cut a woman's life short as much as smoking five cigarettes a day for 15 years the most protective Behavior they found was fiber consumption eating just a cup of oatmeals worth of fiber a day appears to extend a woman's life as much as 4 hours of jogging a week though you can do both I

don't yeah and so it's worth noting that look the intake of cholesterol only found in animal Foods was associated with living a shorter life and the intake of fiber only found in plant Foods associated with living a longer life the one specific food most tied to longevity was nuts you also appear to get 4 hours of weekly jogging benefit eating just two handfuls of nuts a week all right yeah hard disase number one cause to death but what if your cholesterol is normal right hear that all the time from patients right have to break it

to them look having a normal cholesterol in a society where it's normal to drop dead of a heart attack not necessarily a good thing remember number one it's our number one killer right in a huge Study last year most heart attack patients fell within the recommended targets for cholesterol demonstrating that the current di guidelines just not low enough to cut heart attack risk close to half of uh close to half of heart attack victims had cholesterol levels classified in the guidelines as optimal though I'm not sure their grieving spouses and orphan children will take much

comfort in that fact what is considered optimal is still way too high yeah having a below average cholesterol you know reduces your risk but as the editor and of the American Journal of Cardiology wrote more than a decade ago it's time to shift right from just decreasing risk to actually preventing and reversing arresting atherosclerosis we don't want low risk we want no risk how do you do it well for the buildup of plaque in Our arteries to cease appears that we have to get our total cholesterol down to be about 150 right in other words

the cholesterol must be lowered to that of your average pure vegetarian now but because relatively few people are willing to abide by the vegetarian lifestyle you know drugs are required you know to get down to similar levels right so it's our choice now notice though even though the average vegan has a cholesterol of 150 it doesn't mean that all vegans have 150 that's why I do free cholesterol screenings here at Summerfest stop my table little drop of blood just take a couple minutes I'd be happy to do that for you all right so it's our

choice diet or drugs why not just choose the drugs right well no that's a good question well as the good doctor um noted last night the FDA just announced newly mandated safety labeling by law to cholesterol lowering statin drugs right so this is lipor mikor Crestor zokor VOR and that kind of thing the is the FDA issued new side effect warning labels um this year regarding the increased risks um brain related risks um and Associated memory loss and confusion an increase in blood sugar levels as well as new onset diabetes one prominent cardiologist described this

kind of fouyan bargain yes fewer heart attacks but more diabetes right with all the memory loss and confusion caused by these drugs folks may have forgot there's actually a way to reduce the risk of heart attacks and diabetes at the same time call the plantas die all right now cholesterol is just half of the heart disease story the other half is inflamation right we've known for 15 years that a single meal high in animal fat uh sausage and egg McMuffin was used in the original study can paralyze Our arteries right cutting their ability to relax

normally in half within hours of eating animal products the whole lining of our vascular tree gets inflamed and stiffened right and just as that inflammation so here's ours right 1 2 3 four 5 six just as that inflammation right just as that crippling of Our arteries starts to finally calm down after five or six hours lunchtime right and then we may whack Our arteries with another load of meat eggs or dairy right and so most people are in this chronic state of lowgrade inflammation increasing RIS or these inflammation related diseases like heart disease cancer diabetes

um one meal at a time does the same thing to our lungs again within hours inflammation in our Airways a single meal causing internal damage not just years down the road but literally right then and there that day within hours of it going into your mouth and just this year we finally figured out we finally solved the mystery as to why and it doesn't appear to be the animal fat itself and it's apparently not the animal protein which is what's implicated in in the inflammation from arthritis right so if it's not the animal fat and

it's not the animal protein what is it the whole thing is a crazy cool detective story that I'll be putting in a series of videos next week actually July 4th July 5th July 6th um but uh I'll just cut to the chase spoiler alert um after a meal of animal products people suffer from endotoxemia their bloodstream becomes a wash with bacterial toxins known as endotoxins that are present in the animal products so mean no wonder our body goes crazy these dead meat bacteria toxins aren't destroyed by stomach acid aren't destroyed by pancreatic enzymes right aren't

destroyed by cooking they tried boiling meat for hours still didn't work and so um these bacterial toxins were found to be highly resistant to cooking and our body's best attempts at acid and enzyme um digestion now the animal fat actually does play a profound role in this whole process by fing the bacterial toxins present in the meat through the gut into our system so the reason animal products trigger trigger immediate inflammation appears to be because they're so loaded with bacteria that can trigger inflammation Dead or Alive even if they're fully cooked and then saturated animal

fat then boosts the absorption of these toxins into our bloodstream so now that we know what's going on what do we have to do well from a 2012 followup uh while the obvious most obvious solution to this metabolic endotoxemia okay well we can reduce saturated fat intake which in this country is mostly cheese and chicken but the Western diet is not conducive to this mode of action and it is difficult for patients to comply with this request so what let's not even tell them right I mean this patronizing attitude in the medical profession of oh

patients won't change their diet or stop smoking I mean if it's going to kill them you know so why bother right that attitude May one of the real leading causes of death but let's get back but let's get back to the official list and take on cancer next what's the latest well we know from the largest forward-looking study on diet and cancer ever performed by Humanity the incidence of all cancers combined lower among vegetarians than meat eaters um especially some of the fastest growing tumors like lymphomas and leukemias and for that the worst meat was

actually poultry chicken up to Triple the rates for every 50 g of poultry consumption a quarter of a chicken breast triple your risk normally this whole presentation being the kind of quiz show format but there was a scheduling mixup I was supposed to be the last speaker at night at night and so I could go long and not with the schedule but anyway won't happen again and so next year back to the quiz show format and apologize I had to cut this short um okay but the link between meat and cancer is such that even

the Journal of meat science last year asked should we become vegetarians or they said can we make meat safer there's a bunch of additives for example you know that can suppress the toxic effects of the blood-based iron the the heem iron found in meat now the the additives are still under under study but could provide an acceptable way to prevent colon cancer right because avoiding meat obviously completely out of the question I mean that's they fear that if the National Cancer Institute recommendations to reduce meat consumption were obser were adhered to Sure cancer incidents may

be reduced but farmers in the meat industry would suffer important economic problems now for those of us more concerned about the suffering caused by the meat industry rather than the suffering of the meat industry what happens if you put cancer on a vegan diet well the pran Research Foundation just completed this elegant series of experiments which I want to spend a bit of time on simp experiments they put people on different diets draw their blood and then drip their blood on cancer cells growing in a Petri dish and just stood back to see whose blood

was better at suppressing cancer growth they were the ones that published that study showing that the blood of those on a vegan diet was dramatically less hospitable to cancer now even the blood of those on a standard American diet fights cancer I mean if it didn't everybody'd be dead right um it's just that the blood of those eating vegan fights about eight times better the blood of those on a standard American diet suppresses cancer growth by about 9% you put people on a plant-based diet for a year though and their blood just tears it up

right the blood circulating through the bodies of vegans has nearly eight times the stopping power when it comes to cancer cell growth now this is for prostate cancer most common uh cancer among men for women it's breast cancer so the pran researchers tried duplicating this study with women using breast cancer cells instead now they didn't want to wait a whole year to get the results so they figured they try to see what a plant-based diet could do in just two weeks against three different um types of human breast cancer this is the before for um

cancer growth rates powering away at 100% And then this is after eating a plant-based diet for just 14 days now slowing down cancer growth is is great but getting rid of them getting rid of cancer cells is even better this is before and after measuring cancer cell death right um this is the before and this is the after pre and post plants the same blood now coursing through these women's bodies gained the power to significantly slow down and stop breast cancer growth thanks to just two weeks of eating a plant-based diet what kind of blood

do we want in our body what kind of immune system right do we want blood that's just kind of going to kind of roll over when new cancer cells pop up right or do we want blood circulating to every nook and cranny within our bodies with the power to slow down and stop them now this strengthening of cancer defenses was after 14 days of a plant-based diet and exercise they were out walking 30 to 60 minutes a day wait well maybe the only reason their bodies became you know so effective at suppressing cancer cell growth

was because of the exercise maybe died didn't have anything to do with it so they put it to the test this is measuring cancer cell clearance and this is what we saw before the effect of blood taken from those eating a plant-based diet in this case for 14 years along with mild exercise just like a walking every day right so plant-based diets walking that's the kind of cancer cell clearance you get now compare that to the cancer stopping power of your average set you see there's a little burger burger Apple sorry I can't all right

on the website it's a little okay but okay okay compared to the cancer stopping power of your average sedentary meater which is basically non-existent okay but what about this middle group now this middle group instead of 14 years on a plant-based diet they had 14 years of the standard American diet but had daily strenuous hourlong exercise like boot camp this morning seriously calisthenics right they wanted to know if you exercise hard enough and long enough can you rival some uh some some uh some strolling vegans all right let's find out and exercise worked no question

right but literally 5,000 hours in the gym no match for a plant-based diet here's an actual photo micrograph of cancer cells stained so that they release light when they die right as you can see in the control group there are a few cancer cells dying right uh even if you're Couch Potato eating fried potatoes your body's not totally defenseless but here's the hardcore strenuous exercise group group right cancer cells dying left and right but nothing appears to kick cancer butt more than a plant-based die why though some people don't care but I'm I'm I'm always

curious all right how does a simple dietary change right make one's bloodstream so inhospitable to cancer after just a few days we didn't know until last year when they sought to determine the underlying mechanisms for these anti-cancer effects all right and it is a wild story I have a whole series of videos coming out about it um the story involves little people and big people and big dogs and little dogs uh it involves it involves marshmallows Tinker Toys cannibalism and vegan bodybuilders I from beef steak to beef cake I it's uh I wish I had

time believe me but the videos will be up soon bottom line the answer to the pran puzzle is igf1 insulin like growth factor one is the cancer promoting growth hormone involved in every stage of cancer growth spread metastases cancer Invasion but you put people on a plant-based diet and they're igf1 levels igf1 levels plant-based diet go down and if they continue to be on a plant-based diet this is just after a few weeks um if you're on a plant-based diet low ter long term um levels drop even further and their igf-1 binding proteins go up

that's one of the ways our body suppresses cancer growth protect itself from cancer protect itself from excessive growth by releasing this binding protein into the bloodstream to bind up to tie up igf-1 it's like our body's uh you know kind of emergency break yes in as a little as 11 days right a plant-based diet can reprogram your body to bring down igf-1 production right what about all the igf1 that's circulating from the you know bacon and eggs you ate last week right so the liver releases this snatch Squad of binding proteins to tie up um

to take all this igf1 out of circulation and as you can see it just gets better um with time the longer we eat healthy here's the experiment that nailed igf1 as the villain all right same as last time go on a plant-based diet plant-based diet and cancer cell growth rates drop dramatically right and cancer cell death shoots up already saw that but then here's the kicker what if you ask added back to the cancer the exact same amount of igf-1 banished from your body by eating a plant-based diet eating plantbased diet goes back let's take

that same igf1 add it back to the cancer and see what happens and it erases the diet exercise effect it's as if you never started eating healthy at all right so that's how we know that lowering Animal product consumption leads to lower igf1 which leads to lower cancer growth growth but how low does our Animal product consumption have to go how plant-based do our diets have to get well let's look at the igf-1 levels of mediators compared to vegetarians compared to vegans right does a plant-based diet um is it better at uh lowering circulating levels

of igf-1 compared to a meeting diet or a lacto oo diet and this is what they found right only the vegans me eaters vegetarians vegans only the vegans had significantly lower levels and the same relationship was found with igf-1 binding protein levels right that's what we want higher again we got nothing here um when really had to go to that final step vegans um to significantly bind up all that excess igf1 in their bloodstreams right this was a study done uh um on women what about what about vegan men they found they found the same

thing so even though vegan men tend to have significantly higher levels of testosterone then both vegetarians are meaters um which actually can can promote the growth of prate cancer but the reason vegans a vegan diet can actually reverse the progression of cancer um which we've saw I've shown you in previous years um the dean orish work um may be uh because of how low their igf-1 levels are so high testosterone but still low cancer in the vegans the bottom line is that male or female right just eating a vegetarian diet did not seem to cut

it right didn't do your body many favors right looks like to get that significant drop in that cancer promoting um growth hormone levels one really has to move towards it's eliminating animal products alog together now the good news is is that now based on what we know about igf-1 we can predict um that a vegan diet uh may be profoundly protective with respect to risk for example um for breast cancer in older women okay just 13 leading causes of death to go um all right let's run through the list here the top three killers used

to be heart disease cancer stroke that is so 2011 now it's heart disease cancer and COPD like empyema all right um uh so uh thankfully COPD can be prevented with a plant-based diet and even treated with plants if you want to check that out now of course the the tobacco industry took these Landmark findings a little differently instead of adding plants to people's diets to prevent empyema wouldn't it be simpler to just add them to cigarettes and voila the addition of aai berries to cigarettes evidently has a protective effect against empa and smoking mice next

they're going to start putting berries and meat right I couldn't make this up people look at this adding fruit extracts to Burgers right now with this was not without its glitches uh the blackberries literally dyed the burgers with this kind of distinct purplish color though infusing lamb carcasses with kiwi fruit juice um before riam Mora set in does evidently lead to Greater tenderness in the meat um and it is possible to improve the nutritional profile of frankf Footers by adding groundup grape seeds um uh though there were complaints that the grape seed particles right were

visible in the final product and look if there's one thing we know about hot dog eaters is that they're picky about what goes in their food [Applause] right Pig anus okay but grape [Music] seeds preventing Strokes number four preventing Strokes is all about eating pottassium rich foods pottassium from the words pot ash you take any plant put it in a pot reduce it to Ash and what you're left with is pot ashum true story but can anyone name me a plant food particularly high in potassium why is that like the one thing everyone knows about

nutrition seriously like did chaita have like this great PR firm or something I bet you could walk into the Heart Attack Grill where they're eating food like this right ask anyone and they'd be like I don't know D but I do know bananas got pest right right all right in reality bananas don't even make the top 50 sources coming in at number 86 right behind fast food vanilla milkshakes and then bananas all right and uh the top five sources are tomato and orange concentrates and in terms of whole food sources it is greens beans and

dates in fact if you look at the next leading cause of death right bananas could be down right [Music] dangerous Alzheimer's Alzheimer's now are six lead and cause of death we've known for 20 years now that those who eat meat red or white um including poultry and fish were between two and three times more likely to become demented compared to vegetarians and the longer that you're vegetarian the lower your risk of developing dementia but the exciting new research um is actually on treating Alzheimer's using these natural plant remedies which actually beat out Placebo and worked

as well as leading Alzheimer's drug um again on the website all for free um next on the kick the bucket list is diabetes which can be prevented with a plant-based diet and treated with a plant-based diet and even reversed in many cases of a plant-based diet and I encourage everyone to check out Brenda's talk at 3:00 this afternoon this is from October those eating vegetarian had uh had significantly lower rates than meat eaters right but it was the vegans that did the best and this is the surprising thing this was after controlling for obesity right

sure vegans got lower diabetes rates right they're so skinny right but even at the same weight vegans have just a fraction of the diabetes risk why are vegans on average so slim obesity is so rare among those eating plant-based dies nutrition researchers have been desperate to try to uncover the secret yes they eat fewer calories but not that many fewer in the past years I've gone through a number of theories to try to explain this maybe it's because people leaving Plant strong diets you know Express more of that fat shoveling enzyme in the mitochondria the

power plants of our cells I've talked about that maybe it's because the gut bacteria um populations are different um maybe it's because of avoiding the obesogenic chemicals um these disrupting chemicals in the meat Supply there an obesity causing virus and poultry that may even be um playing a role we're not sure theories keep coming here's the latest Theory maybe it's the propionate after all what's one of the one things that's only in plant Foods fiber right animals have bones to hold them up plants have fiber to hold them up right now we say I thought

fiber was defined as our inability to digest it right well true we can't break break down fiber but the gazillions of good bacteria in our guts can and what do they make with it they make propionate which gets absorbed into our bloodstream so technically we can digest fiber but just not without a Little Help from our little friends so but what does propionate do well it inhibits cholesterol synthesis that's good it also appears to have what's called a hypophagic effect meaning it helps us eat less by apparently slowing the emptying of our stomach X um

which makes us feel Fuller longer propionate um regulates food intake or whether it's because it slows the generation of uh new fat cells but it results in this overall anti-obesity effect um so um and we can actually boost the populations of these good bacteria in our guts without taking probiotics just by eating vegetarian right because we're feeding our little friends with fiber animal Foods also tend to be calorically dense for example to walk off the calories found in a single Pat of butter you'd have to walk add an extra 700 yards to your evening stroll

that day right or a quar mile jog to each sardine we put in our mouth right and that's just the edible part and any who choose to eat two chicken legs better get out on their own two legs and go run an extra three miles that day to outrun weight game and that's for steamed chicken skin removed here's the latest meat consumption and prospective weight gain right we're talking hundreds of thousands of men and women studied across 10 countries with weight gain measured over a 5-year period what did they find Total meat consumption associated with

weight gain um in men and women the conclusion is that uh the um the decrease in meat consumption May improve weight management and this was after for controlling for initial weight and physical activity education level smoking status total energy intake what that's the kicker this was after controlling for calories right the link between meat and weight gain remained even after controlling for calories meaning you have two people eating the same number of calories the one eating more meat May gain more weight they even calculated how much more intake of 250 gram of meat a day

which is nothing for compared to what the the US um eats will lead to an annual weight gain 422 gram higher than the weight gain experienc with the same calorie diet with lower meat content after 5 years the uh weight gain be about 5 pounds more so same calories you had 5 lbs heavier eating meat and steak was nothing the strongest Rel relationship between annual weight gain was observed for poultry let's say you you start out at normal weight eat a hamburger every day right well this is how much extra weight you gain in addition

to the calories that are present um what and if you ate the same number of calories instead of processed meat like a ham sandwich with three slices of jelly meat you'd be up to here and then half a chicken breast um put you up to here again above and beyond the calories in conclusion our results indicate that meat intake positively associated with weight gain this persisted after adjusting for energy intake and therefore um we're in favor of this public health recommendation to decrease meat consumption for health Improvement uh for more make sure to check out

the meat industry's take on this study very interesting um as well as pcm's wonderful work trying to put a vegan diet um to work in a corporate SED kidney failure eth leading cause of death can be prevented with a plant-based diet can be treated with a plant-based diet why because our kidneys are highly vascular organs right that's why kidneys look so red inside our two little kidneys filter through our entire bloodstream and so if the standard American diet is so toxic to blood vessels in our heart brain and pelvis leading to heart attack stroke sexual

dysfunction what might it be doing to our kidneys long story short Harvard researchers found three significant risk factors for declining kidney function meaning losing you start to lose protein out your urine your body's not supposed to be peeing out as protein the three risk factors for declining kidney function were animal protein animal fat and cholesterol it's not protein is not fat animal protein animal fat no relationship found with plant protein and plant fat not only do vegans appear to have better kidney function but dramatic improvements were found treating kidney failure patients with pure vegetarian diets

after just one week right leading killer number nine is people dying from respiratory infections um so uh check out my um my video kale and the immune system talking about the imun immunos stimulatory effects of kale is there anything kale can't do and if you uh look at my uh video boosting immunity through diet which is actually if you can see this June 28th this is just the video uh of the day that went up on Wednesday um you can see that um eating just a few extra fruits and vegetables can significantly improve one's immune

response to pacle pneumonia suicide is number 10 now last year at Summerfest I talked about improving mood through diet we know vegetarian diets were have been associated with healthier mood States but you don't know if it's cause and effect until you put it to the test and that's what was done this year you take regular meat eaters and you remove meat fish poultry and eggs in this study from their diets and you can see a significant Improvement in mood scores after just two weeks it can take drugs like Prozac you know months to take effect

in fact the way drugs like proac work is they boost the levels of the so-called happiness hormone serotonin did you know that there was there is serotonin in Plants I had no idea I certainly didn't but there's serotonin and dopamine and all sorts of human neurotransmitters in plants so much so there's been a call to start treating depression with high content sources of Serotonin you know like plantains pineapples bananas kiwis plums and tomatoes right and what's the down I mean what's what's the side effects you got a little seed stuck in your teeth or something

maybe that's why high intake of fruits vegetables mushrooms and soy associated with decreased prevalence of depression maybe that's why improved behavior in teenagers was significantly associated with higher intakes of leafy green vegetables and fresh fruit uh for more uh keep an eye out for my videos on the wrong way to boost serotonin which is by these tryptophan supplements A Better Way um to raise serotonin to fight things like premenstrual depression um and and then the best way um as reported in this double blind Placebo controlled crossover study on the successful use of butternut squash seeds

in the treatment of social anxiety disorder for example amazing how might a plant-based diet prevent systemic infections well meat born bacteria can directly invade one's bloodstream through the intestinal wall or in women can creep up into their bladder just this month June 2012 we have direct DNA fingerprinting proof finally right that women eating meat are getting urinary tract infections from eating meat contaminated with fecal bacteria that then crawl up into their blood and chickens are the most likely Reservoir wait a second you can't sell unsafe cars you can't sell unsafe toys how is it legal

to sell unsafe meat well they do it by blaming the consumer as one USDA poultry microbiologist said Meats raw meats are not idiot proof they can be mishandled and when they are it's like handling a hand grenade you pull the pin someone's going to get hurt see if we get sick it's our fault right now while some may question the wisdom of selling hand grenades in supermarkets the USDA poultry expert disagrees says I think the consumer has the most responsibility but just refuses to accept it right it's like a car company saying yeah we installed

faulty brakes but it's your fault for not putting your kid in a seat belt right a director at the Centers for Disease Control responded famously to this kind of blame the victim attitude from the meat industry is it reasonable she asked if a consumer under Cooks a hamburger that their three-year-old dies is that reasonable not to worry though the meat Industries on want it all right they just got FDA approval for a bacteria eating virus to spray on the meat now some have raised concerns about these so-called bacteria fages um such as the possibility that

these viruses can spread toxin genes between bacteria which wouldn't do good especially given the difficulties I mean preventing large numbers of these viruses from being released into the environment from the slaughter houses right now it could also allow the industry to become more complacent about food safety right if they know they can just kind of spray some viruses on at the end right similar to the Quick Fix argument about irradiation from the industry point of view right who cares if there's feal matter in the meats as long as you can just blast it at the

end with enough radiation right now the meat industry is concern that consumer acceptance of these bacteria eating viruses may present somewhat of a challenge to the food industry uh not that they'd ever be labeled of course um but if they think that's going to be a challenge check out their other Bright Idea the effects of extracted house fly pupe on chilled Port preservation this is a sciency way of saying they want to smear a maggot mixture on the meat now it's a low cost simple method think about it maggots thrive on rotting meat yet there

have been no reports of maggots having any serious diseases not that anyone's really checked but I mean right indicating that they have a strong immune system right they must be packed with some kind of antibacterial properties otherwise they they die themselves eating rotting meat all right so they took maggots that were 3 days old washed them dried them kind of toweled them off put them in a tissue blender kind of a little Vitamix action there and then voila safer meat we did kidney failure what about liver failure we've known for 35 years since now you

can't even see this 1977 that a vegetable protein diet can be used to treat liver failure significantly reducing the toxins that otherwise would build up eating meat with a less than functional liver right imagine eating meat without you know without a fully functioning liver to detoxify your blood I do have to admit though that some people living on plant-based diets have worsening liver function they're called alcoholics in fact strictly plant-based right uh living on potatoes and corn and barley and grapes yeah still however not doing so hot it's unclear high blood pressure is up next

so-called essential hypertention essentially only found in those who eat meat again look at this we've known for decades it's 1974 out of Hopkins right we've known that consumption of foods of animal origin highly significantly associated with blood pressure even after again the weight effects are removed right fast forward 39 years to 2012 and compared to nonvegetarians compared to meat eaters as you get more and more plant-based right some so meat eater to flexitarian to just eating fish to lact over vegetarian to vegan looks what happens to hypertension high blood pressure right there is this Progressive

reduction in Risk to just a tiny fraction see the same thing in diabetes here's diabetes right again the stepwise reduction of risk as one eliminates animal products um on down right and uh oh and same thing with body mass index right um as you can see um obesity rates get lower and lower in fact vegans are actually the only population on average that was not overweight even the vegetarians were overweight all right diabetes hypertension leading causes of death is it going to take take the medical profession another 39 years before we actually do something about

it how long does it take being vegan to bring blood pressures down 12 days right McDougall took 500 meaters put them on a vegan diet over a span of 11 days Dro their blood pressure 6% about double that drop in those that were hypertensive to begin with 14th leading killer Parkinson's disease does a vegan diet reduce risk for Parkinson's Disease good question well we know that every single perspective study ever done on um dairy products milk consumption and the risk of Parkinson's disease found increased risk of Parkinson's why well one possibility is that dairy products

in the United States are contaminated with neurotoxic chemicals there's substantial evidence um suggesting that exposure to p pcid may increase Parkinson's disease risk and these autopsy Studies have found that the levels of these pollutants and pesticides in the brains of elevated levels in the brains of of Parkinson's disease patients and some of these toxins are present at low levels in dairy products they're talking about toxins um like tetrahydroisoquinoline which is a parkinsonism related compound found particularly in cheese now although the amounts of this neurotoxin even in cheese are not very high the concern is that

they may accumulate these neurotoxins May accumulate in the brain over long periods of consumption and finally uh aspiration pneumonia which is caused by swallowing problems due to Parkinson's or having a stroke or Alzheimer's all of which we've already covered all right so where does that leave us these are the top 15 causes the of death of top 15 reasons Americans die and a plant-based diet can help prevent nearly all of them can help treat more than half of them and some cases even reverse the progression of disease including our top three killers now there are

drugs that can help too right you can take one drug to treat cholesterol every day for the rest of your life another drug for blood sugar a few more pills for uh for your for your blood pressure the same diet though does it all right it's not like you know one diet for this and then a different diet for this right one diet to rule them all and what about drug side effects I'm not talking about a little rash or something prescription drugs kill more than a 100,000 Americans every year and I'm not talking about

medication errors not abuse not overdose we're talking this is just deaths from side effects so calleded 80 adverse drug reactions to prescription drugs wait a second 100,000 deaths a year that means let's go down the list whoa that means that the sixth leading cause of death in the United States is doctors the sixth leading cause of death is me thankfully I can be prevented with a plant-based diet seriously though um uh uh compared to 15,000 American vegetarians meat eaters had about twice the odds of being on aspirin sleeping pills tranquilizers an acids painkillers blood pressure

medications laxatives and Insulin right so plant-base DS are great for people that don't like taking drugs don't like paying for drugs um and of course don't like risking adverse effects right now this study did show that plant-based diets have their own side effects side effects include a lower risk of chronic disease fewer allergies fewer surgeries we're talking um fewer varicose veins and hemorrhoids even fewer hysterectomies um and we're not talking just to Big Killers right not just less heart disease cancer this is the long longest study on vegetarians in human history uh not just less

heart disease and stroke and high blood pressure and diabetes but less diverticulosis less if you can read this less some diseases overall right that's the side effects of a plant-based diet less disease overall here's the Allies thing again longest running study on vegetarians in history women who we meet compared to vegetarians appear to have a 30% greater risk of reporting chemical allergies um 24% asthma more drug allergies even more Beast allergies um 15% more hay fever a new side effect of plant-based diets we just learned about last year fewer cataracts right that's what we get

fewer cataracts the leading cause of blindness and vision loss compared to those just eating a single serving of meat A Day right in one meal those eating half a serving a day um dropped the risk 15% um just eat fish dropped about 21% get rid of fish fish drop 30% get rid of eggs and dairy full 40% drop in risk and that's all in addition to my favorite side effect of plant-based diets helping to prevent 15 out of our 16 top Killers want to solve the healthc care crisis I've got a suggestion imagine if our

nation embraced a plant-based dieet right imagine if we just significantly cut back on meat well there's actually one country that did it after World War II Finland joined us and started packing on the meat eggs and dairy and by 1970s the mortality rate from heart disease of Finnish men was the highest in the world even put us to shame so look they didn't want to die so they got serious heart disease is caused by high cholesterol high cholesterol is caused by high saturated fat intake so the main focus of the strategy was to reduce the

highs saturated fat intake in the country so this means uh here that's cheese chicken uh cake and pork basically all right so a berry project was launched to help Dairy Farmers switch to Berry farming right whatever it took and indeed many farmers did switch from dairies to berries they pitted PES against each other in these friendly cholesterol Lo competitions to see who could who could do the best all right so how' they do right look on a population scale even if mortality rates Dro you know 5% I mean that could save thousands of lives right

but remarkably great changes took place an 80% drop in cardiac mortality across the entire country 80% drop in heart disease deaths with such greatly reduced rates of cardiovascular and cancer mortality the all colors mortality was basically almost cut in half leading to um seven more years men living seven more years six more years for women right and uh look this is just cutting down on animal products now vying for the world record for heart disease deaths of course the United States of America so why doesn't our government make these same recommendations uh well you know

I've got this whole series of videos the conflicts of interest within the US dietary guidelines committees they're the ones that make the recommendations right um and indeed whether they're funded by candy bar corporations or the sugar Association or a member of uh McDonald's Council on Healthy Lifestyles serving on Coca cola's beverage Institute for health and wellness uh and notice we only know about this thanks to a pcrm lawsuit against the USDA very impressive one Committee Member um served as the Duncan Hines brand girl and then it's the krisco brand girl these are the folks all

right dictate us nutrition policy right if you read the official dietary guideline recommendations you'll know note that there is no discussion at all of the scientific research on the health consequences of eating meat why because if the committee actually discussed this research it would be unable to justify its recommendation to eat meat at all as the research would show that meat increases the risk for chronic diseas is contrary to the purpose of having dietary guidelines in the first place right thus by simply ignoring the research that the committee is able to come to a conclusion

that would otherwise look improper right all right right um you know so they can't even talk about the science right we know that a plant-based diet fruits vegetables whole grains legumes no meat um reverses heart disease completely prevents death from Hardy slows the progression of cancer and the almost identical diet promoted by the world cancer research fund prevent cancer based on the largest review of scientific studies to death uh to date but again right they can't even talk about the science um because how could they justify anything but a plant-based di let me end with

what probably the best summary of nutrition policy in the United States that I've ever seen the new dietary guidelines have been released right they tell us to eat healthier but not as healthy as to noticeably affect any corporate profits thank you very much [Applause] [Applause] W than you don't forget to check out my new video every day please share the site with friends and family um buy them all DVDs all proceeds to charity and remember please feel free to stop by for a free cholesterol check see everybody there thank you Dr