you know Dr esselon that who has the most militant position and he looks great he's about 10 years older than we are Dr Caldwell elen Jr a 91-year-old doctor general surgeon and Trailblazer in the plant-based nutrition movement has helped countless patients overcome heart conditions including former President Bill Clinton before diving into Dr elon's top six foods to avoid for protecting and strengthening endothelial cells let's take a moment to learn about what President Clinton eats to maintain his hard Health at just 58 years old Clinton underwent a 4-Hour heart surgery in 2004 however after adopting the
plant-based diet recommended by Dr tin he has remained healthy and thriving at 78 years old in 2025 his story is a testament to the transformative power of nutrition and I live on beans legumes vegetables fruit I drink a protein supplement every morning no Dairy I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and a protein powder so I get the protein for the day when I start the day out and it changed my whole metabolism I did it because after I had this stent put in I realized that even though it happens quite often that after
you have bypasses you lose the veins cuz they're thinner and weaker than arteries the truth is that it clogged up which means that the cholesterol was still calling buildup in my vein that was part of my bypass and thank God I could take the stance I don't want to happen again so I did all this research and I saw that 82% of the people since 1986 who have gone on a plant-base no Dairy no meat of any can no chicken turkey I eat very little fish once in a while I'll have a little fish not
often if you can do it 82% of the people who' have done that have begun to heal themselves their arterial blockage cleans up the calcium deposit around their heart breaks up let's discuss what the president former president said uh with the doctors behind the diet that helped the Mr Clinton change his life Dr Caldwell esselon is the author of prevent and reverse heart disease the truth were known that coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress what we've heard from President Clinton
is the remarkable change that he's been willing to make to remove completely from his nutrition those foods which we know will devastate and injure the interlining of your arteries and the remarkable thing is the capacity the body has to heal itself and when you do what President Clinton has done will you completely try to remove any foods that are going to injure Your Vessel body has this remarkable capacity begin to heal itself and I'm afraid that as a medical profession we perhaps have fallen down and really emphasized too much the drugs and the procedures and
the operations which really treat the symptoms they do not treat the causation of this illness this is one of the few times since hypocrates that we have not told patients about the causation of their illness in this video we'll explore the top six foods to avoid to protect and strengthen your endothelial cells the vital lining of your blood vessels but before that let's dive into how exactly junk Foods harm your blood vessels and heart health when when you are eating the cheeseburger the milkshake the pizza the first thing that starts to happen in your bloodstream
is those cellular elements begin to get sticky sticky sticky your endothelial cells get sticky your platelets your clotting Factor get sticky your white blood cells get sticky your LDL cholesterol gets sticky when Dr Robert vogle was chairman of Cardiology at University of Maryland when he took a group of healthy young subjects to a certain fast food restaurant characterized by arches which are golden half of them got the cornflakes their breul AR turnic aest normal now the other half had the hash browns and sausage and within 120 Minutes of eating that meal with the braul AR
T Test they could not dilate the artery that single meal had so sufficiently trashed injured compromised and turned that endothelial system into a train wreck that they couldn't dilate the artery however being young as they followed them into the late afternoon early evening they began to recover yet you and I know that the next morning for breakfast it's going to be scrambled eggs and bacon lunchtime it'll probably be white bread with cold cuts and mayonnaise and then at supper time we'll have baked potato with sour cream lamp chops vegetable salt and butter ranch dressing on
the salad and ice cream for dessert here in the good old USA starting as kids youngsters we just take those endothelial cells and we crush them and we beat them and we destroy them and it's no great mystery why it is that we have such an epidemic of cardiovascular disease who are the people who are sick they were all the previously well how did they get sick by eating the foods that injured them and some of those people in took enough of those foods to injure them to the point where they got sick I'm reminded
of a study several years ago of 95,000 patient years of followup with the men and women who were 55 years of age and they had absolutely optimal risk factors their weight their blood pressure their cholesterol everything was fine and they followed them for 30 years at age 85 now 30% of the women and 40% of the men had now developed cardiovascular disease we have to kind of think carefully about those who are well today and what is the message that we want to give them to maintain them in that state the number one culprit when
it comes to damaging endial cells is oil no oil no oil no oil why why because the data olive oil is terribly seductive Scott Gund Grundy did some studies that are very short term that showed that it increases your good cholesterol lowers your bad cholesterol improves your ratio it got a huge amount of press doctors heard about it and therefore it must be wonderful right wrong because you look at longer term studies blanken horn right in the California two groups of patients one saturated fat the other mono unsaturated like alive oil the Baseline angiogram at
the end of the year the anigram disease of coronary disease had Pro progress just as much in each group Lawrence Rudell in the Research Triangle took the African green monkey simar lipid metabolism to man saturated unsaturated 5 years in the monounsaturated olive oil group higher HDL lower LDL better ratio autopsy just as much coronary disease the oil companies didn't like that so Lawrence Rell repeated the study with rodents and the result the same Dr vogle has gone on and shown us indeed that olive oil activ Ates clotting Factor 7 just as much as butter vogle
in a separate study and on in a separate study have shown how it impairs flow mediated dilation that I just talked to you about the brauler tesque the journal the of the of the National Cancer Institute olive oil along with meat and dairy is implicated in the a risk factor for breast cancer oil all oils olive oil corn oil soybean oil saff oil sunflower oil oil in the cracker oil and bread oil cell addressing oil Ines endothelial cells here is a peer-reviewed scientific study showing that Olive soybean and palm oil intake have a similar acute
detrimental effect over the endothelial function in healthy young subjects remember the whole thing you're trying to do to protect yourself from cardiovascular disease you want to have all the nitric oxide you can and the nitric oxide is being produced by your endothelial cells that line the artery so I don't like anything that's going to injure the endothelial cell and so I think the data are pretty clear also I have yet to see a study of patients who are seriously ill with cardiovascular disease we're going on a diet of oil as regular part of it that
they've ever arrested or reversed the disease one of the questions I always ask people is how often do you eat out and the first reply I almost always get is oh not very often and I said well would you mind going over that again well maybe maybe once or twice maybe three times a week if it's somebody who's already had a heart attack that and then go to a restaurant because you're going to get oil unless you can have a special relationship with a chef which you can do but all the all the menus have
oil so if you're going three times a week that's about 106 days out of 365 that you're further destroying the endothelial tissue which is so vital for making nitric oxide which was responsible for the first heart attack that that patient who's inquiring had the second is caffeinated coffee I'm a little bit tough on coffee with caffeine and let me tell you why I prefer my patients to have coffee is decf wonderful Greek study then there's an Italian study and I'll share with you the Italian study the spring of 2010 European journal of clinical nutrition the
Italians took two groups of young subjects one getting decaf the other getting caffeinated coffee then they did the braul arer contest switch groups it was always the group that was having coffee with caffeine that injures the endothelial production of nitric oxide cuz that's what we want we want nitric oxide how about tea the data don't seem to be quite as harsh as something about the mixture of the coffee with caffeine because I don't see the same problem with black tea or green tea which has caffeine Dr esselin focuses on Whole Food plant-based diet so it's
not surprising to find meat on the list as does anything with a mother or face meat fish chicken foul turkey in October of 2015 the World Health Organization imagine this the who membership from all over the world came together and agreed that red meat now had the same level of carcin genicity as smoking cigarettes the fourth is alcohol alcohol is a toxin and there more recent Studies have clearly shown that when you metabolize alcohol it goes to an alahh and that's not a wonderful thing for your cells so it's alcohol is toxic to your brain
it's toxic to your liver it's toxic to your kidneys I think that probably it's not at all unreasonable since I'm such a liberal that if you want to have a glass of wine or a glass of beer on a Saturday night or a Friday night that's okay the fifth is sugar in excess maple syrup molasses and honey in excess you got to go easy on the sugar I mean fructose injures endothelia cells the final food we should avoid for endothelium health is dairy dairy milk cream butter cheese ice cream and yogurt now let's summarize top
six Foods we should not eat for Better endothelial Health we avoid the foods that injure the endothelium what are they even pure virgin olive oil corn oil soybean oil safur o sunflower oil coconut oil palm oil Dairy anything with a mother or a face meat fish meat fish chicken and turkey and also caffeine and coffee and fructose
