What A Plant Based Diet Does To Your Body? 28 Days on a Vegan Diet

18 June 2025


What A Plant Based Diet Does To Your Body? 28 Days on a Vegan Diet



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Eating a plant-based diet improves the health of your gut so you are better able to absorb the nutrients from food that support your immune system and reduce inflammation. Fiber can lower cholesterol and stabilize blood sugar and it's great for good bowel management.


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we are going to be talking about the first 28 days of eating a plant-based diet and to break it all down for us is Dr alan Desmond he is a gastroenterenterologist from across the pond and now the author for the first time a great new book called A Plant-Based Diet Revolution dr alan Desmond welcome back to the exam room thanks for having me back Chuck really nice to spend time with you again thanks for having me good to join you man the pleasure is all mine my friend congratulations on this book let's just go ahead and dive right in the subtitle of the book is 28 days to a happier gut there it is a happier gut and a healthier you so a lot of people think man why even bother to make a change i can't do anything in a month but 28 days 4 weeks how much can happen oh a ton i mean the the reason I've written the book I mean Chuck we've talked before um about how important giving people evidence-based dietary advice is to my clinical practice and um I've seen my patients really optimize their results revolutionize their health and get the best possible outcomes from their medical treatment by making healthier changes and people hear about this all the time thanks to you and Dr bernard um and other doctors I guess doctors like me talking about this stuff and spreading the good word but they've also hear from heard from celebrities like maybe like Lewis Hamilton or Tora Washington or David Beckham the footballer talking about why a healthy whole food plant-based diet can bring you so many health benefits and a lot of our focus is on the long-term health benefits and my book certainly breaks that all down um in a digestible way but also in a very detailed way but I thought tonight it would be interesting to talk about those first 28 days because sometimes people don't realize that you can really kickstart a lot of healthy changes in your body in just those first 28 days the research tells us that you can during those first 28 days of eating a healthy whole food plant-based diet you can kickstart healthy weight loss you can lower your cholesterol significantly you can improve diabetic control reduce intestinal inflammation even generate beneficial shifts within your gut microbiome and reduce your risk of gastrointestinal cancer now throughout my book I give I mean the book is over like 300 scientific references but for tonight's conversation I thought I would just choose six studies that I mention in the book that give us an idea of what we can do in 28 days so the first study Chuck I'm going to give you was published by Dr hans Deal way back in 1998 when I was still in medical school so Dr deal was had been um an instructor at Nathan Pritikan's Institute um where individuals would be come and be hospitalized and learn about the benefits of whole food plant-based diet of course famously Dr michael Greger's grandmother was a patient at the Pritikin Institute dr deal decided to find out if he could get the same benefits by going out into the community and having a community-based program that would teach individuals to eat what he described as the optimal diet and guess what the optimal diet was chuck can you guess i'm going to go out on a limb here and say a plant-based diet a whole food plant-based diet so he got 300 residents from Kalamazoo Michigan and 70% of them were overweight onethird already had heart disease and one half had hypertension high blood pressure so these people needed uh they needed their own plant-based diet revolution so he got them to eat the optimal diet beans greens fruits vegetables legumes and whole grains and in just 28 days um without any portion control or calorie counting they dropped an average of six lbs in body weight and we had people moving from obese into overweight and people moving from overweight into healthy body weight in just four weeks and those are big milestones for individuals to cross for uh Dr deals volunteers way back in 1998 they also recorded significant drops in blood pressure and significant drops in cholesterol in just 28 days and in fact the results were so good Chuck as you may know that Dr deal went on to found the uh complete health improvement program and since then um he and his colleagues have helped tens of thousands of people to make the change to whole food plant-based diet and improve their health and they've published over 40 research papers showing just how effective it is that's study number one just 28 days and and I'll tell you one of the key things just to me as a former overweight guy the fact that you said that these volunteers these participants did not have to count calories any longer i would go out I would go so far as to say that the majority of them had tried to diet previously and all of those diets included counting calories counting points watching your fat intake and that is so tiresome it it just taxes you mentally to the point where it breaks you and it makes the diet unsustainable and so that's when you yo-yo diet and you put that weight back on so the fact of the matter is with these this group of individuals on that whole food plant-based diet they didn't have to do it right then and there I can tell you as a former overweight guy that sets them up for success exactly that's so important and that's one of the beauties of a whole food plant-based diet um so for example if you're looking to improve your cholesterol and you're taking a different route your GP your doctor may have you only consuming white meat and only having one chicken breast per day because it's supposedly lower in cholesterol now number one we know that approach doesn't work but number two you're you're having to measure everything because you don't want too much of that bad stuff whereas on whole food plant-based diet you know everything you're eating everything on your plate is beneficial to your body so that sort of portion control becomes a thing of the past let's uh sorry go ahead sorry i'm just trying to steer the show man and you're doing a good job too let's go ahead and talk about that second study number two of six well actually this is just um evidence drawn from my own personal experience because it was very much inspired by Dr deal's work all those years ago so we talked about this before Chuck um earlier this year at the very start of 2020 before Corona virus when we were all still feeling optimistic and happy to be in a new decade um my friends um local GPS myself Steven and David Flynn plant-based chefs recruited 150 health care professionals half of whom were doctors themselves but almost every one of them was eating a standard western diet a kind of standard British diet with meat and dairy and eggs and cream they all pretty much considered them healthy but I promised them with just 28 days of eating a whole food plant-based diet without portion control or calorie counting that they would experience significant health benefits and 28 days later just in those four first four weeks of eating a plant-based diet we saw pretty impressive benefits the individuals the health care professionals who were hypertensive so at a high blood pressure dropped their systolic by an average of 14 millimeters of mercury now anyone who's been prescribed blood pressure pills knows that to drop your systolic by that amount you need maybe one or two new pills each day we did it without pills Chuck a drop of 13 mil or 14 millm of mercury among the individuals who had a high harmful cholesterol that's the non-HDL the aoggenic cholesterol the one that uh clogs up your arteries and causes heart disease and stroke in just 28 days we saw an average reduction of 26.5% so we had at the start of that study um we had about 70 we had about I think about 35 to 40% of individuals had a raised or significantly raised harmful cholesterol by the end of just 28 days almost everybody in the group had gotten that number into the healthy range the there was two people who didn't and they were just above the healthy range and in fact one of those individuals was a lady with a ch with a condition called familial hyperc cholesterolimeia and she had been told there was nothing she could do about her genetics that she was going to have a very high cholesterol level for her entire life she was a woman in her 50s um so she'd been living with that advice for decades and after just 28 days on a whole food plant-based diet she had almost gotten that number into the healthy range alongside that in 28 days we saw an average weight loss of 3.2 kilos maximum weight loss 9.5 kilos so again we had people in just 28 days people who'd been living with obesity for decades suddenly finding themselves far closer to a healthier healthier body weight i'm curious because these were health care professionals what were their hypotheses before this adventure began were they skeptical of what it was you were telling them or did they think “Oh my goodness we're really about to change some stuff here.” I got to say many of them were quite skeptical um but I'd been given a really um good opportunity i'd been invited to speak at two medical conferences that happened very quickly in a row um just a few weeks before Christmas last year and I was basically given an hour and a half Chuck to speak to groups of senior family physicians and I was given an hour and a half on both occasions and I gave them a guided tour of all the evidence that we see that you and I are so familiar at looking at and hearing about Dr bernard's papers the Eat Lancet report um the Broad Study from New Zealand all of this weight of evidence that shows us how beneficial a whole food plant-based diet can be but which they'd just never seen before so when you talk to family physicians about dropping blood pressure reversing hypertension helping people to lose weight and reverse their type 2 diabetes and they've never heard about this stuff before their jaws are on the floor and because they'd never heard about it before they were skeptical but having experienced the benefits for themselves I'm delighted to report that suddenly they most of them got tremendously enthusiastic and even now in the midst of this pandemic when it's become even more important to address these issues perhaps technically a little bit more difficult um we still have patients we have now who are going through the same program that's outstanding i love I love the fact that the results continue on into this day and now are being implemented with their patients you know the proof is in the pudding as they say um let's uh keep moving along so we've got six studies we've talked about two what's the third my friend well you know I love a microbiome study Chuck it's my thing who doesn't love a good microbiome study who doesn't love a gut a good gut microbiome uh study particularly me um in fact the gut microbial benefits of a healthier approach to food and how that affects our body in its totality is like a thread that runs through the entire book including the recipes when we've got 80 beautiful fully illustrated plant-based recipes in there but let's talk a little bit about the gut microbiome now you may be familiar Chuck your listeners may be familiar with the term metabolic syndrome now metabolic syndrome refers to three conditions obesity high blood pressure and high cholesterol these three conditions occur together so frequently that doctors call them the metabolic syndrome as if there's something wrong with the individual as if they've got some kind of genetic problem so they have this syndrome it it makes it sound inevitable right it makes it feel it makes it sound like the person was born with a problem and and the obesity high blood pressure and high cholesterol is just that problem expressing itself but we know that that is just not true in fact the so-called metabolic syndrome is driven by the standard American diet the standard western diet and the evidence showing that is clear so in 2013 um a group of researchers in South Korea decided to find out if the opposite was true if the standard western standard American diet drives metabolic syndrome could you reverse metabolic syndrome by putting individuals on a healthy whole food plant-based diet so they got a group of volunteers with obesity high blood pressure and high cholesterol and they made the switch from a standard western diet to a whole food plant-based diet these people were consuming about 42 gram of fiber per day they're getting 34 of their calories from healthy whole carbohydrates again no portion control no calorie counting and what they noticed during the those first 28 days was that these individuals lost an average of 10% body weight which is a significant amount of weight to lose they noted marked improvement in their blood sugar control and their cholesterol they're getting 70% of the calories from carbohydrates healthy whole carbohydrates and they're eating a cholesterol-free diet so they get improvements in their blood sugars and their cholesterol but even in those first 28 days they recorded changes in their volunteers gut microbiomes that helped to explain these benefits levels of the bacteria we call firmicute bacteria which are associated with obesity decreased while levels of bactaroides species associated with healthy body weight increased and what what they did in this study which is also really interesting was they measured baseline levels of gut inflammation fecal markers of inflammatory reactions in the lining of the gut and in those first 28 days again the baseline levels of inflammation within their gut that these individuals had on a standard western diet came right down so what these researchers had shown that not only are whole food plant-based uh menu items delicious and tasty and filling they can also help us to reverse the all aspects of the metabolic syndrome while simultaneously improving our gut microbiome and reducing baseline levels of gut inflammation so that's I mean that's a lot 28 days right yeah and and I'm still hung up on the fact that 10% of their body mass lost in those 28 days everybody wants to know how quickly will the weight come off well there you go that is no small amount right there 10% that's enormous yes absolutely and for someone who's living with obesity or overweight that that can make a real difference and again that's just those first 28 days so it's it's pretty remarkable science right i love that man let's get some more remarkable science what's the fourth study you've got for us well the fourth study is another 28-day study because this is our theme but this is a 28-day study that did something really really interesting so a group of researchers were really interested in 2019 in looking at the effect of different diets on the human gut microbiome and they were specifically interested in TMAO so when we eat meat which contains carnitine and eggs which contain choline um our gut microbiome metabolizes these into a substance called TMA tma enters our bloodstream our liver turns it into TMAO and that's a pro-athogenic pro-inflammatory molecule that is known to promote atheroscerosis and heart disease and kidney disease so TMAO you want to have low levels in your body you don't want the gut microbiome that makes a lot of TMAO so they chose three popular weight loss diets they chose the highfat Atkins diet so as you know that's like lots of meat and eggs uh very few fruits and vegetables people are eating like you know steak and eggs for breakfast they're having bacon wrapped up in more bacon for their dinner so that's the Atkins plan right we know what that looks like the second diet that they took was the high protein South Beach diet which is kind of like lean meats and fruits and veg and leafy greens but cuts down on the starchy carbohydrates and then the third popular diet that they chose was gladly a whole food plant-based diet so 26 volunteers three different dietary approaches and 28 days now importantly um every single volunteer in this study Chuck did 28 days on every single one of those three different those three different diets and during the 28 days they monitored their calories and body weight so they tweaked it every single day to try and prevent weight loss because they just wanted to look at the gut microbiome and guess what t M AO on the Atkins diet and the South Beach diet the patients recorded rapid and significant boos boosts in TMAO production just one more reason why these diets increase your risk of cardiovascular disease and guess what on a whole food plant-based diet TMAO levels dropped rapidly so in just 28 days these volunteers had harnessed the power of their gut microbiome to help protect them from from one of our most common diseases cardiovascular disease which kills 80 million people per year um so again a really fascinating study just 28 days yeah and it's it's really great when you get those head-to-head comparisons of the various diets so you can really weigh the pros and cons for yourself especially when they're these big popular diets like you were just talking about like the Atkins diet everybody knows the Atkins diet and so many people believe that that is the way to a healthier future but the fact of the matter is you may see short-term weight loss but is that setting you up for health down the line absolutely not as a matter of fact I would say it's setting you up for heartache no pun intended absolutely i agree um in the in the in the book Chuck we talk about um within the plant-based diet revolution we talk about the importance of food we talk about healthy gut healthy heart healthy body but also healthy mind and the beneficial effects that eating more plants can have on your mental health so I thought today well during this conversation I should get some data about those first 28 days and I mean we know that eating a whole food plant-based diet can benefit your mood and a effect dr bernard and his team showed this back in 2007 as you may recall when they went into an auto insurance company and they educated the employees on eating a whole food plant-based diet with bean burritos and all that other good stuff and after I think that was a 12week study um the uh employees who took part in Dr entrepreneurs program were happier and the company was happy too cuz their happier employees were uh more productive employees so everyone was smiling but can you improve your happiness by eating more plants in um 28 days the science is emerging on this i will tell you that in 2019 a group of Austrian researchers took a group of volunteers and rather than changing what they ate they gave them these very uh powerful probiotic mixes of gut friendly bacteria the same bacteria that you get in your microbiome when you eat lots of fiber and eat lots of plants and in just 4 weeks they were able to demonstrate that on an MRI scan the volunteers brain activity changed on MRI scan just by you know adding new um gut friendly microbes to their tummy now in order to really convince you that a plant-based diet can improve your mood and generate what I call the happiness effect that we see all the time when people adopt a plant-based diet I'm going to have to extend the criteria to 12 weeks is that okay it's Yeah man you know what it's all good 12 weeks 28 days the bottom line is it's still a pretty short time frame okay let's go 12 weeks then so in 2017 Australian psychiatrists aware of all the studies showing that people who eat more plants tend to have better mental health and even showing improvements in individuals when they adopt a plant-based diet or a plant predominant diet they recruited 67 adults who had a serious condition these were individuals who'd been diagnosed with clinical depression they randomized the group to either have intensive social support or to go on a healthy eating course so it was 12 weeks of a healthy whole food Mediterranean diet emphasizing whole grains fruits vegetables nuts and legumes now after 12 weeks Chuck among the individuals who had the social support 8% had gained remission from their clinical depression among the people who had the healthy eating course 32% almost onethird had achieved remission from their clinical depression so those psychiatrists um published a paper in the peer-reviewed literature saying if you have someone who's suffering from depression please look at the healthfulness of their diet please get them to eat more fruits and vegetables and whole grains and nuts and seeds because it will help them to recover did they look at what it was about that i mean was it 100% the microbiome or was it the fact that they're losing weight and they're feeling better about themselves overall and that may also be lifting some of the depressive fog that have been following them around you know that's a really good question Chuck and the evidence is just emerging on this and those mechanisms are difficult to elucidate right now in detail we know that our brain is intimately connected with our gut through the gut brain axis we know that our microbes um interact with our brain i just told you about this study um a few minutes ago we're just getting people to consume you know to change their gut microbiome change their neurological activity on MRI but you're right maybe losing weight controlling your blood pressure reducing your risk of numerous cancers and reducing your personal carbon footprint just makes you feel happier but there's also a few other mechanisms which may be involved um when you get rid of the animal products you're get you're reducing your intake of things like advanced glycation end products and arachidonic acid so these are two substances that have been linked to chronic depression and inflammation within your body and you're also taking in a lot of antioxidants which may be helpful also interesting interestingly Chuck we've talked before about shortchain fatty acids uh butyrate acetate propriionate these are substances that are made by your gut microbiome when you consume a lot of plants there's been studies done recently showing that these short- chain fatty acids which we know get absorbed from the gut and enter the bloodstream are also detectable in our cerebral spinal fluid that's the liquid that bathes our brain and spinal cord so we don't know what those short- chain fatty acids are doing in there yet but isn't it fascinating that this product that is made by our gut microbes when we eat plants is in our brain and in our spinal fluid and it's doing something and given that these are the same substances that help our body to maintain a healthy body weight control our blood sugars and reduce systemic inflammation we can only surmise that it is also helping with our neurological health as well as our physical health but that study those studies are in their infancy Chuck so those mechanisms remain to be described yeah the younger me would never say that but I will say this loud and proud now science is awesome i love learning about this it is just fascinating um let's see here by my count I believe we've tackled five of the six studies is that where we are do we still have one to go yeah let's do one more so we talked before about colurectal cancer risk a really really important issue and something I'll be speaking um about at ICNM 2021 um so colctal cancer risk we know that choosing a diet built from a rich variety of plants offers significant protection against colurectal cancer and also against other cancers like uh breast stomach pancreas and a few others now when we talk about colurectal cancer this is a condition which you know here in the UK where I live and work um 42,000 people every year are diagnosed with colorectal cancer it's alo extremely common cancer in the US in the US Chuck 1 in 15 one in 15 African-American adults uh may be affected by colorectal cancer during their lifetime whereas we know from um good epidemiological data that the same condition colctal cancer is almost unheard of among populations living in rural South Africa and eating a traditional high-fiber plant predominant rural South African diet and on a previous episode when we talked about colctal cancer risk we talked about this study i'm sure you'll remember that where these um researchers in Pittsburgh took a group of rural South Africans and a group of Africanameans and they looked at their colctal cancer risk in great detail everyone had their microbiome analyzed everyone had a colonoscopy half of the Americans already had precancerous polyps in their bowel none of the African excuse me none of the Africans had precancerous polyps growing in their bowel and the Americans had a high colctal cancer risk profile with low production of short- chain fatty acids and increase in a thing we call a mucosal proliferation rate and they had a lot of what we call secondary bile acids within their microbiome all of these things are risk factors for colorectal cancer in just 14 days of switching from standard American diet with bacon and roast beef and mashed potatoes and corn beef hash browns and all that stuff in just two weeks of switching to a highfiber traditional South African diet those uh those Americans reduced their risk profile dramatically in fact after 14 days their risk profile was as low as the rural Africans so there you go you can reduce your colctal cancer risk profile in just 14 days you don't even have to wait till day 28 just amazing just amazing and I had forgotten that we had spoken about that study and I remember being blown away then just two weeks yeah how much can change there it's just unbelievable unbelievable absolutely i I believe that paper is called fiber fat and colctal can colorectal cancer risk um if anyone wants to Google that up it it makes fascinating reading we're going to do our best we'll find that and we'll put that in the episode notes we'll make that a one-click uh link there for you it'll make it real easy speaking with Dr alan Desmond gastroenterenterologist and author of a plant-based diet revolution 28 days to a happier gut and a healthier you dr desmond do you still have time for a couple of questions oh yeah this is the good this is the best bit questions please let's open the mailbag the best bit uh let's start with the fun one it comes to us from Julie she says “Is it true that changing your gut microbiome can also cause your taste buds to change?” Oh this is interesting so this is kind of like the gut brain stuff that we talked about earlier Chuck um so can changing our gut microbes change our mind change our behavior change the foods that we consume the real answer to this question is maybe we don't know yet there's I spoke earlier about how the gut microbes may influence our brain activity we haven't seen any human studies proving that changing our food changes the food we like to eat directly by influencing our gut microbiome which changes our behavior there's been some animal studies done that have addressed this but I'm waiting for the human studies Chuck and when I see those human studies I will be posting them on Instagram don't you worry i look forward to it next question comes to us from Michelle she wants to know what causes leaky gut and how can we avoid it so leaky gut so our gut lining is super important it's um absorbs all our nutrients it's the home of the human gut microbiome it is exposed to everything you eat all those foods bacteria uh potential toxins poisons bacteria viruses yeasts our gut lining is exposed to all of this stuff it needs to interact with it on a daily basis it needs to absorb the nutrients so in order to absorb these nutrients and in order to interact with the human gut microbiome which is really important thing that a healthy gut does your gut needs to have a certain amount of leakiness or permeability however when that permeability becomes excess when your gut becomes too permeable when your gut develops what people call leaky gut um then that can become a problem because if your gut is leaky then your immune system is getting overexposed to bacteria overexposed to the gut microbiome and overexposed to certain substances um and toxins etc that can cause inflammation in your body and we know I mean for example there was a study done earlier this year where we uh found out for the first time that among individuals with obesity there's microbes from the gut microbiome living in their fat living in their abdominal fat so that's probably um a pretty extreme example of what can happen when you have a super leaky gut now we see increased gut permeability in certain conditions like uh celiac disease Crohn's disease colitis that sort of thing but we also see a little bit of excess leakiness in people who aren't known to have any of these conditions we spoke earlier about the um the study where individuals reversed their metabolic syndrome those individuals had a raised level of gut inflammation even though they didn't have a gut health diagnosis so two things we can do to help our gut to not be so leaky number one is get rid of the processed food get rid of the junk food chuck because things like emulsifiers malttodextrin caroxythyl cellulose polyorbate 80 these chemicals emulsifiers and preservatives that are put in junk food have no business in the human gut microbiome and they have adverse effects they have two nasty effects they increase the growth of potentially harmful bacteria and they help those bacteria to adhere onto the lining of the gut and make the gut more permeable so get rid of the junk and then number two reducing the animal products things like heem iron the carnath and choline that promote the production of pro-inflammatory TMA and also those highfat foods that generate the production of bacteria that produce secondary bile acids which promote inflammation and even cancer in the lining of the gut are also doing your gut leakiness no favor so get rid of the processed foods cut down on the fats and cut down on the animal products all right one final question and here's a question from Rebecca and it's an interesting one because you were just talking about cutting down on fats well nuts are naturally high in fat i wouldn't necessarily put them in the junk food category so she's wondering can eating nuts create a healthy microbiome well you know nuts don't just contain fat and when we talk about um these foods any food it's really useful rather than just considering individual components like how much fat how much protein etc just to think about the whole food so if you're eating a few handfuls of nuts each day not only are you getting you're getting some saturated fats you're mostly getting healthy unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats so that's a good thing but you're also getting those fats wrapped up in phytonutrients and antioxidants and fiber and all this other good stuff that we get from plants that helps to keep your gut healthy but yes if you eat a very highfat plant-based diet there is a risk that you could mimic some of the adverse effects that we see from a highfat animal-based diet now those studies need to be done Chuck i haven't seen that evidence yet but I guess in theory if you're eating a very highfat plant-based diet you might for example um start to feed the bacteria that produce secondary bile acids which are carcinogenic so potentially yes but we haven't seen the studies yet but but that but that's not a reason to avoid eating some nuts each day they're they're a healthy food they promote satiety they can help weight loss they're a really good food so I have like maybe a couple of teaspoons of nut butter most days you know with my breakfast or whatever it's um they're not something to be avoided if you're having just a little bit each day there you go the book A Plant-Based Diet Revolution 28 Days to a Happier Gut and a Healthier You and Dr desmond as you said you will be speaking at the 2021 edition of the International Conference on Nutrition and Medicine and you know what that means sir you know what that means you are obligated to come back on this show i wouldn't have it any other way Chuck you're a good man well look congratulations on the release of the book we have dropped a link for you to pick up a copy in the episode notes and Dr desmond I cannot wait to speak to you again my friend oh you do too Chuck it's been a pleasure absolute pleasure

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33 Comments
  1. "Switching to a vegan diet for 28 days improves energy, digestion, and overall health."

  2. The segment at 10:45 about gut health really resonated with me. I've been trying to balance my diet better, and LyfeFuel's plant-based options have been a game-changer for my energy levels.

  3. Switching to a plant-based diet has really improved my digestion. Products like LyfeFuel help maintain this new lifestyle effortlessly.

  4. we have to look at grounding as well. its very important

  5. Carnivore diet: amazing results, vegetarian diet: Amazing results…I think I will just go Keto which seems to be the best of both worlds.

  6. 80% of the serotonin in the body is in the gut. Proceesed foods lower the levels of serotonin in all areas of the body.

    All processed foods also cause inflammation.

  7. I tried plant based and felt decent on it but had a hard time sticking to it. I tried carnivore recently and even tho I've lost weight and stuff, I just feel this spiritual deadness that I've never experienced before. Think I may go back to WFPB.

  8. Carnivores and Plant-based addicts are two extremes.

    One should have a balanced healthy real food diet, with veggies & fruits, but also with high quality (organic) animal products, in moderation !

    Okinawas also ate animal products, in small amounts, from healthy animals which sourced their nutrition from a healthy fertile soil.

    So did centenarians in other places around the world (except Loma Linda). The oldest person who ever lived, in southern France, was an omnivore.

    A woman from northern Italy who lived to 117 ate a healthy small steak for lunch everyday since she was 40yo (and an egg for breakfast… with a lot of veggies as well).

    They both ate a little.

    DON'T DO EXTREMES, it will bite you in your ass in your VERY old age (if you want to make it to over a 100 in good health).

  9. @taunyamay1058

    Congratulations! And best wishes to you! 🙂

  10. I'm thinking about doing this

  11. I'm a huge meat eater as to why i developed  psoriatic arthritis. My hands, knees and feet are affected with arthritic pain. So I've been bedridden  for 3 months because my feet and knees were extremely painful. But when i started to ditched meat, sugar and dairy i started to walk again but limping. The pain reduced for like 50% and my psoriasis is completely dry now. And also, my dad died from heart attack due to the said diet as well

  12. This video made my day better! 🌞

  13. I’m wondering why the doctor’s fingers appear bruised.

  14. This is complete hogwash, I am a vegetarian since birth and generally healthy eating. My sugar intake is close to zero saturated fats is also very low. No refined carbs, high fiber and good mix of carbs and protein yet my BP remains high and blood sugar and cholesterol are also almost on the higher side of the range. Also i walk almost 15 km per day and also do resistance training. So it is very wrong to give false hopes to people, especially who are desperately looking for solutions

  15. Read the China Study by T.Colin Campbell and Reversing Heart Disease by Dr. Dean Ornish as well as Food Politics by Marion Nestle..they will change your life!

  16. Get your Omega-3's from chia and flax seed!

  17. "Eat whole foods, mostly plants, not too much". Marion Nestle

  18. I lost 40lbs in my first year of going vegan then my weight loss stalled. Had to cut out most nuts and seeds and limit beans and potatoes. I will always have to count calories guys!!

  19. I still have to count calories as someone with a lifelong weight problem. I can't eat unlimited amounts of potatoes; beans, hummus, nuts or whole grain…still must weigh and measure all portions except nonstarchy veggs..

  20. I had to unsubscribe because I cannot listen to you talk anymore. I take pleasure in counting calories. Looking at other people and assuming they don’t count calories, is a sure path to getting fat. Counting calories is not mentally taxing. At all.

  21. @michaelrothwell8804
    (Re your) "Plants are trying to kill you!"

    Hmmm.. Gee.. That explains why, last week, a head of cabbage, two potatoes, and three carrots were screamingly chasing terrified-me down the street, them wielding daggers!

    Since going vegan in 1989, I've heard every anti- vegan, brainwashed fable there is.. (Including) 'plant lectins.. humans- hazardous phytotoxins- defenses..!' Ad nauseum..

    The (sigh, profoundly- sad) ostensible 'bright side' of that is, that >70% of those stones- throwing, mocking scoffers in my more-immediate, decadeslong circle, (even those 10,15, even TWENTY years younger than me), have now died, and aren't spreading anti- vegan disinfo any longer..

    Me born a problems- plagued 'preemie' into a family with a both- sides 'HORROR SHOW' medical history,

    I was, for those pre-retirement, VEGAN decades,

    known by my employers as the 'go-to' employee, to beg to work doubleshifts and my days off,

    to cover for (NONvegan), 'out sick again' coworkers.. Who only dialed-back their rude, unkind stones-throwing somewhat, AFTER I pulled past work-scheds from files, and showed them 'WHO', penciled-in, was 'covering- for' THEIR constant sicknesses!

    My present NONvegan friends, even those HALF or less my age, currently complain of 'monthly' running 'sick again' to their doctors, and of 'running outa room in their medicine cabinets'..

    As MY medicine cabinet (if ya don't count lol, Q-tips and Band-aids) is EMPTY, and my HCP's latest FNP just prolongedly studied my LABS, my long- DISCONTINUED Rx's- history, then disbelievingly took my BP twice, (it unmedicatedly that of a slim 12 year old), commented on last summer's "100% absolutely- PERFECT arterial & bone- density scans", and told me "FORGET the usually-advised FOUR routine doctor visits per year; henceforth, TWO routine yearly visits, will be PLENTY, for YOU!"

    Ya lol, simply cannot 'argue with the facts'..

    >Unless yer a typical anti-vegan Internet troll, that is.. In which case, as
    thousands are amusedly noticing, THAT'S yer exact, boneheaded, anti- facts 'specialty!' 😂

  22. @jonnieinbang..
    35 years ago, as a new (much- ridiculed) vegan working in a lumberyard /building supplies yard, I put on muscle that I STILL have, 35 years later, even after less-strenuous occupations since; I soon caught beefy, 'gym-dwelling' lumberyard coworkers pleading busy- season 'exhaustion' and them quietly asking the loads- Dispatcher to please shift more of THEIR fair- share of loads onto vegan-ME.. I caught them shamefacedly, redhandedly 'in the act', and the Dispatcher said he hadn't laughed so hard in years..

    I spent following pre-retirement decades running wellness and stamina circles around nonvegan coworkers, covering for their constantly 'out-sick' absences, and've now read 70% of those scoffers' obits, and even been asked to be a pallbearer for some..

    and I, at age 66 now, along with numerous RESOLVED preemie- birth congenital conditions such as yearslong, PRE-vegan iron- deficiency, also resolved a plethora of (PREvegan) ADULT- onset ones, as well.. MY HCP just, after silently perusing all my labs, yearslong- (discontinued) Rx's, and disbelievingly taking my BP twice, (it unmedicatedly that of a slim 12 year old), then beamingly reduced my routine annual doctor visits, from four, to two.. (As NONvegan friends HALF or less my age, meanwhile frustratedly report running, 'sick again', to their doctors 'every month'.. and of 'running outa room' in their medicine cabinets..

    And my last- summer coronary arteries and bone- density scans came out "100%- PERFECT!" "

    "Not 99%, but 100%! Zero plaques, and zero osteopenia!"

    After my problems- plagued preemie- birth, and my both-sides family medical-hx reading like the script of a horror show..

    But hey, please airily dismiss everything I've said (and that similar elderly decadeslong vegans are reporting),

    if it 'upsets your applecart.' 😉

  23. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video on health

  24. Whole food plant based diet? Potatoes are one of the leading causes of obesity. I can agree though with the most part plant based diet is better but dang sometimes you need steak just not that often for me and if I do I wont mix with the starchy plant based food at most green beans.

  25. That saying isn’t “The proof is in the pudding”. What the heck would that mean? It’s “ The proof of the pudding is in the eating” 😄

  26. We have to give credit to our creator , not man.

  27. What about salmon, sardines and mackerel. High in omega 3 fatty acid?

  28. So you can't eat any meat and stay healthy? No fish , eggs. Seems like you could eat some meat like fish and a plant based diet and still stay healthy. As long as your diet is not totally carnivore?

  29. you will achieve almost nothing in 28 days imo,
    28 weeks perhaps. 28 months or years certainly

  30. “ Carbs altogether”?
    Hmmmmm, the plant base diet is all carbohydrates . Ie. Fruits / vegetables / rice

  31. What about lack of iron and vitamin b12?

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