Health Gurus – WFPB

When you first start your journey toward a Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WFPB), it’s a bit confusing when you get into the details and different doctors and advisors. My main focus is to get advice from people that are science based and not just their opinion. Here’s my list and notes about particular doctors and their advice.

Dr. Neal Barnard – 69 years young in 2022
Part of the PCRM.org group. Lots of good advice – based on science. Little oil or alcohol. Small amounts of nuts and grape juice are advised.

Dan Buettner – not a doctor.
Author of the Blue Zone books – “The Blue Zones Kitchen” has a lot of good recipes. Olive oil is ok.
Here is a good interview.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell – 88 years young in 2022
Wrote “The China Study.” Went to China
“Heart disease can be reversed with diet alone – and in doing so, reducing animal protein is more signifnicant than reducing saturated fat.”
The above is a bit controversial, but the end result is the same – WFPB.
“I learned….they had never seen a heart disease fatality among their patients who had blood cholesterol levels below 150 mg/dL”
I wonder if this might be true also for types of dementia?

Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. – 88 years young in 2022
WFPB – his studies with heart patients brought cholesterol down to 132 and in the following 11 years they only had one coronary event and that was from a patient who strayed from the diet for two years. Blockage in arteries was reduced by 7% in the first 5 years – blood delivery is improved by 30%. He doesn’t like oils, and is ok with people without heart disease eating nuts,

Rip Esselstyn – same as his father above.

Dr. Dean Ornish – 69 years young in 2022
He has done great working that heart disease can be reversed through a WFPB diet. He now allows some seeds, nuts and possibly avocado.
He is now doing an Alzheimers reversal study…..here are some of the details….note the extra supplements.
Diet: A low fat (10-15%) whole foods vegan diet, high in complex carbs and low in refined carbs (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy, seeds & nuts). Calories unrestricted. Multivitamin, fish oil, curcumin, vitamin C, B12, CoQ10, lion’s mane, probiotic, and magnesium.

Dr Joel Kahn cardiologist – sells some stuff which makes him a bit suspect. He has an interesting email that you can subscribe to – it have the links to back up the advice. He also agrees that protein advances aging.
– You can deviate at times. https://youtu.be/yrCaG2gT2Vg?t=2860
– Get blood test for Lip protein A – https://youtu.be/yrCaG2gT2Vg?t=3394
– Animal based saturated fat promote high cholesterol – https://youtu.be/yrCaG2gT2Vg?t=4416
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Dr. Michael Greger – 50 years young in 2022 Nutrition Facts YouTube Channel
Good videos with lots of science studies.
He has a list of 11 foods to eat plus exercise and he recently added mushrooms.

Dr. Gil Carvalho
Science based doctor which weighs a lot of evidence.

Chuck Carroll – not a doctor, but interviews great guests from the PCRM podcast.

Dr. Will Bulsiewicz – gastroenterologist

Dr. Jim Loomis

Plant Chompers – he does LOTS of research and is a bit hard to follow on YouTube as he speaks very quickly with lots of data.

Dr. Kim Williams – Cardiologist – seems very much science based
Video interview with Rich Toll

Drs. Dean & Ayesha Sherzai –
Alzheimers Disease but other diseases also. – video interview

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