What the Health Page #11

animals are all herbivores.

When we bring in people

and they're on meaty diets

and we transition them

to a plant-based diet,

we always track

what they're eating.

Their vitamin intake goes up.

Their nutrition overall goes

up, dramatically better.

And these same people

might worry in advance,

"Will I get the nutrition that

I need on a plant-based diet?"

The fact is, you're not getting

the nutrition you need

on a meat-based diet,

and you're gonna get dramatically

better nutrition on a plant-based diet.

For an average-sized guy like myself, I

need about 56 grams of protein a day.

That's optimum, probably I really

need 30 to 40 grams a day.

Diets that are really

high in these protein

create diabetes, create heart

disease, create cancer,

create the diseases that I'm

treating on a daily basis.

[Kip] But, this is the opposite of what

all the high-protein diet fads say.

The food you eat determines the

bacteria that live in your gut.

While you eat animal flesh

every day,

you are summoning up

bacteria that eat carnitine.

And those bacteria will

turn that carnitine

into a molecule

called trimethylamine.

Your liver then turns that

into trimethylamine oxide.

That's a molecule from hell.

That molecule drives cholesterol

into the artery walls.

And the people who will

consume this flesh-based diet

are contributing

to plaque building up,

they may lose weight on

this diet and that's good,

but, what's happening inside

your arteries, Paleo friends?

What's happening is that

plaque is building up,

and these are the folks who

drop dead at the gym at 39.

Boy, he was lean

and he looked really good,

but, where is that cholesterol going?

It's going into your artery walls.

So, I believe these Paleo folks are

setting them-self up for an epidemic

of clogged arteries, colon

cancers, autoimmune diseases.

This is not a healthy diet.

We are not carnivorous apes.

Humans' closest

living relatives are chimps

who get 97 percent of

their calories from plants

and the remaining three percent

mostly from insects.

Comparing the anatomy of

true omnivores like bears

who eat both meat and plants

to frugivores like primates

who eat almost exclusively plants,

the differences are pretty clear.

Frugivore teeth have flat

molars for chewing plants,

where omnivore teeth are serrated

for stabbing and tearing flesh.

Frugivore jaws can move forward

and back and side to side,

omnivore jaws cannot.

Omnivores have much stronger stomach acid

for digesting meat compared to less acidic

stomach acid of frugivores.

The intestines of frugivores

is nine times

their body length compared

to three times for omnivores.

This is because meat

will putrefy in the gut

unless it is

moved through quickly.

If humans were

indeed true omnivores,

we would need to change our physiology

and appearance quite a lot.

But, we fit every

requirement of a frugivore.

We may behave like omnivores, but,

anatomically, we're frugivores.

Human beings, unlike bears and

raccoons and to some extent, dogs,

don't have that mixed

anatomy and physiology

that you see in the true omnivores,

and thus, we are not true omnivores.

In humans, the canines

have become really small

and rounded and actually function

like accessory incisors.

They're utterly useless

for ripping and tearing

anything other than

an envelope.

So, the idea that the mere

presence of the canine

somehow means that we're

supposed to eat meat is silly.

[Kip] He was right.

I always thought my canines

were for meat,

but, what kind of animal could

actually kill and eat raw

with these tiny teeth?

The thought alone

was disgusting.

I mean, everybody loves

a smoothie made with fruit

and even some vegetables.

But, if you think about putting a

fish or a piece of beef in a blender

and grinding it up, the thought

is absolutely repulsive.

[Kip] All these diseases

I had learned about

were from eating a diet our

body wasn't designed for.

What would happen if we

started eating a diet

our body actually was

designed for?

The data is crystal clear, that you

can stop and reverse heart disease

with plant-based diets,

scientifically shown, I've

seen it in my own patients.

People who adopt low

fat plant-based diets

can actually reverse

their heart disease,

and that literally means

watching the plaque

start to go away, something

they didn't think could happen.

My experience

with patients is

and the studies show

that when people adopt

a fully plant-based diet,

their cholesterol levels

plummet within a few days.

And if you do blood test

in a couple of weeks,

you'll see dramatic

improvements.

Yes, your numbers

are gonna look great

within a week or, two, your cholesterol

can come crashing down, in fact,

if you're on medications,

your doctor may have to

pull off your blood pressure medications

so your blood pressure don't drop too low.

Because it can work too good,

like the side effect is

not having to take drugs.

[Kip] In a groundbreaking

study published by

Dr. Esselstyn following

patients suffering from

cardiovascular disease,

99.4% were able to avoid

major cardiac events

by going plant-based.

'Cause it's not just heart disease.

It's hypertension, it's diabetes,

it's strokes,

it's heart attacks,

it's several of

the autoimmune diseases,

lupus, asthma,

GERD, osteoporosis,

there's a multitude

of diseases.

Even rheumatoid arthritis,

it can be so dramatic

when you see these poor souls

just absolutely crippled

with rheumatoid arthritis

go plant-based, and then they

come off their medication.

I wanted to follow

up with Jane Chapman

who had been suffering

from severe osteoarthritis,

and I could not believe

what I saw

after only a few weeks of

fasting and changing her diet.

Those are so amazing to see you

like this only a few weeks later.

I know!

From going from the walker,

needing wheelchair

assistance at the airport

to strolling down the street,

enjoying the fresh air, the sunshine.

Two weeks, it's all it took, two

weeks to get off all the meds

and start to

feel the inflammation

just kind of

drain out of the body

where the movement

was much easier.

Just a lot of healing

occurred very rapidly

just by doing the right

things for your body.

When you're treating

diseases with drugs,

you know there's one drug

you take for cholesterol,

a different class of drugs you

take for high blood pressure,

different class of drugs

you take for diabetes,

but, with diet, a plant-based

diet affects all these diseases.

One diet to kinda

rule them all.

[Kip] The impacts of eating this

way go far beyond ourselves.

By getting rid of heart

disease alone,

we would save up to $48

trillion in the USA,

three times the US GDP.

Conditions like

high blood pressure,

you don't have to take the drugs the

rest of your life and be sick forever.

What you can do

is live in such a way

that it gives the body

a chance to heal itself.

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