Dr. Michael Greger

Okay, so we put you on drugs and we cut your chest open, we do bypass, we stents, whatever.

okay then pretty can take these people and then put them on his diet and lifestyle program and all of a sudden chest pain goes away and so he reversed heart disease now the medical profession was like no no no heart disease gets worse worse worse till you die that's what the thinking at the time and so if your patient is fine he never had heart disease in the first place right right that's been something else and so that was so he was kind of remained on the french until

Dr. Dean Ornish came along.

He used something called quantitative angiography, where you inject a radio pig dye into the arteries.

You do these x-rays.

You can actually see the inside of the arteries.

And so for the first time, was able to prove the reversal of heart disease, opening up arteries without drugs, without surgery, just a healthy plant-based diet and exercise.

And so that was really... And it was published in the most prestigious medical journal in the world.

So it was like unassailable science, randomized controlled trial.

Of course, the people in the control group who were told to continue to eat whatever their doctors told them to eat, continue to get worse.

That's what happens normally.

Whereas you've got this reversal on average in those.

And so it's the only diet ever been proven to reverse the progression of heart disease in the majority of patients.

So it's like, look...

If that's all a plant-based guy could do, reverse the number one killer of men and women,

Shouldn't that be kind of the default diet until proven otherwise?

And the fact that it can also be so effective in preventing, arresting, or reversing other leading killers like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, which still make the case for plant-based eating really kind of unassailable at this point.

And so, but then here I am.

So now I had already knew about this from my grandma, right?

But here I was in black and white publishing the most prestigious medical journal.