Dr. Tomiko Katsumoto

A lot of us get it, and yet we often don't have good answers.

And so the fact that this intervention, this lifestyle intervention showed such a promising result, I think is really exciting for the field.

Yes, this was definitely beyond the minimally important clinical difference.

So there was clearly impact on patients' lives, quality of lives.

What was most exciting, they did a one-year follow-up of these cohorts, and they showed that a lot of these patients were able to get off of their medications.

Which is incredible.

I think a lot of them ended up gradually deprescribing a lot of their meds.

Many of them, a lot of them lost weight.

A lot of them improved in terms of their blood pressure, in terms of other cardiovascular, lipid profiles, these types of things.

But I was most struck by the fact that some of them were able to wean off these medications, which was striking.

This is sort of the approach where you take a plate and you divide it up and really half of it is fruits, vegetables, you know, good stuff.

The whole concept of eating the rainbow I think really is apropos because these are foods that are high in phytochemicals, a lot of the antioxidants that are super important for calming down our immune system.

cruciferous vegetables.

These are things like broccoli and kale and cauliflower and these really kind of the deep leafy greens that I've come to love and embrace.

And they're so important.

I really think food is medicine.

And these are incredibly important in terms of helping our liver detoxify.

We're living in a very polluted world.

And I think that these are super helpful foods that can help us clear our body of a lot of these toxins, these endocrine disruptors, which we haven't talked about.

But there's a lot of these things that we need to be thinking about that are super helpful for my patients.