Network Coverage of WFPB Lifestyle!
CNN: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Last Alzheimer's Patient
This is a holiday weekend, folks, and so I’m going to make this one short. But given all the angst of democracy of late, I thought some positive news would be welcome.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports episode “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient” focuses on the recently completed, breakthrough study by Dr. Dean Ornish, on a lifestyle-based treatment for early Azheimer’s disease.
Dr. Ornish and his team put their patients on a whole food plant-based diet, with no oil, no processed foods, low in sugar, salt, and fat; 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily, an hour of meditation daily, and therapy. No medications were used in this study.
The findings, symptoms not only slowed and reduced but in many cases improved on this plan. No medication known has ever been able to improve Alzheimer’s symptoms.
This is breakthrough science and it deserves to be touted widely!
But here’s the thing — there have been dozens of studies linking a WFPB lifestyle that includes exercise, mediation, good sleep, and healthy relationships, can prevent and sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes, heart disease, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, hypertension (high blood pressure,) high cholesterol, high A1-C/pre-diabetes. Dr. Brooke Golden is using it to treat lupus (her own, and her patients’.) Dr. Saray Stancic is doing the same with multiple sclerosis (her own, and her patients’.)
All of this deserves to be more widely known. I wish Dr. Sanjay would devote an entire episode to the myriad benefits of a WFPB lifestyle.
Here’s the link to the Episode: The Last Alzheimer’s Patient which airs Sunday July 7th (tomorrow!) at 8 pm EST.
I cannot wait to view it, record it, and view it again.
Maybe, my friends, our message is finally breaking through. I believe it’s Michael Pollen who says it best:
“Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
SOURCES
Alexander, Sarah et al. - A Plant-Based Diet and Hypertension in Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2017, Vol. 14
Barnard, Neal D. & Leroy Frédéric - Children and adults should avoid consuming animal products to reduce risk for chronic disease: YES in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020, Vol. 112
Campbell, T. Colin - Cancer Prevention and Treatment by Wholistic Nutrition in J Nat Sci., 2017, Vol. 3
McMacken, Michelle & Shah, Sapana - A Plant-Based Diet for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2017, Vol. 14
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Saray Stancic, Tackling MS With a Plant-Based Diet https://www.pcrm.org/news/blog/tackling-ms-plant-based-diet-saray-stancic-md
Wang, Tian et al. - Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Cardiometabolic Risk in People With or at High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in JAMA Network Open, 2023, Vol. 6 (recommended by Daniel Dawley)