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Neal Barnard

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“Increasing fiber or doing both at the same time. And what they found was amazing. The more you cut fat, the more estrogen levels came down to a more normal level. The more that you increased fiber, again, the more that estrogen came down. What they were thinking about was breast cancer. If I can tame estradiol, I can reduce breast cancer risk. But I was thinking, this woman has hormone haywire that's causing her cramps. So I suggested something I don't think any doctor ever suggested before. I said, let me give you some painkillers for today, for tomorrow, so you can function. But would you like to try and experiment? Everything in your diet, I want to be from a plant for the next four weeks. And keep oils really low. What am I doing? I'm making sure she gets max fiber minimum fat. She called me back four weeks later. She said, Dr. Barnard, I got my period today.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was thinking what's causing this? And I started to realize that there was a very good chance that she had too much estrogen in her blood. The estrogen every month thickens the lining of the uterus in a woman's body in anticipation of pregnancy. And that endometrial lining, if there's too much estrogen, it thickens up too much. And then with the menstrual fluid, it breaks apart and it releases these maladjusted chemicals called prostaglandins that cause the cramping. So I started thinking, wait a minute, let's reduce her estrogen. Let's change her hormones. How are we going to do that? As luck would have it, researchers at Tufts University in Boston had done a study. They brought in a group of women, 48 women. They put them on a metabolic ward. They locked the door. They prepared all the food. They gave them diets for eight to ten weeks each, either cutting fat.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And a lot of women have menstrual cramps for maybe one in ten. It's off the scale. I can't go to work today type cramps. And that was her situation. She said, I got a business meeting. I'm supposed to be at the airport tomorrow morning, but I can't even move. Could I give her demarol? That was her question. It's a narcotic. And I said, I can give you heavy-duty painkillers for a couple of days.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hormones are the director that controls everything in your body. The old way of thinking about food, the old fashioned way of thinking about food was I eat a bad food, I have a disease, I eat high cholesterol foods, I've got a heart attack. Fair enough. But what we have now learned is that hormones control everything in your body and foods control your hormones. Hormones are directions, they're letters, they're messages. They go from one part of the body where they're made to another part of the body where they tell it what to do. And if we're not if we're just eating foods without any understanding of what that's doing to those hormones, then you're a victim of everything that's in your diet. I was sitting at my desk one day. A young woman called me up. She said, I can't get out of bed.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, eggs have lots of issues. The first is that it's a cholesterol bomb, and the egg industry would like us to believe that they don't raise cholesterol. They clearly do. And we published a review on this where we looked at every study ever done on eggs. And they clearly raised cholesterol. And even the studies done by the egg industry do show this, although their interpretation is different. If the studies were funded by the egg industry, they'll say, well, it increased cholesterol, but not significantly, or something like that. But they clearly do. And that's for a reason that an egg, when an egg is laid, that egg doesn't call out for room service. That chicken developing inside has to make the chicken's body from everything that was in the egg. And so it's laid with a ton of cholesterol because the cholesterol is an integral ingredient for the animal's body if instead you boil it and eat it, you're getting a ton of cholesterol. So anyway.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And other things too. I mean, people use ginger for many, many things, and people are using it for migraines as an anti-inflammatory. There's a reason that these spices have been used since time immoral. And our goal now is to tackle this big issue of extra weight and just see if we can put it to work for that.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ginger is also a relative? Of these other foods where you see that capsayin is the one that's that really killer spice. Ginger is kind of its first cousin. And it causes a similar effect.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your oxygen intake, and that's proportional to your metabolism, it's proportional to how fast you're burning calories. And almost anything you eat will cause you to increase your metabolism while you are in the post ingestion period, but two things. There are certain foods that cause a bigger burn than others, the ones that cause the biggest burn are the ones that are high in carbohydrate, but also peppers are for some reason in that category. If a person has been on a low-fat vegan diet going into the test, they get an even bigger burn afterwards. And that's because their body is, we believe, is more insulin sensitive than it was before. So if I want to really increase your burn and help you to get the weight off, I would not only serve you these healthy foods at each meal, but I would take advantage of the fact that they are adjusting your physiology for the long term.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Seem to, but I don't believe that that is the main effect. I think the main effect is on metabolism. They do seem to affect the appetite in a helpful way, but the main effect, I think, is the metabolic increase. We can measure this where we bring people in and you put on Of a mask, you look like a pilot. And what I'm actually measuring is your carbon dioxide output.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lot of weight to lose. But if you've got five or ten pounds that you want to lose, or maybe 30 or 40, that'd be very typical, let's lose it. Let's not fool around. Let's put yourself in a body that you want to be in, that makes you feel good, that doesn't just help you to knock off that weight, but helps your arteries to open up, helps your sexual function to return, helps your mind to work today and to protect it for tomorrow. We can do those things. It's all a question of having the information and then putting it to work.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who knew that that hot feeling that you experience afterwards? It's not just hot in your tongue. You can put a sensor on your forehead and you will actually see the body is burning off calories as a result of eating the spicy food. So I'm not suggesting that people take a couple of jalapenos and just eat that, but what I am suggesting is that there are spices. There's cinnamon. There is the capsaisins. Those are the hot in the hot peppers. There's also ginger. They all have these kinds of effects where they readjust your body chemistry to be a calorie burner. So the foods taste great. You're not increasing your workout, but the weight comes off. And I don't want people to get modest about this. We're in a study right now. And the study has been going on for about 18 weeks now. One of the guys in the study has lost 60 pounds already. Now, I don't encourage people to lose weight that fast. And the person who's going to lose weight that fast is a person who's got a lot.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We know that berries are good, so let's say I make a muffin, and instead of cooking it with butter, I'm going to cook it in a healthy way and I'm going to have blueberries in it. So the food's got to be, they have to be good so that you'll like them so that you'll serve them to your family. And then the weight loss just kicks in automatically.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“compound in it that scientists didn't know what to call it they ended up calling it cinnamaldehyde you know researchers are not always very creative for their naming but cinnamon contains this thing called cinnamaldehyde and it's associated with weight loss and it appears that it works by increasing metabolism so what researchers have done there are many of these studies but there was a 2017 study where researchers all they did in a randomized trial was give cinnamon or nothing And the amount of cinnamon was about one teaspoon per day, which you could throw in water or whatever. And what they showed was about a seven or eight pound weight loss over a matter of several weeks. And so I'm not recommending that people just add cinnamon to bread that's slathered with butter because you can undo the power. But the whole point of the power food's dietary approach is rather than thinking about all the things I can't eat, let's bring in.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then by about the following day, at that same time of day, your liver is making more of what are called phase two enzymes. The phase two enzymes are there to remove toxins from your body. So if you inhale bus exhaust or some other toxin that's in your body, your liver is there to filter them out and get rid of them and your liver is more powerful if the cruciferous vegetables were in your diet because they cause it to make more of these detoxification enzymes. But there are lots of these foods. And some of them are not foods, but they're flavors like cinnamon has”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, arugula and lots more. Yes. They have a second benefit. Research is at Johns Hopkins have been studying them not for weight loss, but for cancer prevention. And they find that maybe not surprisingly, people who eat more of these have less of various forms of cancer. But it turns out that what they do is a surprise. If you eat a couple of servings of broccoli today, And the same thing tomorrow.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“they are one of the top foods that the Harvard researchers associated with weight loss and frankly it's kind of for a no brainer brainer reason they're really high in fiber a cup of broccoli has maybe five grams of fiber in it but all of about 50 or 60 calories like none so it's very very filling very low in calories”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cruciform, the flower on broccoli or cauliflower or Brussels sprouts. When they're growing, they present this little flower that has kind of a little cross shape in it. So it's called cruciferous. And they're healthy foods. They are good in many ways.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like that, or not roadkill, but you know what I mean, you would get, you could scavenge from something left over by a lion or a hyena. And in fact, that tea believed that that is how meat eating began, was that there was kill left over in a carcass that wasn't fully eaten by an actual carnivorous animal. And then once we got fire Which we didn't have before. Once we got fired, now you're on to something. Now you can actually make meat, at least over the short term, safe to eat.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Richard Leakey was a wonderful paleoanthropologist. His father was Lewis Leakey. And Lewis Leakey is the one who launched Jane Goodall into Tanzania to study chimpanzees and Diane Fossey to study the gorillas. Lewis Leakey was a wonderful paleoanthropologist and his son, Richard, worked for many, many years in Kenya and died recently. But I put this question to him. I said, all the work that you've done studying human behavior and human diets, aren't we naturally carnivores? And he looked at me in the eye and he said, understand we are not carnivores and never have been carnivores. What allowed people to start to eat as if they're carnivores was the advent of the Stone Age when we were able to make stone tools that became axes and arrowheads, lift your own devices without those tools, you can't chase down a deer or an antelope. You might occasionally get some roadkill or something.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Over the hilltop and capturing an antelope and bringing it back to the applause of our families. That's a romantic notion that people like to pretend. And if you look at human culture over the millennia, we are clearly designed for and have followed either an exclusively plant-based diet or a mostly plant-based diet. Now that said, you know, we're Take what we can get when people are don't have tremendous means. If a rabbit comes by and they can capture them in their snare and they'll eat them, they will. Having said that, I have to say I put this question to Richard Leakey some years ago. And I asked him, I said, you know,”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I haven't really looked at the carnivore diet very well. It's a ludicrous diet. First of all, it's very fiber deficient. And somebody like that is going to spend hours in the bathroom struggling to go to the bathroom because they're not getting any fiber. So that person goes to the drugstore and they'll get metamucil, which is a pilium fiber, which is a seed fiber because they don't want to eat the seeds, but they'll sell you the fiber to counteract it. You're getting a massive amount of cholesterol. The one thing you could say for it is if a person says, well, I'm chucking out a bunch of just sugar and I'm chucking out the cheese and so forth and I'm focusing on meat. Well, half of what you're doing is good is you're getting rid of some other things that were frankly not so good for you, the donuts and things aren't very good. But a meat-based diet is a romantic fantasy. When people think of themselves as hunter-gatherers, we are gatherers first and hunters second. Our nature is not to be racing.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Without question, I can reduce your testosterone level within a matter of a couple of weeks just by putting you on a cheesy, meaty diet. The more your body fat expands, the more your testosterone level is neutralized. It gets worse because there's estrogen in the dairy itself, that adds to the estrogen your body is now making in your body fat. An animal-based diet is just a recipe for hormone haywire.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fat cell in your body is an estrogen factory. What I mean is your testosterone goes into a fat cell and estrogen comes out. You have enzymes called aromatase enzymes that take that testosterone from your bloodstream, and the more body fat you have, the more they are reducing your testosterone because they're converting it to.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly that has been discovered. In New York, New York State, researchers went into a fertility center. And you do sperm counts on men. And when you do a sperm count, what you're looking at is the count, the number of little sperm, you also look at their morphology, meaning their shape and their motility, meaning, are they swimming straight? And what they have shown in at least two studies that I'm aware of, that men who consume the most cheese have the lowest sperm counts and the worst mortality and morphology morphology. And the reason, of course, is you're swallowing estrogen every day, but it gets worse than that. When you eat cheese, you're eating something that's three quarters fat. It's really high in calories. And added to your chicken fat and beef fat and the fat that people get all over the place, you're gaining body weight. And guys are struggling with this and mistakenly blaming carbs and so forth. But as you gain body weight, every”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In them, and everybody gets hooked on this thing. And your average American eats 77,000 calories of cheese every year. And then they think they got fat from eating bread. It wasn't the bread. It was that hunk of cheese that was in between there that could explain the entire weight problem we have in America.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On a dairy farm, their milk production, although they're impregnated every single year, slacks off by about age four. And then they are hung up by their leg, and they are slit for low-grade beef. So the dairy industry is a meat industry. It just takes you a little while to get there. And every dairy cow is impregnated artificially. They're separated from their calf. And we just kind of put up with this. And during each pregnancy, she is continued to be milked. The estrogen comes down those milking tubes. It gets into this little swimming pool full of milk when they throw in the rennet, which is this genetically engineered enzyme that makes it clot. Then you throw in the bacteria that give it that funky fermented flavor. And people get hooked on this stuff. And you're eating this mixture of estradiol along with a huge amount of fat and these animal proteins that have the morphine.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is my baby. And then a gate will stop. We'll hit her in the face. And she will stand right there and cry out. And the calf, if the calf is male, will very soon be killed for veal because you can't use a male in the dairy industry. And if that calf is female, she will be put in an isolation hutch, fed milk replacer. And when she's about a year or old, she'll get a hand up her butt, and she'll be impregnated. Now, in nature, a cow lives to be about twenty.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the calf looks up at mom and all the farmhands gather on because I got to tell you there's nothing cuter than this big bag of bones of this little calf we was just born. And this is like the first hour of life. And then they say, well, wait a minute. You don't want that calf to suckle. Because that milk is what we're going to sell. The milk that's made for her calf is we're going to sell. So we have an implement that solves that problem, and that's a wheelbarrow. So you put the calf in a wheelbarrow, and you carry the calf away. Now, the mother infant bond is the strongest bond we have in nature. She will follow. And she'll follow effectively in her own bovine way, saying,”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have to milk a cow, and cows normally don't make milk. They make milk only after they've been impregnated. And if you don't mind, let me just walk you through how this happens, because I think it's good for people to be aware of. And every dairy farm everywhere in the world, there's an underpaid guy who takes his left hand and puts a glove on it up to his shoulder. And he sticks his hand into the cow's rectum, up to his elbow, and he grabs the cow's uterus. You can feel the uterus through the rectal wall. And you hold it steady, and with your right hand, you take what looks like a knitting needle, and you jam it into a vagina right through the cervix, and you inject sperm that you took from a bowl. Now she will become impregnated and she will not object because she's chained up by the neck and she can't turn around and stop you. And then you go on to the next one, the next one, the next one. Nine months later after her gestation is finished, she will have a calf, which she didn't volunteer for, but this is now her baby. She will look at that calf.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The big problem here, and for any guy who is thinking, do I want to stop eating dairy, estradiol, female sex hormones, if your mom has hot flashes and she's taking estradiol to calmer flashes, that female sex hormone. It's in milk. The cow makes it. Cows naturally make estradial, and so it's in every slice of cheese you ever ate, but it gets worse to get”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it doesn't love you back, unfortunately. To divert too much, but cheese is the one food that actually contains narcotics. The casein protein that's in milk comes out of the cow's udder. It digests in the calves stomach to release what are called kazomorphins. They're casein derived, morphine-like compounds. And they go in the calves' blood to the calf's brain, and they attach two receptors the very same receptor that a narcotic attaches to. So if you drink a glass of milk, the very same thing happens is that your body takes the casein protein, pulls out the casomorphins, they go to your brain and attach there. But the reason that cheese is more addictive than milk or even ice cream is because when you make cheese, you concentrate the protein and the fat. You remove all the lactose sugar and all the whey. And it's just basically casein mixed with fat. And it's basically dairy crack.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can do anything you want. You can. However, what you want today is what you ate yesterday. Our tastes can drift very, very readily to foods that we expose ourselves to. So if the past week I've been eating chicken, it's over. That's what we tend to come back to. And that's what we accommodate to. And that's true for caffeine. That's true for every drug of abuse. That's true for foods that we get hooked on. It's true for cheese more than anything else. People listening to this broadcast are all nodding exactly right now because they say, oh, I could be vegan except for the cheese. And that's.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of course, every good scientist recognizes that bias can enter in any study. We all have biases, and that's why you have to do studies in a careful way. So, for example, when I do a study comparing a Mediterranean diet to a vegan diet, I make sure that the Mediterranean diet is taught by dietitians who personally follow a Mediterranean diet themselves. And we'll talk it up. And I hire them for that purpose. And the vegan diet is taught by dietitians who believe in that diet. And then your statistics have to be done blindly by somebody who's not partial. But everybody has biases. And with tobacco, we went through this. Back in the 50s and 60s, you could say, well, I'm not sure if tobacco really causes lung cancer. And if somebody thought it was, well, you're biased. Today, if somebody does not strongly believe that tobacco causes lung cancer, you're just an idiot. I mean, it clearly does. But that doesn't mean you don't do tobacco research. You do. But you try to set your biases aside.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have been very likely was. So, what they Randomized trial, and what you do is you take people and you just give them the anthocyanin drink for some kind of placebo that looks the same. So I do think we need to be careful, and I think industry, you know, you'll have the blueberry industry or the grape juice industry jumping in with money, as the dairy industry has been doing for a long period of time. So I think we should be skeptical. But when you see, for example, our group, we take no money from any food industry group ever for exactly even healthy foods, we won't take their money because we want to make sure that we're unbiased in what we find. And you want to look for consistency of findings.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Huge infusion of anthocyanins in the form of grape juice, a pint in a day, so maybe a cup in the morning, cup at night, and over three months they then tracked your ability to retain knowledge and your ability to remember. And what they showed is it was measurably increased over a placebo. And okay, that sounds to me too easy. So they did the study again, and they used a different anthocyanin source. They now used blueberry juice, same result. So I continue to think that I think it's a good idea to be skeptical because people want to find some easy answer to things. Yeah.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very likely. I think personally, I think we need more research, but our team and many others have been really excited about this ever since. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati brought in a group of people. And not just random people off the street. These were people selected because they were way up in years, average age, 76, 78. And they already had memory lapses. They had what we call mild cognitive impairment. They gave them”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it is, but it can be tricky. Anthocyanins is a huge painting box that nature uses for blueberries, for the red grape, that's anthocyanins. Strawberries are red, but it's a different anthocyanin. And in October, when the leaves are turning, those yellows and reds and golden colors are different anthocyanins. Now tomato or a watermelon, that bright red is not anthocyanins. That's lycopene, that's an antioxidant too, but that's the cousin of beta-carotene. So beta-carotene is the orange in a carrot. Lycopenes, the red and a tomato, and the anthocyanins are the purples and the grapes and in the blueberries and so forth.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the number one food of all the foods that was associated with the most weight loss was blueberries, blueberries, and all their cousins like raspberries and so forth, these anthocyanin rich foods. So why the heck is it that people who decide to eat more of these foods and bring them into their diet? Why are they losing weight? Well, okay, if you're eating the blueberries for the dessert, you're not eating the cream custard. Maybe that's part of it. But even when you control for that, you still see the weight loss. And we believe that the reasons are that these are always high fiber foods. They are always very modest in calories. And there is something about the effect of anthocyanins that may affect either our appetite or more likely our metabolism.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If she was the twin eating more anthocyanins, what is that? Anthocyanins is the blue in a blueberry or in a grape. This is nature's painting box. And they're powerful antioxidants. And so then at Harvard, researchers looked at, okay, which foods are associated with weight loss? They looked at about 130,000 people in the nurses' health study, in the health professionals follow-up study. They track them year after year. They say, okay, these people are eating more of this food, more of that food. How does that affect their weight change? And this is just an association. But what they discovered is that people who ate more beans would tend to lose more weight. People who ate more citrus fruit, even fruit juice would lose more weight. People who ate more melons, watermelons and cantaloups and things would lose more weight. And then green vegetables.”
2024-02-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Vegan Dr: The Truth About The Vegan Diet, "Eggs Are Making You Fat", "Stop Eating Cheese!" - Neal Barnard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That they looked at a new group of participants. And the same thing happens, that your metabolism ramps up. But so many people are struggling with weight, blaming themselves. And my answer is, wait a minute, I can make you a wonderful meal and you can lose weight naturally. Let me give you an example. There is a twins registry in the UK. Great registry. They've got, in this particular study, they looked at not quite 3,000 twins, identical twins, same genetics. But then they did Dexa scans. It's a scan that looks not just at body weight, but it looks at is body composition. So how much body fat do you have? And they discovered that one twin compared to the other twin had 9% less”
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“Them out so you don't absorb them. And the third and the most fun is that certain foods ramp up your metabolism so that you're burning calories for about three or four or five hours after the meal faster than you were before, which we can measure. And we first published those data back in 2005, the American Journal of Medicine, published our results showing that your aftermale metabolism ramps up not hugely, but about 15%, something like that. So then again in about, I think it was 2020, we published this with Jamma Network Open.”
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“I'm sorry, GLP1 is a compound made in the intestinal tract. And this is the thing that Novo Nordisk is trying to simulate with its weekly injection. Initially marketed as Ozempic, and then marketed under the name Wagovi. In the US, it's been hugely controversial because it does cut down the appetite and people lose weight, but it costs them more than $15,000 a year. And the side effects nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, feeling terrible. And when you stop, all that weight comes right back. So anyway, it's big, hugely very controversial. But what we've discovered is we brought in people, fed them different meals, and found that there are certain foods that cause GLP1 release naturally that tames your appetite. So there are certain foods that tame your appetite. If you don't know what they are, you're trying to lose weight with one arm tie behind your back. The second thing is that certain foods trap calories in your digestive tract.”
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“Up until now, the whole idea has been if I want to lose weight, I have to say no. I have to say no to calories, no to seconds, no to dessert. And I started thinking, wait a minute, there is a huge body of research that allows you to just push that off the table and say, yes to certain specific foods that I call them power foods because they do three things. There are certain foods that are appetite tamers. The same reason that people are buying Ozempic and Wigovi, these injections that tamer appetite, food will do precisely the same thing. That's what food releases GLP1 agonists and will tame your appetite.”
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“Yeah, yes, B12 is pennies. So the average person's food bill dropped by about 16%. So in America, that means about $500 a year or something like that. So why is that? If a person is low on money, here in this country we have the SNAP program. It used to be called food stamps. You get a card. You go into the store. The cheapest thing in the store are these little bags of dried beans and the dried rice. And you can get a block of frozen broccoli that's three for a dollar and that kind of thing. And if you go into the back and say, well, I'd like to have some cheese or some meat. That's where the money is. So when a person's on a plant-based diet, they're going to be saving money. Plus the fact is their need for medications goes way down. They're not at the doctor's so much. Now, don't get me wrong. There are places that would love to charge you for asparagus water or some kooky thing.”
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“and grains, and you're spending nothing on meat, nothing on cheese, your oils are, you know, you're cooking without them, and the average person saved sixteen percent.”
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“Such an important question because when we feed our children, we're not only nourishing them today, but we're setting in motion the foods that they will eat in the future. You're accommodating the child's tastes to the things you put on the table. So it's essential that they be healthy foods. We did a study that we just published in JAMA Network Open, the American Medical Association's online journal. And we brought in 244 individuals, and half of them were asked to continue their current diet. The other half were asked to avoid animal products, keep oils low. It's a healthy vegan diet. And we track their weight. And as you can imagine, they lost weight. And we track their insulin sensitivity, got better. The things that you would imagine, all the benefits, their cholesterol has improved. But we also track their food expenses. And what we found is that overall you're spending more on vegetables. You're spending more on fruits. You're spending more on beans.”
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“Are the studies that prove that it works? And then we sit down with the patient and his reluctant spouse, and they'll kind of map out what they're going to have for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner. And then they just think about it for about a week. They try the foods and they figure out the ones that really work. Great. Now we're going to do a three-week test drive. And people at home should do this. 21 days. You can do anything for 21 days. And you've already made your list of the foods that you like. At the end of 21 days, number one, physically you are a different person. You're losing that weight without calorie counting, without ramping up your exercise. People are noticing the difference in you. But apart from the physical changes, your tastes are changing. You're discovering new things that you didn't have before. And better than that, you're forgetting the things that didn't love you back.”
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“Who follows a plant-based diet on average is 35 pounds leaner than the typical meat-eating American. Or put it the other way, your average meating American is 35 pounds heavier than the typical not very careful vegan. So it's a big difference. But beyond that, let's say I'm trying to follow mostly a plant-based diet, but once in a while I'll have some meat. What that does is that reawakens the neural circuitry for those addictive things. It's sort of like a smoker who decides at parties all smoke. What you're doing is you're never able to forget the taste of it. So it's a good idea to just, if something doesn't love you back, just get rid of it. But because that sounds like a heavy load, what I say to people is this. And the way we do it in our studies, take the first week. And your goal is just to lose some weight. You want to be able to see your abs again, whatever it is. You want to get off insulin. You want to feel better.”
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“Great idea doesn't work. It's a little bit like the person who comes in to see me in the clinic and they've got a chronic cough. They said, Doc, I've had this cough for months now. I said, well, maybe it's time that we do stop smoking. And they say, oh, all right, Doc, I'll stop. So they come in a week later and say, I've still coughing. Well, did you stop smoking? Well, almost completely. I'm only having maybe two cigarettes a day. Say, well, let's just cut it out completely. And things get dramatically better. So by analogy, When a person comes in, they've got a high cholesterol level or they've got weight they can't lose. And they're sort of 90% vegan. That last 10% really makes such a huge difference. And it makes a difference in a couple of ways. And by the way, I'm not encouraging people to take this on faith. If you just try it, you'll discover that when a person really gets the animal products out of their life, first of all, the physical benefits are dramatically better.”
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“Well, that's one possibility. And the other possibility is, frankly, that we could absorb our own B12. Your digestive tract makes B12, but the question is how absorbable really is it? And most people believe, and I think it's quite possible, that it's produced too low down by the gut microbiome to really be efficiently absorbed. Either way, my suggestion is I wouldn't worry about it. You just take B12. It's in every multiple vitamin you ever took. And it's at the store. and we just take it and that way there's no worry.”
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