How to Reverse Heart Failure with Diet
How to Reverse Heart Failure with Diet
Can you reverse heart disease with food? An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.
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1.11 -> [Music]
7.2 -> [Music]
11.2 -> it is a hopeful sign of the times when
13.36 -> entire issues of cardiology journals are
15.44 -> not just dedicated to nutrition
17.84 -> but to plant-based diets in particular
21.439 -> dr williams past president of the
23.119 -> american college of cardiology starts
24.88 -> out
25.359 -> with a quote attributed to schopenhauer
28 -> all truth
28.8 -> passes through three stages first it is
30.96 -> ridiculed
32.079 -> second it is violently opposed third it
34.559 -> is accepted as like well
36.079 -> duh and the truth for the benefits of
39.6 -> plant-based diets
40.8 -> plant-based nutrition continues to mount
43.68 -> the evidence
44.64 -> we got the problem is the inertia
46.96 -> culture habit and widespread marketing
49.6 -> of unhealthy foods our goal must be to
52.48 -> get the data
53.36 -> out to the medical community and the
55.28 -> public where it can actually change
56.84 -> lives that's like my my personal life's
59.76 -> mission in four words
61.039 -> get the data out right based on what we
64.239 -> already know in the existing medical
65.84 -> literature
66.479 -> plant-based nutrition clearly represents
69.28 -> the single
70.24 -> most important yet underutilized
72.24 -> opportunity to reverse the pending
74.32 -> obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic
77.28 -> of morbidity and mortality meaning
79.2 -> disease and death
81.119 -> the issue included your typical heart
83.759 -> disease reversal cases
85.6 -> 77 year old woman with heart disease so
87.92 -> bad she couldn't walk more than a half
89.84 -> block or go up a single flight of stairs
92.32 -> severe blockages in all three of her
94.479 -> main arteries
95.36 -> and referred to open heart surgery for a
98.24 -> bypass
99.28 -> she chose however instead to adopt a
101.84 -> whole food plant-based diet which
103.28 -> included all
104.32 -> vegetables fruits whole grains potatoes
106.159 -> beans legumes and nuts
108.159 -> even though she said she was trying to
110.479 -> eat pretty healthy before
113.52 -> within a single month of going
115.119 -> plant-based her symptoms had nearly
116.799 -> resolved
117.759 -> and forget about a block she was able to
119.759 -> walk in a treadmill for up to 50 minutes
121.68 -> without just chest discomfort or
123.439 -> becoming out of breath her cholesterol
125.6 -> dropped about 100 points from around
128.319 -> 220 down to 120 with an ldl under 60.
132.48 -> but then a few months later she must
134.879 -> have started missing her you know
136.4 -> chicken fish and low-fat dairy and went
138.16 -> back to her prior eating habits
140 -> and within a few weeks with no change in
141.92 -> her meds or anything her chest pain was
144 -> back
144.4 -> and she went on to have her chest sawed
146.239 -> in half after all
148.72 -> then she continued to eat the same diet
150.319 -> that contributed to the cause of her
151.92 -> disease in the first place and went on
153.12 -> to have further
154.48 -> disease progression all right this one
157.76 -> though
158.239 -> has a happier ending started out the
160.08 -> same 60 year old man severe chest pain
162.48 -> after as little as a half block decided
164.8 -> to take control of his health destiny
166.72 -> and switched
167.44 -> to a whole food plant-based diet from
169.519 -> his quote-unquote healthy diet of
171.04 -> skinless chicken
172.08 -> fish low-fat dairy that had been choking
174.959 -> off his heart
176 -> and within a few weeks the same amazing
178.56 -> transformation from not being able to
180.159 -> exercise
180.879 -> at all to walking a mile to then
184 -> being able to jog more than four miles
186.159 -> completely asymptomatic off all drugs no
188.8 -> surgery
189.68 -> off to live happily ever after
193.44 -> now of course case reports are just
195.599 -> really
196.48 -> glorified anecdote i mean what we need
198.48 -> is a randomized controlled trial to
201.04 -> prove heart disease can be reversed with
202.8 -> lifestyle changes alone and
204.959 -> guess what there was one published
208.08 -> literally 30 years ago proving
211.36 -> angiographic reversal of heart disease
213.519 -> and 82 of the patients opening up
215.28 -> artists without drugs without surgery so
217.599 -> these case reports are just to remind us
220.319 -> that
220.64 -> hundreds of thousands of americans
222.319 -> continue to needlessly
224.319 -> die every year from what was proven to
226.64 -> be a reversible condition
228.319 -> decades ago the conventional use of case
231.28 -> reports though is to present some you
232.879 -> know
233.2 -> novel results in hopes of inspiring
235.599 -> trials to
236.72 -> put it to the test for example a case
239.36 -> report on a plant-based diet for
240.799 -> congestive
241.68 -> heart failure so not just coronary
244.159 -> artery disease but the heart muscle
245.68 -> itself was so
246.879 -> weakened it couldn't efficiently pump
249.04 -> blood only able to eject about 35
251.68 -> of the blood in the main heart chamber
253.36 -> with every beat whereas
255.04 -> normally the heart can you know pump out
256.959 -> at least half
258.56 -> which is exactly what his heart was able
260.72 -> to do just
261.759 -> six weeks after switching to a whole
264.4 -> food plant-based diet instead of
266.88 -> choosing to get his chest cracked open
269.919 -> the first report of an improvement in
271.759 -> heart failure
273.28 -> following adoption of a plant-based diet
275.28 -> but not the last
276.96 -> 54 year old woman obese type 2 diabetic
279.6 -> presenting
280.24 -> with swelling ankles due to her heart
282.32 -> failure she switched from her chicken
284.479 -> and fish to whole plant foods
286.24 -> she started out eating healthier and
288.56 -> lost 50 pounds
289.6 -> reversed her diabetes meaning normal
292.08 -> blood sugars
292.88 -> on a normal diet without the use of
294.96 -> diabetes medications and
296.72 -> her heart function normalized from an
299.36 -> abysmal ejection fraction of just 25
302.16 -> up to normal now since it's not a
305.36 -> randomized controlled trial all we can
307.12 -> say is that her improvements coincided
309.52 -> with her adoption of the whole food
310.96 -> plant-based diet
311.919 -> but given the burden of heart failure as
314 -> a leading cause of death
315.759 -> how it just usually gets progressively
318.4 -> worse and the overall evidence to date
320.8 -> a plant-based diet should be considered
323.039 -> as part of
324.16 -> heart failure care and look we already
326.639 -> know it can reverse
327.759 -> her coronary artery disease and so any
330.4 -> heart failure benefits would
332.24 -> just be a bonus now we just need good
335.84 -> strategies for healthcare practitioners
337.6 -> to support patients
339.36 -> in plant-based eating here are some
341.199 -> excellent suggestions to pause and
343.039 -> reflect on
343.919 -> for example doctors can use the
346.16 -> plantrician project's prescription pads
348.24 -> and
348.56 -> prescribe a good website or two
352.16 -> while it is certainly true that many
354.32 -> people would be
355.28 -> resistant to fundamental dietary changes
357.759 -> look it's equally true that look
359.919 -> millions of intelligent people motivated
361.919 -> to preserve their health are now taking
363.919 -> halfway measures that may provide only
366.24 -> modest benefit right
367.36 -> choosing leaner cuts of meat using you
369.52 -> know reduced fat dairy products
371.36 -> most of these people have neither the
372.88 -> time nor the training to actually see
374.479 -> what the science shows themselves right
376.639 -> don't they deserve honest forthright
380 -> advice when their lives are at stake i
382.8 -> mean those
383.52 -> who wish to ignore that advice or
385.759 -> implement it only partially
387.199 -> certainly at liberty to do so right i
389.12 -> mean you want to go
390.24 -> smoke cigarettes go bungee jumping right
392.319 -> it's your body your choice right
394.24 -> it's up to each of us to make our own
396.479 -> decisions
397.36 -> as to you know what to eat and how to
399.52 -> live but we should make these choices
400.96 -> consciously right educating ourselves
403.199 -> about the predictable consequences
405.36 -> of our actions
410.05 -> [Music]
432.479 -> you
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