❤️ Reversing heart disease | Plant based Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn 
                    
	Aug 26, 2023
 
                    
                    ❤️ Reversing heart disease | Plant based Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn 
	Jenna Matecki interviews Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a legendary down-to-earth doctor who has reversed and cured heart disease for thousands of patients, and advocated for a plant-based diet since 1984. https://downtoearthbyjenna.com https://downtoearth.substack.com/p/pl …https://www.instagram.com/dresselstyn/ https://twitter.com/DrEsselstyn https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Esselstyn https://www.instagram.com/jane_essels …https://www.instagram.com/ripesselstyn/ https://www.facebook.com/RipEsselstyn/ https://www.instagram.com/engine2diet/ http://www.dresselstyn.com/site/ https://amzn.to/2ztkVHb https://amzn.to/3fJLuZn https://amzn.to/3cqHTgQ https://gamechangersmovie.com/ https://www.forksoverknives.com/ https://ijdrp.org/index.php/ijdrp/art …https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/us …https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-det …http://www.dresselstyn.com/site/artic …https://amzn.to/2zCixha https://amzn.to/2LpscKM https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/research … https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/gre …https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/ber …https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/20 …https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/32.4.905 https://www.ornish.com/proven-program …https://drwilliamli.com/ https://amzn.to/2SXjrvx https://my.clevelandclinic.org/ https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiol …https://www.massgeneral.org/news/coro …
                    
    
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                    0 ->  hi I'm Jenna welcome back to down to
2.19 ->  earth I am so excited to share with you
4.2 ->  that I had the opportunity to speak with
6.029 ->  dr. Caldwell Esselstyn dr. Esselstyn
8.73 ->  wrote the book and preventing and
10.53 ->  reversing heart disease his work was
12.54 ->  featured in the documentary Forks Over
14.07 ->  knives and he has spent his entire
16.49 ->  legendary career examining the link
19.08 ->  between nutrition and heart disease I
21.51 ->  have been such a big fan for such a long
23.789 ->  time and I'm gonna leave this in show at
25.8 ->  that because it's raining on me right
27.51 ->  now and I think it's time that you
29.279 ->  listen to him welcome back to down to
31.74 ->  earth how are you doing how's Quarantine
36.93 ->  treating you like everybody else
41.18 ->  well I have a lot of questions for you
43.52 ->  and I just before we get started I
46.05 ->  wanted to thank you so much for what you
47.64 ->  do I said this on the phone but you've
50.28 ->  not only kind of saved someone you keep
52.41 ->  those lives and but you've also
54.329 ->  delivered your message about the power
55.71 ->  of good nutrition in a way that has
58.32 ->  always been respectful and kind and
60.17 ->  we've all noticed so thank you for doing
63.42 ->  what you do thank each other doctor
66.15 ->  you've always said that heart disease is
67.799 ->  a foodborne illness and poor nutrition
69.84 ->  is the cause if we know this to be true
72.93 ->  in your opinion why is it's so so hard
75.84 ->  for people to eat right still why are
78.509 ->  people so confused when you touch poison
82.65 ->  ivy it's not gonna be but an hour or two
88.619 ->  before you really are paying the price
91.28 ->  but will you sit down and have a steak
93.6 ->  or you have pork or you have bacon or
97.86 ->  you have cheese
100.64 ->  you know it's take sometimes decades
104.75 ->  literally decades to build
106.68 ->  cardiovascular disease so there's no
108.479 ->  really immediate association there at
111.72 ->  all and it really doesn't do any help
115.92 ->  when the cardiologists with all and
119.07 ->  again with all due respect to my
120.509 ->  cardiovascular friends they really have
125.189 ->  no training and nutrition in medical
129 ->  school they have no training in
130.979 ->  nutrition
133.16 ->  that's substantive in their postgraduate
136.01 ->  years so frequently when I I ended up
138.83 ->  seeing patients that have had an
140.96 ->  unsuccessful bypass they've had an
143 ->  unsuccessful stent or they've been told
146.3 ->  because they have symptoms they're gonna
147.74 ->  have to have one of these procedures or
149.51 ->  some of the drugs none of the jugs that
152.18 ->  cardiology uses none of the stents none
154.97 ->  of the bypasses have one single solitary
157.88 ->  thing whatsoever to do with the
159.74 ->  causation of the illness when you have
163.36 ->  the profession that is treating this
165.74 ->  disease sort of didn't deny the reality
170.27 ->  of the science that has been out there
173.99 ->  now for 30 years showing clearly that if
177.44 ->  we take patients who are seriously ill
179.74 ->  with cardiovascular disease and we get
182.54 ->  them to change the way they're eating
186.29 ->  and stop eating any foods that are going
188.36 ->  to injure the endothelial cell then the
191.6 ->  endothelial cells will begin to recover
193.64 ->  they make enough nitric oxide so we can
196.16 ->  halt disease progression and often we'll
198.8 ->  see a significant elements of disease
200.75 ->  reversal leveling the playing field is
203.66 ->  so much better now than it was 30 years
205.94 ->  ago 34 years ago when I started I mean
208.16 ->  it's in all fairness there are
210.91 ->  cardiologists who become become aware of
212.96 ->  this there are physicians who have
215.27 ->  become aware of it but it's it's very
218.21 ->  awkward for physicians to try to believe
221.33 ->  in something for which they were never
223.07 ->  trained and and also it's hard to
226.97 ->  imagine that there is something that is
228.74 ->  more magical and more powerful when
231.23 ->  you're speaking about Brussels sprouts
232.82 ->  and broccoli then you are with somebody
235.82 ->  who has invented this drug which has
238.67 ->  taken many many years to develop is
241.31 ->  going to cost a great deal of money to
245.48 ->  take regularly it will have hideous side
247.94 ->  effects and it doesn't have anything to
250.43 ->  do with curing the disease but it'll
252.11 ->  help the symptoms so it's a it's coming
257.03 ->  you know it's really so embarrassing
258.77 ->  when you think that half of the planet
260.299 ->  earth doesn't have cardiovascular
262.28 ->  disease if you were a cardiac surgeon
264.56 ->  and you were going to take your
268.38 ->  you're hanging out your shingle in
272.229 ->  Okinawa rural China Central Africa the
274.84 ->  papal Highlands in New Guinea
277.24 ->  the Tarahumara northern Mexico forget it
280.38 ->  you better plan on selling pencils why
283.63 ->  they don't have any cardiovascular
284.889 ->  disease why because they all strive on
287.68 ->  whole food plant-based nutrition
288.85 ->  essentially without oil in light of that
291.669 ->  a lot of people think that genetics is
293.53 ->  the cause cause and pharmacology is the
297.55 ->  cure right
298.539 ->  okay genetics it's a cause why is it
300.94 ->  then Okinawa doesn't have any heart
302.979 ->  disease but as soon as they move to the
304.57 ->  west and they all develop heart disease
307.8 ->  and there have been studies that have
309.91 ->  shown this hmm okay so you're much more
314.86 ->  you know if we're looking at nature
315.97 ->  versus nurture when either you take a
317.41 ->  family where ever no male has ever lived
319.99 ->  beyond the age of 50 or 55 because of
322.12 ->  heart disease but if you get that
325.449 ->  younger male who is in his forties who
328.15 ->  hasn't yet he can go
330.43 ->  you can absolutely vanquish
332.49 ->  cardiovascular disease yeah but we're in
336.94 ->  such a habit how many times do you go to
338.74 ->  a restaurant in this country and go to
341.5 ->  the menu and find there's no oil what is
348.789 ->  all due to your endothelial cells and
351.58 ->  dangers on there I just wrote a paper
354.07 ->  last year in the International Journal
356.5 ->  of disease reversal and prevention the
359.65 ->  title was it is oil healthy and I review
362.59 ->  all the animal studies the human studies
364.479 ->  showing how oil injures the endothelial
368.32 ->  cells yeah doctor it's kind of hard for
370.87 ->  people to hear that olive oil is
373.539 ->  something that we should avoid and I'm
375.4 ->  sure you get this question a lot which
376.81 ->  is why you wrote a paper on it can you
378.61 ->  outline your recommendations for you no
381.07 ->  and I know you've done this plenty of
382.599 ->  times but I'm asking to do it one more
384.099 ->  time your recommendations for how we all
386.62 ->  should eat first of all what what are
388.63 ->  the foods that every time they pass our
391.389 ->  lips we injure the endothelial cells any
396.55 ->  drop of oil olive oil corn oil soybean
399.219 ->  oil safflower oil
400.78 ->  coconut oil palm oil boy on a cracker
404.35 ->  oil and a piece of bread oil and a salad
407.26 ->  dressing oil injures the endothelial
410.919 ->  cell all right now just so the I'll
415.63 ->  continue with that but I want to just be
417.43 ->  sure that your audience will probably
419.74 ->  say well what what is my credential for
424.27 ->  being able to sit to say those things we
426.97 ->  will compete our results in reversing
430.419 ->  heart disease with anybody on the planet
432.39 ->  we've written multiple papers about this
435.58 ->  before we ever wrote the book and when
439.51 ->  we eliminate for patients who were
441.85 ->  seriously ill with heart disease the
444.76 ->  foods that I've been sharing with your
446.08 ->  oil and the rest that are about I'm
448 ->  about to comment on not only did we stop
453.19 ->  their disease but we showed that we were
454.84 ->  able to reverse it okay
456.3 ->  eliminate the oil also anything with a
459.01 ->  mother or a face meat fish chicken fowl
462.58 ->  turkey and eggs animal protein injures
466.26 ->  endothelial cells as does dairy milk
470.41 ->  cream butter cheese ice cream and yogurt
473.169 ->  and sugary foods diet colas Pepsi coke
478.479 ->  I don't like sugary foods cakes pies
481.33 ->  cookies stevia agave too much maple
486.13 ->  syrup or molasses we have some mo
489.49 ->  labeled maple syrup in some of our
492.37 ->  recipes and some of the book but for
495.16 ->  patients who have heart disease I'd like
497.47 ->  him to eliminate that take very little
500.2 ->  amount of it also I don't like nuts
503.61 ->  peanut butter cashew sauce or avocado
510.06 ->  and too much saturated fat and coffee
515.89 ->  with caffeine decaf okay tea with
519.219 ->  caffeine okay but coffee with caffeine
521.909 ->  injures endothelial cells are good for
525.52 ->  people that are listening to you right
526.96 ->  now eat most of those things right I
529.33 ->  mean even just nuts right people make me
531.85 ->  nuts like peanut butter
534.13 ->  almonds I heard almonds are good right
536.62 ->  even Brazil nuts oftentimes Brazil nuts
538.93 ->  are cited as something that's good for
540.76 ->  the heart you know it's kind of
543.43 ->  overwhelming to hear you know even like
545.65 ->  not the coffee you don't take away the
547.48 ->  coffee you're taking away my coffee
548.95 ->  right um I'm sure you get this a lot it
551.95 ->  must be difficult having such tight data
555.19 ->  but that all stops when they suddenly
556.93 ->  find that especially the patients who
559.45 ->  come with chest pain angina and suddenly
562.15 ->  they find out when four or five or six
564.31 ->  days their chest pain is diminishing and
567.19 ->  going away why why am I so tough on nuts
572.14 ->  you'll see a number of paid papers out
573.97 ->  in the scientific literature praising
576.34 ->  nuts you have to look awfully very
578.68 ->  carefully at how this study was designed
580.54 ->  and also where was the money coming from
583.36 ->  because as the late Arnold Romans has
586.54 ->  said that he was formerly the
589.86 ->  editor of the New England Journal of
591.91 ->  Medicine he said you must be extremely
594.31 ->  cautious in reading a paper where the
597.76 ->  authorship has a relationship with
600.84 ->  industry now the thing about nuts is
604.9 ->  interesting you know probably if the
611.05 ->  truth were known you can't tell anybody
613.9 ->  this but if I were to say that if
616.69 ->  suppose I were to say that it was okay
618.55 ->  to have three walnut halves on your
621.88 ->  cereal that's not what people would
625.36 ->  remember they'd say hey I heard
627.73 ->  Esselstyn say that nuts are okay so
631.99 ->  they'll be in the glove compartment
633.39 ->  they'll be in the bathroom they'll be in
635.83 ->  the bedroom they'll be in the kitchen
637.3 ->  the hallway the dining room at the
639.49 ->  workbench they're highly addicting and
642.88 ->  it's interesting that I have yet to see
645.1 ->  in the scientific literature any group
648.01 ->  of patients who are seriously ill with
649.9 ->  heart disease where you give them nuts
651.55 ->  and peanut butter and cashew sauce and
653.74 ->  have their disease ever halt or be
657.04 ->  reversed so it's more than just an
659.77 ->  omega-3 versus an omega-6 thing omega-3
662.68 ->  and omega-6 are sort of essential fatty
665.62 ->  acids you will
667.22 ->  very likely never be short on omega-6
671.29 ->  unlikely to be it short on omega-3 if
673.76 ->  you're getting plenty of green leafy
675.17 ->  vegetables chia seeds or flaxseed meal
680.98 ->  but if you do want to be sure and you
684.68 ->  get chest checked and you have the
688.72 ->  omega-3 check test and it says you've
692.69 ->  got an a' you can either be optimal you
694.82 ->  can be borderline or low you can always
698.59 ->  take a supplement of omega-3 algae until
702.5 ->  you bounce your numbers up whether
704.99 ->  you're more optimal so in theory if I
708.65 ->  was a very healthy individual that's in
711.41 ->  my 30s and 40s in theory I could consume
715.31 ->  a very small amount of nuts that would
718.07 ->  be healthy but ultimately the
719.75 ->  recommendation is yeah I'm not on page
721.79 ->  69 of my books I don't have anything
724.13 ->  about patients who are otherwise healthy
726.88 ->  against them having notes this is for
729.32 ->  patients for heart disease got it
731.53 ->  would you um you know I mean I think
736.04 ->  about my my Italian friends listening to
739.4 ->  you right so it's like no olive oil
741.29 ->  no mozzarella no pizza no you can have
743.93 ->  all kinds of pizza but you can't have
745.64 ->  cheese on it
746.39 ->  and you can't have with it they're gonna
749.84 ->  be there delicious pizzas vegetable
751.64 ->  pizzas so when people call your
753.5 ->  recommendations draconian what they're
755.99 ->  really what they're really not seeing is
758.48 ->  that it actually has results attached to
761.12 ->  them no I don't think there's your
762.95 ->  colognian at all when you think about it
767.74 ->  they are draconian in the in the sense
770.69 ->  that they're so powerfully curative the
775.79 ->  when somebody calls it severe stricter
778.52 ->  draconian that's a look at the foods
782.89 ->  that are in our diet and nutrition plan
786.71 ->  there's not one food that we're asking
789.44 ->  people to eat that they haven't already
791.81 ->  eaten throughout their lives the only
794.66 ->  thing that they're they are deciding is
796.28 ->  their draconian is the fact that we are
798.23 ->  asking them to simply
800.93 ->  move from that diet the food said if
804.38 ->  they continue to eat them will guarantee
805.91 ->  that they will become sick ill and
807.86 ->  perish from disease
810.35 ->  so we're take our joconi and step is to
812.6 ->  take it away the killing foods and I
817.1 ->  don't think that's true Conan but what
819.17 ->  happens with our foot with our diet if
821 ->  we were to take our diet to Okinawa the
823.64 ->  Okinawans would look at us and say well
826.209 ->  it's about time you guys caught on we've
829.13 ->  been we've been doing this for centuries
830.779 ->  true or false
832.13 ->  red meat has the same level of
833.69 ->  carcinogenesis as single that's it
837.92 ->  that's what that was the famous saying
840.26 ->  that came in October of 2015 the World
846.38 ->  Health Organization imagine that
848.98 ->  representatives from countries
850.64 ->  throughout the world
851.93 ->  agreed that it was time to label red
856.76 ->  meat as having the same level of
858.44 ->  carcinogenicity as smoking cigarettes
860.959 ->  what a tremendously powerful statement
864.82 ->  doctor what about people that say that
866.9 ->  fish and fowl chicken are okay is that
871 ->  they don't know that they don't know the
872.93 ->  science okay so animal protein if
877.22 ->  someone's making a choice for chicken
878.779 ->  because it's a question of what do you
880.73 ->  want to be shot or hung Wow okay and so
891.23 ->  so what if I you know if let's say I'm
894.14 ->  listening to you right now and then
895.7 ->  bought in I'm bought in but there's a
898.85 ->  lot of other you know information that
900.29 ->  I'm getting lately there are trends
902.029 ->  towards intermittent fasting or genetics
905.9 ->  related dieting plans or inflammatory
910.55 ->  foods I you know there's a lot of trends
913.37 ->  that are happening in the world of
914.87 ->  nutrition now you've seen them
916.43 ->  throughout your career how do you feel
918.38 ->  first about intermittent fasting well
921.589 ->  you can look if you just want to get
925.089 ->  comfortable about it
926.89 ->  you ask yourself what do the the rural
930.98 ->  Chinese do what do the Okinawa what do
933.5 ->  those in Central Africa
934.76 ->  they all have intermittent fasting
936.44 ->  there's gonna be these fats I don't have
938.96 ->  a problem I don't have a problem with
940.79 ->  people who want a fast that's not gonna
942.56 ->  hurt them as to what they do when they
945.56 ->  stop fasting it hurts them I don't have
949.52 ->  a problem with that they're different
950.69 ->  types of fast we have a situation when
954.85 ->  let's say I and this happens all the
957.71 ->  time we've got patients who come into
959.3 ->  our program and let's say but they come
962.78 ->  in they weigh 250 300 350 400 a month or
966.47 ->  two ago I had a patient who weighed 500
968.54 ->  pounds you know you can't him you know
973.67 ->  you got to get to work on that that's
976.21 ->  where we we borrowed something from the
978.89 ->  National Institutes of Aging about eight
980.96 ->  or nine years ago that I think is a very
983.33 ->  powerful and very strong addition and
985.31 ->  that is they you have to watch it if
990.83 ->  they're if they're diabetic because you
992.87 ->  don't want them to have a hypoglycemic
994.55 ->  episode but we'd like those patients to
997.49 ->  have a total water-only fast two days a
1000.37 ->  week 24 hours Warford only and that
1004.93 ->  really kind of kick-starts the weight
1006.49 ->  loss along with the with the plant-based
1009.64 ->  diet itself and then they don't go
1011.86 ->  through those awkward moments where you
1013.33 ->  lose weight they plateau for a number of
1015.79 ->  months they get discouraged and then
1017.2 ->  they get recidivism and then they end up
1019.09 ->  gaining the weight back but if they have
1021.91 ->  our program where they are successful
1024.209 ->  this really helps them to keep going and
1027.79 ->  really achieve the goals that they're
1029.829 ->  after I'm hearing you and I and I'm you
1032.5 ->  know I personally am totally bought into
1034.06 ->  what you're saying um but then you know
1037.36 ->  if you walk into a supermarket Market
1039.16 ->  and you go to a frozen food section
1040.589 ->  there's such that there's such a long
1042.82 ->  distance between how we should be eating
1045.22 ->  and how we're currently eating
1046.9 ->  throughout American society today and
1049.96 ->  I'm wondering you know are we destined
1052.57 ->  to be addicted to unhealthy food when so
1055.63 ->  much unhealthy food processed food fried
1058.69 ->  food is around us every day I mean it's
1060.91 ->  it seems like such a difficult thing for
1063.4 ->  so many people who many of whom are just
1065.53 ->  trying to put food on the table you know
1067.39 ->  to walk into
1068.45 ->  market to see their choices and to not
1070.429 ->  choose something that's unhealthy I'm
1074.33 ->  curious you know how do you feel about
1076.22 ->  compliance I know you're not a
1077.659 ->  psychologist but how do you feel about
1079.309 ->  compliance in a world where so many the
1082.1 ->  choices are so poor and addictive when
1085.1 ->  we recently looked up some 200 patients
1089.149 ->  who had been through our program for
1091.25 ->  close to four years and we found that
1094.789 ->  the compliance and adherence when we
1096.559 ->  looked it up was about eighty nine point
1098.809 ->  three to 90 that's almost 90 percent and
1102.649 ->  a number of physicians who often would
1108.649 ->  attend our seminar just because they
1110.659 ->  want to familiar with it they're really
1113.63 ->  quite astounded and often they'll say
1116.51 ->  well dr. Esselstyn I've tried your
1118.13 ->  approach but I really can I get a
1121.519 ->  patient to follow this approach and what
1127.07 ->  we find is that why is it that we're
1129.38 ->  getting 90% adherence and I think the
1132.799 ->  the answer to that quite clearly is that
1137.529 ->  we're showing the patient respect how do
1143.779 ->  you show a patient respect the only way
1146.929 ->  that I know to really show a patient
1149.059 ->  respect is to give them our time and
1152.809 ->  personally with this seminar that I was
1154.899 ->  conducting until the virus hit once a
1157.789 ->  month we would have 12 or 14
1159.82 ->  participants always with their
1162.409 ->  significant other or their spouse in
1165.23 ->  attendance which is really happens from
1167.779 ->  the doctor at the doctor's office
1169.21 ->  because both parties have to know what
1171.679 ->  you're asking for and then the seminar
1175.88 ->  itself is 6 hours in length these
1179.57 ->  patients come in they start at 9 o'clock
1182.33 ->  in the morning and we finished about 3
1185.33 ->  o'clock in the afternoon they're gonna
1187.97 ->  learn all about how they have created
1191.33 ->  their disease and precisely how we are
1194.72 ->  going to empower them as the locus of
1197.72 ->  control to halt and reverse their
1199.519 ->  disease why is it six hours
1202.09 ->  because in six hours they're going to
1204.32 ->  learn all the details of this they get a
1209.51 ->  very hefty notebook that is a copy of
1212.18 ->  every PowerPoint slide that I use they
1215.69 ->  have a copy of several of our scientific
1217.85 ->  articles of 44 page handout with many
1220.25 ->  additional recipes that add to the 240
1223.43 ->  which will be in the two books that we
1224.81 ->  provide them there's a marvelous hour
1228.83 ->  and a quarter from a woman who was at 33
1231.65 ->  years acquiring plant-based nutrition
1235.3 ->  showing how to deal with restaurants
1237.62 ->  travel and everybody receives the DVD of
1242.84 ->  the entire seminar so that when they go
1245.12 ->  home and get forgetful or rusty they can
1247.07 ->  flip this on and get the muscles up back
1248.96 ->  up to speed then we always have two or
1252.83 ->  three local or regional participants
1256.01 ->  who've had a previous successful
1257.42 ->  experience share their story with those
1260.54 ->  in attendance who can then say to
1261.95 ->  themselves listen if he or she can do
1264.8 ->  this I can do this and then we have an
1272.42 ->  opportunity to answer everybody's
1273.95 ->  questions we have a plant-based luncheon
1276.44 ->  and then stay in touch is necessary
1278.51 ->  through email or phone call but I only
1280.01 ->  see since these patients come from
1282.62 ->  throughout the United States ninety
1285.11 ->  percent are outside the state of Ohio or
1287.14 ->  from throughout Canada or from overseas
1290.75 ->  I get them once so I have really got to
1294.2 ->  have make this six hours very imperative
1297.53 ->  and meaningful and also to show them
1301.19 ->  respect I asked my secretary who will
1305.12 ->  give me two weeks before the seminar she
1307.22 ->  will present me with a list of everybody
1310.58 ->  who's coming plus their telephone number
1314.8 ->  and I and then will call every one of
1318.92 ->  these patients myself beforehand so I
1322.46 ->  can get my arms around their story and
1325.01 ->  at the same time present them with an
1328.28 ->  opportunity to ask questions of me so
1331.67 ->  they're coming to the seminar we already
1333.53 ->  have a strong platform from
1335.549 ->  we can all move forward and really with
1338.46 ->  all due respect to my fellow physicians
1340.379 ->  who say that's unsuccessful if you think
1343.86 ->  that you're gonna get somebody to change
1345.36 ->  their lifestyle in a 12 or 15 minute
1348.33 ->  offices that without the spouse not
1353.19 ->  gonna happen and and I must say that
1357.389 ->  where I think we really throw the hook
1359.19 ->  and I spend at least an hour on the
1364.169 ->  endothelial cell and it's the gas that
1368.399 ->  it produc produces nitric oxide which is
1370.619 ->  the great salvation and protection of
1373.559 ->  all our blood vessels can you imagine
1377.1 ->  somebody who has been with us for six
1379.08 ->  hours who understands what I've said
1382.409 ->  about the endothelial cell and nitric
1386.879 ->  oxide how could they possibly look me in
1389.489 ->  the eye and say dr. Esselstyn Lois and I
1391.83 ->  are going to have our 35th wedding
1394.409 ->  anniversary in a couple of weeks and boy
1397.679 ->  am I going to destroy my few remaining
1399.629 ->  endothelial cells what not going to
1403.619 ->  happen
1404.19 ->  so you provide them with a with this
1407.009 ->  message and and enough science in the
1410.759 ->  vocabulary that they can grasp and get
1413.19 ->  their arms around and I think that's why
1415.619 ->  we have we have that degree of success
1419.519 ->  I'd like to have it be even better
1422.489 ->  I like that would be 95 to 100% it's a
1425.58 ->  it's a tough sell because everywhere
1427.559 ->  that these people have been going
1429.239 ->  through all their lives anytime you're
1432.029 ->  in any gathering there's always food and
1435.09 ->  it's always the food that's going to
1436.44 ->  destroy endothelial cells doctor we
1438.629 ->  talks about the things that people
1439.59 ->  should avoid and the light of you know
1442.559 ->  knowledge is power let's try and inspire
1445.679 ->  people like what should we be eating I
1447.779 ->  would start with all these marvelous
1449.45 ->  whole whil a whole grains whole grain
1453.96 ->  and figure pasta bread rolls bagels
1457.889 ->  bagels and so forth a hundred and one
1460.649 ->  different types of legumes metals and
1462.6 ->  beans all these marvelous red yellow and
1465.45 ->  green leafy vegetables and some
1469.52 ->  sweet potatoes white potatoes and some
1472.11 ->  fruit and you know in in in my book and
1476.01 ->  the one by my wife and my daughter to
1477.69 ->  prevent and reverse heart disease
1478.83 ->  cookbook and in books by John McDougall
1481.2 ->  and Neil Barnard I mean there are
1482.76 ->  hundreds of wonderful recipes that are
1486.86 ->  available
1488.19 ->  you've been advocating for a plant-based
1489.69 ->  diet since 1984 as I recall there's
1493.8 ->  there's a story that you like to share
1494.91 ->  about you know being at a dinner for
1497.24 ->  doctors and they gave you a big steak
1499.89 ->  and you didn't want it anymore how do
1502.29 ->  you feel about this new era and
1504.21 ->  plant-based nutrition nowadays there's a
1507.03 ->  lot more news about it there's a lot
1508.8 ->  more adherence people are kind of waking
1512.22 ->  up to the idea that you know eating
1516.05 ->  eating plant-based formerly known as
1518.94 ->  vegan is the right way to go how do you
1521.79 ->  feel about this new era and I'm also
1523.68 ->  curious about how you feel about the
1526.53 ->  labeling plant-based I treat vegans for
1529.14 ->  heart disease vegans will eat oil vegans
1532.98 ->  will eat french fries vegans will eat
1535.92 ->  glazed doughnuts the terminology whole
1539.88 ->  food plant-based nutrition really in
1543.12 ->  capsules exactly what we are driving
1546.06 ->  striving for there's one thing I want to
1547.92 ->  be sure in case some of your listeners
1550.23 ->  have heart disease that we've been using
1552.54 ->  for the last eight or nine years it's
1554.94 ->  not in the book but it's it's so
1556.95 ->  important and that is if I have somebody
1561.06 ->  who has heart disease they have
1563.28 ->  blockages in the coronary arteries to
1565.56 ->  the heart and I asked them to try to
1568.8 ->  imagine shrinking their brain to a size
1573.24 ->  that they could actually crawl inside
1575.85 ->  that artery they would see that the
1577.32 ->  blockage is an absolute cauldron of
1580.68 ->  oxidative inflammation so we need
1584.87 ->  antioxidants but no do not go down to
1588.18 ->  the health food store and buy a jug of
1589.74 ->  pills that says antioxidant because it
1591.81 ->  doesn't work and it's gonna be harmful I
1593.31 ->  need them to get their antioxidants from
1595.41 ->  food fair enough what food food that is
1598.98 ->  high in what we call ORAC value o RAC
1602.759 ->  oxygen radical absorbance capacity so
1606.179 ->  this means that if you're having out
1607.469 ->  raspberries blueberries strawberries and
1609.479 ->  blackberries on your morning oat cereal
1611.129 ->  that is a terrific start however nothing
1614.299 ->  nothing nothing nothing can trump the
1616.799 ->  antioxidant value of green leafy
1618.509 ->  vegetables so I need these patients to
1620.729 ->  chew not smoothies not juicing to chew a
1624.69 ->  green leafy vegetable six times a day
1628.369 ->  after it has first been boiled in water
1631.139 ->  five and a half to six minutes or
1633.149 ->  steamed so it's nice and tender then you
1635.159 ->  must must then anoint it with several
1639.089 ->  drops of a delightful balsamic vinegar
1641.159 ->  why because it's the acetic acid in the
1644.129 ->  vinegar that will restore the nitric
1646.589 ->  oxide synthase enzyme which is the
1650.399 ->  enzyme contained within the endothelial
1653.249 ->  cell responsible for making nitric oxide
1656.749 ->  now therefore you're gonna choo-choo
1661.44 ->  this alongside your breakfast cereal
1663.69 ->  again as a mid-morning snack again with
1666.539 ->  your luncheon sandwich that's three
1669.469 ->  mid-afternoon for dinner time five and
1674.219 ->  of course I adore it when you have that
1676.739 ->  evening snack of kale what are you doing
1679.44 ->  all day long
1681.119 ->  you were absolutely bathing that
1683.069 ->  horrible oxidative cauldron of
1685.079 ->  inflammation with nature's most powerful
1686.759 ->  anti antioxidants and at the same time
1690.479 ->  you're helping to restore the
1691.919 ->  endothelial capacity to make nitric
1694.049 ->  oxide however well the second thing that
1697.619 ->  showing the greens does showing the
1701.789 ->  greens will restore the capacity of your
1705.329 ->  bone marrow to once again make the
1707.989 ->  endothelial progenitor cells what do
1710.759 ->  they do they replace our senescent
1713.609 ->  injured worn-out endothelial cells now
1719.279 ->  the third thing and this is so important
1722.839 ->  the third thing that showing the greens
1725.339 ->  does when you are chewing the greens you
1729.539 ->  are chewing a nitrate as you chew that
1733.499 ->  nitrate it is going to mix with the
1735.659 ->  facultative
1736.62 ->  anaerobic bacteria that reside in the
1741.809 ->  crypts and grooves of your tongue those
1744.6 ->  bacteria are going to reduce those
1748.29 ->  nitrates that you are chewing to
1751.65 ->  nitrites now when you swallow the
1754.71 ->  nitrites it is your own gastric acid
1757.65 ->  which is going to further reduce the
1759.99 ->  nitrites to more nitric oxide so there
1765.15 ->  you are literally morning to dusk all
1769.08 ->  day long
1770.19 ->  you are absolutely restoring nitric
1773.52 ->  oxide the very molecule the deficiency
1777.63 ->  of which gave you this disease in the
1779.61 ->  first place now there are some caveats
1784.2 ->  here one you can't use mouthwash or
1791.84 ->  antibiotics because they will destroy
1794.48 ->  the beneficial bacteria in your mouth
1797.3 ->  and be careful of any antacids because
1800.94 ->  an ass's will reduce the amount of
1802.83 ->  acidity in your stomach and you'll not
1805.62 ->  be able to convert the nitrites to more
1808.32 ->  nitric oxide now what are the green
1810.33 ->  leafy vegetables I'm talking about they
1812.22 ->  are ready bok choy Swiss chard kale
1815.67 ->  collards color green beet greens mustard
1817.71 ->  greens turnip greens napa cabbage
1819.15 ->  brussel sprouts broccoli cauliflower
1820.47 ->  cilantro parsley spinach and arugula and
1822.72 ->  asparagus and the top five are kale
1826.17 ->  Swiss chard spinach arugula and beets
1830.82 ->  and look what it does for your memory
1832.91 ->  next question for you currently in the
1836.55 ->  United States by the time that one
1837.929 ->  graduates high school they have the
1839.309 ->  foundation for heart disease right many
1843.15 ->  out there might be listening to this and
1845.79 ->  thinking well I'm healthy I don't need
1847.47 ->  to do this right like six times a day
1849.57 ->  that sounds kind of crazy and it's like
1851.61 ->  eating green leafy vegetables I can get
1853.95 ->  away with a burger on the weekends right
1856.2 ->  are we all a little bit unaware of our
1860.94 ->  current state of health of what's
1862.38 ->  happening inside like how much you know
1865.17 ->  it's it's it's kind of when I first read
1867.84 ->  that statistic I thought
1869.36 ->  absolutely crazy that there could be
1871.07 ->  this is a this is a very very very
1874.22 ->  sickly country when public health
1876.14 ->  experts outline the multiple things that
1880.19 ->  people are due to get their health
1882.11 ->  you get exercise very few Americans to
1885.74 ->  getting it regularly all right you see
1887.75 ->  lots of it on television but very few
1889.94 ->  people are getting the appropriate
1891.62 ->  amount of exercise sleep no matter of
1896.72 ->  fact be sure you want to avoid sleep
1899.12 ->  apnea they're getting plenty of
1902.59 ->  socialization and most importantly of
1905.66 ->  all of the eating plant-based I mean
1909.26 ->  this is what we have an epidemic of
1911.66 ->  chronic illness you know here we are
1914.09 ->  talking about cardiovascular disease
1916.01 ->  however if we look carefully
1921.34 ->  cardiovascular disease is not the only
1923.57 ->  disease we're treating with plant-based
1925.07 ->  nutrition you're getting rid of diabetes
1927.62 ->  you're getting rid of obesity you're
1930.29 ->  getting rid of hypertension you're
1932.03 ->  getting rid of vascular dementia you're
1934.61 ->  decreasing the license likelihood of any
1936.62 ->  kind of Alzheimer's disease and then
1940.37 ->  that of course you're helping yourself
1942.17 ->  be protected from ulcerative colitis
1944.51 ->  Crohn's disease rheumatoid arthritis
1947.62 ->  lupus multiple sclerosis allergies
1952.22 ->  asthma I mean the list goes on and on
1954.32 ->  the heavens have opened up and given
1956.81 ->  this profession the most powerful tool
1959.96 ->  ever that we've had in our toolbox so so
1964.19 ->  people are a lot more sick than they
1966.29 ->  realize well obviously when you when you
1970.97 ->  think about the progression of this we
1972.53 ->  said you know you don't see much in a
1974.15 ->  way of any heart disease at age seven or
1975.95 ->  eight but by the time you get autopsy if
1978.71 ->  you're a late teenager or early twenties
1980.84 ->  you've already got the foundation of the
1982.64 ->  disease and not therefore there's not a
1985.82 ->  great surprise that by the time people
1988.34 ->  in their 40s we now start seeing the
1990.23 ->  clinical cardiac events or the heart
1991.88 ->  attack and stroke many are worried about
1994.15 ->  switching to Whole Foods plant-based
1995.96 ->  diet because they don't they're unaware
1998.03 ->  of how to achieve the nutrition required
2000.7 ->  for a
2002.74 ->  child who's growing children need more
2005.53 ->  fat it's interesting that when the late
2008.53 ->  Bill Connor went down to northern Mexico
2012.61 ->  and he studied the Tarahumara Indians
2016.77 ->  the Tarahumara Indians eat the three
2022.27 ->  sisters beans corn and squash no
2029.429 ->  nutritional deficiencies no nutritional
2034.78 ->  deficiencies they are absolutely
2037.45 ->  champion athletes and runners now if
2041.95 ->  people sensibly have a whole grain
2045.34 ->  cereal in the morning you know with
2049.629 ->  maybe a few raisins a banana and
2053.919 ->  raspberries blueberries strawberries and
2055.96 ->  blackberries and at lunch time you can
2059.29 ->  have in the wintertime you can have a
2060.76 ->  soup in which you put every conceivable
2063.639 ->  kind of vegetable in greens they can be
2065.77 ->  delicious
2068.5 ->  and then of course my favorite for
2073.419 ->  supper is beans and rice with all the
2077.53 ->  various cut-up and vegetables with their
2079.96 ->  peas and corn and kind of peppers and
2082.649 ->  chestnuts and it's you've got an
2086.59 ->  absolute feast and it's delicious way to
2090.28 ->  eat and you're not and you're not gonna
2092.409 ->  be protein deficient as a matter of fact
2094.56 ->  if your listeners have seen that the
2097.51 ->  movie the game changers you'll never see
2101.95 ->  this incredible athletic specimens
2104.76 ->  muscles bulging everywhere the strongest
2107.44 ->  man on the planet the German babudi a
2109.89 ->  plant-based yeah and you would know
2114.16 ->  about that because you were an Olympic
2115.51 ->  rower thank you next question you know
2120.88 ->  now nowadays your business is not just
2124.18 ->  your own your family's very involved
2125.94 ->  it's really incredible to see your son
2128.68 ->  out there advocating your white now that
2133.63 ->  kind of you know again moving it
2136.39 ->  forward into this new era I mean back
2139.029 ->  when you back in 1984 this message is a
2141.7 ->  lot harder to get out there than it is
2143.319 ->  now right
2144.97 ->  and so you know where do you see the
2147.64 ->  current nutrition movement you know are
2152.859 ->  you excited about it I mean you just
2154.24 ->  cited the game-changers that's a new
2155.799 ->  documentary that's been making a lot of
2157.269 ->  a lot of rounds right so how do you how
2161.769 ->  do you feel about the current nutrition
2163.69 ->  movement the next generation in light of
2167.589 ->  all that we know now you know you cannot
2171.069 ->  even begin to compare the difference
2175.98 ->  thirty-four years ago wouldn't today I I
2179.64 ->  got very excited about this and in 1991
2183.519 ->  I put together with what I thought was
2187.089 ->  really a a blue-ribbon panel of
2191.46 ->  physicians and I entitled the conference
2194.89 ->  the first national conference on the
2196.599 ->  elimination of coronary artery disease
2200.769 ->  and we had a hundred people but the
2206.109 ->  speakers were great we had a couple from
2208.269 ->  Boston dr. Ornish was there colin
2211.42 ->  campbell was there Castelli was there
2215.849 ->  dr. Alexander was there that and it was
2222.279 ->  really kind of exciting and I thought
2224.349 ->  boy this is this is a way to do it but
2226.619 ->  nothing nothing happened and that eating
2232.45 ->  is such an ingrained situation so we had
2236.44 ->  another one in nineteen this time in
2238.769 ->  1997 we had 500 people and it was really
2243.99 ->  well received and again it was kind of
2250.69 ->  slow but something somewhat after that
2253.23 ->  as we moved into the early 2000s you
2258.819 ->  know Ornish came out with his data we
2262.15 ->  came out with our data suddenly that it
2265.509 ->  was possible for this disease to be
2268.269 ->  halted
2269.46 ->  and excitingly even reversed but the
2273.44 ->  thing that was holding it back was it
2275.79 ->  physicians never learned about any of
2277.92 ->  this in medical school I was it was very
2282.119 ->  bizarre but I should share with you the
2284.91 ->  next month I've been asked to speak to
2288.45 ->  Harvard Medical School and this will be
2292.02 ->  my third visit to Harvard and there are
2296.339 ->  some very important people there who I
2299.099 ->  think are beginning to realize the the
2302.7 ->  efficacy of this because it's it's just
2305.76 ->  so hard for physicians to still now make
2308.64 ->  the transition to think that that
2312.45 ->  brussel sprouts and broccoli which have
2316.53 ->  never been designed by a great
2318.63 ->  pharmaceutical company they're just
2320.81 ->  simply been designed by the ground out
2323.43 ->  of us from a seed would be so powerful
2327.74 ->  as plants and increasingly as there is
2334.68 ->  an awareness that we should eat to avoid
2337.53 ->  any injury to the endothelium this will
2341.04 ->  this will really help to turn this
2343.349 ->  around you know the I think what also is
2347.25 ->  going to happen is that there's been a
2350.22 ->  basic covenant of trust since the days
2353.79 ->  of Hippocrates that whenever possible
2356.58 ->  the care giver meaning the physician
2358.68 ->  will share with the patient what is the
2363.48 ->  causation of the illness and sadly today
2366.96 ->  in cardiovascular medicine that was not
2369.72 ->  being done but I think increasingly
2372.109 ->  there is that developing awareness and
2375.33 ->  that it will begin to to happen
2379.14 ->  we have several now absolutely stunning
2385.07 ->  examples of an angiogram which shows
2388.53 ->  that blockage in the artery and then as
2392.25 ->  these patients have gone into whole food
2395.31 ->  plant-based nutrition and they've had
2396.839 ->  subsequent follow-up angiogram if you
2400.02 ->  can see that area of narrowing begin
2403.39 ->  in enlarge for those who have had older
2406.54 ->  plaques that have now filled up with
2409.9 ->  scar and calcification and they won't go
2411.91 ->  away even those patients amazingly
2417.24 ->  develop such strong flow at her ization
2420.75 ->  and as well as opening up much wider all
2426.19 ->  those vessels that are in the heart
2427.96 ->  muscle
2428.67 ->  even though older patients just have an
2432.01 ->  enormous benefit from this this approach
2434.92 ->  dr. it must be funny kind of going to
2437.8 ->  you know being interviewed for news
2440.44 ->  channels going to events and always
2442.9 ->  running into your friends so T Colin
2445.27 ->  Campbell dr. Ornish dr. Greger who are
2448.9 ->  some researchers and people in the field
2451.96 ->  that you wish we would all kind of know
2454.75 ->  a little bit more about whether it's you
2457.6 ->  know someone who might not be us-based
2459.64 ->  or any-any women within the US you know
2464.86 ->  that have been doing this type of
2466.45 ->  research for a while or is it are we
2468.94 ->  really just at the beginning and you
2471.25 ->  know oh no there's a wonderful if you
2476.68 ->  just look at the American College of
2479.56 ->  Cardiology the nutrition committee four
2482.95 ->  years ago I was invited by the American
2488.74 ->  College of Cardiology to become a member
2490.59 ->  because they wanted me to join their
2492.61 ->  nutrition committee which I have done
2495.36 ->  and it's really a glowing group of
2499.24 ->  people who are totally committed to
2501.37 ->  plant-based nutrition
2502.53 ->  who it's very empowering to be a part of
2508.93 ->  that group and it really gives you a
2513.55 ->  great sense of pride and and reassurance
2519.91 ->  that that this is eventually going to
2524.38 ->  get there because you know right now
2527.26 ->  this poor nation is being drawn into
2530.73 ->  debtors prison now it's really been
2534.58 ->  accelerated by this virus obviously the
2536.99 ->  for then we have social security which
2539.84 ->  is fine then we have Medicaid and
2542.21 ->  Medicare Medicare is an enormous expense
2546.56 ->  for this nation what do you think is
2549.77 ->  forty-five percent of Medicare
2554.26 ->  cardiology all the drugs all the imaging
2558.47 ->  all the procedures the bypasses the
2561.89 ->  status all these things cost enormous
2566.21 ->  amounts of money and yet they these this
2570.619 ->  is a disease that doesn't even exist and
2574.07 ->  a half the planet with all the news
2575.84 ->  around covin 19 right now you find that
2579.89 ->  people if we all were eating a lot
2583.07 ->  better Whole Foods plant-based diets it
2586.52 ->  would be in a much better position when
2588.2 ->  it would come to fighting this virus
2591.11 ->  right it's very easy to state right at
2594.98 ->  the outset that if people have a strong
2599.21 ->  immune system they might do much better
2601.73 ->  I'm convinced that that's probably the
2604.04 ->  case but there may be something in the
2606.74 ->  genetics of our immune system that is
2610.67 ->  different in all of us that we respond
2612.98 ->  differently to the wife because there
2614.51 ->  are some people who literally have had
2618.88 ->  koban 19 coronavirus and they never even
2623.18 ->  knew it there testing positive or they
2627.29 ->  tested is with antibodies knowing that
2629.27 ->  they've had it others is mild and others
2632.66 ->  it obviously is very crippling and
2635.75 ->  others it actually kills them but one of
2641.51 ->  the things that's been fascinating is
2643.3 ->  that from data when the SARS virus was
2649.28 ->  around it was made aware that somehow
2653.119 ->  the gas nitric oxide was very capable of
2659.29 ->  injuring the virus and so the
2664.55 ->  Massachusetts General Hospital has
2667.309 ->  taking that information talk to heart
2669.65 ->  and they have started two studies one
2674.059 ->  study where there are identifying
2679.369 ->  patients with coronavirus where they
2683.179 ->  three times a day
2684.859 ->  have them inhale for 30 minutes nitric
2688.519 ->  oxide morning noon and late afternoon
2692.209 ->  early evening and they want to see if
2695.9 ->  they can shorten the course of the
2702.109 ->  illness in these patients and the other
2705.469 ->  study they're doing they're taking
2707.239 ->  health care workers
2708.619 ->  we're very susceptible to developing and
2712.339 ->  inquiring this disease because of their
2714.14 ->  exposure and they're giving them
2717.249 ->  inhalations of nitric oxide 30 minutes
2719.959 ->  when they come to work 30 minutes when
2722.209 ->  they leave and it would be fascinating
2724.099 ->  and and that I wrote a little editorial
2728.179 ->  like piece about nitric oxide and Kirke
2732.159 ->  coronavirus because I feel that if if
2736.309 ->  people will eat in a way that you keep
2742.249 ->  your nitric oxide levels very very high
2744.789 ->  and you do that especially by eating the
2749.719 ->  green leafy vegetables that have he
2751.519 ->  mentioned six times a day for heart
2753.859 ->  disease well it's six times a day to try
2756.259 ->  to because if if a virus tries to infect
2759.38 ->  your windpipe or trachea because energy
2762.499 ->  and you're making plenty of nitric oxide
2766.209 ->  the the hope is that that will greatly
2769.909 ->  diminish the likelihood that you will
2773.9 ->  acquire the disease or if acquired it
2777.199 ->  may mitigate against the intensity of
2781.009 ->  the disease is this why is this why
2783.89 ->  you're still doing what you're doing I
2786.259 ->  mean I feel like a lot of your friends
2787.999 ->  at this point must be like you know it's
2789.559 ->  time for me to relax been there done
2792.019 ->  that but you know you're still talking
2793.88 ->  to me right now you're still running
2795.919 ->  seminars you're still writing op-eds is
2799.039 ->  it you know is it because
2800.81 ->  you see such a distance between where
2802.58 ->  we're at in the United States and where
2804.26 ->  we could be I mean what kind of driving
2806.9 ->  you at this point to continue to put in
2809.87 ->  this much time and effort into spreading
2813.14 ->  this message I mean you know are you
2814.63 ->  listening to you add a lot all of the
2817.4 ->  all the leafy greens that we should eat
2820.25 ->  I mean you've certainly said that so
2822.29 ->  many times countless times I've actually
2824.09 ->  felt kind of guilty asking you to say
2825.86 ->  that again you know what what's driving
2830.57 ->  you at this point doctor because you
2832.28 ->  know you've written the book you
2834.14 ->  literally wrote the book on preventing
2835.94 ->  reversing heart disease oh where are you
2839.9 ->  like you know you did so much why why do
2844.31 ->  you feel this need to continue well I
2847.7 ->  because I think it's the kind of the
2851.06 ->  reason I guess I went into medicine in
2853.07 ->  the first place is that maybe you would
2856.28 ->  be able to help out and I suddenly after
2859.49 ->  a surgical career it became too obvious
2863.15 ->  to me that why are you gonna help people
2865.7 ->  wanted one at a time it was something
2869.78 ->  like surgery when you are able to get
2874.22 ->  information out about changing nutrition
2878.33 ->  that will advance
2880.27 ->  80% of chronic disease I mean what you
2884.63 ->  talk about getting bang for the buck
2886.49 ->  I mean it's so an enormous where you
2890.12 ->  would if it all worked out right you
2892.13 ->  would you would save the planet as well
2894.05 ->  as saving lives throughout the world and
2897.49 ->  it's it's been very exciting when I've
2900.32 ->  had a chance to travel to Singapore to
2904.34 ->  China to Denmark to Iceland but I would
2909.89 ->  I would simply have to say that I think
2912.95 ->  the right now I guess it's because I
2917.75 ->  really visualize in front of us what I
2922.73 ->  call the the seismic revolution in
2926.51 ->  health and the seismic revolution in
2929.15 ->  health is never going to come about with
2933.02 ->  another pill
2934.32 ->  another procedure another operation the
2939.61 ->  seismic revolution in health will come
2941.68 ->  about when we in the profession have the
2944.44 ->  will and the grit and the determination
2946.15 ->  to share with the public what is the
2948.25 ->  lifestyle and most specifically what is
2951.07 ->  the nutritional literacy that will
2953.41 ->  empower them to absolutely annihilate
2956.56 ->  illness and disease
2965.4 ->  you
                    
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