Ep. 64: The Safest, Cheapest Way To Eat, For The Longest, Happiest Life With Internationally Recognized Physician, Speaker, & Author Dr. Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM
In this episode, Bailey sits down with the famously intelligent Dr. Michael Greger, author, physician, professional speaker on public health issues & advocacy of a whole-food, plant-based diet. They chat about his beginnings and what lead him to become a doctor in the first place. Dr. Greger shares his childhood experience with his grandmother falling ill with late stages of heart disease at 65. And then how she was taught to change her diet, with the help of Nathen Pritikin, and helped her live for another 31 fruitful years. Early on Dr. Greger saw the power of nutrition first hand, and was passionate to teach others what he witnessed. Because of his grandmother, he entered into medicine, studied lifestyle medicine, started Nutritionfacts.org, wrote all his books, do public speaking, and much more.
There is a focus about the hardships and obstacles people face when trying to adopt a more plant focused lifestyle. They also touch base on the resistance of a healthy, plant focused lifestyle in the medical community, in society, and with loved ones. How the whole system isn’t set up for making people healthy, rather instead the opposite. Dr. Greger dives in and explains about the food system as a whole. The interconnectedness of why things are the way they are. He shows us the flaws of big corporations selling us a trillion dollar industry of processed foods. How the most profitable foods, are usually the worst foods. How the system is set up to incentivize the bad foods, and punish the healthy foods.
They talk about how we as individuals have to take responsibility for our own health and the health of our families nowadays. That the most important decisions we make is what we eat everyday. Good news is the world is changing as an amazing pace, especially lately. The positive influence of eating plants over the past 50 years is increasing every year in the general public. The science is out there and people are finally listening. Bailey asks Dr. Greger advice on helping show a stubborn family member or friend with lifestyle created disease, on how to heal with a healthy diet change. They touch base on the negatives of dairy especially the health effects, and also how it’s easier than ever to switch to non dairy alternatives. With a plethora of plant based options, anyone can find something they like, and help bring down the demand for dairy products. They chat about the many myths of nutrition throughout society and how unfortunately fake myths, have real consequences. That all this unhealthy false information are causing premature illnesses in our bodies. Also, one of the most astonishing things Dr. Greger noticed when asking his patients why they ate the way they ate, was many didn’t have hard evidence why. Many had heard something from a friend at the gym or read something in a magazine. Dr. Greger believes everyone has to do the research themselves, and to not take anyones word for it. To remember that what you eat everyday is the most important decision you make for your health. This episode is informative, quick, and witty. Click here to listen now!
**This podcast was recorded in November 2021 for Season 2**
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