Medication Or Lifestyle Vs. Medication And Lifestyle

How often do you treat with lifestyle versus with pharmaceutical drugs and surgery? In other words, I don't wanna mislead people to think that as long as you eat a whole food plant-based diet and exercise, that it's all you have to do with some sleep and water and you're fine, I would like that to be the case, but I don't wanna make this more than it is.

In reality, how often do you feel that lifestyle alone gets people to optimal health and how often do you need medical intervention of drugs or procedures? You know, when if you're sick, I think you need to do whatever it takes. The only reason I'm sitting here right now is because of Western medicine. I was told at 16 that the doctor sought I had six months to

by the people who had the knowledge and dedication to really do everything it took to be there for me and to save my life. Now that did not get rid of lupus, I still had it and I continued to develop issues over my life and I still had to continue to take medications until I changed my diet. When I changed my diet, all of the lupus

antibodies disappeared. My kidney function went to normal and the blood clots went away. So I have been able to be off all medications and have normal health ever since I changed my diet. So I think that we have to use whatever it takes though. I have had people come to me who they don't wanna take any medicines and they only wanna do it naturally. And I'll

tell them, listen, right now your life's some danger, your kidney functions failing, this is happening, this is happening. Let your doctor help you stabilize while we get your diet set up because it's gonna take time for the nutrition to start working on repair. So I'm very much of whatever it takes person. I am not anti medicine in any way. I have sometimes I have patients will

brag to me that, you know, I won't even take an ibuprofen if I'm a headache. I'm like, really, I do. I don't wanna walk around and pain. I got stuck to do right. If I sleep wrong and my neck hurts, I can't, you know, I'm gonna take something for you. So I am not anti medicine in any way. I am a whatever it takes person so

that you can live the best possible life you can. If you're currently sick, medications might be important. The problem that's happened is that we have relied on medication without using all the other knowledge that we have, like nutrition and lifestyle to actually eliminate the disease or at least slow it down and allow your body some health. Most folks who start out on medication, they're not taking

medicines, collect them over time. Most people who are in their 60s are taking multiple medicines and, you know, and if they're not taking multiple medicines and they're taking a million supplements, which supplements are medicines in my book. They are interacting in your cells, trying to force your body into a state that it's not actually in. And what we need to do is optimize our nourishment, our

emotional health. We need to exercise when you just sleep, right? All those things to optimize our health. But there's no, to me, there's nothing wrong with also using medication. And I'm going to keep you stable and keep you alive long enough to get there. You know, I will tell people all the time, they're not sticking with their diet yet, right? So we're still working on the

emotional stuff to get them on the diet that they need to reverse their disease, but they don't want to take medicines. And I'll tell them, listen, if you don't choose nutrition and you don't choose medicines, you're choosing illness, right? You have to do whatever you need to do to get through this. You know, I saw somebody earlier talking about depression and how exercise is a great

antidepressant, which is 100% true. I've worked with people who were so depressed, they couldn't get out of bed to turn on a blender to make a smoothie. They could not get out of bed to exercise. They weren't even walking out of their room. That person needed antidepressant medicine to get motivated enough to get out of bed, take a shower and go into the kitchen. Now we

can turn on the blender, right? So then I was able to get the person off of medicines. Once we got their lifestyle healthy, but without the medicine, they wouldn't have gotten there. So I think that there's room for everything. I think there's room for doing whatever it takes. And you should be open to just having the best health and life you can, rather than I'll only

do it this one way or another way. So I saw a literature about the reversal of in-stage cardiovascular disease. And I thought that's incredible. Phenomenal. How is that even possible? Then I saw information about the reversal of thyroid cancer with the plant-based diet. And I thought that's phenomenal. And then the question was, why can't we reverse gynecological issues with plant-based diet? If we can reverse all

these things, why not a plant-based diet for gynecological issues? Reality to date, I know that if a woman has dysminaria, severe cramps, I've seen almost, I'd say, 100% improbable, just for change of diet. If a woman comes in with a large, large, vibroid tumor, symptomatic bleeding, I have not seen a reversal, a complete reversal, with meaning, a shrinkage of the tubes of the fibroids with a

plant-based diet. I think with fibroids, the key is that you have to be proactive, meaning that you don't want to wait until they're huge, and she's anemic, and all these problems. Once you identify, and you should do it proactively, then you put her on a diet. And I think you'll get a better solution. There are other gynec conditions, like polycystic ovarian syndrome, improvement with diet. In

the metriosis, improvement with diet, but then the confusion comes in that there really isn't enough studies. There are not enough studies to really show that there's a clear benefit. And I think that's a deficiency that needs to be addressed in the future. That's so true. I've actually gotten to see some really cool reversal. I'll have to share with you, because a lot of folks come to

me for, of course, autoimmune other issues, but they also have fibroids and other problems, gynecological problems, and they've had reversion. We've had multiple people reverse PCOS, but this is pure hyprenershment, as well as dysmenorrhea. And this is a kind of like, we have so many people, because our group of six weeks, most women who are having mentees have at least one period with us, and we'll

say this is the first time I didn't have cramps. This is the first time I haven't experienced fatigue. So it's really powerful. And I think that this is part of empowerment of women, right, is that we can do better and feel better. But you need your doctor too. I think we all need to, we need to be okay with taking all the help that we can

get, especially when you're on the journey of learning how to eat better, should talk to her is going to be someone who's a really important part of your life. Absolutely. And I think that's part of the problem. I think a lot of doctors don't necessarily believe that, food can make a difference. And because of that, they don't advocate it to their patients. Plus they're addicted to

all the bad stuff, just like doctors used to smoke, right? You know, your doctor probably grabbing a hamburger, and he doesn't want to think about the effect of his diet on his health. So he's not going to bring it up to you either. So I'm actually a lot of doctors who are sick will come to me because they really understand that I'm going to look at

like the cellular basis of their food and help them with that even plant-based doctors will. And what I'll tell them is, you don't have to be perfect to be a good person for your patient. Tell them that you're working on it too. And tell them, when I see you next time, you ask me how I'm doing on my diet. And I'll ask you how you're doing

on your diet. And we'll check on each other. And I think it is a beautiful thing to be open as a physician and say, here's who I am. Here's what I'm working on. Here's what I know. And we can have a different kind of relationship that way. And we can have a different kind of relationship.