The Importance Of Fiber In Our Diet

What are the most significant findings in nutritional science over the last decade that people should know about? It should know, one of the most significant findings in nutritional science over the last decade that people should know to take control of their health destiny. Dr. McDougal, then Dr. Clapper, then Dr. Espinoza. Well, I don't know like an answer. I mean, there's just such a bulk of scientific

information, probably one of the most prominent and respected of all the people that has provided information, including studies on treating prostate cancer, showing that you can reduce PSAs as well as reducing lesion size. This Dr. Dean Ornish. So I'd have to say that this contribution has been huge. Prior to them, there were important people like, for example, Nathan Prittigan and Dennis Berket and Walter Campner and

Roy Swank, who treated multiple sclerosis at the University of Oregon Health Science University. So I don't really think there's anything that stands out in my mind is, it was a wonderful study, it proved everything. Now, maybe T. Con on Campals, China study would be something worth talking about, that made a big impression. But otherwise, I don't know of any particular study that's come to a conclusion

that would sway me, just a lot of information. Thank you. The most exciting and I think monumental concept that been coming up through the research is the concept of disease reversal. I wish when I was in medical school, somebody told me the type 2 diabetes reversible disease. There's somebody told me that placked up our research. You can reverse that. High blood pressure, you can reverse that.

I learned the opposite. Once on insulin always on insulin. You'll take these blood pressure pills the rest of your life. And I believe that and I paraded those words for decades till the evidence is clear. These reversible diseases, it was caused by unhealthy diet, get them on a healthy diet. And these diseases go away. This is life saving information for one, the doctor to know. I

was not even knowing that earlier in my career. And it's important information to them, parts of the patient. You know, you can reverse this disease. You want to get rid of your diabetes, you want to get rid of your high blood pressure, you want to get rid of your colitis, you can, these reversible disease. So that's the most hopeful positive, powerful message that I've gleaned from

the studies in recent years. Type 2 diabetes again, carbohydrate diets in the whole form. I was curative for diabetes on the, contrary to what most people think will avoid those sugars. And, and the importance of fiber in the diet, how many of these diseases from colitis to R.A. Everything has to do with our again going back to our diet. But you get these folks on, you

know, lots of salads and veggies and get a 30, 40 grams of fiber. It's amazing how well the body runs and how the weight comes off naturally. So the reversibility of diseases. And, you know, high carbohydrate, both fat, high fiber diets to reverse as a reversing agent, I think is a hopeful positive and powerful message that the literature has given us. Two things. First, the orange

study as it relates to prostate cancer. The intervention was not only diet, right. The intervention was a plant-based diet plus community plus stress management. Plus exercise, plus certain supplements, vitamin C, D, some omega-3s, I think. So it wasn't just diet. So I love that study because it shows that everything is important, not just diet. And yes, it showed some decent results. Though, I know other researchers

in that study from the UCSF and they said to me, look, I don't know what's happening while the study was going on, but some of these people are really sick. I don't know what you meant by that. I'm just going to, I mean, I know that the result is a bit like the sort of a diet. I'm just seeing what another doctor told me that was

involved in that study. I still think, but in terms of what the research shows is, yeah, there was, there was regression of prostate cancer. And they grouped that it was a randomized trial, very difficult to do. I tried and I said, look, this is to me, I'm not, that's not what I'm not going to get into research. It was just too difficult. Ornish did it. And

I'm grateful for that. And so what the study showed was lifestyle practices, not only diet, but also protein, prostate cancer. And that's exactly what I prescribe is a lifestyle approach, not just diet. The biggest study I think that the biggest ground, to me, groundbreaking was in 2018, a, a drama that from France showing that those that consume organic foods have a lower risk of cancer versus

those that consume conventional foods with pesticides. And I just knew that pesticides are a problem, world problem, for a variety of reasons, certainly as they're released to cancer. But this was a big study from and publishing a major journal, kind of putting the nail on a coffin that these pesticides are a problem. So I think that eating organic food is worth the extra money. But I

think more importantly is eating local food where it is organic, but they can't label it. It's even probably more important because they don't. Whatever reason, there's reasons for that, but that's the bottom line. And but eating foods that are very low to no pesticides, low in pesticides, that they all have some, it's a is a is a big deal. And that's it. You know, I just

You know, looking back at his work and the work of others, it was the diet that made the difference. I know you don't agree. No, because that's not what the study says. I would agree. And I've met with Dean Ornish. And that's not what he told me. I'm not saying that what he told you is different from what you said, but that's not what he expressed

to me. So the study says what the study says, not what either Dean Ornish or any research or anyone thinks it says what it says. And there was multiple interventions going on at the same time. And as it relates to oils and things like that, I do think that flexi oil is a problem. And I think that oils that are rancid, which flexi oils tend to

be our problematic flexi I think are very good for prostate cancer as an aside. But flexi oils are our problem just to kind of include that in there. But the study says what the study says and the intervention is the intervention, not what anyone thinks. And. Milt cancer, including prostate cancer is multifactorial. So why can't how can one thing. Including a prostate technique or a radiation

30 to 50% of the people who get a prostate technique or radiation for their prostate cancer. And they can't have a recurrence within five to 10 years. So one modality is never the answer ever, including lifestyle medicine and natural approaches. It's it's all the elements that work together seemingly and that have the best benefit for the patient.