 I had always thought that I would develop heart disease at young age because both my dad and grandpa had heart attacks. I was taught that they were genetic, but their heart attacks probably had less to do with genes and more to do with their diets high in meat. Meatloaf, pork loin, steak, on your recipe list, are you kidding me? It's like this menu is trying to give people heart attacks. The data is crystal clear, that you can stop and reverse heart disease with plant-based diets, scientifically shown, I've seen it in my own patients. People who adopt low-fat plant-based diets can actually reverse their heart disease, and that literally means watching the plaque start to go away, something they didn't think could happen. My experience with patients and those studies show that when people adopt a fully plant-based diet, their cholesterol levels plummet within a few days. And if you do blood tests in a couple of weeks, you'll see dramatic improvements. And so the data's been out there for quite a while. If you want to improve the blood flow to your heart, reduce the amount of stenosis and improve the small arteries, the endothelial function, you need to do a whole food plant-based diet. Well, you eat animal flesh every day. You are summoning up bacteria that eat carnitine, and those bacteria will turn that carnitine into a molecule called trimethylamine. Your liver then turns that into trimethylamine oxide. That's a molecule from hell. That molecule drives cholesterol into the artery walls, and the people who are consuming this flesh-based diet are contributing to plaque building up. They may lose weight on this diet, and that's good. But what's happening inside your arteries, paleo friends? What's happening is that plaque is building up, and these are the folks who dropped dead at the gym at 39. Boy, he was lean, and he looked really good. But where is that cholesterol going? It's going to your artery walls. In a groundbreaking study published by Dr. Esselstyn, following patients suffering from cardiovascular disease, 99.4% were able to avoid major cardiac events by going plant-based. Yes, your numbers are going to look great within a week or two. Your cholesterol can come crashing down. In fact, if you're on medications, your doctor may have to pull off your blood pressure medication so your blood pressure don't drop too low because it can work too good. Like, the side effect is not having to take drugs. Diets are really high in these protein. Create diabetes, create heart disease, create cancer. Create the diseases that I'm treating on a daily basis. Could you possibly need statins, even if you're on a plant-based diet? Yes. In fact, I may need a statin. My latest LDL is up. My cardiac heart scan looks great, but I've got a familial hypercluster olemia, and I'm very comfortable with the fact that the data shows that I would be better off on it as statin, even though I follow about a healthy diet as a human being can follow.