S2, Ep17: Your Body in Balance with Dr. Neal Barnard

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr.Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, speaks to The ChickPeeps about his work in the medical field advocating for the many health benefits and healing properties of a plant-based diet. He shares a bit about his groundbreaking work that proved that eliminating animal products from one's diet can reverse type 2 diabetes. He also talks about his new research that explains how hormones can be brought into balance by what we eat, curing things like menstrual cramps, endometriosis, infertility, cancer, erectile dysfunction and many other conditions. Also on this episode…</span></p> <p><strong>This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at</strong> <a href="https://www.vivolife.com/"><strong>vivolife.com</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How working as an autopsy assistant made Dr.Barnard start seeing meat as 'dead bodies' rather than food. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Getting the animals off your plate isn't the end goal' - how eliminating animal products is just step 1 to cultivating optimal health.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Dr. Neal started a movement that succeeded in eliminating every animal lab from every medical school in the US and Canada.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Of all the people who are taking a cholesterol drug, probably 90% of them would not need them because a diet change could accomplish this.'</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'The body can heal.'</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr.Neal shares stories of patients who have been fully cured of type 2 diabetes.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do plant based burgers compare to meat burgers from a nutritional standpoint?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie outs himself as a Ravenclaw once again by quoting a bunch of medical studies...</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr.Neal explains how the lack of integrity in medical publishing and reporting is due to a notable conflict of interests.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all rag on the nutritional and moral issues of dairy milk for a bit.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should we be limiting our intake of soy?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How soy reduces the likelihood of getting breast cancer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr.Barnard brands the 'carnivore diet' as 'a silly, childish, macho thing'.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neal shares his latest research into how a plant-based diet can actually make menstrual cramps go away!!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How one woman solved her lifelong infertility issues after a month on a plant-based diet.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get a copy of Dr.Barnard's new book -</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Body-Balance-Science-Hormones/dp/1538747421"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Your Body In Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones and Health</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read more about Dr.Barnard's work at</span> <a href="https://www.pcrm.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attend a talk by Dr.Barnard on</span> <a href="https://www.pcrm.org/events/your-body-in-balance-lecture-tour"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> his book tour</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/23/great-thunberg-malena-ernman-our-house-is-on-fire-memoir-extract"> Greta Thunberg article</a> mentioned at the end of the episode.</span></p> <p><strong>Social Media</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChickPeepsPod"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chickpeepspod/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChickPeepsPodcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPodcast</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Momoko Hill:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oh_momoko/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@oh_momoko</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie Jarvis:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/RobbJarvis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@robbjarvis</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tylor Starr:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tylorstarr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@tylorstarr</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evanna Lynch:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/msevylynch/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@msevylynch</span></a></p>