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Published: 2014-01-25
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thank you I love nutritional science I had a passion about nutrition since I was young I remember that my father suffer with medical problems and pains conditions the medical profession could help them with any search for answers finally he changed his diet lost fifty pounds and got well in the process of seeing him suffering in searching I found excitement and develop interest in the subject he
brought fifty nutritional books into the home and I read them all then in nineteen early nineteen seventies I was on United States world figure skating team and I got hurt and I couldn't walk for over a year and I spent some time in a national in natural health kind of natural health retreat watching people get well who change their diet styles and I got excited about
what I saw remember at my sister's graduation party from college I am an attractive young woman who told me she applied to go to medical school and I debated with her I said what he one of the medical school for doctors mostly prescribed medications for conditions that a result of the toxic diet Americans reading it's like hitting yourself with a hammer every day in giving her
hand a big smash I think it's swollen for the pain legal doctrine to pain medications for the next day you take a big hammer and smack it again it's the toxic American lifestyle that's resulting in all these diseases driving people to the doctor's office the toxic foods were eating or the hammer you don't go to a doctor if you have breathing problems from smoking cigarettes and
gives you a drug to be breed better and you still continue to smoke that's what Americans are doing so this young woman said to me if you're so passionate about the subject why don't you go to medical school what are you change things when you help people you know I I obviously thought about that and said you know I got to do that I quit my
job as an executive in my family's chain of shoe stores I went back to the post graduate premedical program at Columbia after college I went to medical school and here to tell you about the excitement the rewarding experience and they give you a taste of the things I've seen in the US and the fun I've had and I want to show you a six representative cases
people who change their wife to show you the power of a new terrain diets but before I do let me give you our maybe a two minute %HESITATION overview of what I knew to tearing into it is okay because I knew tarian diet is a diet style that's designed to be rich in nutrients and full of anti oxidants and phytochemicals it's a diet style with a
high nutrient per calorie density your healthy life expectancy is what determines on the foods you choose to eat you have to get sufficient nutrient bang for each caloric book but you know when you do so when you flip your body the nutrients it needs it doesn't just make you healthy and live on or prevent disease it stops food addictions and food cravings and normalizes your appetite
and make sure but he gravitates would your ideal weight effortlessly it's the secret for most of what ails us and if you're carrying diet sure it's rich in nutrients with adequate amount of what we need nutrient wise but it also has is very different from the style Americans who eating right now Americans are being a diet that's really knew each group dramatically nutritionally deficient Americans who
eating a diet with fifty five percent of calories and process to me fine foods that don't contain vitamins minerals phytochemicals and thirty percent of animal products a diet with less than five percent of calories from fruits and vegetables and natural produce nutrient rich produce aside from my potato most what we eat roaming about five percent of our vegetation produce it could be better designed to create
a nation of with full of diseases like heart attacks and strokes dimension cancer had been designed by a Qaeda besides the fact of what it's lacking a new tarian diet is also designed to be low in those hormones that promote cancer in aging hormones like excessive amounts of insulin and access amounts of IGF one that's insulin like growth factor one primary hormone that promotes cancers like
prop like breast cancer and prostate cancer I say the white of the bread the sooner you dead because the more few weeks suits like sugar and white flour morph most mortals weekend cancer and I say the more you eat green the more you get lean you eat more greens and beans and less meat it lowers IGF one stop cancerous tracks doesn't promote the progression of fat
on your body and cancel so proliferation we have a unique opportunity anyone history today with the exponential advances in in nutritional science that is given us the power the power of G. bombs G. P. O. M. B. S. these foods I call our immune system special forces greens beans onions mushrooms berries and seeds these foods that inhibit fat storage on the body foods that prevent cancer
foods that prolong the lifespan the details of that is not my message for the purpose of this presentation these people are let me show you the power of what each Terry and I can do here's Robert I never met Robert he just read one of my books Robert was in a wheelchair today he can not only can you not in a wheelchair he can work all
day on his feet Robert had rheumatoid arthritis and was on for a highly toxic drugs two deuces pain from rheumatoid arthritis today he has no rheumatoid arthritis he's off all his toxic medications he no longer has diabetes he no longer has heart disease and high blood pressure is off those medications to the main story here is not merely the lost two hundred pounds the story is
that Robert no longer has medical conditions he no longer has a mature of writers like files like millions of Americans still the point here is you don't have to be sick and be suffering and be tied to medications for the rest of your life take heather have another person who suffered most of her life she suffered a terrible headaches horrible headaches and migraines most of alive
even took pills that cost a hundred dollars a pill for each single individual pill and she still headaches all day long and she said her of course with allergies into an insomnia anxiety and multi I'm also most medications and heather lost seventy five pounds but she wrote me and she said you know shoot me a letter an email and she said you know I'm I'm all
better I know it's the greatest feeling the world never to suffer right never suffered headaches in I don't I know have insomnia I don't need pills for depression anxiety more I'm well I don't have menstrual pain she said when you fix the wonderful thing is when you fix the whole body everything gets taken care of simultaneously it it makes you think of all the people that
are suffering and I've been told they have to be a medication the rest their life with no way out and then there's Donna Donna from Kentucky Donna's like people live stories like this I hear a hundred times a month she was in so much pain she could get out of bed or off the couch when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia rheumatologist told her that she'd have
to take these medications for pain for the rest of her life Kristan adept got well she lost sixty two pounds in the process she's feeling well and she took made the effort Simpson take the drive from Kentucky up to New Jersey one is having one of my weekend immersion programs she came up specifically to meet me in to talk to me and tell me about to
thank me it's so rewarding when you and wonderful and warm to meet these people recover their health she said to me I was a food addict my own you know for twenty years I tried one diet after another and I knew I was in a downward spiral I could get out of Chris Dodd heard life was unhappy and she felt completely hopeless with it and she
said she felt like she was a failure and I said Donna you weren't you weren't a failure it's the information you were given failed you with the right information you have the ability to be set free to take control of your life to get rid of your food addictions it's wonderful to meet these people you almost want to you know you see their happiness in their
gratitude and sometimes you can almost forgive tears come to the eyes when you hear something that you're gonna hear some of the stories and he is running from Texas a perfect example Ronnie had hoped money had heart disease and had bypass surgery about six years ago within four years after his bypass surgery his vessels clogged up again and got a fully clued with plaque and many
proceeded have angioplasty within a few months after angioplasty he could develop three stenosis and now we all couldn't walk had tremendous chest pain was on multiplications he was literally sent home to die I never met Ronnie either he read my books and communicated been with me through the website and Ronnie lost a hundred forty pounds in one year which isn't a story the story is that
his chest pains went away he's now fit healthy has no heart disease he doesn't have a high cholesterol he has great cholesterol not cholesterol drugs is normal blood pressure none three blood pressure medication used to be but I know blood pressure medications his weight is normal he's feeling well he achieved these numbers to protect himself without the use of medications that's how we know now he's
protected he truly reversed his keys condition and he knows he's protected for his future the message here is that scientific studies show that angioplasty and bypass surgery don't enable people to live longer those who go through those procedures don't live longer than those who don't have those decisions the same degree of disease they don't prevent future heart attacks they're just a temporary bandaid to make people
feel better for a temporary period of time why aren't people told us why don't people know why doesn't everyone know that they don't have to have heart attacks they don't have to have strokes but these diseases are reversible relic grin relatively easily Ronnie was set free and Jodie from nearby here right North Carolina Jody suffered with psoriasis for many years the time with actually she suffered
from psoriatic arthritis which is like a mixture of psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis couldn't involves you know they're itchy rash over your whole body plus joint pains by the time Joey was fifty years old she of the rash over her whole body including in itchy rash insider ears from head to toe she was on multimeter Asians coming prednisone plaquenil method tracks eight to try to suppress their
auto immune conditions auto immune diseases like this fact twenty four million Americans the most prevalent one is for psoriasis which affects more than seven and a half million Americans Jodie's been well for the last twelve years shouldn't have psoriatic arthritis anymore should have psoriasis anymore her skin is clear the time she first got diagnosed with psoriasis when she's a teenager soon after she got diagnosed with
lupus shogun syndrome and eventually the joint pain of psoriatic arthritis after lying in after being in pain for more than twenty five years being on medication that hard to give her any relief she found that she could finally get well and she did I remember we have these health getaways where I take a lot of people on these vacations and we eat healthfully and teach her
about nutrition Jodie came with us to you try to climb the red mountains and we took a bunch a people and we walked up this huge mountain we got to the top and was like a thrill for Clint to see the countryside the beautiful countryside at top this mound and Jody got to the highest point of active peak and she put her arms of America V.
for victory and he said look at me I'm a medical miracle and I said to Jodie you know Judy I'm so proud of you it's not a medical miracle it's the inherent self repairing miraculous protective self healing machine human body is already when its feathers optimally your body takes care of itself just like you cut yourself it's the health that you have always had the right
to that was taken away from you and number six numbers the civil last person to talk about is John pal account ski and I bring him up John from New Jersey is because my office is in New Jersey and I can't I saw him as a patient more than twenty years ago when he was seventy two years old and he too had triple vessel disease in
his heart and had chest pain we could walk without significant pain he actually had worked for the cardiologists the cardiologists set him up for a stress test according characterization and he was scheduled for angioplasty instead placement and I pleaded with him I convinced him I saw John give me twelve weeks of your life to show you that you get back in good health again because once
you put those Stenson you never be the same it appears that it's gonna be a source of information it's going to be a promote more stenosis and more plaque in your heart let's get rid of it here's our chance give me twelve weeks twelve weeks time his chest pains were gone he lost forty pounds he did have high blood pressure lead three medication high blood pressure
that had dropped to he went back to see his cardiologists the cardiologists hissed him or my goodness John I've never seen anybody reverse heart disease meet nutritionally items anybody have it melt away like this this is amazing can you imagine according all just who does nothing except see patients with heart conditions never once ever Sora patient reversed a heart disease nutrition when that's all I see
is every patient up other relatively quickly you know then the story here with John what's the story historias is now it's not now it's twenty years later Johns ninety two years old over the years he's gotten healthier and healthier his only heart disease now he shops would declines of affixes roof he enjoys his life he doesn't take medications in his nineties we need when he was
in his sixties and seventies you follow his normal blood pressure now his normal cholesterol now he's earned these things he's been wealth which will for ninety years my point is but water runs off the water for and it's a rock Mr twenty thousand years of rock bricks into but the rock didn't age it got hit by water day after day for twenty thousand years when you
develop the problems that most Americans get to get those problems because day after day you put stresses on your tissues meeting the wrong foods we should be eating from living a diet style and a lifestyle of stresses that have been impacted negatively day after day year after year these this is not the natural consequence of aging heart attacks and strokes and dementia doesn't have to happen
we don't have to have heart disease all of us could be free of that if we so choose matter fact most cardiologists commend become lawyers and electricians and plumbers nevertheless here's the point is my message to you today is that sure nutritional science has made exponential advances in recent years I love nutritional science it's not just but the point is it's not just preventative sure we
can we don't have to have heart attacks we don't have to have strokes we don't have to get demented and yes we can win the war on cancer we have the information right now in the studies that show that we can that a body is protected against cancer we can make these choices and have better health than ever before possible in human history and my point