Diet, Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Diseases - John McDougall MD FULL TALK

[@naomimay82]

When I was a child in the 80s, I remember my mom had this yellow book about the McDougall program. What also happened in the 80s is that my mom was diagnosed with MS. It was after her diagnosis that she bought that book and started our entire household on a vegetarian diet. My Mom’s MS disappeared, which baffled her doctors. She is still MS free to this day. So naturally, when I hit rock bottom recently because of my two autoimmune disorders, I remembered back to my childhood and that yellow book. I looked up Dr. McDougall here on KZbin and then looked him up online. I bought his book, The Starch Solution, and began following it a month ago. I feel so much better and I have lost 6 pounds.

[@Doriesep6622]

I tried to turn my friend diagnosed with MS on to this diet. But noooo. She wouldn't listen. Good for you.

[@secnarfyerom]

@@Doriesep6622 I have a friend my age who ate meat several times a day. I told her that at our age, 75, this is not a good idea due to the heme iron and bad juju of eating all meat that had to be slaughtered. No, she said she needed the iron because she was anemic. Today she is in a motorized wheelchair, half of her paralyzed due to stroke. Do I have survivors' guilt? Yes. But I'm never one to say, "I told you so."

[@annettemonkey1998]

Thankyou. I will try and get that book. Great news about your mum and youself, well done. I am trying to loose weight. I am trying vegan but eating high carbs. Is that a good thing to do or not. Weight is slow coming off but i have cheated, still eating chocolate.

[@missiris1234]

Dennis sorry Dennis. Hope you thrive if not you can come back. Good luck whatever you do!

[@lmlowe9100]

@Dennis bullshit

[@Candy-sy6eo]

As a nurse I found this to be one of the most exciting, enlightening health clips ever! McDougall at his best!

[@fender1000100]

I owe this man my life. Had I not discovered him and his book the starch solution. I would probably be gone now. I had the early stages of bowel cancer 11 years ago. After 30 years of poisoning my system with a meat and dairy heavy diet. Today 11 years later. I have my health back. And I'm thriving like never before. More people must take him seriously if they value their health. And that of their loved ones.

[@tinalaplaca6638]

Today is May 2024.....these older podcasts are great-great references to have to watch over and over again. Dr. M. is an ACE for sure.

[@MarcellaSmithVegan]

Dr McDougall was the First doctor that I had seen, watched, read, that actually said it was Healthy to eat plant-based foods back 30 some odd years ago. It was scary being by myself, I didn't understand all the health benefits, family was telling me I was going to Die if I didn't eat meat, my mother cried and begged me, it was very hard, then I found Dr McDougall online, I can't remember what I saw or watched, all I knew was that he was a life jacket/donut out in the middle of the ocean for me, the rest is History :) . Thank You Dr McDougall!!!

[@davidkugel]

Dr. McDougall tells it like it is. It is refreshing to hear the truth from an MD.

[@kkpaine]

This guy worked against many odds 40 yrs ago. Nice to see him getting the accolades deserved.

[@GreenEyEdBeauty-lu2bj]

❤️❤️❤️ thanks Dr McDougall ...I've been vegetarian most of my life but this past year i have been wfpb for one year now,& feel so much better no more diabetes no more high cholesterol and I've lost 75 lb I'm praying that it heals me from my MS.as well 🙏. Thanks for all you do and dr. Schwank ❤️

[@Germatti13489]

Have you tried low dose naltrexone? It is a miracle drug and it doesn't cost much.

[@MrWackydoodles]

How are you now?

[@pinakkoladaa]

I could listen to Dr John McDougall for hours over and over again! He is amazing. Thank you for such a valuable information. Bless you!

[@lisengel2498]

Very inspiring talk and in a way it is deeply strange and unethical that it is not very often told by traditional doctors - that would give ordinary people a Real choice - thank you for the great inspiration and teaching

[@gigoheredia4949]

One of the greatest heroes of modern times! DR. JOHN MCDOUGALL!!

[@LenkaSaratoga]

Gigo Heredia I agree! My personal hero

[@gorgig9136]

Great Doctor, and great human being. What's happen if all Doctors in the world are like Dr.McDougall?Trillions dollars industry will colapse.

[@LenkaSaratoga]

Gorgi Gris yes! And he calls the medical industry criminals. Same as Dr.Sarno who was fighting till the end. Two of my heroes.

[@tayloranderson456]

No money in cures. How can we change that?

[@Marco-fp9hq]

Type 1 diabetes is very related to milk consumption, I live in Sardinia and here we have a really high rate of type 1 diabetes (and other autoimmune disease) and we use A LOT of milk and diary in general, from childhood to adulthood

[@kathikotelko7420]

Shocking as you are in the blue zones

[@Marco-fp9hq]

Kathi Kotelko Cheese and dairy in general are stable foods in Sardinia even, centenarians eat cheese every day

[@scubadiva666]

Well, by the time you're 100, you're totally, hopelessly addicted!

[@bluefairyuk]

Marco Yes centenarians in Sardinia do eat dairy but they eat every day minestrone too and other vegetables from their own land not industrially produced. I am Sardinian too. And they only eat meat during big annual festivities!

[@janeUZ0723]

I noticed when I went plant based my vertigo went away.

[@secnarfyerom]

My arthritis and periodontal disease vanished.

[@playerone1431]

Jackie, how do you feel yourself now?

[@carmadefries3729]

Working on healing my body from secondary progressive MS, fibromyalgia, IBS, & metabolic syndrome using the Starch Solution. Thank you, Dr. McDougall. 🙏🏽🌱💪🏽🥰

[@beastywild]

Any updates please 😊

[@dianecairns6495]

I wish I knew what I know now, about changing the way we eat, as my husband, who had Multiple Sclerosis’s, wouldn’t have passed away at the age of 55.

[@themischievousbrat5525]

I am so sorry :,(

[@lvncsr6166]

So very sorry for your loss.

[@jurejo]

Sorry for your loss Diane. I wish it was that simple as changing your diet. I have sister with progressive MS who is very disabled now.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@@jurejo It is that simple.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@luna57 You are in the pockets of big pharma. You can easily tell. Everything you said was a total complete lie. The cruelty is you being THAT stupid, and trying to keep people from GETTING HEALTHY by EATING ALL NATURAL FOOD. Anyone that says you cant is a flat out LIAR, like you. You are just lazy and fat, and you want to blame everyone else for your LACK OF SELF CONTROL. You trolls make us SMILE. EAT HEALTHY AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE! POWNED!

[@progressingmyway8640]

I started this diet on the 21/6/2019 and am going to continue it for at least a year! 🤞

[@pac0re]

Any updates sir?

[@tinalaplaca6638]

It's the food back then.......and it's the food today. His story doesn't change because the truth never changes. I believe, we believe. Get on board folks and get well.......

[@secnarfyerom]

Drs. John McDougall and Michael Greger are the Jonas Salks of nutritional health.

[@PetBunnyDebbie]

Dr. Esselstyn is amazing as well!

[@halfgridhomestead]

Love Dr. McDougall! Thanks for sharing! One of the good guys here for sure.

[@Doriesep6622]

I do the same thing. In a restaurant I am always looking around and observing others' unhealthy meals.

[@MindForwardAnna]

the last question - its because the protein is ingested with the fat - animal products come with both

[@1operamom]

I get it, I get it, I get it --- NO FAT. But truth is, I actually had to hear this multiple times and on multiple lectures, before I was willing to "GET IT." It was easy to give up meat, much more difficult to give up olive oil and those supposedly healthy Earth Balance Butter Replacements.

[@margotfaubion7662]

Agree! giving up olive oil has been very hard, but I'm almost ready!

[@Jewlz4ever]

I agree with everything he said except one point. He said that whatever you’ve lost from MS, you can’t regain. For example he said if you have MS and you’re in a wheelchair, the diet won’t get you out of that wheelchair. That is so untrue. Take the diet to a higher level and eat only fruit (raw juicy fruit) and you can bet your bottom dollar your nerves are going to regenerate and you will regain EVERYTHING you lost from MS. Fruits are the only foods that have the proper angstrom power to regenerate nerves. Check out Dr. Robert Morse if you want to learn more. He has reversed and regenerated many cases of MS on fruit alone.

[@nyxs60]

Jewlz4ever yes I agree

[@journaloftraits5681]

Really got to check it out! Thanks for posting

[@jayf8308]

I have Relapsing Polychondritis. Diagnosed in 2013. I have taking all the meds prescribed for me just to "in the words of my doctors" stay the flairs and keep me alive. Much of what I suffer these days are the side effects of the medications. I am treated in the best learning hospital in the state of Michigan. They kept me alive and breathing but no one mentioned diet beyond not getting to fat because it would put pressure on my diogram making it even harder to breath. Someone did shove the Mcdougall diet book my way but it was a friend not a doctor and I saw no reason for me to suffer a change like that when I was being told that I should put my house in order and prepare for hospice. Despite myself I did make some recovery palliative care instead of hospice and disability instead of death. I have now revisited this notion that food was making me sick and better food might make me well. I'm only in my first two weeks of plant/starch based eating and my hope is to teach my doctors how to cure people like me.

[@vegsource]

relapsingpolychondritis.com - my wife’s story.

[@CherylAnnRose]

The MS Gym found on KZbin and FB had helped me regain mobility.

[@doubleooh7337]

my diet four about 6years has been fruit and veg 90%, grains 5% , and 5% junkfood i can go all day on just fruit and vegetable but the last 2years I've been buying all freezedried fruit and veg whole or as powders it's just missing the water so it dont spoil for atlest a couple of months but still contains 85% of the availble nutrient because it dont really go off quickly there is 0% wastage and i get to enjoy every last bit

[@Lili-tt2ks]

Where do you get this?

[@doubleooh7337]

@@Lili-tt2ks ebay look up freeze dried fruit , veg and theres organic freezedried stuff aswell

[@onlyqualitypeoplemotivation]

Again and again with the great info and above all FACTS. Thank you Dr!

[@anacosminachirila2056]

This is SO ENCOURAGING! Even though I don't have MS, I have another debilitating autoimmune disease - rheumatoid arthritis. I've been on a highly toxic treatment - a chemotherapy drug which hasn't been able to control my disease, but it has given me lots of side effects. I was given other pills which are as toxic and aggresive to my body as the first one. I am only 25 years old and the future doesn't seem bright with all these treatments which can cause severe damage in the body in the long run. So I thought that there must be another way. I found a doctor who has successfully treated autoimmune disorders, diabetes or cancer through vegan diet and some natural therapies. But after seeing him, I started having doubts about it and I almost quit the idea of not taking chemical treatment anymore and go on this diet. But listening to this doctor made me realise that many of the things he says I've also been told by my doc. This is precious info which I'm sure medicine and pharmaceutical industry don't us to know!

[@kirsten1007]

Check out Dr. Brooke Goldner. She cured her own autoimmune and many others. On KZbin goodbyelupus

[@ScrayXXI]

Thanks Dad.

[@marayoung]

Excellent as always Dr Mcdougall! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@francismausley7239]

Good to hear reasonable people. Reason is “the first faculty of man” “God has given us rational minds for this purpose, to penetrate all things, to find truth. If one renounce reason, what remains?” ~ Baha'i Faith

[@alitaj9231]

It’s a nice talk. But does it means vegetarian don’t get MS?

[@Ruhdddch]

God bless you I will never forget you

[@jeremiahsmith8405]

Anyone know how to do McDougall healing that is affordable to common man? Thanks so much

[@DeafNutritionist]

Please add caption for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing viewers.

[@DrummerDucky]

There are tho. Sure, they're AI-produced, but 95%+ of the time, it's entirely correct.

[@DeafNutritionist]

Oh Thanks!!!

[@ferneoneil506]

I do not know how to add a caption but I will see if I can find someone to help sounds like it would be great🧡

[@Chimonger1]

I can only WISH those AI-generated captions were 95% correct! PHFFT! So many are scrambled-eggs! Those on McDougall’s vids, though are pretty decent. You will need to compensate in understanding on some things though.

[@DeafNutritionist]

This video instruct you how to add closed caption to your KZbin video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnaboKSPpLp5eLM

[@PaulLadendorf]

Taking a 5000 iu vitamin d supplement greatly improved my shoulder mobility within a week.

[@jurejo]

Great but you will be needing some K2 with it (Sauerkraut, Kimchi, raw butter) and magnesium oil applied to your skin to get full benefits. Vitamin D3 in that quantity always needs K2.

[@christophermobley3030]

The vit D Link is real. When my wife started having problems the first thing they found was that her vit D was at 3.5. Soon after she got her MS diagnosis. As her Vit D has gone up he systems have almost gone away. She is at a D lvl of 55 now and takes tek and has not had a 2nd relapse in 4 years so far.

[@baldipkaur7475]

@C M How is your wife now? and can you please share how much dose she took to reach the level of 55? and for how long. My close relative is Suspected MS and have vit D level 38. It would be great if you can share. Thanks a lot

[@christophermobley3030]

Baldip kaur she takes 5,000 vitamin D a day. She is on tecfadara and just had a CT scan that showed no progression after almost 5 years. MS is different for every one and I am for sure not saying vitamin D is a cure all.

[@baldipkaur7475]

@@christophermobley3030 Thanks a lot for the reply. Yes true it might not be a cure but I will try all the things which I can do to fight against this disease :) and in your first comment you wrote her Vit D level was 3.5... it was 35 right? that 3.5 was a typing error.. right?

[@christophermobley3030]

Baldip kaur It was 3.5. Things changed so much for her as she started raising her level.

[@baldipkaur7475]

@@christophermobley3030 Thanks for your reply... it means a lot. Actually my relative has got brain and spine lesions and we are worried for him. Could you please tell me what diet she is taking? And is it true that neurologist will give MS as diagnosis after 2 attacks only? I shall be really thankful if you could reply. I know its too many questions....but I know you can well understand how much worried we are at the moment. Thanks in advance and apologies for too many questions.

[@mariniikk]

Yo yo yo the fat in the blood makes sense because I have hashimotos and raynauds (small blood vessels where I’m cold all the time and my fingers and toes turn blue cuz low oxygen) and I’ve been told to eat lots of nuts and fat food to keep my body energized to send blood and oxygen well. Turns out, (I’ve noticed) it’s worse on those days where I eat lots of nuts and popcorn. I’m vegan so I don’t eat butter, but oil is a thing. BUT, on days where I eat lots of fruit and raw food, i have lots of blood rushing everywhere, I feel amazing, not sluggish, and my hands don’t turn blue. 4 months vegan I have sent my health back to amazingness. Me as a 14 year old: chronic migraines, positive for the rheumatoid factor and arthritis, I have hypothyroid hashimotos antibodies, I don’t get periods anymore, I am bloated constantly, I have muscle and joint pains/injuries, I have scoliosis, am cold all the time, and am starting to lose hair and gain weight. I was a 14 year old teenager with the diseases of a 60 year old. I stopped eating meat three years ago. I am now 17 and 4 months vegan, eating as much raw fruits and veggies and as little processed food as possible. All of those health problems are gone. I used to have a BMI of 24, and it is now 21. I haven’t had a headache in a year. After going to the emergency room 3 times in a month for lidocaine, I found out that I have a gluten intolerance. My blood levels are back to normal to the point where I’m not officially diagnosed positive for rheumatoid or a hormone imbalance. I still have my antibodies, and have hair loss and my hands still turn blue. But it is so much better. I feel so much better. Because I’m young and a gluten free vegan in a family of meat eaters with a mom who’s a nurse, i have to listen to most of what she says. Since I don’t menstruate, I have to take birth control for fake periods and to control my (now diagnosed) pcos. I constantly tell my mom that it’s hurting me but she’ll willingly pay thousands for pills, and not for some herbs. I hope to keep improving once I go off to college where I have a little more medical freedom.

[@robinhood4640]

Changing your diet is not only reducing your toxic intake but also increasing the ability of your body to correctly eliminate other toxines. It may be worth studying the different chemical stress that you are adding without being aware. Try avoiding hairspray,shampoo,cleaning products,alcohol,car exhaust fumes, and many more, for a few weeks. Wear a mask mpp3 (not mpp2) when you cannot avoid them. By reducing the amount of toxic chemicals that enter your body you will allow your body to it's job of creating the balance that it is unable to find because of constant intoxication. When your body has found the correct balance you will be able to be exposed to these chemicals in small amounts without them affecting you. A tap constantly running with a greater flow than the hole in a sink will allways overflow,you can do the maths to calculate how much time before disaster but you do not need to do any math to know without any doubt that overflow it will. The quality of the air the majority of us breath is progressively getting worse and the amount of air we need is not getting any less.

[@sethjones4916]

If this talk was done in 2010, Dr. McDougall's study should be complete now, but I went to his website, and he is still talking about Dr. Swank's study. What happened with his own study that he funded through the Oregon Health and Science University? He paid $750,000 for a study, and he doesn"t even mention the results in the article that he prepared on MS for his website. I think it's obvious that his own study did not get the kind of results that Dr. Swank's studies did. I wonder why not?

[@sethjones4916]

I was mistaken. I did another search, and found the results of this study on his website. The results were disappointing, and attributed to not having enough people. With such a low headcount, the randomization process unfairly placed sicker people in the group on Mcdougall's diet.

[@MrWackydoodles]

@@sethjones4916 what do you mean with the last sentence?

[@ldjt6184]

Interesting that Dr. Swank wasn't against the consumption of cow's milk at all, except it it was high in fat. It had to be skim milk or no fat milk. He talked nothing about molecular mimicry. He also advised taking cod liver oil.

[@ourblueheavendesign]

Kelly J seems to me a “Plant Based Diet” doesn’t include Dairy. nakedfoodmagazine.com/casein-and-cancer/

[@pepsitwsit]

U need fat ! Essential fatty acids , essential aminoacids , what u don`t need actualy is carbs .

[@aly3560]

Bo-Lu So sorry but the low carb claim has been blown out of the water by Campbell’s research. Read “The China Study”.

[@SolomonTheStoryTeller]

Potatoes make my MS symptoms flare up. MS is different. The reaction to food is different from person to person. There is no one diet fits all.

[@wotiluv]

Thanks for sharing this. It’s true. I know many with MS and they say the same especially legumes and grains (white rice and wheat the worse )

[@Janeoffools]

The diet Paleomedicina implement is the closest to one diet fits all (watch Dr Zsofia Clemens on YT)

[@kirsten1007]

I agree. I think plants are the answer tho the cause is different for all with ms

[@SolomonTheStoryTeller]

@@kirsten1007 fyi, almost a year ago I noticed that consuming fats , all oils, olive, coconut, avocado, nuts and seeds, I get symtomps then when I cut off fats I get no symptoms. Expiremented through out 2020 and I have total control over symtomps. 10 grams of fat a day causes no symptomps. 15 grams seems to be the max. Anything over, I will start to get tingling the next day. Might have to do with taking accutane for severe acne a couple of years before I got MS. Found out accutane was pulled off the shelves. The meds Must have damaged the process of how the body was handling the fats through the skin, and now it does internal inflammation.lost acne but got MS. Still thankful I understand the cause and I have control over it and I can resume my life normally after a decade of pain. Hopefully this info helps someone.

[@brielleanyez7113]

Absolutely! Thank you

[@carmencorzo3981]

I have the Dr. Swan Diet Book it’s one the Best book… I agreed Dr. Speech 💯

[@hastycontemplation]

I have seen lipemic blood specimens, when centrifuged the red cells separate from the plasma. The plasma portion will be turbid and white. Normally the plasma portion is clear light yellow.

[@c0r0y]

26:12 What happens when eating fat also isolated plant oil.

[@lunavicente7469]

Rebif made me feel so sick :/ worse side affects then my MS itself... I'm on tecfedira now but so for I don't have sideaffects but its only been 3 weeks... I want to get off it but I've only started to eat whole foods plant based for a week now and I don't know how soon I should ditch the medication...

[@courag1]

Although no one is really looking at Hyperhidrosis as an autoimmune condition, I suffered from this from childhood. Mine was generalized, though it began with my hands, feet and armpits. Puberty hit like a ton of bricks, the sweating became much more prodigious but then I also sweat on my buttocks, the back of my legs, all the way up, including the groin … and my face … if I had to exercise. My face would “rain” and it would drip off of my chin and nose. To say that I was picked on, as I was also fat, the other fat kids were glad if I was in class, why pick on them, when there was so much more to insult? And I was so nervous about having to endure the heckling, that I stuttered too. Though I lost weight in high school, and my stuttering nearly disappeared, the sweating did not get less at all. But I figured out that some clothes could help conceal the sweat. Fortunately, the sweat was not with much odor. My sister had occasional sweat in the armpits as did my brother. My father sweat quite a bit, but nothing like me. I met a man in my early 20s that fell in love with me. He also had hyperhidrosis of his hands so that I was clammy in the hands, but he was too. His hands were warm, mine were cold and clammy. If I could keep my weight down, I began to perspire less. At home growing up, Mom cooked with aluminum pots and pans. I got stainless steel. Yes, my dad ended up with Alzheimer’s and I think the pots and pans contributed as well as his high cholesterol, heart disease meds and type II diabetes, and he also got fat. The stainless steel pans did not control sweating when menopause hit. Whatever other women got with hot flashes, was nothing in comparison to me! My head would get so sweaty that I looked like I had come in from standing in the rain. When I was in high school when I lost weight, it was with the help of our doctor, who was Seventh-Day Adventist. Did he tell me about vegetarianism? You’d think so, but no he never said a word about that. Now I’ve tried many different diets and so long as I exercised, I could keep my weight down. Not with menopause. When I got married I weighed 125 lbs. and at 5’5-1/2”, I was trim and in good shape. By the time I hit 60, I weighed 200 lbs. And I developed arthritis all over the body, especially my lower back, as I had a back injury at age 40. I tried an elimination diet and gave up all dairy. And the arthritis disappeared and ended spending my days in a wheelchair. I decided to see what vegetarianism could do for me and found Dr. John McDougall. But I was too cheap to buy his book and though I did lose weight, I got down to 144 lbs. and got stuck. I had begun walking when I got to 165 and the walking got me down to the 144 and then I broke my ankle and the weight crept up 10 lbs and then another 15 during Covid. My ankle did heal but I broke the same ankle again, so I discovered kale and the ankle healed but it needed Physical Therapy. I started walking again and the weight started to come down. Then I got the audible book of “The Starch Solution” and I got the diet right. I did not think I was a junk food vegan but I was. Now I am down to 120 lbs. and we’ve joined a gym. Co-incidentally, Chef AJ, Dr. McDougall and I all share a common birthday, except for the year! Now, when I got the Starch Solution diet right, I would sweat a lot on my walks then only. Then the rest of the day, I’d be normal. When I got to 130, the sweating during walking began to decrease. Now, though I do sweat some with exercise as a person should, it is just slightly more than others but not at all like when I was younger. My theory is that my fat cells had sequestered a lot of toxins from my diet through the years. I had grown up in a house which had lead pipes. So that may have been one of the reasons for my sweating when I was a kid but not so much after I got married. However, now I show no signs of having hyperhidrosis at all. I do not even use antiperspirants as they never worked on my sweating any way. This diet means the body odor is mild to non-existent. I do think all the additives beyond giving up all animal products and meat, fish, eggs and dairy, and the toxins in them, had made me hyper-sensitive to all the accumulation of toxins and my body responded to that and the fat in my diet, causing me to sweat so much. My blood pressure is normal and also my cholesterol. I discovered that grapefruit and its juice, brought his BP down, mine wasn’t so much a problem to be on medication like my husband. But we eat the same things. So when he had grapefruit or grapefruit juice, I’d have it too. Even after buying the Audible book and beginning to walk and listen to his book daily, my cholesterol did not come down until I was having grapefruit. Since then I’ve learned that grapefruit is effective at lowering high cholesterol, LDL and triglycerides. I eat SOS (no sugar, oil or fats, or salt). We do use the Lite Salt by Morton’s or NuSalt as it is sodium/potassium and not sodium/chloride. And this I do not use much either. My skin looks great except for some loose skin as I was 200 lbs. all during menopause. Now I am 70 and rarely get hot flashes and if I do get one, it is at night, one time only. We’ve joined a gym, more important for my husband who has lost 55 lbs., but he is still in the obese category by BMI. My BMI is 21, if I lose another lb., I’ll be 20 BMI. I feel good and am sleeping better. No one thinks I am 70. I am in size 4 jeans!!! Even when I was thin before, I really was never this thin in my hips before. I do believe that my leaky gut was a great contributor to my severe hyperhidrosis. One other perk with this diet is that I have not had any cancer. Both my mother and sister died post menopause of breast cancer. My mother had gouty arthritis, which was likely what had affected me so badly at age 60. I do love the diet, but like Chef AJ, eating fat from any source, stops weigh loss for me. Could it be that any person who shares March 22nd birthday, can only live on a low-fat vegan diet and be thin? I think so. My husband and I no longer suffer from asthma either. My husband did have cancer of the prostate before he would go vegan with me. When the cancer was discovered, it was stage 4. He had the surgery. He has not had any cancer in any other place so his cancer did not spread, which is fortunate. The same year he had this cancer and was retiring as he was old enough to, 3 other men who worked doing the same job at his work, also got the prostate cancer. They all opted for chemo and radiation with no diet change, and not one of them lived longer than 6 months. I think the surgery was a better option, and the robotic surgery was the way to go and his doctor only recommended the surgery due to the cancer being stage 4. My husband does not read books. I do think that listening to the audible book in my daily walks, I can also quote the book chapter and verse. We get brainwashed by our society in the cult of animal protein and cheese and dairy. To recover from the brainwashing, listening to the audible book, has really helped. If I am tempted to eat what is not on the diet, I eat another potato or have some brown rice and put in my ear buds and listen to Dr. McDougall’s book. People have a hard time believing that I used to weigh 200 lbs., though who would lie about this? I mean, REALLY?!? My husband enjoys my cooking and he’s gotten pretty good at it himself, though he will not give up using oil or butter. He asks me when I won’t eat his food and I tell him, I cannot or my weight will go up. After investing in several different sizes of clothes to get down to size 4, I am not going to let myself eat fat or oil, when there is another choice, especially at home. Thank you Dr. McDougall.

[@Ane127]

57:30 People do get out of wheelchairs. The condition can reverse. E.g. Terry Wahls

[@SarasotaFl]

Wise Man!

[@ebrelus7687]

So he claims eating more fats causes lycemia, slows circulation and hypoxia low blood oxydation and this blood brain barrier cossing. He doesnt state how long it lasts. I would like to see paper that proves that in detail. To much fat might be not healthy. But resigning from fats is a crazy and extreme idea. What damages body the most is sugar. What crates unstable regular cycles of sugar spikes is sugar. If you eat fat once a day and fast the rest of it - you are healing your diabetes crazy fast - because all the rest of day you are burning fat and don't need any sugar - liver produces glucosis when it needs it from fat. Short hypoxia isn't bad at all. Actually triggering hypoxia once a day is a basic concept under WIM HOF breathing method to push body into better oxydising body all the rest od day (the same as a short but really intense training causes your body to burn fat all the rest of day without any exercises - it is called body simulation). What causes leaky gut and destroys that barrier will be also lowwering fats and cholesterol to the minimum and increasing intake of sugars. Sugars cause inflammations, this damages blood vessels and cholesterol is needed to fix it, to rebuild every cell in the body. This and not providing green vegetables to build healthy gut bacterial flora. Also if you will eat carbs from mass production full of glyphosate you will destoy gut-blood and blood-brain barrier even faster - thats plus neorotoxins what is said to cause MS and diseases as autism too. Milk fat isn't healthy because cow milk is not human milk, its for little cows and processes in high temperatue milk is even worse. There are good and bad fats. There are good and bad carbs - mostly bad (only slow carbs make sense as in berries or in beans). That's the whole point to know that! Also studying effect of fats on a body with a mix of fatty foods and adding to them things like bread = bad carbs, and processed milk - bad fats - isn't a proper way to make study and find comprehensive results. It says nothing about how each fat individually affect our body. Anybody on keto diet basicly good fats diet + good green vegetables he will tell you most of a day he is not eating at all and his brain feels great and ketones fueling it are 30% better in providing energy and providing oxygen to brain. It doesn't count what happens when you eat 1 time a day - it is important how well is it working for you the whole 24 hours. On carb based diet you will need to provide body with weak fuel (except good slow sugars as xilitol) all the time and regularly getting hungry and crave for more sugar. If youre diabetes thats the worst thing you can do to your body :( Fat doesn't cause strokes. Inflammation from sugars cause it. Body only tries to fix holes with cholesterol and bad fats disturb this process and sugar makes it never ending cycle of selfdestruction.

[@secnarfyerom]

I have heard that it takes from anywhere between 6 and 10 hours to regain free-flowing circulation of the blood after a fatty meal. The anomaly was discovered when an electron microscope was trained on a near-surface blood vessel. The blood flow was shooting along at 25 MPH until the subject was given a high-fat meal. The flow slowed to a molasses-like sludge for 10 hours until the bloodstream got rid of the oils. Meanwhile, the cells and organs were seriously deprived of oxygen due to the slowing of the blood flow.

[@MrFox-db5xw]

McDougal the dad of the plant based doctors.

[@sportysbusiness]

The New Zealand MS Society website has this to say about the Swank diet: "Research into this diet has not definitely proved any benefits. Although a number of studies have been carried out, they have not generally been well designed. They also had very high drop-out rates, so without knowing what happened to the people who dropped out of the study it is hard to draw clear conclusions." So people continue to take drugs and get worse...

[@roxannaharvey8983]

Did he dodge that last question?

[@MinMin-yl8fp]

yeah what was that; logical question.

[@secnarfyerom]

@@MinMin-yl8fp Retiring minds want to know!

[@birdlynn417]

How do you know "what" has been killed? When he says, what you have lost will never get back. But how do we figure what might have been killed in our individual cases? I have thyroidiits, Hashimotos.

[@heavenwithin81]

Time to leave the dairy alone FOR GOOD!. My joint pain IMMEDIATELY goes up with 2 days of me eating cheese so I guess it's finally time for me to take this seriously. Damn cheese is delicious but it's not worth it when I dread going up and down the stairs.

[@secnarfyerom]

Bingo!

[@Сергей-ы5х9к]

Спасибо !

[@PetBunnyDebbie]

Doesn't Terri Garr who starred in Tootsie and other movies have MS now? Y'all should get in contact with her! I bet she'd be up to try this diet for MS!

[@friendlyprof]

at 57:35 you state that whatever's been lost, you will not get back. The way you fluffed through that sentence made me very angry and sad. So doing this "diet'" won't make me better? than why do it? Is this really true that I won't get anything back? My balance and walking are deteriorating and my last hope with through diet. And well, you killed that.

[@karennogare2549]

Hi I in Australia 🇦🇺 I 55 got diagnosed in March with MS. I been on Swank diet 5 months. I was going to do the starch solution. If you would like a friend to go on this journey I available

[@karennogare2549]

I am very slowly healing. I had bad right foot drop now improving. I have horrible symptoms but happy to connect with you to support. Thanks

[@dawnallen287]

DR Mc Dougall I’m a vegetarian 🌱 what about eating wild salmon fish 🐠 hemp milk earth balance organic coconut spread and grape seed oil is they healthy???????

[@secnarfyerom]

Read more of Dr. Dougall's books to find the answers.

[@Janeoffools]

No! Seed oils are highly inflammatory

[@tazztone]

from 2010

[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

Why aren't all people having autoimmune diseases on the standard meat and dairy laden diet? Is this a genetic factor?

[@ldjt6184]

Doug Fruitarky Why aren't they all on the standard meat and dairy diet??

[@LiamGutierrez]

Why don't get all smokers cancer? Who knows..

[@ebrelus7687]

Because his data is a joke.

[@kirsten1007]

Everyone does not have the genetics for it.

[@isaiah5343]

Psalm 139.

[@HowlingMoonCinemas]

Isaiah 53 ???

[@Chimonger1]

If I’d only realized then, what I know now...we had patients with MS. One of them suckered for a televangelist healer. If she instead, had a referral to, say, Optimum Health Institute, she’d have been truly healed of it. Instead that televangelist took advantage of her donations during remissions. But, I’d nearly been fired for referring one patient there, and couldn’t afford to lose my job, so didn’t. That’s only ONE for-instance. SO many could have been helped, far better, had the Doc I worked with, chosen to recommend raw vegan, instead of her favored “yeast free” diet. Bodies attacking themselves, is triggered by SOMEthing....diet, too much exposure to manmade chemicals. That map of where people mostly got MS? Guess what? It happens MOSTLY to industrialized countries, drenched in manmade chemicals, and, eating bad diets! Most Docs avoid pursuing that diagnosis, because it often fails to grow brain plaques, or, symptoms are zoo few and far between...and, it’s largely DX’d by evaluating the symptoms, which are not all reliably testable/measurable. MS drugs be damned...the right diet, though, really _does_ help reverse it!

[@Bdnnz]

Winter Star Definitely! The right diet along with proper supplementation (vitamin D3!) and exercise. What diet works best though? Raw vegan? I ask for myself.

[@Chimonger1]

I ruminate over that, often! Personal experience has been: that Raw Vegan is fastest and most effective, especially for detoxing and healing. Gradients of Vegan, then become “maintenance”. But, for clients who cannot wrap their brain around vegan, I pull the idea of Keto out of my hat, and discuss that with them....Caveat: NO diet can cure everything, for everyone, perfectly; there are so many variables that can glitch outcomes! I have a friend of almost 50 years, I’d love to see go raw vegan. But...too many glitches to that: She’s been through cancer; was long-time adherent to Keto diet before that happened. Been through big surgery to remove a hardened pannier, all prior to cancer showing up. She’s had a traumatic, stressful life, lived poorly for many years, had gastric surgery [lap-band?] long ago, etc. Guaranteed, anyone who’s had Bariatric surgery, WILL have nutrient deficiencies...it’s almost impossible in the current health care industry, to offer much more than rudimentary thoughts on nutrition, much less prescribe nutrients. The few who do, con’t do more than the Macros, leaving micros wanting. So, who knows? Maybe her cancer would have been far worse, or, outcomes far worse, if she’d been using a more usual diet...or not. But, for her, Keto lends well to eating small volumes of food, and, it’s allowed her to keep alive and taking care of her [40 yrs older?] spouse...but not much longer, that. Which way a practitioner goes for a patient/client, really is on an individual basis. One must gauge carefully, what direction to pursue, depending on the history of, current needs of, and proclivities of, the client. Sometimes it works stunningly well...nay..miraculously! Other times, ya just can’t get the person to take it seriously or make drastic changes. For those, must find other ways, if possible. There’s a whole huge swath of information that influences someone’s life/progress/health: their spiritual milieu...which is not usually discussed within the scope of treatments, and, which most religions never address beyond cursory, either. The spiritual influences [for want of more neutral term] absolutely affect a person’s health; if there’s something out of whack there, physical ills follow. Health care people don’t generally get to talk about that with clients, nor do most clients discuss it, often for fear of being labeled “mental”. But, time’s coming, Imho, that this will have to become part and parcel of health care. There ARE a few places that do include that angle, but not nearly enough. It’s nothing to do with religion, yet all about how those spiritual connections affect our daily existence. Oh...and D3? It’s very important. But, as more are becoming aware of, taking it as supplement should be the LAST resort; best to get it from proper solar exposure. And, if taking supplement, Vit. K2 MUST be taken with it...last I understood, about 100 mcg. K2 / 1000IU D3. OTHERWISE, unwanted problems with parathyroid and calcium deposition occur...the opposite... of not having enough D3, also does that.

[@corposant]

One of the problems with this video is the fact that it is eight years old, and a lot has happened in that time. He only talks about interferons in regard to MS medications, yet there are other options now, which do not have the side effects associated with interferons. That isn't to say that I am discounting the value of a plant based diet, but this is a trifle bit out-of-date.

[@Cara655]

No, the problem is that you are unfamiliar with Dr McDougall's work. You embrace big pharma and mainline medicine, not plant based medicine

[@corposant]

Chris Tarango Be that as it may, but what I am saying is that some of his statements in this video -- his current work notwithstanding -- are out of date. It is important to recognize what is going on at present in terms of medications available. I have MS, and live on a mostly plant based diet, but do not see any real option outside of it.

[@1operamom]

laudator temporis acti Mostly plant based diet? With such a disease you say you have, how is it you are not willing to try a total plant based diet? Is it not worth getting behind the concept 100 percent for 6 months, before you suggest what other medications might be available? Bottom line, people who are heavily addicted to fast food, meat, sugar, fat and salt, make every excuse known to not give up their "drugs" of choice. I should know, because I was one of them. And it was not until I totally gave up the foods that were making me sick on the standard American diet, even in small quantities, that I got well.

[@sandywilliamson2229]

Prescription drugs, no matter how up to date they are, are not the cure. They do not make any difference towards healing the body.

[@ebrelus7687]

Plant based diet is great it you cut al bad carbs so like 90% carbs existing from it...

[@family-peace-love]

Can I ask a question? I love the vegan diet, but how come paleo style diets are healing people ? I have been trying to heal from M.E (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) for 8 years (not been vegan whole time)

[@vegsource]

Paleo diets shorten your life. It’s possible people will experience some short term improvements on any diet due to calorie restriction. What kind of vegan diet do you practice?

[@ebrelus7687]

Watch Dr Bergman and Berg videos in your case.

[@gemhacker]

hi thank you

[@jimphelps5163]

Well I watched the McDougall and his hero Swank. Both of them are AMA trained and they never heard of deuterium-----lacking that knowledge won't show important connections. It is typical of all AMA and Big Pharma research. Swank looked at illnesses process in Europe during WWII and his observations of low illness and diseases are valid----however his issues for causality are off real logical conclusions. In WWII there were many with low food and they suffered from basically long periods of fasting----what that does is burn off all sugar stores in the body and the body works via fat burning. Not recognizing that is a very serious flaw and McDougall does not catch it. The deal on NASIDs is true---never take them as they wipe out the gut cells. Most of the Swank studies on fats were in the times of bad fats---Crisco, hydrogenated oils and inflammation oils like saffolur oil and others. However these are good fats, like fish oils, coconut oils, C-8 oils and they all should be plant derived. No doubt that plant diets fix MS, as they are low deuterium and high fibers. Since, neither of these two know the issues for deuterium, there is a lot of holes in their methods and determinations. Lots of things depend on liver function, as all the gut veins run direct to liver and there the liver acts to hold glucose steady in the blood, unless saturation bombed with too much HFCS, too much sugar/carbs-----then it falters. The body needs fats or lipids as those make myelin. There is no doubt this myelin has to be made from good type fats or lipids. However, when deuterium is high in these fat cells of the myelin----they set off inflammation and these cells die due to deuterium. While they go after animal fats as the only cause----it is totally because they are totally blind to the effects of deuterium on cell energy and survival. The belly fat is loaded with deuterium and is low in mitochondria and sets off high levels of inflammation---that causes a lot of disease beyond MS. McDougall misses the specifics on MS being connected to deuterium, as well as the more general issues of visceral fats and huge levels of inflammation in the gut. liver, pancreas and so on. Such mistakes are fatal for many.

[@lightningbug276]

Anybody know if I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter spray is bad for you?

[@cutemartinj]

As far as i can tell its basically just repackaged oil. So yes, it's very bad for you.

[@cdd1120]

Dr McDougall says oils are poison to the body. In my own experience with autoimmune disease, oils do trigger a response and give me significant issues. In this talk, he says people don’t change unless they believe diet is the only cure. He is right. I also took prednisone and thought I could get away with eating off plan. My symptoms came back and with increased severity. The good news, just after 4 or 5 days back on the diet, my symptoms are greatly diminished. I truly feel Dr McDougall is saving my life and the lives of those who will listen and do what he teaches. My rheumatologist has nothing but drugs for me that don’t really work well and cost about $5000.00 per month. Best to you.

[@Biohacked_mama]

worse than butter

[@susannec659]

Liz Arnott Aren't there trans fats in I Can't Believe It's Not Butte even if it says 0 trans fats it can still have .5 grams oer servong

[@ebrelus7687]

@@cdd1120 He is a lunatic stating that. Excess of any fats is bad the same as excess of carbs is very bad. Plant oils are not healthy. But olive oil is very healthy the same as rapeseed oil is healthy, animal fats are healthy. Butter is healthy - processed milk isnt healthy because of high temperture processing of fat milk (UHT). Fish fats are very healthy. Read about proper balance of fats. Look at Japanese. Are they looking unhealthy to you? ;) Look at people on keto diet. Unhealthy? They burn fat most part of the day.

[@calengr1]

32:35 no such thing as Ca deficient diet

[@pabloperez456]

why does he change plant based to starch based diet in his speech?

[@Biohacked_mama]

Does this diet also remove gluten grains?

[@SickQuarEU]

rawbirbella justthat Why so?

[@ebrelus7687]

@rawbirbella justthat Fats are also needed for the body. Keto diet rocks.

[@kirsten1007]

@@ebrelus7687 watch out too many omega 6's

[@ushachadha3892]

How to reverse thyroid

[@jurejo]

Google it, some people have done it with food & herbs.

[@ebrelus7687]

Look for Dr Eric Berg or Bergman not here.

[@autumngrace3135]

We all have need for thyroid hormone to be balanced naturally. Reverse which way? Are you Hypo thyroid (underactive) or Hyperthyroid (overactive)????? Sometimes you can't change it.

[@MarcyMMM]

BRING BACK THE STACHE

[@secnarfyerom]

Starches?

[@josederwis8459]

4:29

[@christopherjordan6237]

Rick Simpson Oil cures MS!!! He is a Canadian engineer

[@nabeelmalik89]

Does it really?

[@jeffreywp]

When you look at the actual study, Dr. McDougall's diet doesn't seem to have done much except improve some biomarkers. No major improvement on MS condition itself though. Odd he would talk about it so glowingly, but then again this is from 2010 and the study was updated in 2015/16. However, from anecdotal reports, many find relief and complete remission. Placebo? Individual variation? Tough to tell.

[@wotiluv]

Partly placebo. It’s widely known that fir many -grains and legumes exasperate MS. So I’m not sure I’d follow his “ solution “

[@jeffreywp]

@@wotiluv I know that glutenous grains can exacerbate many autoimmune conditions, but I have never read anything about legumes. In the end, people should do an elimination diet to confirm problems. Grains and legumes are so healthy for you that if you didnt need to eliminate or limit them you shouldn't.

[@vivalafrance9547]

Holy cow, after a typical american breakfast, the occular blood vessels almost shut down (see 27:16)

[@michaeljohnson2922]

The truth is people are in charge of their own health, not doctors. Look at the data on people’s habits and behaviors. You can explain health to most people but the reality is they won’t follow it.

[@daveywaves5325]

Vegan diets are bad for failed kidneys, and even worse for folks on Warfarin! I know my fiance had a massive stroke. He went vegan after his kidneys failed so his levels of potassium was high enough to cause water to build up around his lungs, and his heart. He died four days after stroke. People that take Warfarin cannot eat dark leafy greens. To much vitamin K will cause blood clots. The I.N.R. levels need checked also to keep in a safe range. If I.N.R. are to high then the blood is to thin.

[@chasim1982]

l like your videos plz dubing in urdu or hindi

[@07pollee2ndtime]

16:26

[@nicholasboscaino6262]

Read The Plant Paradox

[@mreudeco]

MS patients may improve with vegan diet but not necessary that everyone who eats non veg should get ms. Have seen many people live in good health till their eighties eating all meats.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

no.

[@ebrelus7687]

Because it's about good gut bacteria and healthy gut. Veggies helps best to rebuild it. But it doesn;t mean anybody needs to go nuts on full vegan diet or even worse on poor starch sugar diet he promotes :(

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@@ebrelus7687 You are full of shit. Maybe eat all raw to get all that shit out of you. But then there would be nothing left.

[@nessieness5433]

That plastic water bottle better be replaced by a glass one. Plastic in your digestive system is not what you want. Nano particles enter the body a.o. via plastic bottles.

[@bobbythomas5357]

Wow, this talk is dated. That stuff bout saturated animal fats is not that accurate at all.

[@r.annrousseau170]

We need Fr M Dougall to give us a dietary cure for Lyme. Its an eoidemic. So many people in crying pain not getting medical attention because the establishment won't touch it.

[@joshleedy6127]

Diet helps the inflammation but doesn't cure it. It's a matter of reducing the pathogen load.

[@r.annrousseau170]

Josh Leedy Just started CBD yesterday. Taking 6-8 mg of Vit C and Carbon 60. I'm stage 3 Lyme. Been in and off antibiotics since 2011. I also have/got sarcoidosis which I believe is the lyme causing an immune response. Giving up doctors for 2018. I put myself on a vegan diet. All my liver enzymes are back to beautiful but the screaming in my knees, feet, weak muscles don't care that all my nood tests are pretty.

[@1operamom]

I know people who have cured Lyme. LIke anything else, extreme cleansing of the body (diet) will eventually work. My acupuncturist told me, it takes about a month of the cure for every year you were sick to recuperate with a dietary program. Have you tried going Whole Food Plant Based and with the important caveat of no oil or fat added of any kind? Or are you just looking for a quick fix or pill?

[@r.annrousseau170]

1operamom I put myself on a plant based diet in Feb 2017. i was diagnosed with Lyme in 2011. i have been on and off antibiotics since then. Can't tolerate them anymorw. I now take C60, CBD oil, 2-8K mg if Vir C, NAC, Cooloidal silver, LArgine, Milj thistle, zinc, pill with ALA, Resveratrol and others, B12, Vit D, ...daily. Gve up on Tumeric, Dig Enzymes, Boswellia. CBD oil and Vit C have been the most powerful. Carbon 60 made my hair grow back after it fell out with antibiotics last year. Started CBD 3 weeks ago. i highly recommend it.

[@1operamom]

I was diagnosed with Lyme and Hashimoto's and well a whole list of autoimmune etc. Have tried lots of stuff, but here I am and have decided to just follow his advice, WFPBD with no oil of any kind and see what will happen. But if acupuncturist is right about one month of cure per year of illness, it will take 30 months or 2.5 years. Being as this makes more sense than anything or any pill, figure what the heck. I am going to be a purist about it and only do the diet and not herbs and stuff. Be an interesting experiment.

[@bastian6173]

This is all nice and great but please don't forget the psychology of all this. Many people are healing from autoimmune conditions when they start to see the links between symptoms, stress, emotions, traumatic childhood events and limiting beliefs. Diet plays a role but the mind is at least equally as important. The mind-body connection is real. Just because people can't explain it, doesn't mean it's not there. But of course, diets are easier to sell to people.

[@abubakarbinkhalidkhalid5504]

KZbin mrt elken

[@maripogi7]

Dear Dr. McD, the Flat Earth has a midline between the sun's progress to its northern-most longitude and its progress to its southern-most longitude. That would, perhaps, be called "the equator". The "Flat Earth model" is expected to be held by the majority by 2020. Truth will out! Thanks for all you do. I'm passing this link on to my granddaughter who has MS.

[@bryanortiz4566]

But I heard potatoes and rice triggers autoimmune diseases

[@BroccoliBeefed]

Sheeesh! This guy is a horrible orator.

[@michaellippert]

My grandmother ate meat, dairy, eggs, and lived to 105, west of China they eat all the foods that Dr. McDougall says don't eat and live over 250. Potatoes and several other starchy foods make me fat. I've noticed most vegan doctors as they age look frail and week.

[@MrWackydoodles]

at least they get old!

[@tayloranderson456]

My Grandpa is 98. Milk salesman for many years, loves dairy, meat, eggs, hates vegetables, fruits. He's also had major cardiovascular problems for 30 something years, spent several months of those years in the hospital, several heart operations, many medications, blind, etc. It's not necessarily about how long you live, it's about how healthy you are while you're here. Those frail vegan doctors probably still walk a few miles a day, my Grandpa has a hard time putting his shoes on and brushing his teeth.

[@missiris1234]

I went vegan and high carb. I still get facial pain maybe due to the weather. I have a hiatal hernia. Vegan isn’t helping but at least I am not eating dead animals

[@daveywaves5325]

You are special!

[@AndrewBryantPianoTuner]

Jesus H Christ! Why the cheezy music in the background???

[@grandmapatty1493]

That's funny; I didn't notice any music...

[@Livetoeat171]

Andrew theres no music

[@ligiacedano478]

El Romero p.ara que se usaa sue river