What Turned This Doctor Plant-Based?

Want a healthier gut, body, and mind?
Dr. Alan Desmond, MB, FRCPI has a clear message: whole-food, plant-based eating is key 🌱
As a gastroenterologist and best-selling author, Dr. Desmond has spent years delving deep into the science-and he still reads the scientific literature every day!
Discover why he believes plants are essential for a healthy gut, body, and mind in our latest post from our ICNM expert interview series with Xavier Toledo, MS, RD, LDN (‪@DietitianX‬).
Stay tuned for more plant-powered insights from this year’s International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine (ICNM)!
#ICNM #ICNM2024 #ICNM24 #PlantBased #GutHealth #WFPB #Vegan

[@infiniteworfare5089]

I was severely underweight and tried all kinds of diets in the past. I tried keto, carnivore, plant based and found that plant based improved my health the most. Meat wasnt digesting well and was causing me to experience bad breath and alot of issues. I was successfully able to restore to normal weight on a plant based diet

[@paulcohen6727]

I had sever stomach aches and diarrhea for most of my childhood and early adult life. Doctors could find nothing wrong with me although a sigmoidoscopy showed my bowels to be greatly inflamed. About a year after going plant-based, I realized that I hadn't had any problems with this for some time although it had cleared up gradually and I continue to be free of suffering from these problems years later. My poor mother never changed her diet and she lost a lot of weight because of her diarrhea and died early.

[@PhysiciansCommittee]

We appreciate you sharing! While we’re sorry to hear about your mother, we’re so glad you were able to overcome your symptoms ❤️

[@adiohead]

Plant based for health, vegan for the animals.

[@jonbarlow3542]

love this message, thank you.

[@PhysiciansCommittee]

Our pleasure ☺️🌱

[@oldbiker9739]

as a diabetic I tried the MacDougal starch diet ,it didn't work the starch kept my blood sugar to high I went carnivore best thing I ever did .

[@carna369]

Back in the late '70s my dad was a diabetic and was taking insulin shots. We lived in Southwest Missouri and we went to Arkansas on visits and they somehow found this little seventh-day Adventist commune and we would go down there off and on over this one summer. Once Dad went down there by himself for about 5 days and he was working and eating a plant-based diet he didn't take his insulin shots for 5 days and had no repercussions until he came back home and went back to the old diet. He went back to eating meat and all kinds of stuff by the '90s he had quadruple heart bypass and died of diabetes in 2003 technically liver failure but caused by diabetes

[@carna369]

Should check out the documentary forks over knives. Based on two doctors one who worked in the lab and one who worked in family practice and how they helped people get off insulin pills with a plant-based diet

[@organic-delicacies3352]

There are multiple studies which say whole food plant based food habit is best for the health ❤

[@johnremesat4464]

You dont need to read scientific papers for 10 years to come to this conclusion. A lot of work has already been done combining the methods of eastern wholistic medicine with scientific methods that have been combined in a most comprehensive book titlled The Macrobiotic path to total health: how to cure the 200 most common ailments by Michio Kushi the book is also available online in a pdf file for free.

[@gbubemia]

👋👋👋👋👋👋

[@PhysiciansCommittee]

👋👋👋

[@TorontoLibertarian]

Cool.

[@davidjohnson1414]

Love It !!! ❤❤❤

[@23100Battlefield]

No.... see a registered dietitian who are specifically taught medical nutrition therapy for many GI issues with the support of doctors. A doctor just researching it themselves by "reading papers" will likely give poor advice similar to a stranger would. That's what Paul Clownadino does...

[@monicasong427]

In industrial nations, heart disease is our #1 killer. American heart surgeon Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn reversed heart disease without any drugs and surgery. This was only possible by fully eliminating all animal products. It would be wise to eat the source of all essential nutrients from a diversity of plants and fungi directly.

[@saritakumta5958]

Carnist troll on a vegan channel ?

[@Kristers_K]

Registered dieticians are a joke, they do not possess the extensive knowledge physicians do, not even close. Dieticians are just mouth peaces for corporations and their products.

[@23100Battlefield]

@@saritakumta5958 Im vegan I am just evidence based and reasonable, I support plant based diets.

[@PhysiciansCommittee]

We have both physicians and registered dietitians on our team! For example, Xavier (the one conducting the interview) is one of our dietitians ☺️

[@Sanitysaint-r2g]

Eat meat don't eat sugars and carbs

[@infiniteworfare5089]

Meat was responsible for my digestive issues. I can even eat sugar now without experiencing health issues. Not that I chose to as I prefer fruits

[@SariPutri-x6v]

Ok. I will do

[@SariPutri-x6v]

​@@infiniteworfare5089 then stop eating sugar

[@infiniteworfare5089]

@@SariPutri-x6v sugar doesn't give me problems. Meat does. It rots in my body and gives me bad symptoms