January 14, 2022

10. Dr Neal Barnard is a soy man

41 minutes

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Themes: soy, menopause, HRT, insulin resistance, fat, diet, hot flashes

Summary: Dr Neal Barnard is an adjunct professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.He has led an array of important research into the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including work on dietary interventions for Type 2 diabetes. He’s written 100 scientific publications as well as 20 books, including his most recent, Your Body in Balance. He also led a study that was published last year in Menopause, the Journal of the North American Medical Society, which found that eating a soy-rich, all-vegetable diet dramatically cut down on hot flashes and several other menopause symptoms. He is currently replicating that study, which is a big part of the process of scientific inquiry. Dr Barnard explains why diet plays such a major role in the peri/menopause transition, how to make the right changes to go vegan, the problem with fat, as well as provides insight into HRT, genetics, Alzheimer’s and dementia and more.

Highlights:
•Why we can manipulate hormones by how we eat (3.45)
•How menopause is different in Japan (4.45)
•The research-driven truth about soy (6.10)
•The inside scoop on his “soybean salad” study (9.20)
•Reaction to the findings (12.15)
•Assessing HRT risks and how to mitigate them (17.30)
•There’s a reason we have menopause (20.45)
•Dr Barnard’s recipe for plant-based eating (24.24)
•Why menopause doesn’t really cause weight gain (26.44)
•Fat and insulin resistance (27.55)
•Why does everyone push good fats? (31.45)
•HRT, diet, genetics, Alzheimer’s + dementia (33.00)
•What about vegan-ish? (35.00)
•Help for other symptoms (37.00)

Where to find Dr Barnard:
Website: PCRM.org
Instagram: @physicianscommittee
Twitter: @PCRM

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