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Dr. Neal Barnard reveals how you can control your health through simple changes to your diet.

Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients.

Dr. Barnard has authored more than 90 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers, and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students.

This episode is one of my favorites I've ever done.

Dr. Dean Ornish (Ornish.com) has authored 7 nationally best-selling books, and his 2019 book UnDo It! (written with his wife Anne) is a masterpiece that has followed suit.   He's been the doctor to presidents and the public; and his treatments have healed millions. His Ornish Diet has ranked as the healthiest diet for eight straight years by U.S. News.   Our conversation starts off with a surprise and goes deep from there. Here's a sampling of what you'll hear: -- Dr. Ornish's origin story: How he planned to kill himself as a "failed" student, what changed his life, and how he came to talk openly about it. -- The definitive science of what causes more than 80% of the nation's chronic diseases. -- How a plant-based diet provides abundant protein and the best nutrients to heal Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, some cancers and more. -- How his meditation fueled him to change medicine. -- Why the world's most famous heart surgeon -- at age 99 -- called to thank him. -- And Much more...   Thanks for listening...