How Not to Die

Takeways
- The US healthcare runs on a “fee for service” model in which doctors get paid for pills and procedures they prescribe. Rewarding quantity over quality
- Americans are living longer now but not healthier
- We eat almost as If the future doesn't matter
- If we continue to eat as if we are having our last meal, eventually it will be.
- A healthy diet can reverse cell aging
- List or leading mortality in the US: heart disease, lung disease, brain disease, digestive cancer, infections, diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease, blood cancer, kidney disease, breast cancer, suicide, prostate cancer, and Parkinson's disease
- The same diet that can help prevent cancer is the same diet that can prevent diabetes
- The primary reason why diseases run in family is because of diets
- Queen bees and worker bees are identical but it's their diet that allows a Queen bee to live up to 3 years meanwhile worker bees live only 3 weeks
- The best kept secret in medicine is given the right condition the body can heal itself.
- Plant based diets are the nutritional equivalent to quitting smoking
- Supplements don't appear to work
- 87% of Americans eat fiber-deficient diets
- Fiber is only concentrated in one place, whole plant foods
- Plants get their energy from the sun; photosynthesis harnesses the suns energy and converts it to electrons, in that way plants store the suns energy. When you then eat the plant (or the animal that ate the plant), the energy is passed on to your cells as oxygen.
- Aging is oxidation in the cells which is a disease. In other word we are basically rusting
- Mango doesn't get brown because it has a lot of antioxidants
- Plant meals contains 64x more antioxidants than animal meals
- Diet can trump genetics
- Who's gonna pay for a study for something that can't be patented?
- Measure your digestive system by eating beets and noting how long it'll take for your poop to turn pink
- Tuberculosis is thought to have originated from the domestication of goats which affect 1/3 of humanity
- We evolved over millions of years mainly eating weeds. Our bodies equate eating vegetables with meal time. Veggie in the gut works as a signal to upkeep our immune system
- Avoid chicken to avoid urinary tract infections
- The meat industry passes on diseases by reducing the amount of space of animal living conditions. Easy to transfer bacteria in small spaces.
- If insulin is the key to unlocking the door to to your cells saturated fat is what gums up the locks
- Children who eat veggie diets are leaner and taller
- Belly fat could be a predictor of premature death
- It's better to treat the cause than the symptoms
- Why didn't I learn this in medical school? There's little money to be made in prescribing plants over pills.
- “Waist to height ratio” is a way to measure your health instead of BMI
- The fundamental approach to medical profession has not changed since 1910
- Meat industry injects salt and other steroids to add weight which leads to more profit by producing less.