Welcome to Healthy Living,
I'm your host Margot Marshall.
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Today's guest is a
doctor from Melbourne, Australia
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who prescribes food as medicine,
and with her is one of her
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patients who had many health
problems which have been helped
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with a change of
lifestyle. Stay tuned.
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Thomas Edison has been described
as America's greatest inventor
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and is best known for
inventing the light bulb
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but he also penned this famous
quote "The doctor of the future
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will give no medication,
but will interest his patients
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in the care of the human
frame, diet and in the cause
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and prevention of disease."
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Well today, we have
such a doctor in our studio
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with living proof in the person
of one of her many patients
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who can testify about
the potency of what we call
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lifestyle medicine.
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Welcome to Dr. Jigau
and welcome to you Leila,
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it's wonderful to have you here
on this program and thank you
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for coming interstate out of
your busy practice to come and
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talk to us about this,
and thank you too Leila
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because you have a story
to tell. Perhaps you can talk
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about this together. So
what were some of your many
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health problems? I
have suffered into stage two
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liver cirrhosis and that has
taken a really severe beating
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on my body. I have suffered
over 30 times of coma...
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Coma, 30 times? Yes,
over. I stopped counting on 30
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and I also suffered over
10 times, severe hemorrhages
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which left my left
leg completely dead.
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I had to be in a nursing home
for 16 months, sorry 18 months
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where they had to lift
my leg down and lift it up,
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it was completely damaged and I
also suffered from fibromyalgia,
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sjogren's syndrome, diabetes...
That's quite a list of problems.
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Yes. And some blockages in
the arteries and I was a mess,
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complete mess. That must
have been a very very difficult
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and distressing time. Although
after 6 months of the operation,
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I left the nursing home,
but I was still so run down
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completely and I went and
I saw Coralia on the 6th of
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last November. Alright, so
when did these problems start?
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I think that was back about 09..
Yes, that's when I discovered
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the liver cirrhosis, and
by 2011 I had 9 viruses in the
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esophagus, where they burst and
I suffered severe hemorrhage.
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Wow. And you've only caught up
with this lovely doctor...Yes.
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I was so lucky. That's very
recent, how long ago was that,
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was that? A couple of
months and what a life change.
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She just looked at me and
the way I looked, I was gray,
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I couldn't...I was limping,
I had sever pains all over
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and she looked at me and said,
don't worry, you won't know
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yourself in 6 months. It's a
miracle really. She explained
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to me how changing your food
will help me and she checked my
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blood, and found how
many deficiencies I had and
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corrected them and with...
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I don't call this a
diet, now this is the way
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I live and it's surprisingly
to say, but in 6weeks,
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I've lost 10 kilos. Wow!
Wow, I'm sure there's a lot
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of viewers out there who
wish they could be saying that.
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I have been trying all my
life to lose weight, but I kept
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losing and gaining and
losing and gaining, but nothing
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like this. You want to
mention you have been on
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plant based diet. Oh yes. And
Leila have done this change so
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quick. When I explained to her
how it's working, she was really
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determined to go in every detail
and do everything what is right.
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It is hard, it is not
easy to do such a big change,
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but because of her health
situation and she was really
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desperate, she
was happy to do it.
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Yes, I started as
soon as I left her office.
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That's it, I had a freezer, it's
got meat and chicken and fish
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and I cleaned the lot. I said
no more, nothing refined in the
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cupboards...Being
diabetic, anything you find
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will lift my sugar, my
diabetes. I used to reach 25, 32
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and I was on insulin
twice a day. Just let's clear,
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that 25, 32, that was
your blood sugar reading and
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how bad is that doctor? It
is not bad, it is extremely bad.
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And it's wonderful because with
the lifestyle changes Leila has
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done, we've been able to
take her off her insulin.
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So now she's taking just
tablets. In just a couple of
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months? And her blood
through her liver it is really
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well controlled and we intend
to cut the medications slowly.
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Yes. As we progress.
Now my sugar level is 6.5,
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it might reach 7, but
usually on the lower part.
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It's amazing isn't it,
in just that time, it's...
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I've never had cravings to
eat what I used to eat at all.
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I don't use sugar completely,
I use fruits, I use even
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dry fruits and that doesn't
release my sugar because it's
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not refined. That is wonderful,
it's a wonderful story
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and that's wonderful that she
was able to catch up with you
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doctor, to support her through
these stages. She came with
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multiple problems and
she had multiple medications.
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She had so many tablets she
shouldn't be on, three types
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of anti-depressants, pain
killers, a handful, and we cut
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them down slowly
because when she came to me
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she couldn't walk.
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Yes. My leg it's all the
nerve damage in my left leg,
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I was mainly
dragging it and limping.
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But you walked in here
and came up the stairs. Right.
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Because my leg is 80% better.
In a couple of months. Yeah.
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Two and a half months exactly.
I explained to her how lack of
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nutrients...because the way she
was eating before and a lot of
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medication had an impact on
her body...What we put in our
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mouth, it's so important...we
cut her pain killers slowly
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and I asked her Leilata exercise
because she was not moving.
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I told her, it is not just
one fact, the lifestyle is not
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just food,
lifestyle is exercise,
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lifestyle is
dealing with the stress,
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lifestyle is staying in the
sun and I advise her stay in the
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sun at least 1/2 hour a day.
The second time when she was
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seeing me, she had a fall
in the garden and she stayed
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there for, how
long had you been there?
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Oh, over, about 40 minutes.
Because she was not able to
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lift herself up to walk. Yes.
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What an incredible turn around.
I mean...It's not that I just
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lost 10 kilos, now I have lost
13 kilos. I have stopped the
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medication I was taking for
the nerve pain. I stopped the
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pain killers and I was wasn't
doing Panadol, I was on OxyNorm
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and Endone and they are a
lot more freeing, you know.
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That's all gone...How's
your pain level now?
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I never knew what it was
like to wake up without pain.
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At the moment, I am
pain free. Oh my goodness.
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Completely pain free. Isn't
that an amazing thing, just
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beautiful. To me it's a miracle.
Well I'm glad you met a doctor
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of the future's promising,
it isn't a couple hundred years
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ago. Oh yes! I don't know what
I would have done without her.
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Really, she helped me so
much... Lifestyle is a very
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potent thing.
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Look it was back at about
2005 I think it was that the
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US Surgeon General said that
he attributed health status,
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10% to genetics, 10%
to environmental factors,
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10% to medical care and
70% to our lifestyle choices.
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Absolutely. Yeah, so it
is very, very, very powerful.
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I am glad that you understand
that, you are a doctor who
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understands that. It is
fascinating how it happened
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to me, so not only to Leila
but we let our health go until
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we are desperate. When we are
desperate you have no choice.
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You know, it is
supposed to start working
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a little bit early.
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But some people do not do
it until it's late, it is late
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but it is working. That is
fascinating and that is what
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I learned. You know the
mechanics of healing our body,
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it is inbuilt by God in our
body, it is there as long as we
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don't assault our body with
food, our body, it will repair,
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slowly and surely, we
don't have a quick effect.
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You know, these days
people want a tablet,
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they want a tablet, take
a tablet and I'm pain free.
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So what, in the next six hours
you have to take another tablet.
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So that's what it is, God's
way of healing, it is slow,
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it's taking time, it is taking
a long time to do the damage,
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it is taking a long
time to do the repair.
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But it is happening and as you
are committed to do what we know
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what you have to do. Yes!
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I actually read something
by Dr. Roger Greenlaw who
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was a gastroenterologist and
he worked a lot with lifestyle
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medicine with the Chip
program going back some years.
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He explained how this disease
reversal actually takes place.
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He said that he observed
as a gastroenterologist that
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in seven days you have a
completely new stomach lining.
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In a month you have a whole new
layer of skin, in four months
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all new red blood cells
and in one year 98% of our body
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cells have been replaced. So
we literally are what we eat.
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That was amazing. He said the
change of the cells takes place
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at about 11/2 million a
day. Now I got the calculator
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and did a bit of math on that
and by the time we've watched
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this program...Now
I've forgotten you see.
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It was several hundred...
I have explained to Leila
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what happened...I have explained
to him what the latest sciences
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confirming...what you put
in your mouth, it's the most
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environmental change and gene
change. Until now, we realize
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food is just micronutrients...
we have proteins, we have
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vitamins, we have
minerals... which we need them.
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We now know our body does not
work like that, our body food
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is information for our genome.
Food talks to your genes,
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you eat the wrong food,
your body will produce genes
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which will implement
inflammation in your body.
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You have proper food, your body
is repairing, so it is much more
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deeper than the science of today
and the science of microbiome
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and microbiota...The bacteria
in which we have in our gut,
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and 20 years ago we did not
know, that's where your health
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is happening, in your gut.
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That's where your second
immune system, that's where your
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second liver, that's
where the toxification happens
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and that's your second brain.
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It's fascination what happens
in the gut and what is more
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fascinating is we are able to
manipulate what happens there.
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What you put in your
mouth, it will feed the bacteria
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which you have there. You
have a bad bacteria or you have
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good bacteria, it depends on
what you eat and it can change
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and these bacteria as
I explained to Leila...
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you know you have bacteria
in your gut which is doing
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gamma-aminobutyric acid
which is similar to Valium,
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the tablet which will give
you to settle you and not to be
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anxious anymore and
instead of taking your tablets
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eat proper food and your body
will manufacture this by itself
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as it was designed.
When we eat the way we eat,
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we make such a big destruction
in our body. We have no idea,
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I did not know. We have to go
on God's formula because we've
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been designed to eat as
God had planned and the science
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today is taking years over
years to discover what God said.
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Forty years a scientist...I
read a book now written by
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Professor Ameron Meyer at
the University of California,
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Los Angeles. Forty years
he discovered the God brain
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connection. Forty years,
it is fascinating you know.
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He's talking about God's
design and the foods...I mean,
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the foods that
you are recommending,
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the plant based foods...
It's interesting that the
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World Health Organization
now recognizes those foods
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as healthy foods. I came across,
I didn't actually intend to
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but I stumbled on their web-
site across this healthy diet
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fact sheet and it lists five
foods as healthy and they are
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up on the
screen. There they are:
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Right back at the beginning
of time, that's what God
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recommended to our
first parents and finally,
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finally at least
one organization,
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The World Health Organization
is recognizing that as the case.
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I hope the rest of the
world catches up and I hope
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it's really understood
because we want to hear stories
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like your' s Leila. I mean the
pain that you had been through
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and the trauma...Years...
More than 30 times you've been
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in a coma. Yes...That's a
frightening thing and you were
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so unwell. Look at you now.
I mean you are just absolutely
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glowing and you are walking
and you don't have pain. NO...
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completely, I'm pain free.
You have to mention you've had
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your liver transplant.
Yes, and I also had...
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That happened before
her liver transplant.
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Yes. Eventually
they found a match donor.
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Maybe if I would have met
Coralie when I found that I had
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liver cirrhosis, maybe we would
have reversed that instead of
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ending up... having to go
through all that because that
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was a long time wasn't it?
It was a 131/2 hour operation.
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Oh dear. And a long time to
recover the body from such a
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beating...Yes...Over
five years of side effects.
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Well I'm glad that you
have found...been in touch with
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Dr. Karelia and so many
others. I'm interested that you
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said Leila was very keen
to get started right away.
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As soon as she walked out
the door, she was ready to go.
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Do you find that that's
the case with other patients?
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All of your patients? It's not
the case with a lot of patients
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lack the motivation
because it is a very big change.
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So I learned to help them
to help them to motivate them
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but the best motivation is
when you start feeling good,
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you'll see, I feel much better
and it was not like that before.
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You say, oh yeah, it is
working and it's gradual work.
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In a way it's hard to change
and I advise my patients to
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do gradual change. It's
not easy when you eat a heavy
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animal based diet to
change on a plant based diet and
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you have to do it gradually...
your body to adjust with the
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changes. And it depends
how sick they are and I realize
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that most of my clever
patients, they are able to do it
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straight away you know. A
lot of patients find it hard to
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change. It's hard to change but
you have to reason, you know.
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Sometimes it takes...
Why you do this, it's really
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it's really...Once in a
while to do this or not so sure
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if I have to do it
or not. I couldn't wait.
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Now, we start this evening.
No way I'm even going to cook
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that, I cleaned it out. I cannot
wait to see how Leila will be
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in a year from now. Yes
because 98% of your body cells
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will have been replaced.
You will have almost a new body.
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I haven't felt this way
even when I was in my 30's.
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Wow! I was aching constantly
and my energy was always low.
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I discovered by accident that
I was diabetic and I also have
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my brother has suffered with
liver cirrhosis, he's stage A.
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I took him to my specialist
that was looking after me.
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His name is Steve Lontos
and he found he had two viruses
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that if he would have left
them, they would have burst
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and caused him internal hemorr-
hage similar to what I suffered.
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I think you said that when
that happened and they burst
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and you were taken to the
hospital and they didn't expect
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you to live through the night.
Oh no, no, no, they didn't.
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They told my son that she's
not going to make it through
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the night, you better call the
family. He did and my other son
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and my daughter came. My
daughter was very much informed
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of my situation and she
told him, she doesn't have
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a tear in the stomach,
she has viruses and you better
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check it. She really told him.
Yes. If she don't and she dies,
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I'm going to sue the hospital.
But when Caleb changed his
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diet, after three weeks he had
seen his liver specialist again.
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Just going back to him. Your
brother? Yes. And his speicalist
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looked at his blood test
and said, what have you done?
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He told him, I changed
completely on a plant based
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diet, I lost weight and I'm
exercising, I'm staying in the
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sun and he said, that's great.
Your liver has already improved.
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In three weeks. Yeah, in
three weeks. He said keep going
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what you are doing...- Whatever
you are just keep going.
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So might it be the case if
Leila hadn't known this in the
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early stages, she might
not have had to go through
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all of that. We don't
know, we have different causes
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for the liver but you
know we can control it. Yes.
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It was not due to alcohol,
never anything like that.
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Now normally you would associate
alcohol with liver problems
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but you never...No, never,
I don't drink so I couldn't...
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I didn't define why.
They said oh, I don't know,
00:21:33.82\00:21:37.79
maybe your diabetes
affect it, maybe this.
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But they were not sure
why and they wouldn't really
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put me on the list for liver
transplant, only when I started
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to get worse. Because they
said they won't do it unless
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it's the end. And I was
lucky, not really lucky but I do
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believe that it was a blessing
from God. Yeah. He saved my
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life. The first hemorrhage,
all through my comas,
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my liver came just in time... It
was God. Glory to Him! Really.
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So would you have a lot of
patients who've had their health
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turned around in one way or
another because of this same
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sort of recommendations that
you have. I did have a lot of
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patients and some of them will
give their testimony here today.
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Yes. It is reversing, it
is working and I have some
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extraordinary stories
which one were mentioned to you.
00:22:40.79\00:22:44.66
Her father which was 89...
Oh yeah, we talked about that
00:22:44.69\00:22:47.73
in the whole program.
Yeah. Recover from...correct his
00:22:47.76\00:22:54.64
kidney failure because he was
end stage with kidney failure
00:22:54.67\00:22:57.91
and he was supposed to
start dialysis and he's still
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two years after and his
kidney function is much better.
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So roughly, if you had to stop
and think of a rough figure,
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how many patients have you
had who have actually embraced
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the lifestyle change
and seen some good results?
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I have a big clinic and a lot
of patients, about 30% of the
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patients, they start listening
and they improve their health.
00:23:17.73\00:23:24.57
Another one, they go
like they went before,
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they take their tablets
and they don't do any change.
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Some people are doing the
change for a while and they
00:23:28.87\00:23:33.31
get much better... I
have a lady which has
00:23:33.34\00:23:35.78
ulcerative colitis,
which is really bad.
00:23:35.81\00:23:38.01
We have proven by
the...some tests how bad it was
00:23:38.05\00:23:43.12
and I told her what to do,
she change everything and she
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become better, after a while
she went back to her previous
00:23:47.89\00:23:52.39
lifestyle...I said
Sorry! I said you start again,
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there's nothing else that
you can do so you have to do it
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by yourself. That is the problem
with the lifestyle medicine,
00:23:59.03\00:24:01.74
it's involving the patient.
The patient has to do the
00:24:01.77\00:24:06.21
change, not the...I cannot do
it for you. I can recommend it,
00:24:06.24\00:24:12.11
to you. But you have to do,
so you have to do a hard work.
00:24:12.15\00:24:15.42
You know most of the
patients say my cardiologist,
00:24:15.45\00:24:19.02
my gastroenterologist,
what about you?
00:24:19.05\00:24:21.69
Where's your responsibility?
So that's where the problem...
00:24:21.72\00:24:24.89
comes back to the patient.
If you want to do the change,
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you'll have the benefits.
00:24:30.40\00:24:33.03
But your support has played a
big role, I do know that because
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I was just speaking to one of
the other patients just before
00:24:36.64\00:24:39.31
we started filming and they
said look, your support played
00:24:39.34\00:24:43.85
a huge role because
they had already understood
00:24:43.88\00:24:46.65
the kinds of things that you're
recommending, but really didn't
00:24:46.68\00:24:50.42
feel well enough to just,
you know, to embrace it to get
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hold of it and it was because
of you and your ongoing support
00:24:54.96\00:24:58.36
and your kindness, your
under standing, your empathy,
00:24:58.39\00:25:01.20
all those beautiful attributes
that you have, you don't just
00:25:01.23\00:25:04.40
have the good advice. But as
a beautiful doctor and a lovely
00:25:04.43\00:25:08.14
bedside manner as we call
it, has played a really big role
00:25:08.17\00:25:12.11
and I think that needs to
be acknowledged. Absolutely.
00:25:12.14\00:25:15.08
Thank you, but what I tried
to do, I tried to explain a
00:25:15.11\00:25:20.58
bit of physiology which is
going behind because you have to
00:25:20.62\00:25:24.55
make the people understand
what's going on, why I have to
00:25:24.59\00:25:28.69
do this. And you explain, if
you do this, you will have this
00:25:28.72\00:25:31.99
outcome. If you don't do this,
you'll go...That's what Thomas
00:25:32.03\00:25:36.90
Edison said, you explain about
the cause and prevention of
00:25:36.93\00:25:39.87
disease and treatment. So you
are doing all of that, that's
00:25:39.90\00:25:43.17
wonderful. Most of the time I
was just given the pain killer
00:25:43.20\00:25:47.08
to stop the pain. No one really
bothered to know the cause of
00:25:47.11\00:25:52.11
the pain, to get rid of the
cause and there would be no more
00:25:52.15\00:25:56.12
pain. That is what is lifestyle
medicine. Lifestyle medicine
00:25:56.15\00:25:59.45
treats the cause of the problem.
00:25:59.49\00:26:01.82
We try to
address the cause because
00:26:01.86\00:26:04.19
as you address the cause
all that won't come back.
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Absolutely, it's amazing. I
encourage anyone who has any
00:26:07.50\00:26:13.97
kind of problem, to try it and
they will see a lot of benefits
00:26:14.00\00:26:20.48
out of that. I've been there,
I have taken such a beating
00:26:20.51\00:26:25.71
but the body does recover
if you feed it the right diet.
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And it's not a diet, it's a
change of life. That's right.
00:26:32.09\00:26:36.99
You know, I've come across
something, so there are other
00:26:37.03\00:26:39.79
places out there practicing
lifestyle medicine and I
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.90
noticed this recently. There
was a study in San Francisco
00:26:42.93\00:26:46.43
and they provided people
who had either diabetes or HIV
00:26:46.47\00:26:50.51
in that particular case, those
two, diabetes, HIV, 100% of
00:26:50.54\00:26:54.54
their dietary requirements
for six months along with
00:26:54.58\00:26:58.55
nutritional counseling,
a lot like you're doing...
00:26:58.58\00:27:00.72
and in that study it was
estimated that it costs about
00:27:00.75\00:27:04.55
half as much to feed people
for six months as to spend
00:27:04.59\00:27:09.26
half a day in the hospital.
Amazing, and that's why they are
00:27:09.29\00:27:12.83
doing it, that's why they are
doing it. Because it's working
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.63
and six months free food
and nutritional counseling
00:27:15.66\00:27:20.17
and it costs them half as much.
Yeah, it costs half as much
00:27:20.20\00:27:26.94
as one day in the
hospital. Incredible.
00:27:26.98\00:27:29.58
So it's good for the health
care system and it's definitely
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good for the patient. -Yes,
for the patient, very much.
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What would you...Just in closing
Dr. Coralia, what would you say
00:27:37.09\00:27:40.89
to people that they who maybe
one of the 30% who like Leila
00:27:40.92\00:27:45.79
and the 60% that say ah,
no. What would you say? -Try.
00:27:45.83\00:27:49.06
to them? Try to see
the goodness of God.
00:27:49.10\00:27:52.03
You have to try, it is
there for you. Do your best.
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Do not reject what God
gave us as a gift. Yeah.
00:27:56.64\00:28:00.51
We've been designed to
eat plant based diet and we
00:28:00.54\00:28:04.75
have to keep going
on plant based diet.
00:28:04.78\00:28:07.42
I think God is very full of
surprises too with some of the
00:28:07.45\00:28:12.52
good things that
He's put in the food.
00:28:12.55\00:28:14.16
So the take home message
is that lifestyle choices have
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by far the greatest impact
on our health status, so be sure
00:28:17.69\00:28:22.26
to tune in to future programs
to discover how to prevent
00:28:22.30\00:28:25.70
and reverse other diseases.
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