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I wish I could hug you!! This is all new to me...I’m 56 and just had a heart attack with a stent put in! I’m not obese, thought I ate pretty well! I’m now learning that my diet is horrible, even though everyone around me thinks I’m rather a health nut! Praise the Lord I’m alive and now I want to educate people! Bless you and thank you!

I had end-stage heart disease 16 months ago requiring 6 different medications and a stent. 17 months later I have no angina and have my life back. It took me a lot of effort to go whole plant-based as I hunt and fish. I have been solid on this new diet with the only exception of 3 times eating fish in a survival situation on an island. I now grow all my own vegetables and I can run up to 12 km with no chest pain. I have had no stent and I am not taking any medication. My LDL was 5.8. It is now 1.7 I feel good.

Well educated, soft spoken, mannered, class act of a man...!

The word is out. I suffered from metabolic syndrome (obesity, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and high blood sugar). I went whole food plant based no sugar oil or salt and I lost 65 pounds, all my conditions greatly improved, my gums stopped bleeding, and erections and energy returned. I used to have an appetite that was never satisfied; whole foods cured it. I no longer use a sleep apnea machine. Finally, the food is cheap-Beans, lentils, rice, potatoes and seasonal apples. Also, I save money by not having to buy pills or visit the Doctor. I am thankful to all the vegans who suffered attacks to reveal the truth to me.

dr.Esselstyn deserves the nobel price he saved my life -thank you - thank you -

He looks great and sounds great to be 84 years old.

62 vegan two years. Lost 48 lbs, no more asthma, gout, sleep apnea, migraines, and very happy. Thank you 😊 so much.

I lost 97 pounds and reversed diabetes 2 since I started eating the McDougall starch based vegan and oilfree diet on June 26, 2017. Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Campbell and Dr. McDougall saved my life! Thank you!

One of THE smartest men on earth! Such a simple way to be healthy.

Put Type 2 Diabetes in remission over 6 years ago. Taking zero meds. Lost and kept off weight. It works! #plants 🌱

A great soul. Love him. My Dad passed away at the age of 52 years 36 years ago. If I had known this at that time, would have saved him from early death

'People love to hear good things about their bad habits.' That hit me - how true it is.

I just can't understand why this message isn't being taught to children and being practiced in school food kitchens. Dr Esselstyn is such an incredible man and a an honourable Doctor.

Dr. Esselstyn is a real gem. May he live a long healthy life so he can keep helping as many ppl as possible regain their health.

My total cholesterol and LDL are always elevated for the past 5 years. This mid January, it gotten worse 274/188 respectively. I ran into Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's video and also read his book Prevent and Reverse Heart disease. Followed his diet protocol(which is recommended for individuals w/ heart disease) even though I don't have a heart disease. I thought I'd give it a try and went on a WFPB diet. Also, my daily breakfast is cooked old-fashioned oatmeal w/ frozen blueberries and flaxseed powder. 3 - 4x a week on an elliptical machine for 15 - 20 mins. My lab results was mind blowing after 2 months on a plant based diet and some cardio exercise. Total cholesterol 189 and LDL 113. I responded well with the diet. I don't need statin drug as initially was recommended by my primary doctor. Still to this day, 90% of a time I consume plant based food and 10% I cheat(when I eat out)😀😀 I take daily Vit B12, Vit D3, calcium along w/ my Vit C.

Daughter, Jane Esselstyn and the doctor's wife, Anne, have a joyous KZfaq cooking channel. Love the whole family and how they try to get us healthy and living joyously longer!

Esselstyn deserves the Nobel Prize for Medicine!

Just recently tried vegan and did it for one month...lost 15 pounds, chronic hemerhoids and fecal leakage completely gone, no more chronic pain, more mental clarity, and on and on. Now on month 2 and going strong

I have never seen American Doctors who are more honest than plant based Doctors, because they are a real human beings.

I'm worried that you Vegans are starting to convert me. Your logic seems quite refreshingly sound .

I can attest to the truth in this. My Mums GP screamed at her visit today, asking what we’ve been doing as her blood work is the best it’s ever! been in all the years she’s been seeing her! (She’s been plant based for just 6 weeks! So far! 😳😭) It’s all so emotional. I’m so blessed and deeply grateful to have discovered (stumbled across!) this truth about nutrition. I pray others do as well. To discover that you can! reverse the illnesses most Drs say you will be stuck with forever?! It’s life changing. Thank you for wisdom God. #Believe 🙏🏾❤️

Dr Esselstyn is a national hero he helped a lot of people over the years !

Dr Esselstyn is an amazing man! He and his entire family are dedicated to educating us about the benefits of the Vegan diet. As a Clevelander we are SO proud of him and his wife Ann (who’s Father was one of the founders of the Cleveland Clinic) and his daughter Jane Esselstyn who has a utube vegan cooking channel (a must watch). Also sons Rip, Ted & Zeb. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

This guy is one of the reasons I eat fruits and veggies 5 to 6 days a week. A true hero.

I love this so much 🌱💜 If only more people would actually wake up and listen instead of trying to make excuses against it...

I adore this knowledgeable, peaceful man. Was a "vegan" all of 2020 But getting nowhere other than feeling good about saving animals and the planet. Went WFPB in December of 2020 on my 68th BD. Eating like a beast, lost 35 lbs (so far), dropped total cholesterol 30 points (without going to the gym). I'm so energetic, and "fluid". My joints move painfree and freely. I'm more physically active than I've been in 8 years. My physician is WFPB✌️😁. What are you waiting for people?! #Plantspiration #eatingmyplantsoff

People like to hear good things about their BAD habits!! Great quote!!

i met him at a conference 2 weeks ago and i died of happiness hes a hero

He's right about your tastes changing. At this point I'd prefer the taste of red cabbage over a cookie any day of the week.

I have been on the diet described by Dr. Esselstyn for years. I have a history of CVD with stents but now I'm 77 and feel very good. My HDL is higher than my LDL. I am very active. Yes, I know I'm lucky and I can't help feeling the diet is a big part of it. I don't feel restricted in what I eat; there are just things that I ate in the past and enjoyed and I don't eat now.

Dr Esselstyn, what a legend, I could listen to him for hours.

Esselstyn's book "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" changed my life. I wouldn't be on the journey I'm on now to spread the word if it weren't for him. The guy is a true pioneer and legend in the plant-based movement.

Most people need a big reason to learn these kinds of fundamental truths about health and nutrition. The prevalence of misinformation, self-serving industry advertising, lack of government support, and widespread nutritional ignorance often seems overwhelming. I truly appreciate Dr. Esselstyn and the other health warriors who steadily deliver this type of accurate health information. I only wish the pace of change was not so excruciatingly slow.

So happy you are still strong and healthy and young at heart to see that people are finally listening and doing your life work. Thank you for everything. I hope one day I can meet you in person and shake your hand....no give you a big hug for helping us see your way...the right way of eating and becoming healthier. Your d best!!!!!

This man is awesome. Love seeing interviews with him. Really inspirational.

You are making progress Dr. Esselstyn. I was listening and I am glad I did some 3 years ago. Best thing I did for myself. Being a whole plant base consumer. And exercise of course.

Great interview guys! Very interesting (and scary) points about all of the vested interests! 🙏👍

You know, I’m listening to this and crying. Very emotional. I wish I had known this years ago. I work with sick people. I want to yell it from the rooftops. I’ve been vegetarian for only 3 months and just dropped dairy so I’m keen to see the health improvement. Thank you.

I'm on my 3rd week of plant based I love it! I'm 34 and noticed I have more energy I go on power walks and my shins do not hurt any more. And this is just my 3rd week I just started! My plan was to do it for 2 weeks but I love it I don't even crave meat. Will I go strictly meat less from now on who knows but as of now I'm loving this nourishment I'm feeling through out my body. I haven't lost weight but I lost 2 inches of my waist!! And I have 3 bowel movements a day!! I'm like a baby 👶 lol

Love and respect to Dr E as always 🌱✌️👍

Happy 90th birthday Dr Esselstyn!

This man is definitely dangerous to a lot of industries

Hats off to one of the hero kingpins of the whole food plant based healing movement! Such true words of HOPE!!!

My life has changed since I have become WFPB (July '2017). I would like to thank you all for all the informative information you send out to everyone. I share everything I can to help get the word out.

Cruelty free foods are the future. Much love to all of my fellow vegan youtubers.

Thank you for this great video. I am currently 100 percent plant based and feeling so good and the weight is coming off. God Bless you for getting this message out to the world.

He is a good man, most importantly. Clearly wants people to be healthy and become “heart attack proof”.

Wow, in this 12 1/2 min video, Dr Esselstyn explains succinctly the power and benefits to humans, animal welfare, and environment by changing the way we eat. Brilliantly articulated!

Thank you Dr. Esselstyn! Your book has saved my life. My best hope is that my loved ones will see my great success and do it too. You are a savior in the purest sense of the word.

What a wonderful, brilliant man. He changed my life and my husband’s. Thank you so very much

I'm alive because of the good doctor, 12 plus years living a plant based lifestyle. Cheers good doctor.

Did this way of eating and had my cholesterol done at physical. I am on a statin but! my cholesterol dropped to 113 and my LDL to 51! Thank you Dr. Esselstyn!

My mom had a minor stroke when I was a child, has suffered from colitis and hypothyroidism for many years, is overweight, and yet she has INCREASED her intake of animal products and minimized the veggies she eats, thanks to the keto diet. :-( I hate watching family members suffer needlessly. They are entirely unconvinced that a WFPB diet would reverse their ailments and won't even give it a try or a closer look. My husband turns to fast food and junk food to relieve stress, and I worry about his future, too. It's such a revolutionary thing to discover and embrace a vegan lifestyle, and I sincerely hope he comes around to it before very long.

Love that guy.....and his son by the way. Just met Rip (the son) at a Whole Foods store doing a seminar.

This is a wonderful video - thank you Dr. Esselstyn for this and all you have done to bring this revolution forward! Thank you from Canada.

I think most people know that plant based diet is best for health but the number 1 problem is that most people are so addicted to their animal and processed food …. so its very hard to make the change .

Thanks for sharing!

I truly wish I had known this 20 years ago when I had a two vessel bypass. Now 20 years later I have 6 blockages which have been opened with a stent. I have very small little girl arteries and they are treacherous so unable to do all the stents. Several tries with different cardiologist in the right femoral artery has caused major damage without artery causing a stent needing to be placed. Needed a specialist to try and navigate the treacherous arteries to unblock the other blockages and damaged the left femoral artery and now I have a stent and that artery. I can see and understand the health diet and message that is being given here. Like I said I wished I had known this 20 years ago. I have been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease

I personally follow the okinawan diet..no processed foods, no sugar, limit salt, Eat more green vegetables, fruits, seafoods, fish that high omega 3's, exercise daily and live happy..

Love you Dr. Esselstyn and Thank You for all you do, all the lives you have saved.

Am looking to start this Diet. will keep you updated. on my journey

fantastic. Dr. Esselstyn saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My life has changed drastically for the better. Thanks Dr Esselstyn !

Thank you Dr. Esselstyn for informing us!

Greetings from Croatia! ❤

Smart Man!! 💗 eating plant based is awesome

Whole-food plant-based food tastes good and it is really easy to transition, especially if you already have a friend who eats plant-based. Ask if you can come over and help her cook dinner and see what you do differently and why. And enjoy the taste. My husband never thought he could eat this way but he now even tells our children how good it tastes and he is post prostate cancer surgery. I cook in batches and swap foods around so the cooking time per day is really no headache. One thing I did not think would happen is that you become happy, I feel joy. Who would have thought, but my gut now can produce its own serotonin and the extra gets shared with my brain and I am suddenly sleeping better.

This not only makes good sense and is empirically verifiable, as a Christian I look to my Bible and find corroboration right at the start in Genesis 1: "Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.' " It's surely saying that this He is how He always intended us to live.

I owe my life to this man and his colleagues.

BE WELL, LIVE LONG!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS TRUTH.💕

Amazing. One of the cornerstone's of this movement!!

Dr. E. is dedicated and has responded each time I've gotten in touch.

God Bless you for telling the truth.

Wow! I just started the Starch Solution diet this week and I feel great so far. I wish I had learned about this many years ago. I had been on keto previously and it was not sustainable. I gained back even more than I lost. I feel like I can do this for the long haul. I’ve got about 35ish lbs to lose.

I haven't lost weight because I am already on the low side weight wise at 71 but I am feeling so well on the plant based way of eating. I feel so much more satisfied after each meal.

Love you and your family! Thank you!! For you comment over the yrs.

If Dr. Esselstyn started lecturing at every Medical University in this country, they would start a war against him to discredit his name in every way possible. I had a mastectomy two years ago at a teaching "University Hospital." I did tons of research about Cancer and nutrition before and after my surgery. I was horrified by the menu they gave to the patients. Nothing but unhealthy foods, everything that I - as a recovering Cancer patient - wasn't supposed to eat. Healing starts in your gut. Thank you for this great video.

I am 65. My age spots are lighter, and 1/2 have disappeared. My skin is less ruddy, my ankles are no longer swollen. I've been vegetarian for years, but have gone complete Vegan for the last 2 months. I had lost some weight going vegetarian and stopped drinking milk at the same time and my arthritis was cured. But an occasional dinner of meat, and soon I was hooked again. Which lead to my gallbladder surgery. Since then I've done better but was not losing weight, which I needed to lose. Since getting serious about being Vegan, now I have upped the anti and eat mostly raw and feel so good. It took me a while to be able to do this as at first, I was either not chewing long enough or lacked the enzymes at first as my bowels went so much I was sore. So I backed off and then was better and creeped into raw more slowly and am just fine. Feeling the best since being a teenager. Lots of energy. Have to get off coffee, it is the hardest to give up. I drink it about half the time though and usually don't finish it, so I am working on it. Quit beer and wine without an effort. I still have a problem getting a good night sleep except for sometimes. When I lose enough I think I'll take up running again as when I was younger, it made me sleep like a baby. That is how good I feel.

Tysm for spreading this out there, we really appreciate it! 🌸🦄😊🙏🏽🙏🏽

37 year old Male. Doesnt exercise. Eats like crap. Stomach issues for 12 years now. Waiting on blood test results now. Just recently started to take my health serious. And really wanting to switch up my diet. Bad heart on my dads side. Died of from heart attack few years ago. Mik has serious health issues. I dont want to end up like her. Been watching Dr Mcdougall videos. And wanting help to switch my life around for the better. Got 4 kids that need me. Thanks for the info. I have a organic place 2 blocks away luckily. So that will help me out some.

im 30 and taking 4 pills because im suffering from hypertension, cholesterol and suffered chest pains already. i started the diet 2 days ago :) cant wait for the rest of my life !!!!! thank you for FORKS OVER KNIFE documentary

We need more medical people like him

If you just stick with the wfpb vegan diet you really start adapting to your diet. I used to love eating cheeses and crackers etc. Within one month of sticking to my diet I began to not crave those foods. I started swapping out my snacks. If I want something sweet I'll have some frozen cherries or blueberries. If I want something that I feel is "guilty pleasure" I will find a way to have a healthy, but satisfying vegan version. I'm never going back! #PoweredByPlants 💚💚💚💚💚💚

DR Esselstyn, you are so right. Well done sir.

esselstyn is a true og

Nixon’s war on cancer, 1971... that’s all I’m saying. Treating an unhealthy diet with prescription drugs with all the side effects is a tired approach. There should be a prescription of a whole food plant based diet.

Thak you from the bottom of my heart for this lifesaving information.

Thanks Doc, For all you've done and Still do to save Our Lives!

Right on!!

7000 articles submitted before the Surgeon General would put out a warning against smoking

I was listening to this while I was eating salad for lunch. I’m not a vegan, but this really motivated me to want to go much more plant based.

Much Respect! Thanks so much for your research and work!

this man is my number 1 idol

Stay Blessed Live Longer

I love this Doctor's speech

I wish that all doctors were this good.

Great video and very informative and so true thanks for sharing.

Wish there were plant base for the Internet on private policy. Nonetheless, thank you Dr. Esselstyn and PBN.

The world owes a profound debt of gratitude to this giant.