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Your Food Is Medicine

1 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by AI Mark arguing that diet functions like a powerful medicine. The speaker claims dietary changes can rapidly influence gene expression, protein networks, hormones, immunity, brain chemistry, and the microbiome, and recounts an anecdote of a 66-year-old patient whose multiple chronic conditions (heart failure, angina, type 2 diabetes on insulin, hypertension) improved after changing her diet: off insulin in three days, major clinical improvements and organ normalization within three months, and reduced medication costs ("$20,000 a year" for copays).

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What you put at the end of your fork is more powerful than anything you'll ever find in a prescription bottle. It works faster, better and cheaper. It has the power to influence and improve the expression of tens of thousands of genes, to optimize tens of thousands of protein networks, to balance your hormones, improve your brain chemistry, upregulate your immune system, and even to enhance your microbiome. And it works without any side effects except good ones. So this is really a drug. I just giving a quick story. I've told this story before, but it's so important to understand how quick and fast this is. I had a patient, this patient illustrates this more than anything. She was 66, she had heart failure, angina, had multiple stents, she had type 2 diabetes on insulin for years, hypertension, I mean, you name it, she had it. She came to see us and she changed her diet. And within three days of changing her diet, she was off insulin. And by the way, she was on a pile of pills that cost $20,000 a year for her co pay. In three months she was offered medications, her heart failure reversed, her kidneys normalized, her liver normalized, and she lost a bunch of weight.