What advantages does a whole food plant-based diet offer?

Question

The whole food plant-based diet is all the rage now. What are the benefits of this diet, if any?

Answer 1

I eat a 100% plant based diet, cows turn my salad into beef!

Answer 2

Such an important conversation! Especially Dr. Gardner highlighting that most scientists actually agree - fermented foods, high plant diversity plus minus small amount of animal products. Vegetarian, pescetarian or low meat is pretty easy to do.

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Thank you Dr. Huberman, team, sponsors and supporters. THANK YOU DR. CHRISTOPHER GARDNER.

Answer 4

Guest Recommendation: Joel Salatin to talk the generative farming stuff. He has some interesting ideas on making it more ubiquitous. I heard Chris say farming isn’t his area.

Joel Salatin made an interesting point about how pre-colonial North America had way more biomass and supported more animals (e.g. millions of bison) than exists in current day. I think the point being that the land can naturally provide much more if treated well than it currently does today.

I bet it would be an interesting discussion. Just throwing it out there as an idea.

Love the podcast!

Comments

His model only works more locally, not universally due to different climates. It’s impossible to produce the same quantity of animal products (meat, eggs and milk) for 8 billion people (and growing), consuming animal products all day long, using regenerative farming. Besides, it doesn’t eliminate animal suffering. Animal agriculture, no matter if it’s regenerative or not, has some awful practices that cause a lot of animal suffering - for instance - dairy cows and male chicks in egg factories. There’s no ethical way to exploit animals. Full stop!! Let’s embrace lab grown meat and stop exploiting animals

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Ask gpt what are the flows of Joel Salatin's regenerative model in global scalability without reducing animal products consumption worldwide

Answer 5

Love the podcast, Andrew! Could you please consider an episode dedicated solely to Crohn's disease? Its unique challenges, like non-overlapping symptoms with IBS, deserve a focused discussion. I know an elderly person struggling with nutrition and muscle mass loss due to Crohn's restricted diet, and expert insights would be invaluable. Thanks!

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My best friend reversed his Crohn's purely through diet, despite being told by doctors he'll have to be on expensive meds for the rest of his life. I think it was a slightly modified carnivore diet but I don't know all the details. Stayed away completely from gluten, grains, sugar, alcohol and more. He's completely clean now and can eat whatever he wants without any discomfort.

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Such a good reminder that even the best supplements or routines won’t work if we’re not managing stress and overthinking. Addressing those inner factors has helped me sleep deeper than ever.

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After reading this content, I think you should have Joel Salatin on to talk about regenerative farming!!!! People actually don’t need as much land as you’d think to raise meat. PS I read nearly every post, big fan!

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His model only works more locally, not universally due to different climates. It’s impossible to produce the same quantity of animal products (meat, eggs and milk) for 8 billion people (and growing), consuming animal products all day long, using regenerative farming. Besides, it doesn’t eliminate animal suffering. Animal agriculture, no matter if it’s regenerative or not, has some awful practices that cause a lot of animal suffering - for instance - dairy cows and male chicks in egg factories. There’s no ethical way to exploit animals. Full stop!! Let’s embrace lab grown meat and stop exploiting animals

Answer 8

The fact that nobody talks about the book Secret Testosterone Nexus of Evolution, speaks volumes about how people are stuck in life.

Answer 9

adult vegan males tend to look like an old smiley aunt

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They do look better than nom vegans the same age though, not gonna lie especially when they do not drink alcohol

Answer 10

Finally someone legit in nutrition is on this show, about time!

Answer 11

Christopher looks happy and healthy.

Answer 12

Long time listener first time commenter. Haha. I really had to take an issue with you talking about fermented foods being expensive. Kombucha is something you could do at home and so are sauerkraut and there’s nothing much to them. Part of the problem with modern society is people are too busy and out of the home to be able to cook nutritious foods for themselves.

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My brother makes both, and I just steal his. It's a great system!

Answer 13

Huberman: “Do you take funding from companies in the food industry?” Gardner: “Yes. Avocado money, soy money, and Beyond Meat money”. Thank you for asking the pivotal question!

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I mean Dr. Huberman also takes meat industry money for his podcasts. It is good to be open about this and that specific segment with Dr. Gardner explaining how the processes work depending on the funding and what different situations and nuances exist was imo really valuable.

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you realise this was irony from Gardner?

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There is no avocado and soy money. He was joking about all three.

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Weird place and moment to joke about it. Doesn’t looked like irony form here …

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get your head checked

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He needs to be taking that AG1 money like a real podcaster

Answer 14

This content starkly illustrates how removing conflicts of interest from research funding/design is just as important as designing variables/methodology to avoid bias and confounding. It seems this is being discussed but not yet fully recognized as the monumental issue that it is.

Answer 15

The only thing that healed my relationship with food and got me cooking every one of my meals at home was a carnivore diet. I tried all sorts of diets and nothing got me permanently away from fast food and UPF like it did. People need simplicity and to feel satiated for hours after they eat when getting into a new habit with their nutrition.

Comments

Same here!

Answer 16

I am from India and I love health related Podcasts....
Thank you for your efforts in bringing such high value information to us....
Lots of love.... :)

Answer 17

Mr Huberman you're the GOAT. Best podcast out there

Answer 18

So, I studied journalism in college and one of my classes was 'Ethics in Journalism and Reporting'. One of the key takeaways from the class was: Since your objectivity is your value, you shouldn't EVER do anything to put it in question. This specifically extends to accepting gifts from story subjects. The rationale being, accepting a gift from the subject of a story, immediately damages your credibility, by having your motivations called into question.

With all due respect to Dr. Gardner - if you accept gifts from an entity that could benefit from the results of your study - you absolutely deserve the scrutiny. If you want your work to be beyond reproach, don't invite it.

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yeah, but you can actually just read the methods of the study, and if they check out... it doesn't matter what gifts were given, objective facts and results don't care.

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Carnivores love to call him a propagandist but I've yet to read even one comment showing how the study itself was actually wrong.

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this is exactly the point I'm making - even when the work is impeccable, giving reason to question whether or not ulterior motives were at play can diminish the work. And the work is important enough, that if I were in his shoes I would do everything in my power to maintain the credibility of my objectivity. Everything else just muddies the water and that helps no one.

Answer 19

I really appreciated listening to Dr. Gardner. I could care less about 'labeling' or policing terms. I appreciate learning how to eat for a healthier body and a healthier planet because (duh!) we live here!!

Answer 20

Dr. Gardner is adorable!! I love that he just glows and has a jolly way of explaining facts. It was unfortunately in stark contrast to many meat proponents who carry an underlying aggressiveness about loving their steaks. Oh brother!