
Welcome back to Joel Kahn, MD, one of the great gentle pugilists of the plant-based, evidence-based, lifestyle medicine movement. Joel has gotten a lot of air time since our last talk three years ago – he's a regular on The Doctors, weighing in with actual science against some of the crazier nutritional theories of our time (ie vegetables are dangerous).
And he's a publishing powerhouse, coming out with The Plant-Based Solution, The No B.S. Diet Book, Dead Execs Don't Get Bonuses, and Vegan Sex, with Ellen Jaffe Jones.

We covered:
- The Magic Pill documentary in praise of ketogenic diets, and how smart people of good faith can still disagree on diet
- polyphenols from plants help with erectile dysfunction
- a body in ketosis is starving and in crisis
- the best study to date on the fat-burning effects of a ketogenic diet
- seven studies show early date rate from high-fat eating
- we have to consider the environment when evaluating diet
- keto proponents are ignoring CAFOs and antibiotic resistance
- “studies that show benefit to ketogenic diets are non-randomized studies with non cardiovascular endpoints”
- the “good sex” diet – one of the best barometers of cardiovascular health
- hidden sources of inflammation in vegans: deficiencies, hidden dental infections, psoriasis, belly weight
- anti-inflammatory foods: turmeric, ginger, garlic, onions, and rosemary
- the costs of chronic inflammation
- the blood test for inflammation that costs less than $50 (hsCRP) and why the US Preventive Services Task Force thinks it isn't ready for prime time (hint: it's about the training of doctors, not the test itself)
- fruits and vegetables as an antidote to eating meat
- removing McDonalds and Wendy's from children's hospitals
- sharing lifestyle and diet interventions with medical students and the future of lifestyle medicine
- encouraging patients to make small, steady changes
- what we've learned from 25 years of the Human Genome Project
- and much more…
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The Plant-Based Solution, by Joel Kahn, MD
Everything Joel Kahn – his website
Gregg Walton's WISE interventions – Plant Yourself Podcast interview
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