Dean Ornish
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Dean Michael Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of Dr.
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Comprehensive lifestyle changes may be able to bring about regression of even severe coronary atherosclerosis after only 1 year, without use of lipid-lowering drugs.
"Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?" (Ornish et al.), The Lancet (21 July 1990).
In addition to preventing many chronic diseases … comprehensive lifestyle changes can often reverse the progression of these illnesses.
Introduction to Marco Borges, The 22-Day Revolution (New York: Penguin, 2015).
When you eat a healthy, whole foods, plant-based diet, it changes the expression of your genes. It turns on the good genes, turns off the bad genes.
Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018).
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Dean Michael Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less and The Spectrum, he advocates for diet and lifestyle changes he believes can treat and prevent heart disease.
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