Can Alzheimers Disease Be Reversed with a Plant-Based Diet? [Video]

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Dr. Dean Ornish was the first to show, in a randomized controlled trial, that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of our number one killer, heart disease––opening up arteries without drugs, and without surgery.

Then, he showed the same plant-based program could potentially reverse the course of early-stage prostate cancer and elongate our telomeres, suggesting an anti-aging effect as well.  But when he told me he was going to try to reverse Alzheimer’s disease, I was skeptical. Surely, he was biting off a little more than he could chew.

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