Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases - Hardcover

Ornish M.D., Dean; Ornish, Anne

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ISBN 10: 052547997X ISBN 13: 9780525479970

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2019

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • By the pioneer of lifestyle medicine, a simple, scientifically program proven to often reverse the progression of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level! Long rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Ornish’s Program is now covered by Medicare when offered virtually at home.

Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse—undo!—the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level.

Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported—based on forty years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.

Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it:

• Eat well: a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The “Ornish diet” has been rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report for eleven years since 2011. 
• Move more: moderate exercise such as walking
• Stress less: including meditation and gentle yoga practices
• Love more: how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing

With seventy recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits—for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks they were able to avoid a heart transplant—Undo It! empowers readers with new hope and new choices.

Praise for Undo It!

“The Ornishes’ work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world!”—Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States

“If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today.”—Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine

“This is one of the most important books on health ever written.”—John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market

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Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of six books, all national bestsellers. He has received numerous honors, including the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Public Health Hero Award from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ornish was recognized as a “Time 100 Innovator”; by Life magazine as “one of the 50 most influential members of his generation”; by People as “one of the most interesting people of the year”; and by Forbes as “one of the world’s seven most powerful teachers.

Anne Ornish is vice president of program development at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. She is the creator of the Ornish Lifestyle Medicine digital platform, including Empower, a turnkey learning management system that trains healthcare professionals and participants throughout the country. Anne Ornish has more than twenty-five years of advanced training in yoga and meditation and was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal.

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Chapter 1

It Works!

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

—­attributed to Albert Einstein

Our favorite key on the computer is the undo button. Click!—­a fresh start.

We’ve often thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an undo button for our health as well?”

Well, now there is!

This is the era of lifestyle medicine: that is, using simple yet powerful lifestyle changes to reverse—­undo!—­the progression of the most common chronic diseases as well as to help prevent them.

For more than four decades, one of us (Dean) has directed a series of randomized controlled trials and demonstration projects proving, for the first time, that the radically simple lifestyle medicine program described in this book can often reverse the progression of many of the most common chronic diseases. It can be undertaken in combination with drugs and surgery, or sometimes as an alternative to them.

We continue to be amazed and inspired that the more diseases we study, and the more underlying biological mechanisms we research, the more new reasons and scientific evidence we have to explain why these simple lifestyle changes are so powerful, how transformative and far-­ranging their effects can be, and how quickly people can show significant and measurable improvements—­often in just a few weeks or even less.

We are excited that our research and the studies of other investigators are proving that many of the most common and debilitating chronic diseases and even much of the damage of aging at a cellular level can often be slowed, stopped, or even reversed by this lifestyle medicine program. These include:

•    Reversing even severe coronary heart disease

•    Reversing type 2 diabetes

•    Reversing, slowing, or stopping the progression of early-­stage non-aggressive prostate cancer

•    Reversing high blood pressure

•    Reversing elevated cholesterol levels

•    Reversing obesity

•    Reversing some types of early-­stage dementia

•    Reversing some autoimmune conditions

•    Reversing emotional depression and anxiety

Our studies have been published in the leading peer-­reviewed medical and scientific journals and presented at the most well-­respected physician conferences. No other lifestyle program has this level of scientific evidence on reversing these chronic diseases. This is one reason why a panel of independent experts from U.S. News & World Report rated “The Ornish Diet” as “#1 for Heart Health” in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Awareness is the first step in healing, and science is a powerful tool for raising awareness. Our peer-­reviewed research findings provide the credibility to help overcome what is often the biggest obstacle: skepticism that such simple lifestyle changes can have such powerful, far-­reaching measurable improvements—­and how fast you can feel better. In that spirit, we are including this information not to boast but (hopefully) to inspire and empower, to rise above the noise and misinformation that are so prevalent.

We’ve used high-­tech, state-­of-­the-­art scientific measures to prove the power of this low-­tech lifestyle medicine intervention. The science may motivate you to get started; the extraordinary benefits you are likely to quickly experience are what make it sustainable.

Radically Simple, Yet Powerfully Proven

We learned from Steve Jobs that people who have spent their lives deeply understanding something complex can make it really simple for others to learn. When you really know a subject, you can reduce it down to the essence of what’s most important.

For example, Steve said that he was more proud of what he left out of the iPhone than what he included. Although the underlying technology is highly complex, there is an elegant Zen simplicity in its design that makes it extraordinarily powerful and intuitively easy to use because it is based on a deep understanding of what is most important and what really matters—­and what doesn’t. You don’t even need a user manual. He and Jony Ive applied this same ethos to the ecosystem of all Apple products they created, which made it the most valuable and emulated company in the world.

In that spirit, this book represents the quintessence of what we’ve learned about the power of lifestyle medicine. We emphasize the research that we have conducted rather than a comprehensive review of the scientific literature. We’ve included only what’s most essential, and we hope you find it to be useful.

We have shown, time and time again, that this lifestyle medicine program often works to reverse and help prevent many of the most common chronic diseases for most people.

We’ve consistently achieved bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported. If you carefully follow the lifestyle changes we describe in this book, there’s a good chance it may be effective for you as well.

Here It Is, Why It Works, and How You Can Do It

Our program has four major components, each a healing modality on its own and synergistic when done together:

•    A whole-­foods, plant-­based diet, naturally low in animal protein, fat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates and high in flavor—­primarily fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and soy products in their natural, unprocessed forms. The principles of eating this way are simple and clear. We outline these in Chapter 4 and offer amazingly delicious recipes in Chapter 8.

•    Moderate exercise, such as walking and strength training. Do what you enjoy—­if you like it, you’ll do it. Chapter 5 shows why and how a little exercise goes a very long way.

•    Stress management. Chapter 6 introduces you to techniques (including meditation and gentle yoga) that can enable you to do more and stress less.

•    Love, social support, and intimacy. People who feel lonely, depressed, and isolated are three to ten times more likely to get sick and die prematurely from virtually all causes when compared to those who have strong feelings of love, connection and community. Chapter 7 describes how we can transform isolation into healing.

In short: eat well, move more, stress less, love more. That’s it. Boom!

This book is based directly on the scientifically proven nine-­week lifestyle medicine program that we have implemented in hospitals, physician groups, health systems, and clinics across the country.

We’ve proven this lifestyle medicine program works exceptionally well in the real world. We have clinical outcomes data from tens of thousands of diverse patients who have gone through this program at a continually growing number of sites throughout the country and from millions of people who have made these lifestyle changes from my earlier books. It is both effective and achievable. The lessons we’ve learned from this extensive experience form the basis and structure of this book.

In 2010, after sixteen years of comprehensive review, I appreciate that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new benefit category, “intensive cardiac rehabilitation,” to begin providing Medicare coverage for “Dr. Ornish’s Program for...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 052547997X
• ISBN 13: 9780525479970
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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