Cardiologist's Plea: Food IS Medicine | Dr. Columbus Batiste
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Food is as powerful as any medicine, according to a leading cardiologist.
Dr. Columbus Batiste tells his patients to eat the food that their great grandparents would eat. In essence, for health reasons it is critical that we eat food that will decay and break down rather than stand the test of time.
That is why Dr. Batiste is a major proponent of limiting ultra processed foods in the diet. He warns that we don't know fully understand how the additives in those foods are impacting our body.
In This Interview
- Food additives that are destroying our health
- Fresh squeezed vs. concentrated orange juice
- Ultraprocessed foods and disease
- Making convenient foods work for us instead of against us
- Heart health effects of chicken vs. beef and pork
- Carbs are good, "carbage" is bad
- Seed oils
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | We understand what happens with saturated fat and the triggering of still potentially the inflammatory process in our body. |
| 0:10.0 | So you amplify that with our mashed potatoes, which potatoes are good. |
| 0:14.0 | You know, everyone says, oh, stay away from carbs. |
| 0:16.0 | Carbs are not bad. Carbage is bad. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, I'm the weight loss champion. Chuck Carroll, thank you so very much for watching and downloading in more than 150 countries around the world |
| 0:30.6 | and making this one of the most consumed nutrition podcasts anywhere on the planet today. |
| 0:35.6 | And today we are speaking with a heart health expert. He is |
| 0:39.2 | a lifestyle interventional cardiologist. He is the co-founder of Healthy Heart Nation and the author |
| 0:45.2 | of a fantastic book called Selfish. He is our friend. He is the one, the only, Dr. Columbus |
| 0:51.2 | Batiste. Thanks for being here again, my friend. Hey, always good to see you. How are you? |
| 0:55.5 | I'm doing really well. How about yourself? |
| 0:57.9 | Oh, can't complain. I don't think it would matter if I did, but I think we're good. |
| 1:03.0 | Now, we're here to talk about good things today. And I want to talk about all things that are good for the body, all things that are good for the heart, and one heck of a conference that you have coming up in May, the help conference, which will be |
| 1:15.7 | in Jupiter, Florida. We're going to talk about that in just a second. But man, I got to start |
| 1:20.5 | by asking you about your opinion of this survey that was done recently by Tufts University that found that 90% of people that they surveyed across a wide swath of demographics truly believed that food is medicine. |
| 1:35.3 | And for somebody who is a lifestyle interventional cardiologist, I would imagine that is music to your ears. |
| 1:42.3 | It is, it is, and I'll tell you, because here's the thing, |
| 1:46.4 | it makes sense that people would really recall back in their true nature that food is medicine |
| 1:51.1 | because this is nothing that's new. We've reframed it in terms of this terminology of food |
| 1:56.5 | is medicine. But this goes back really centuries, eons, when we look at the power of food as medicine. |
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