Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB)Testimonials
You can read study after study extolling the benefits of a plant-based diet, but sometimes story form is better at communicating the impact of WFPB on quality of life.
Health-care professionals
WFPB testimonials from health-care professionals:
- An INCREDIBLE Recovery by a Doctor's Doctor! Dr. Saray Stancic (51-minute video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n95y8_DVkGI
Dr. Saray Stancic's journey from overcoming her own MS with a WFPB diet and then becoming a Doctor's Doctor. She also presents evidence from medical journals. - Point of View: Reversing chronic disease through plant-based diet
- https://nutritionstudies.org/why-parents-should-keep-children-meat-and-dairy-free/
By Benjamin Spock, MD (author of Baby and Child Care). - https://nutritionstudies.org/cleared-pcos-kids-lost-weight-plant-based-diet/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/from-suffering-with-lupus-to-food-promoting-doctor/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/frustrations-of-being-a-plant-based-cardiologist/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/doctor-inspired-by-the-china-study-for-his-cancer-patients/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/how-i-stopped-my-migraines-what-i-wish-i-had-known-as-a-doctor/
- https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/stars-video/dr-walter-vermeulen/
- Dr. David Dunaief, Medical Compass MD Interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIiK71WrJR0
97-minute interview with a WFPB doctor. - Stephan Esser, MD - Shares Growing Up Plant Based and Amazing Impact on His Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6__zJ66FGg
92-minute interview with a WFPB doctor. - https://www.forksoverknives.com/after-two-heart-attacks-at-40-this-doctor-reversed-his-heart-disease-with-a-wfpb-diet/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/weight-loss-therapist-plant-based-diet-for-sustainable-weight-loss/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/heather-shenkman-vegan-cardiologist/
- https://youtu.be/ZC3wRx4vV7g?t=1436 23:56 - 27:00 Joseph Crowe story told by Dr. Esselstyn (3-minutes)
https://youtu.be/_RmrAZkp_uQ Dr. Joseph Crowe (1-minute video) - Dr. Ellsworth Wareham - 98 years old vegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX58PyQwrcI (13-minute video) - Doctors cure their bodies by going vegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdwi-1FNvtU
Doctors describe the WFPB health benefits that they have personally experienced (17-minute video).
People
Here are some stories of people who have successfully improved their health by switching to the WFPB diet:
- Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan
https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-08-2013/bill-clinton-vegan.html - Dr. Esselstyn Cured My Heart Disease (7-minute video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNA12RKFdE - https://www.dresselstyn.com/site/video-2/
- My Whole Food Plant Based Journey by Brittany Jaroudi (20-minute video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzvX-op9C0 - Church Went Vegan - Diseases Cured in 30 Days (8-minute video)
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2018/10/meals-for-health---curing-a-community-with-plant-based-diet.html - https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/
- https://www.plantpurenation.com/pages/testimonials
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/topics/success-stories/
- https://www.wholefoodsplantbasedhealth.com.au/going-plant-strong/success-stories/
- Susan Weinick - "unexpected side effect of eating WFPB" (1-minute video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VOwK4TTNA - https://www.reddit.com/r/plantbaseddiet
- A Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Reversed Angina without Medications or Procedures.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25755896 case study - A plant-based diet and heart failure: case report and literature review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466944/ case study
Athletes
WFPB testimonials from athletes:
- https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/stars-written/ruth-heidrich/
- https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/stars-written/christine-sorenson/
- https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/stars-written/shannon-woods/
- https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/stars/stars-written/meredith-fishman/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/this-plant-based-ultra-race-runner-is-striving-for-healthy-change/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/ironman-declining-cardiac-health-found-food-matters/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/from-overweight-asthmatic-child-to-thriving-athletic-adult-a-plant-based-miracle/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/400-lbs-ultrarunner/
- https://nutritionstudies.org/plant-strong-collegiate-swimming-champion-her-plant-based-family-legacy/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/tag/vegan-athletes/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/tag/plant-based-athletes/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/tag/plant-powered-athletes/
- https://www.forksoverknives.com/tag/fitness/
- https://stephdavis.co/blog/vegan-climbing-food/
- https://www.greatveganathletes.com/alison-crowdus-vegan-powerlifter/
- https://happyherbivore.com/2013/05/herbie-of-week-sheldon/
- Vegan MMA Ultimate Fighter - James "Lighting" Wilks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzzglDbTvU