Replacing Animal Protein With Plant Protein Reduces Risk for Chronic Disease And Mortality Rates

according to the best unbiased science does replacing animal protein with plant protein reduce risk of death and disease yes so uh this question there there are a couple of studies that i think are worth mentioning so the first study was a harvard study that i mentioned earlier and this harvard study compared it did exactly that replacing animal protein with plant protein and as i mentioned we saw a risk reduction in terms of mortality that was very very significant so so we know that with this particular study 130 000 individuals followed for thirty years replacing just three percent that’s about sixty calories in a two thousand calorie diet with uh plant protein reduce risk of death by thirty four percent if you were replacing processed meat 19 with with eggs 12 percent with unprocessed meat eight percent with dairy six percent with fish and and uh poultry now there was a second study that just came out in 2019 from japan and the the numbers were unbelievable so you’re looking at again replacing three percent of calories from animal protein with plant protein they saw a 34 reduction in mortality if it came from red meat and a 42 reduction in mortality if it came from processed meat they also looked at cancer 46 reduction in cancer with unprocessed red meat and a 50 reduction in cancer with processed red meat with processed red meat and we’re talking about three percent of calories that is phenomenal results and there are many other studies that have looked at this and consistently show for almost every disease you can think of for cancers for diabetes for heart disease that replacing animal protein with plant protein reduces risk

you mentioned the seventh day adventist can you explain more about their health study and and what its conclusions were was this study an important one well first i’ll say this study is one of the most important studies for the plant-based world as far as i’m concerned and i and i should qualify that statement this is not one study this is dozens and dozens of studies so first of all we had the ad the adventist uh mortality study and this was a study many years ago that actually just compared adventists with other people in california this was the loma linda adventist with other you know people doing the standard thing in california and they found that the adventists were at a tremendous advantage in terms of longevity and and various diseases and then they did the health the adventist health study one and that looked at well why what is it that gives adventists the advantage and so they found that you know it was exercise it was smoking less it was it was you know just all of these things but it was also diet and eating a more plant-strong diet that provided the protection in this case and then the biggie the adventist health study two and this study began in 2002 and is still ongoing 96 000 individuals and what they did in this study is they compared just adventists but the adventists who eat meat with the adventists who are semi-vegetarian who are pesco vegetarian or or basically follow a vegetarian diet plus fish who are lacto-ovo-vegetarian so they eat eggs and milk versus the vegans and followed them for many years to see who within this cohort actually develops disease and so it’s such a fair comparison because they all tend to they they control for you know how much coffee do you drink how much do you exercise how much alcohol do you drink how much do you smoke that’s all controlled for these are all health conscious individuals and and so when you compare the meat-eaters with the vegans the differences you’re looking at are the differences in what their their diet is like and the one thing i have to say is the adventist meat-eaters eat a lot less meat than the general population so we’re looking at smaller intakes of meat so it makes the findings even more impressive in my view and what did they find well they found that compared to the meat-eating adventists the vegans had 62 percent less diabetes they they had 16 percent less cancer they they had 75 percent less hypertension the men had uh you know i think was 42 percent less heart disease they had about the vegetarians and vegans combined about half the rates of kidney disease and it just goes on they’re finding that people eating plant-based had a really significant advantage over the people eating animal products and so yes a very important study and we can expect to see more you know reports from this cohort as as time goes on