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Episode 120: Ask Me Anything with Dr Anthony Chaffee April 28 2023

The Plant Free MD with Dr Anthony Chaffee

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The Correlation Between Diverticulosis and Age

Diverticulosis is an infection of those outpouching herniation on your distal colon. The only correlation found between diverticulosis and sort of anything that they looked at was more fiber and more bowel motion, specifically more than 15 bowel motions a week. Pooping less than seven times a week was not a risk factor. Constipation was not one of the risk factors. Meat wasn't one of therisk factors. Fiber was, fiber was a large risk factor. And so yes, I do think that that will help your dad quite a lot. He will still have diet reticulitis or dieticulosis but it will stop it from progressing as much

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