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Building Strong Hearts and Minds with Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, FACC

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

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Cardiology - The Courage Trial

In 2007 a dozen years later our NIH and I think other funding sources because there was an international study just announced cost a hundred million dollars to kind of take the courage trial but blow it up. They were randomized to very good medical therapy and lifestyle training diet fitness many of them adopted plant-based diets they found that that was one of the magic healing methods that's scientifically proven. Most of them went to a catheterization most of them got stents some got bypass and the results show no difference in deathNo difference in cardiovascular death most endpoints like congestive heart failure no difference There was a subgroup of people kidney disease which really defines a sicker population right absolutely no difference whether you

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