Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting
healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance,
he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your
brain cells actually increase. He talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways
to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.
Dean Ornish is a
clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research
Institute. He's a leading expert on fighting illness -- particularly heart
disease with dietary and lifestyle changes.
Dr. Dean Ornish
wants you to live longer, and have more fun while you’re at it. He's one of
the leading voices in the medical community promoting a balanced, holistic
approach to health, and proving that it works. The author of Eat
More, Weigh Less and several other best-selling books, Ornish is best known
for his lifestyle-based approach to fighting heart disease.
His research at
the Preventive
Medicine Research Institute (the nonprofit he founded) clinically
demonstrated that cardiovascular illnesses -- and, most recently prostate cancer
-- can be treated and even reversed through diet and exercise. These findings
(once thought to be physiologically implausible) have been widely chronicled in
the US media, including Newsweek,
for which Ornish writes a column. The fifty-something physician, who's received
many honors and awards, was chosen by LIFE Magazine as one of the most
influential members of his generation. Among his many pursuits, Ornish is now
working with food corporations to help stop America's obesity pandemic from
spreading around the globe.
