Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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Healthy at Last author and New York City mayoral candidate, Eric Adams, joins me to explain his amazing transformation of reversing diabetes so advanced he had vision loss.

Eric's book: Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652065/healthy-at-last-by-eric-adams

An Inspiring Story of Weight Loss and Its Aftermath
nytimes.com/2017/01/02/well/an-inspiring-story-of-weight-loss-and-its-aftermath.html

Eric Adams bio: brooklyn-usa.org/eric-adams-bio

Eric Adams Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)

Bellevue Hospital and Michelle McMacken's Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program:
nychealthandhospitals.org/bellevue/health-care-services/plant-based-lifestyle-medicine-program

About Caldwell Esselstyn, the renowned surgeon and cardiologist:
dresselstyn.com/site/about/about-dr-esselstyn

Cleveland Clinic's Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation
my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/heart/depts/preventive-cardiology-rehabilitation

0:00 Intro
1:51 Eric's Google search for curing diabetes
2:40 Eric's intro to Caldwell Esselstyn
4:12 Cleveland Clinic prevention center & food!
5:29 Paul McCartney's tacos!
6:41 the degree of diabetes reversal
10:45 Reversing his mother's diabetes
11:48 Southern diet is slave food
15:33 Eric's health advocacy
18:58 Healthy eating versus Covid 19
23:00 Why 7th Day Adventists live so long
25:05 Doctors suffer PTSD
27:25 Incorporating exercise into daily life
28:33 How Eric incorporates kindness