When you live healthier, eat better, exercise,
and love more, your brain cells actually increase. New findings
show that a healthier lifestyle can turn off disease-provoking genes
and turn on the good ones.
Ornish is president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine
Research Institute in Sausalito, California, as well as Clinical
Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
He is widely known for his lifestyle-driven approach to the control of
coronary artery disease (CAD). Dr. Ornish and colleagues showed that a
lifestyle regimen featuring meditation, a low-fat vegetarian diet,
smoking cessation, and regular exercise could not only stop the
progression of CAD, but could actually reverse it.
Posted by Casey Kazan.
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