It's true for me, too, Ellie! Also, sticking to store brand foods I end up with a bill that can be about $120 a month. I think oranges are the most expensive thing, and really. If I ended up going with sweet potatoes I could make it even cheaper (they have the vitamin C, too). I just have to cook them in a microwave and see if I like it.
@@RiDankulous I have been steaming and microwaving spuds along with some peas and sprouts .... simples ! I am still a massively heavy biffer but at least I know why I am fat and what I can do about it. The only problem is getting other people around me to accept this approach. Its amazing how addicted people are to dairy, meat, processed food, seed oils and so forth.
Me too! I dropped nuts, seeds, avocados, oils, processed foods of all kinds and my food bill is halved. We are ripped off when buying fancy upsold processed 'food' . I have a full shopping cart of veg and fruit for a fraction of the cost and it looks beautiful. My cooking has been simplified. I don't feel like I have to make complex recipes anymore with 25 ingredients! I feel like i have been released from food tyranny! HURRAY! P.S I lost 5 pounds this month too.
Dr. McDougall, you and your potatoes have changed my life. In a few words, I grow them, I eat them, I spent less, I live more free. Thank you. So much.
@Milica Skenderovic, Mag. Pharm. Dr McDougall always says he prescribes medicine when people have malignant symptoms. Congratulations for realizing that most pharmaceuticals only deal with symptoms and not the root cause of these food related illnesses.
I couldn't have said it better! I have been telling my friends I want to start growing potatoes in my basement (I only have a patio, no yard) since I have a lot of unused space! I just need to teach myself how! lol
Steel cut or old fashioned oats with raisins, dried cranberries, and blueberries for breakfast. A Yukon gold potato with sauerkraut, Applesauce, 5 dates and an apple for lunch. Pasta or salad for dinner. I strictly did the McDougall diet for 6 months. Now I do the Pritikin diet. It allows 4 oz. Of lean chicken or fish. And low fat dairy. I have been doing this since 2019. Weighed myself yesterday and am 169 pounds. (Was 215 In 2018).
Dean Sherzai is a neuro doc. Loma Linda. I think you would mostly agree on what a healthy diet is. Usually questions like this misrepresent the position of one person vs. another. Missing any nuances
What I truly appreciate about Dr Mcdougall is this: " if you can't figure out what to do about your health, just eat potatoes, or sweet potatoes and water, until you figure it out." The SIMPLICITY of the starch based diet, that stands alone in a sea of 'what to eat' confusion.
I just keep remembering that as a child growing up, the only thing I would eat was mashed potatoes, spaghetti, and cream of wheat. Those were my favorites, and would not eat the meat that my mother was trying to get me to eat. I had to make a wide circle to get back to that place.
McDougaller here - May I even refer to myself as a Star McDougaller?? 😂 I started eating this way 20 months ago. I was obese and had a lot of minor health issues at age 42. Within a couple weeks, I was relieved of my constant headaches, heartburn, acid reflux, dizzy spells, heart palpitations, and aches and pains. Within 15 months I had lost 75lbs and now easily maintain a healthy BMI of 21. What an amazing revelation after decades of yo-yo dieting and trying every other “diet” I’d heard of! I’m so grateful to Dr. McDougall for continuing to share this information! ❤
@@Ananimous7777 If she followed Dr. McDougall's advice, she must have been on a WFPB diet, focusing on starches like brown rice, potatoes, lentils, beans, and the like. And that's great food, that fills you up, is nutritious, and tasty, and you can eat as much as you want and feel great all the time. I've done it for almost 4 years and never felt so good
@@christianecatherinasils-me7992 Ich bin leider nicht bei Facebook, da kann ich leider nicht weiterhelfen, tut mir sehr leid! Aber die Bücher von Dr. McDougall, Caldwell Esselstyn und Familie kann ich sehr empfehlen, falls Sie nach Informationen suchen. Auf der Homepage von Dr. McDougall finden Sie auch kostenfrei sämtliche Infos, die man braucht, ebenso wie in unzähligen RUclips Videos! Viel Erfolg Ihnen!
@@VeganV5912 I took off 35 pounds on potatoes only about 4 years ago and just watch the scale and go back on potatoes when I gain 5 pounds. Works like a charm!
Dr. McDougall; on behalf of all the unhealthy vegetarians who you have SAVED - THANK YOU - God Bless You! I was a vegetarian for over 35 years and I was fat and miserable. Isn’t this crazy? When I read your book the Starch Solution I was so overcome with gratitude that you dedicated a whole Chapter to the ‘Fat Vegetarian.’ I began your diet that very day. I dropped all dairy, oil, nuts and seeds. Guess what? I have never lost weight so fast in my LIFE! I lost 40 lbs, went from size 14 to size 8 in only 3 months! And, I was post menopause!!!! You have changed the life of millions. Saving us from being trapped in miserable and uncomfortable bodies. God Bless you…. 💗💕💗
Dr McDougall, thank you for repeating the same message for decades. I am slow to change and require hearing the same truth over and over and you are such a pleasant person to help.
Same here Steve. I am extremely slow to change. I don't trust a lot of information I hear or read but am slowly coming around to Dr. McDougall's way of thinking. I am starting to eat more vegetables for fiber to prepare to change my diet to a starch diet. I have MS and poor digestion so I tend to be extra careful in any changes I make. I hope you and I both are able to make and sustain the changes needed to follow this doctors great advice.
@@JoAnn_Vegan_USA I worked in Long Term Care, too...and you're right, it's sad to see people suffering in a place that contributes to the proliferation if illness and does nothing to help these people truly heal. It's the food that contributes to their decline. It's very sad.
@32.50 I grew up on rice and beans. I ran out of rice and decided to give potatoes and beans a try and my body loved it. It felt as if my brain and guts were at the Olympics celebrating that I had finally figured out this simple nutritious combo after all these years.
You saved my life Dr. McDougall when you got me off Paleo in 2013. If you had not had Paleo in your description I would not have have watched your video. I was a die hard Paleo and I was mad at you when you criticized the Wheat Belly diet. But I kept watching more of your videos. I bought all your books and now I am a die McDougler . Thank you again for saving my health!!!!
Ditto. I am about a year post keto/low carb and my gut bacteria has been severely compromised as a result. Can't eat veggies like broccoli as I used to, just zucchini, mainly. It's slow going, but I'll get there. The thing that is saving my life right now is plantains, since they are astringent/resistant starch and they help with the diarrhea. Following a "pitta" dosha pacifying diet (Ayurveda), which coincides with the the starch based approach taught here.
I read your book "Starch solution" 7 months ago. Before I was a vegetarian and my health problems were always frustrating my life at that time ... High cholesterol, fatigue, weight gain even though I only ate 2 times a day, salads and low calorie meals ... I was frustrated. Since I started following your advice, I have lost 25 pounds. My cholesterol is perfect ... Your studies and efforts to give us all this information have paid off. I will be eternally grateful!
Will forever miss you dr. Mcdougall! You changed our life! Will miss your videos for sure as well as your consistency of information. It never changed. Thank you!❤
I agree - the potato has changed my life steamed potato - crisped in an air fryer = yum yum. My blood pressure was high and unstable. My blood pressure has normalized. Well compared to before. But I can now include exercise - so I'm really aiming at really getting healthy.
I went to mostly potatoe a year ago. I was chasing potassium. Soon potatoes was all I wanted and I did not get tired of them. Lost 38 pounds much to my surprise. Love potatoes.
I have watched this lecture about 20 times now, and everytime I discover a new thing. It's my favorite video on youtube, and made me go plant based. 31 of august 2022 was my 1 year anniversary of going plant based, and iam never going back! Potato's for life!
Dr. McDougall, like so many people have said, you have changed my life! I was so sick, physically and emotionally, and I would not have taken the leap had I not stumbled across your videos and your books. You make it all so very simple and unintimidating. I hope one day you win the nobel peace prize!
When I was living in Jordan, I ate primarily potatoes and it was the healthiest I'd ever been. Now, watching these videos, I know he's completely right.
I have a suggestion to make,something I picked up in an article I read on the internet…put a sponge or two in your bag of potatoes in your fridge( this works for other veggies too) the sponge will draw up the moisture,this works and I keep a few sponges in my fridge and with my bags of veggies…from a happy potato lover🥰🥰🥰
Buy a few large buckets. Drill some drainage holes in the bottom. Put a small layer of compost at the bottom. Arrange potato eyes. Water the plants. Add more compost or potting soil as the potato grows. Can be grown on a small balcony. Tomatoes, radishes, spinach, beans, peas and sweet potato in the same way. Easy. Try it!
Potatoes cost $CDN 4.00 for a 10 pound bag and are frequently on sale for half that. You could not grow them that cheap. I can't see lugging buckets of dirt up 3 stories to my balcony!
I love, love, love fingerling or other small potatoes cut in half with dill relish. I roast sweet potatoes, potatoes and cook 4 cups of rice every Sunday then just have salads, steamed veggies and soups etc...with my favourite starches. I sailed through menopause, no symptoms at all and weigh the same as I did in high school. My last bloodwork was "immaculate" according to my doctor. Best healthy eating plan ever, it'sjust back to basics, simple. Good luck!
Same as me... I swapped all bread for baby boiled Potatoes... Usually I have smoked mackerel and boiled eggs for breakfast .. I lost 14lbs in first 6weeks and stayed at 170lb, doing gym Crossfit training 5 times a week... I'm not massive just athletic fast with max endurance
I have known this deep down for years and have tried every diet that deleted these foods. When I was fed up with diet fads… I decided to eat only what I wanted… plants and potatoes… for the first time in years I felt full and satisfied. Totally agree with you and this is exactly how I eat now and feel much better! Thank you!
I got fat and sick enough I felt like what could it hurt to give this a try. Immediately my life changed. I used to be so constipated the only way I could have a bowel movement was to have a morning enema. I lived this way for most of my life. The first day of this diet I was fixed. Dr McDougal has many videos on colon issues that are right on point. I am so grateful for his work and putting this information out there. I say to anyone just try it and to Dr Mcdougal thank you.
Today, I ate potatoes, pasta and sourdough bread and was I blown away! I actually played really well today! (Tennis) I didn’t realize that I was getting weaker and weaker over time when I was on my diet. I have been eating predominantly rice, veggies and fruits and fish. I realized that I wasn’t eating enough carbs! I have been binge watching all of the videos in your channel, so I tried eating more carbs today. I actually felt stronger!!! Thank you so much, Dr. McDougall for sharing your knowledge! More power to you and your family and everyone around you!
The green in potatoes is mainly caused by light exposure. It happens when growing them if they happen to become exposed, or when left out on the counter. With that said, simply cut off or peel off the green parts and eat away. As for the roots, simply cut them off and cut out the area right around where the root was and the potato is just fine to eat. Store potatoes in a cool, dry, and DARK place.
Dr. McDougall is so right! Truth never has to change and when it works, it works!! Potatoes have definitely been helping me and I never seem to get tired of them because I can eat them so many different ways!
You are a genius, dr. Mcdougall. I have been eating starches ever since i first listened to you 1 year ago. I finally feel hunger satisfied. I am so happy i found you. Thank you. I tell everyone.... eat more starch. (The more starch they eat, the less animals they eat.)
Since starting my starch centered diet my cholesterol and triglycerides levels have plummeted and my blood pressure is lower. I've also lost weight and I eat all I want. Starch rocks.
It’s funny how listening to this in the background reduces my stress and anxiety. Maybe it’s because it’s strengthening what I already know to be true. Maybe because it separates out the bullshit. Idk. Love it.
HI Thank you so much! This has been so paradigm shifting for me after following a low carb diet, [ which HAS reduced my cravings and blood sugar spikes and crashes, mainly due to having sourdough bread instead of the fast rise store bought white bread,] but this lecture has provided a grounding in solid knowledge as to what the real culprit was, and that is highly refined starches, Potatoes provide complex carbs so ALL GOOD. I am reminded of Rudolf Nureyev the famous Russian ballet dancer who had grown up in poor circumstances, eating only potatoes, but having a superb healthy athletic physique none the less! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.
Dr McDougall, You truly are God sent. I just starting your program and can’t wait to see the results. I’ve been everywhere looking for, what you are helping your fellow man and woman with these last 4 decades. May God Bless you and your family, with long life. Christina A. 😊❤️🙏🏾
Red potatoes, carrots, navy beans (and sometimes red beets) boiled for 1.5 hours and then mashed. I seperately cool diced onyons, garlic, tomato, squash (and sometimes cabbage and/or eggs). I put the mash flattened out on the plate and topped with the vegetables. Truely wonderful.
Potatoes will never cause indigestion, it is my preferred food even though I grew up with rice The Starch Solution has made me healthy. Seven years eating starches and my blood work is perfect. I do love my potatoes & beans stew over rice, THANK YOU!
O I will never get enough of these wonderful talks by you Dr Mcdougall!! Ty so much! I was eating a big bowl of split pea soup and a steamed potato while listening!!! 🤣Ty Heather for all you do also! Love you both!!!!❤️🥰🌺❤️
McDougall is always right. I do weightlifting. In the bulking season, I eat rice and various beans. When summer is approaching, I switch to a potato and cabbage diet, and I get shredded. You can grate cheese (which I don't eat) on my abs.
Basic foods, like potatos, along with rice, are associated with long life in MANY cultures around the world! Who does not like these foods? Pharmaceutical companies!
@Milica Skenderovic, Mag. Pharm. Cool! In my younger years, I was a pharmacy tech, then a bio-med electronics tech! I worked in both civilan and military hospitals.
When i listen to my body, i got healthy. For 2-3 weeks after my cancer surgery, i didn’t have appetite for meat or anything. I ended up just eating steamed sweet potato & potato for 3 months straight.
Dr Macdougal and Heather, I’m 77, no medication’s, my grandson has type one diabetes he developed it at six years old, thank you so much I’m not hungry anymore Thank you very much, I never knew about the potato and I’ve been a vegan since I am 35
Amazing simplicity like this can calm your system and synchronize it with your spirit so that you are open, if you so desire, to following a harmonious and healing existence, starting with your most basic function of eating and drinking.
I have been trying to do Dr. Brooke Goldner's healing protocol for autoimmune disease. I LOVE the smoothies. I never get sick since I've been drinking them but I was sooooooo hungry eating only the smoothies plus raw food. Potatoes have saved the day! I am able to eat an abundance of potatoes in addition to the smoothies without aggravating the arthritis! Now, I'm just praying for weightloss! I lost 45 pounds over a year ago but have been stuck in my 170's for over a year as well. I'm thinking that I slowed my metabolism by not eating enough. Hopefully my new routine will help me to drop weight! Thank you for teaching me about my need for starch! I'm a good Irish lady lol!
If you are still adding flax or chia and avocados as recommended by dr Brook, go completely fat free and eat fruit greens and potatoes and you will loose weight ! Promise
If you have Cuban roots, you know that yucca and malanga are two starch staples of the Cuban diet, so there are variations of the potato around the world that are excellent "starches"
Thank you, thank you thank you. What a blessing you are Dr. McDougall your insights and knowledge of health nutrition has saved my life and the lives of thousands of others. God bless you and Mary.
I got diagnosed with T2 a couple of years ago and I immediately began to cry because I thought I’d never be able to have potatoes again. I’ve always said if I had to choose only food to eat for the rest of my life, it would be potatoes. I just started Starch Solution and potatoes are spiking the hell out of my blood sugar, but I’m going to stick with it because potatoes are life!! Just need to push through until all that fat gets out of my cells. I wish I knew how long that might take.
@@contrarian717 it took about six weeks but it worked! I got to the point where I could eat potatoes and have very very close to normal blood sugar every time and sometimes completely normal. Once I ate two small baked potatoes and a baked sweet potato at the same meal and my blood sugar was under 90! I’ve since started eating a bit more fat and my numbers are creeping up a little so I’m going to have to cut the oil out again. Staying super low fat is crucial for keeping those glucose numbers down.
I love your presentation dr McDougall and heather thank you for being a valuable blessing and inspiration with your dad , love the whole food plant based lifestyle so enjoyable 💝
I've been living this way for almost 10 years. I love watching these videos.I say that as I eat lunch of sweet potatoes lentils quinoa red pepper purple cabbage and crazy hot sauce and some yeast and of course turmeric and pepper.
I’ve been eating nothing, but potatoes and an oatmeal based “cheese” sauce for the past 33 days and I’m down 30 pounds with no exercise. I’m going to continue for the rest of this month and switch it up a little the next.
@@poppyseedprtheremix8362 Wonderful all around! You're going to be so pleasantly surprised when you start to exercise. The energy and recovery you have on a plant based diet is truly amazing!
Chef AJ, who also loves Dr McDougall, recommends eating two pounds of leafy greens a day. Add steamed kale to the potatoes every day, and you’ll have a much healthier diet. Basically, potatoes and oatmeal and leafy greens are my main diet as well.
@@MissAtson so true... especially when I’m trying to get away from fried foods... I’m reading Dr Bulsiewicz book “Fiber Fueled” right now... so similar to Dr McDougal’s plan of eating.. it’s fascinating and makes so much sense..
By the way, thank you for all you do for us to be healthy. I started two week ago and I am feeling so much better. Thank God I don't have any condition but I was feeling so bloated from all the stuff I was eating before "the poison food".
Onions give off a gas which will cause other vegetables to spoil or to do other things. Storing raw potatoes in the fridge causes the starch to become simple sugars ruining the benefits of the tuber.
I tried some butter on Easter. Tasted terrible... salty and oily. It's been years since I've eaten butter and lately have been mentally obsessed... not sure why, but glad I waited till I could try it at someone else's home, and not buy any. Not obsessed any more... lol. Thanks for the message. I'm listening while doing my housework. Read your book, "The McDougall Plan" when it first came out. Sure got me going on the right path. Thank you.
All plants have some level of toxins, potatoes are especially toxic in the skins, but some are worse than others. Indigenous people in South America eat potatoes with a sauce made from types of clay which effectively detoxify the potatoes and makes them safe to eat.
Since 1st grade, in Armenia, my mother would always feed me and my sister bread with jam or bread with honey for breakfast, and she’d say, “Eat sugar so you do well in school.” I never ate eggs or meat for breakfast, and I was a straight A student. Potatoes have always been my favorite lunch or dinner food, albeit usually made with oils, but still. My husband and children, however, don’t like potatoes unless it’s tater tots. 😒
I have tried the carnivore diet 5 times. It always makes me sick, and gives me diahrea for months. A fruit and vegetable diet has never, ever made me sick !
Just discovered you and looking forward to more from you. Also will check bookstore for your book . Thank You. All so I and a friend at my church are in a stage 4 kidney disease and we want to hang in there and never go on dialysis . We both are in our late middle 70 's .
👍🏽Thanks helpful and interesting. Also intuitive to eat the same food we did as we were evolving. Add in organic whole food and plant based dietary lifestyle along with fasting and psychedelic therapy and immersion in nature.. we have all we need to be healthy when with our Mother Earth💚🙏🏽
In my jurney to India the best considered food even in restaurants were mainly made of potatos! 😋💛That's how I became potato conscious😇Thank you Dr. for all your efforts to make people know the real values of potatos🙏
I've never been thinner, my digestion has never been better, and my grocery bill has never, ever been less. Love and respect, and all my gratitude
It's true for me, too, Ellie! Also, sticking to store brand foods I end up with a bill that can be about $120 a month. I think oranges are the most expensive thing, and really. If I ended up going with sweet potatoes I could make it even cheaper (they have the vitamin C, too). I just have to cook them in a microwave and see if I like it.
@@RiDankulous I have been steaming and microwaving spuds along with some peas and sprouts .... simples ! I am still a massively heavy biffer but at least I know why I am fat and what I can do about it. The only problem is getting other people around me to accept this approach. Its amazing how addicted people are to dairy, meat, processed food, seed oils and so forth.
Me too! I dropped nuts, seeds, avocados, oils, processed foods of all kinds and my food bill is halved. We are ripped off when buying fancy upsold processed 'food' . I have a full shopping cart of veg and fruit for a fraction of the cost and it looks beautiful. My cooking has been simplified. I don't feel like I have to make complex recipes anymore with 25 ingredients! I feel like i have been released from food tyranny! HURRAY! P.S I lost 5 pounds this month too.
Couldn't of said it better.
Perfect!
Dr. McDougall, you and your potatoes have changed my life. In a few words, I grow them, I eat them, I spent less, I live more free. Thank you. So much.
Sounds amazing, well done!
Have u lost any weight?
@Milica Skenderovic, Mag. Pharm. Dr McDougall always says he prescribes medicine when people have malignant symptoms. Congratulations for realizing that most pharmaceuticals only deal with symptoms and not the root cause of these food related illnesses.
I couldn't have said it better! I have been telling my friends I want to start growing potatoes in my basement (I only have a patio, no yard) since I have a lot of unused space! I just need to teach myself how! lol
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Arthritis, Asthma, Diverticulitis, high blood pressure, and 50 pounds GONE on this diet. Thank you Dr.McDougall !!!
I feel 10 years younger!
How long did it take to see results ?
Please tell me your diet...every day routine
Steel cut or old fashioned oats with raisins, dried cranberries, and blueberries for breakfast. A Yukon gold potato with sauerkraut, Applesauce, 5 dates and an apple for lunch. Pasta or salad for dinner. I strictly did the McDougall diet for 6 months. Now I do the Pritikin diet. It allows 4 oz. Of lean chicken or fish. And low fat dairy. I have been doing this since 2019. Weighed myself yesterday and am 169 pounds. (Was 215 In 2018).
I immediately felt better. Lost 3 pounds a week like clockwork till 50 pounds was gone...then stabilized at 165 pounds.
Dean Sherzai is a neuro doc. Loma Linda. I think you would mostly agree on what a healthy diet is.
Usually questions like this misrepresent the position of one person vs. another. Missing any nuances
What I truly appreciate about Dr Mcdougall is this: " if you can't figure out what to do about your health, just eat potatoes, or sweet potatoes and water, until you figure it out."
The SIMPLICITY of the starch based diet, that stands alone in a sea of 'what to eat' confusion.
Same goes for broccoli and rice! Both 'meals' are nutritionally perfect and require no thought
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@Phil Adams , haven't had Steamed kale & brown rice in years, that's another good combo with Dr. Braggs liquid aminos!
I just keep remembering that as a child growing up, the only thing I would eat was mashed potatoes, spaghetti, and cream of wheat. Those were my favorites, and would not eat the meat that my mother was trying to get me to eat. I had to make a wide circle to get back to that place.
McDougaller here - May I even refer to myself as a Star McDougaller?? 😂 I started eating this way 20 months ago. I was obese and had a lot of minor health issues at age 42. Within a couple weeks, I was relieved of my constant headaches, heartburn, acid reflux, dizzy spells, heart palpitations, and aches and pains. Within 15 months I had lost 75lbs and now easily maintain a healthy BMI of 21. What an amazing revelation after decades of yo-yo dieting and trying every other “diet” I’d heard of! I’m so grateful to Dr. McDougall for continuing to share this information! ❤
What did you eat and how?
@@Ananimous7777 If she followed Dr. McDougall's advice, she must have been on a WFPB diet, focusing on starches like brown rice, potatoes, lentils, beans, and the like. And that's great food, that fills you up, is nutritious, and tasty, and you can eat as much as you want and feel great all the time. I've done it for almost 4 years and never felt so good
Yes, you´re absolutely right, Dr. McDougall. Here in Germany, starch is called "Stärke" and this word means strength.
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Aber die Bücher von Dr. McDougall, Caldwell Esselstyn und Familie kann ich sehr empfehlen, falls Sie nach Informationen suchen. Auf der Homepage von Dr. McDougall finden Sie auch kostenfrei sämtliche Infos, die man braucht, ebenso wie in unzähligen RUclips Videos! Viel Erfolg Ihnen!
Wow!
Omg I love this!
I’m German and I can confirm that “starch” in German is “Stärke”, and it also means strength, force, power, fortitude 🥰
I went "potato" wfpb 6 years ago, lost 100 pounds, and kept it off. Me like potato. :-)
Sweet potatoes 🍠, Cook them and 🍃, Stir fry them. One minute. No oil !!!
@@VeganV5912 I took off 35 pounds on potatoes only about 4 years ago and just watch the scale and go back on potatoes when I gain 5 pounds. Works like a charm!
Congrats!!!😍
Do u eat russet, white & Idaho potatoes?
@@zpoedog , then why go off of them?
Dr. McDougall; on behalf of all the unhealthy vegetarians who you have SAVED - THANK YOU - God Bless You!
I was a vegetarian for over 35 years and I was fat and miserable. Isn’t this crazy? When I read your book the Starch Solution I was so overcome with gratitude that you dedicated a whole Chapter to the ‘Fat Vegetarian.’ I began your diet that very day. I dropped all dairy, oil, nuts and seeds. Guess what? I have never lost weight so fast in my LIFE! I lost 40 lbs, went from size 14 to size 8 in only 3 months! And, I was post menopause!!!! You have changed the life of millions. Saving us from being trapped in miserable and uncomfortable bodies.
God Bless you…. 💗💕💗
He is just beaming with pride at his daughter!
She looks just like him!
Dr McDougall, thank you for repeating the same message for decades. I am slow to change and require hearing the same truth over and over and you are such a pleasant person to help.
Same here Steve. I am extremely slow to change. I don't trust a lot of information I hear or read but am slowly coming around to Dr. McDougall's way of thinking.
I am starting to eat more vegetables for fiber to prepare to change my diet to a starch diet. I have MS and poor digestion so I tend to be extra careful in any changes I make.
I hope you and I both are able to make and sustain the changes needed to follow this doctors great advice.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing...
@@JoAnn_Vegan_USA I worked in Long Term Care, too...and you're right, it's sad to see people suffering in a place that contributes to the proliferation if illness and does nothing to help these people truly heal. It's the food that contributes to their decline. It's very sad.
@32.50 I grew up on rice and beans. I ran out of rice and decided to give potatoes and beans a try and my body loved it. It felt as if my brain and guts were at the Olympics celebrating that I had finally figured out this simple nutritious combo after all these years.
This is my diet now for 3 years. Potatoes are my favorite starch.
You can’t be serious lol. Try sweet potato instead
You saved my life Dr. McDougall when you got me off Paleo in 2013. If you had not had Paleo in your description I would not have have watched your video. I was a die hard Paleo and I was mad at you when you criticized the Wheat Belly diet. But I kept watching more of your videos. I bought all your books and now I am a die McDougler . Thank you again for saving my health!!!!
Ditto. I am about a year post keto/low carb and my gut bacteria has been severely compromised as a result. Can't eat veggies like broccoli as I used to, just zucchini, mainly. It's slow going, but I'll get there. The thing that is saving my life right now is plantains, since they are astringent/resistant starch and they help with the diarrhea. Following a "pitta" dosha pacifying diet (Ayurveda), which coincides with the the starch based approach taught here.
I read your book "Starch solution" 7 months ago. Before I was a vegetarian and my health problems were always frustrating my life at that time ... High cholesterol, fatigue, weight gain even though I only ate 2 times a day, salads and low calorie meals ... I was frustrated. Since I started following your advice, I have lost 25 pounds. My cholesterol is perfect ... Your studies and efforts to give us all this information have paid off. I will be eternally grateful!
Will forever miss you dr. Mcdougall! You changed our life! Will miss your videos for sure as well as your consistency of information. It never changed. Thank you!❤
I agree - the potato has changed my life steamed potato - crisped in an air fryer = yum yum. My blood pressure was high and unstable. My blood pressure has normalized. Well compared to before. But I can now include exercise - so I'm really aiming at really getting healthy.
I went to mostly potatoe a year ago. I was chasing potassium. Soon potatoes was all I wanted and I did not get tired of them. Lost 38 pounds much to my surprise. Love potatoes.
I have watched this lecture about 20 times now, and everytime I discover a new thing. It's my favorite video on youtube, and made me go plant based. 31 of august 2022 was my 1 year anniversary of going plant based, and iam never going back! Potato's for life!
Keep going, keep going
RIP Doc your work will live on!
May Dr. McDougall rest in peace! Thank you for all your work!
Dr. McDougall, like so many people have said, you have changed my life! I was so sick, physically and emotionally, and I would not have taken the leap had I not stumbled across your videos and your books. You make it all so very simple and unintimidating. I hope one day you win the nobel peace prize!
@Milica Skenderovic good for you! I'll check it out..
My breakfast today was mashed garlic potatoes and some steamed brussels! This is one of my favorite staple meals
When I was living in Jordan, I ate primarily potatoes and it was the healthiest I'd ever been. Now, watching these videos, I know he's completely right.
I've always been a follower of Dr
McDougal. We're lucky to have you.
I have a suggestion to make,something I picked up in an article I read on the internet…put a sponge or two in your bag of potatoes in your fridge( this works for other veggies too) the sponge will draw up the moisture,this works and I keep a few sponges in my fridge and with my bags of veggies…from a happy potato lover🥰🥰🥰
You’re the best, Dr. McDougall! I never tire of hearing your talks.
Buy a few large buckets. Drill some drainage holes in the bottom. Put a small layer of compost at the bottom. Arrange potato eyes. Water the plants. Add more compost or potting soil as the potato grows. Can be grown on a small balcony.
Tomatoes, radishes, spinach, beans, peas and sweet potato in the same way. Easy. Try it!
Potatoes cost $CDN 4.00 for a 10 pound bag and are frequently on sale for half that. You could not grow them that cheap. I can't see lugging buckets of dirt up 3 stories to my balcony!
Thx! Love this!
I eat 1 pound of boiled potatoes every day. I am lean with a normal BMI.
How do you prepare them? What do you season them with?
What do you eat it with.
I love, love, love fingerling or other small potatoes cut in half with dill relish. I roast sweet potatoes, potatoes and cook 4 cups of rice every Sunday then just have salads, steamed veggies and soups etc...with my favourite starches. I sailed through menopause, no symptoms at all and weigh the same as I did in high school. My last bloodwork was "immaculate" according to my doctor. Best healthy eating plan ever, it'sjust back to basics, simple. Good luck!
Same as me... I swapped all bread for baby boiled Potatoes... Usually I have smoked mackerel and boiled eggs for breakfast .. I lost 14lbs in first 6weeks and stayed at 170lb, doing gym Crossfit training 5 times a week... I'm not massive just athletic fast with max endurance
I have known this deep down for years and have tried every diet that deleted these foods. When I was fed up with diet fads… I decided to eat only what I wanted… plants and potatoes… for the first time in years I felt full and satisfied. Totally agree with you and this is exactly how I eat now and feel much better! Thank you!
I got fat and sick enough I felt like what could it hurt to give this a try. Immediately my life changed. I used to be so constipated the only way I could have a bowel movement was to have a morning enema. I lived this way for most of my life. The first day of this diet I was fixed. Dr McDougal has many videos on colon issues that are right on point. I am so grateful for his work and putting this information out there. I say to anyone just try it and to Dr Mcdougal thank you.
U could have a sluggish or dead thyroid too. Very iodine deficient!
What exactly did you eat to fix constipation ? Did you eat a lot of cruciferous veggies?
Start taking magnesium constipation
Today, I ate potatoes, pasta and sourdough bread and was I blown away! I actually played really well today! (Tennis) I didn’t realize that I was getting weaker and weaker over time when I was on my diet.
I have been eating predominantly rice, veggies and fruits and fish. I realized that I wasn’t eating enough carbs!
I have been binge watching all of the videos in your channel, so I tried eating more carbs today. I actually felt stronger!!!
Thank you so much, Dr. McDougall for sharing your knowledge! More power to you and your family and everyone around you!
Just picked up the book
The Starch Solution… my Irish and German ancestors would be so proud!
The green in potatoes is mainly caused by light exposure. It happens when growing them if they happen to become exposed, or when left out on the counter. With that said, simply cut off or peel off the green parts and eat away. As for the roots, simply cut them off and cut out the area right around where the root was and the potato is just fine to eat. Store potatoes in a cool, dry, and DARK place.
Dr. McDougall is so right! Truth never has to change and when it works, it works!! Potatoes have definitely been helping me and I never seem to get tired of them because I can eat them so many different ways!
You are a genius, dr. Mcdougall. I have been eating starches ever since i first listened to you 1 year ago. I finally feel hunger satisfied. I am so happy i found you. Thank you. I tell everyone.... eat more starch. (The more starch they eat, the less animals they eat.)
I love this man’s energy and soul 😂 he is a true rebel and is so passionate about this .
Potatoes, beans.and rice. I could live on that and be happy.
I do😊
Woefully inadequate!
Since starting my starch centered diet my cholesterol and triglycerides levels have plummeted and my blood pressure is lower. I've also lost weight and I eat all I want. Starch rocks.
How long did this take?
What's your blood type? I'm type O & been on this diet amost 7 yrs & can't get cholesterol under 190 & tryglycerides are always high @ 250
@@jgrysiak6566
Do u took any fruit juices since starch diet ?
@@RAY-bg2po , got them out. Haven't had blood work done since Nov
Antioxidants can help in your Trygeseride plus cholesterol level
It’s funny how listening to this in the background reduces my stress and anxiety. Maybe it’s because it’s strengthening what I already know to be true. Maybe because it separates out the bullshit. Idk. Love it.
And as he says....the word starch means "strength" in German
The healthiest foods are the cheapest. best diet ever for my soccer and pocket. love your work dr. mcdougal
put spaces in your sentences or it becomes a hot link
@@johngaspar4425 thx haha didnt notice
Indeed😊
A 20 lb bag of potatoes is $10 where I live. I ate about half of that in a week… $5/week of food 😂 how can you beat that? And I feel amazing
HI
Thank you so much! This has been so paradigm shifting for me after following a low carb diet, [ which HAS reduced my cravings and blood sugar spikes and crashes, mainly due to having sourdough bread instead of the fast rise store bought white bread,] but this lecture has provided a grounding in solid knowledge as to what the real culprit was, and that is highly refined starches, Potatoes provide complex carbs so ALL GOOD. I am reminded of Rudolf Nureyev the famous Russian ballet dancer who had grown up in poor circumstances, eating only potatoes, but having a superb healthy athletic physique none the less! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.
"I developed a passion" is a beautiful statement and what most people lack for true positive impactful change to their lives.
Dr McDougall, You truly are God sent. I just starting your program and can’t wait to see the results. I’ve been everywhere looking for, what you are helping your fellow man and woman with these last 4 decades. May God Bless you and your family, with long life. Christina A. 😊❤️🙏🏾
Yes 😊
One of the most persuasive Doctors I’ve ever listened to. Just an amazing teacher. 🌟😄
Red potatoes, carrots, navy beans (and sometimes red beets) boiled for 1.5 hours and then mashed. I seperately cool diced onyons, garlic, tomato, squash (and sometimes cabbage and/or eggs). I put the mash flattened out on the plate and topped with the vegetables. Truely wonderful.
Dr McDougall, you are a godsend! Thank you for all the work you do to keep us healthy!
Truth doesn't change. I appreciate Dr. McDougall's confidence and consistency in his beliefs.
potatoes are my favorite food!!! so glad for this!! purple sweet potatoes and red ones are so good as well.yummmmmm
Potatoes will never cause indigestion, it is my preferred food even though I grew up with rice
The Starch Solution has made me healthy. Seven years eating starches and my blood work is perfect. I do love my potatoes & beans stew over rice, THANK YOU!
I was watching live when this was on. It's a great program!
Thank you. Everybody should know this. More power to you.
O I will never get enough of these wonderful talks by you Dr Mcdougall!! Ty so much! I was eating a big bowl of split pea soup and a steamed potato while listening!!! 🤣Ty Heather for all you do also! Love you both!!!!❤️🥰🌺❤️
McDougall is always right. I do weightlifting. In the bulking season, I eat rice and various beans. When summer is approaching, I switch to a potato and cabbage diet, and I get shredded. You can grate cheese (which I don't eat) on my abs.
Already watched this 2 or 3 times. This is just such a good reminder for what to focus on when eating 🥔🌾🌽
This is such a noble cause 🙂 God bless the father daughter duo with long life. You are doing great service to humanity
Basic foods, like potatos, along with rice, are associated with long life in MANY cultures around the world! Who does not like these foods? Pharmaceutical companies!
@Milica Skenderovic, Mag. Pharm. Cool! In my younger years, I was a pharmacy tech, then a bio-med electronics tech! I worked in both civilan and military hospitals.
Yes😅😅😅
Well stated!
When i listen to my body, i got healthy. For 2-3 weeks after my cancer surgery, i didn’t have appetite for meat or anything. I ended up just eating steamed sweet potato & potato for 3 months straight.
@@EverythingLvl what’s non food?
Dr Macdougal and Heather, I’m 77, no medication’s, my grandson has type one diabetes he developed it at six years old, thank you so much I’m not hungry anymore
Thank you very much, I never knew about the potato and I’ve been a vegan since I am 35
@@carolpessin4006potstoes are life
I love these videos McDougall imo is genuinely hilarious, in the best of ways.
Dear Dr.McDougall you have changed also my life. Thank you
Amazing simplicity like this can calm your system and synchronize it with your spirit so that you are open, if you so desire, to following a harmonious and healing existence, starting with your most basic function of eating and drinking.
Yes 😊
Such a great lession! Thank you both - may God bless you!
@Milica Skenderovic, Mag. Pharm.
Oh, i looked for your channel and subscribed - very interesting content! Thank you! Good luck!
I have been trying to do Dr. Brooke Goldner's healing protocol for autoimmune disease. I LOVE the smoothies. I never get sick since I've been drinking them but I was sooooooo hungry eating only the smoothies plus raw food. Potatoes have saved the day! I am able to eat an abundance of potatoes in addition to the smoothies without aggravating the arthritis! Now, I'm just praying for weightloss! I lost 45 pounds over a year ago but have been stuck in my 170's for over a year as well. I'm thinking that I slowed my metabolism by not eating enough. Hopefully my new routine will help me to drop weight! Thank you for teaching me about my need for starch! I'm a good Irish lady lol!
If you are still adding flax or chia and avocados as recommended by dr Brook, go completely fat free and eat fruit greens and potatoes and you will loose weight ! Promise
If you have Cuban roots, you know that yucca and malanga are two starch staples of the Cuban diet, so there are variations of the potato around the world that are excellent "starches"
I have Cuban friends & they never eat those. Just fried plantains!
Thank you Dr. McDougall and Heather for this brilliant podcast. Much appreciation.
Thank you, thank you thank you. What a blessing you are Dr. McDougall your insights and knowledge of health nutrition has saved my life and the lives of thousands of others. God bless you and Mary.
I got diagnosed with T2 a couple of years ago and I immediately began to cry because I thought I’d never be able to have potatoes again. I’ve always said if I had to choose only food to eat for the rest of my life, it would be potatoes. I just started Starch Solution and potatoes are spiking the hell out of my blood sugar, but I’m going to stick with it because potatoes are life!! Just need to push through until all that fat gets out of my cells. I wish I knew how long that might take.
How are you doing these days? How is your diabetes?
Update please?
@@contrarian717 it took about six weeks but it worked! I got to the point where I could eat potatoes and have very very close to normal blood sugar every time and sometimes completely normal. Once I ate two small baked potatoes and a baked sweet potato at the same meal and my blood sugar was under 90!
I’ve since started eating a bit more fat and my numbers are creeping up a little so I’m going to have to cut the oil out again. Staying super low fat is crucial for keeping those glucose numbers down.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 interesting, thank you
Thank you for this info. So well researched and yet so simple!
I’d listen to this everyday to detox from keto mindset, those doctors saying carbs aren’t essential.
"Detox"??? Lol!!!
I didn’t know seitan wasn’t healthy. I’m still learning from the beloved❤️Dr. McDougall. Thanks so much.
I love your presentation dr McDougall and heather thank you for being a valuable blessing and inspiration with your dad , love the whole food plant based lifestyle so enjoyable 💝
Thank you so much for this wonderful information and your lifelong work !!!
Love Dr. McDougall!! Great informative video. Thank you for all you do. I have 2 of your books. Life changing for me.
I've been living this way for almost 10 years. I love watching these videos.I say that as I eat lunch of sweet potatoes lentils quinoa red pepper purple cabbage and crazy hot sauce and some yeast and of course turmeric and pepper.
I fully agree 😊
Simple diet. Yes, it's so simple, but I actually eat more variety now than I ever did before Plant Based.
I’ve been eating nothing, but potatoes and an oatmeal based “cheese” sauce for the past 33 days and I’m down 30 pounds with no exercise. I’m going to continue for the rest of this month and switch it up a little the next.
Please do some form if exercise. We need movement. Just walking 30 minutes a day is so good for our mind and body. Enjoy nature.
@@cares3262 it’s starting to get nice outside so I will 😊
Congratulations!
@@poppyseedprtheremix8362 Wonderful all around! You're going to be so pleasantly surprised when you start to exercise. The energy and recovery you have on a plant based diet is truly amazing!
Chef AJ, who also loves Dr McDougall, recommends eating two pounds of leafy greens a day. Add steamed kale to the potatoes every day, and you’ll have a much healthier diet. Basically, potatoes and oatmeal and leafy greens are my main diet as well.
So happy to see Dr. McDougall sharing. Glad to see Heather for my first time. Thank you Dr. McDougall and Heather.
I have an air fryer... it makes the best French fry’s and potatoes with no oil...
I absolutely love the air fryer. Such a great tool in this way of eating
@@MissAtson so true... especially when I’m trying to get away from fried foods... I’m reading Dr Bulsiewicz book “Fiber Fueled” right now... so similar to Dr McDougal’s plan of eating.. it’s fascinating and makes so much sense..
I live in southwest Texas, the desert. Potatoes grow pretty well. Red seem to do best. Yukons do okay as well.
By the way, thank you for all you do for us to be healthy. I started two week ago and I am feeling so much better. Thank God I don't have any condition but I was feeling so bloated from all the stuff I was eating before "the poison food".
I’m new to plant base and hearing so much of your dad and I’m ready to order the book. Starch Solution.
I eat purple yam, eddoes, potatoes, cassava and one boiled egg with Celtic salt.
Love this. Thank you, Dr. McDougall. (Just a thought, you've most likely heard of "Spuds McKenzie", I know crown you, "Spuds McDougall"!)
Onions give off a gas which will cause other vegetables to spoil or to do other things. Storing raw potatoes in the fridge causes the starch to become simple sugars ruining the benefits of the tuber.
I tried some butter on Easter. Tasted terrible... salty and oily. It's been years since I've eaten butter and lately have been mentally obsessed... not sure why, but glad I waited till I could try it at someone else's home, and not buy any. Not obsessed any more... lol. Thanks for the message. I'm listening while doing my housework. Read your book, "The McDougall Plan" when it first came out. Sure got me going on the right path. Thank you.
Try real butter w/o salt. Sounds more like margarine to me.
@@itzakehrenberg3449 ... Nope... Real butter. Yuk!
All plants have some level of toxins, potatoes are especially toxic in the skins, but some are worse than others. Indigenous people in South America eat potatoes with a sauce made from types of clay which effectively detoxify the potatoes and makes them safe to eat.
What, Bentonite Clay? Lmk😊
Since 1st grade, in Armenia, my mother would always feed me and my sister bread with jam or bread with honey for breakfast, and she’d say, “Eat sugar so you do well in school.” I never ate eggs or meat for breakfast, and I was a straight A student. Potatoes have always been my favorite lunch or dinner food, albeit usually made with oils, but still. My husband and children, however, don’t like potatoes unless it’s tater tots. 😒
I have tried the carnivore diet 5 times. It always makes me sick, and gives me diahrea for months. A fruit and vegetable diet has never, ever made me sick !
I love it when you talk about potatoes there my favourite food
This was an excellent presentation; Dr McDougall is amazing ! 💙💯
Love you two and thank you 🙏🏾 😊 you have helped me tremendously.
Its not the potatoes, its what we put on top of them!
so informative and interesting, cant wait for part 2
Have you seen any relationship between eating potatoes and helping seasonal environmental allergies? Thank you - this video is very informative!
Just discovered you and looking forward to more from you. Also will check bookstore for your book . Thank You. All so I and a friend at my church are in a stage 4 kidney disease and we want to hang in there and never go on dialysis . We both are in our late middle 70 's .
Respect! Thank you Dr McDougall. Keep saying the truth.
👍🏽Thanks helpful and interesting. Also intuitive to eat the same food we did as we were evolving. Add in organic whole food and plant based dietary lifestyle along with fasting and psychedelic therapy and immersion in nature.. we have all we need to be healthy when with our Mother Earth💚🙏🏽
In my jurney to India the best considered food even in restaurants were mainly made of potatos! 😋💛That's how I became potato conscious😇Thank you Dr. for all your efforts to make people know the real values of potatos🙏
"Potato conscious" ☺️
Thoroughly enjoyed watching both parts. Thank you so very much for your kindness in sharing your invaluable life's work!
I'm "in" :-)
Love your information, thank you!