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Go Un-Pro with Dr. Brent W. Laartz, MD FIDSA: Living an Unprocessed Life for Longevity and HealthspanHave you ever known that something is SO good for you that you just can't wait, but life gets in front of you and prevents you from doing it?
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Week 23: A Doctor's 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life (opens the original)
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Week 23 · Overview Grit Meets Situation Lartz says he first read Grit twenty years ago while raising his kids. Grit remains what gets you across a hard threshold — but on its own it leaves you fighting your surroundings. Duckworth's newer book, Situations, gives him permission "to not feel guilty about making an easy path" — by choosing the people, environments, and objects around him. He estimates the environment is half the battle, and that roughly half of the environment is the people you sur
Week 22: A Doctor's 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life (opens the original)
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Health & wellness podcast Go Unpro · Week 22 of 52 Dr. Brent W. Laartz · A 52-Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life The 7-Day Raw Food Road, and Why It Is Less Traveled Framed by Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," this week trades ultra-processed convenience for a mostly raw, plant-based, whole-food challenge — layered with 5K training, a painting challenge, better sleep, and the next fabric swap. The gamble: a dozen extra years of healthy life, and everyone who gets to see them. The Unprocessed
Sunday Science 2026_09_13 Diet and Coronary Artery Disease (opens the original)
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Can Diet Actually Reverse Heart Disease? Three trials, one uncomfortable answer: the "standard American" advice given to most cardiac patients is not enough. Only intensive plant-based lifestyle change has been shown to shrink existing coronary plaque. Ornish · Intensive Vegetarian + Lifestyle 10% fat · exercise · stress mgmt −7.9% Plaque change at 5 yrs (regression) 25 cardiac events Sustained 5 years Henzel · DASH DASH + Optimal Meds mostly plant-based, lean meat OK −1.7% Non-calcified plaque
Week 21: A Doctor's 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life (opens the original)
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GO UNPRO · WEEK 21 / 52 Health & Wellness Podcast Five Pillars, Twenty-Five Practices Dr. Brent W. Laartz delineates every one of his five longevity pillars — diet, movement, sleep, connection, plastic-free living — now branches into five practices of its own. Week 21's focus lands squarely on a probiotic push paired with fermented meal prep, two-a-day workouts, and a wardrobe swap toward natural fibers. 1Diet Whole food first Mostly plant-based Fish & beans as protein Calorie restriction No pro
Week 20: A Doctor's 52 Week Journey to an Unprocessed Life (opens the original)
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Health & Longevity Podcast Week 20: The economic case for living healthier, longer Dr. Brent Laartz reframes lifestyle change as capital: an extra decade of healthspan is money, freedom, and national savings. This week is not new rules — it's a root-cause analysis of where the plan slips, and doubling down on what already works. National scale $38T economic benefit if every American lives 1 more healthy year $40T current U.S. national debt Less Medicare/Medicaid use, later Social Security draw,
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