Pankaj Vij - Turbo Metabolism: 8 Weeks to a New You: Preventing and Reversing Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, and Other Metabolic Diseases by Treating the Causes

Praise for Turbo Metabolism

With Turbo Metabolism, you can carry Pankaj Vij with you as a personal trainer, careful researcher, and model physician. A leader in culinary medicine and a doc who enthusiastically walks the talk, Dr. Vij prefers to help you change your lifestyle rather than have you simply lose weight temporarily. In this book, he helps you become a better, healthier, more energetic you.

John La Puma, MD, founder of Chef Clinic and New York Timesbestselling author of REFUEL, The RealAge Diet, and ChefMDs Big Book of Culinary Medicine

This wonderful work is the synthesis of the most effective, proven strategies for thriving. If you think no two experts agree, read this book. It will change your life.

Partha Nandi, MD, FACP, author of Ask Dr. Nandi: 5 Steps to Becoming Your Own #HealthHero for Longevity, Well-Being, and a Joyful Life

Dr. Vij has written an authoritative and exceptional book with great clarity. His wisdom and compassion come through in the effective strategies he offers to shepherd us toward a life of wellness, balance, and harmony. I highly recommend this gem of a book.

Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, author of The Big Five and professor of medicine, Harvard University

Turbo Metabolism is the kind of book Id like every one of my patients to read. By championing wellness through his superb understanding of metabolism, Dr. Vij gently but effectively coaches readers through the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet, regular physical activity, and stress reduction. Readers will not only enhance their health but emerge joyful and feeling whole. I recommend it highly.

Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, FACC, author of The Heart of Wellness

Dr. Pankaj Vij unlocks the keys to metabolic health in Turbo Metabolism. His plant-based prescription has the power to save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in health-care spending, and to reinvigorate our medical system into a state in which wellness comes first.

Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, author of Dr. Neal Barnards Program for Reversing Diabetes

I am certain that Turbo Metabolism will be the catalyst to a movement toward healthier and more fulfilling lives. We are eating, sitting, and stressing ourselves to poor health and even early death, and we need to be slapped awake. Turbo Metabolism is the wake-up call to let you know that your grocer and personal trainer may be more important health allies than even your health-care provider. Read and implement the strategies in this book, and your health will bloom.

Joel Kahn MD, FACC, author of The Whole Heart Solution

Copyright 2018 by Pankaj Vij, MD

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

The material in this book is intended for education. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. Please consult a qualified health-care practitioner before beginning any diet or exercise program. Any application of the material set forth in the following pages is at the readers sole discretion and risk, and the author and publisher assume no responsibility for any actions taken either now or in the future. No expressed or implied guarantee of the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given or liability taken.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Vij, Pankaj K., [date]- author.

Title: Turbo metabolism: 8 weeks to a new you: preventing and reversing diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and other metabolic diseases by treating the causes / Pankaj K. Vij, MD, FACP; foreword by Joel Fuhrman, MD.

Description: Novato, California: New World Library, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017044312 (print) | LCCN 2017049843 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608684991 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781608684984 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: MetabolismDisordersPreventionPopular works. | MetabolismDisordersTreatmentPopular works.

Classification: LCC RC627.54 (ebook) | LCC RC627.54 .V55 2018 (print) | DDC 616.3/90654dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044312

First printing, February 2018

ISBN 978-1-60868-498-4

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-499-1

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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This is gratefully dedicated to all my patients who have had the courage to trust in the healing power of their own bodies.

Contents

N ow is the time to change your health destiny and finally get well. Remaining overweight and diabetic not only can kill you it will also make you suffer needlessly for years. Modern nutritional science has shown that we can wipe out what I call these diseases of nutritional ignorance. Nutritional excellence can not only prevent cardiovascular illness but also reverse it, even in advanced cases. It can also reverse type 2 diabetes.

The finest doctors are master coaches who motivate their patients to adopt healthful practices that can enable self-healing. This describes Dr. Vij, an elite physician who stays up to date on the recent advances in science and is committed to your health and recovery. He is an example of a new breed of physician who addresses causation and avoids the needless and excessive use of medications and surgical procedures to treat chronic disease.

The underlying theme of this small but powerful book is that you can finally achieve a normal weight and keep the excess pounds off forever, no matter how many times you have failed in the past. If you follow Dr. Vijs guidance, you can achieve an astonishing health transformation.

We are fighting a war against obesity, diabetes, and chronic overeating. But the reality is that we have been losing that war to the food industry, which has hooked the masses on dangerous and addicting processed foods. The food industry promotes unhealthy foods and food-related behaviors to consumers, and it has billions of dollars to spend on supporting their aims. Sadly, they have been successful, to a large degree, in publicizing confusing, industry-promoted science. This confusion leads to the failure of our population to adhere to a new paradigm of healthy eating. An overweight and sickly population serves the economic interests of the food and drug industry. However, in recent years, it has become more difficult to deny the overwhelming preponderance of evidence emanating from medical journals evidence that is slowly enlisting a consensus among nutritional scientists.