Shivam Joshi, MD
Dr. Shivam Joshi is a board-certified physician with an interest in plant-based health and evolutionary diets. He serves as a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He completed his nephrology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor of science from Duke University and his MD from the University of Miami. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. Joshi has published over a dozen scientific articles on various topics in medicine. He is currently writing a book on the adverse health effects of a carnivorous diet. You can follow him on his blog and on Twitter.
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See articleWhy Every Vegan and Vegetarian Needs Vitamin B12
Eating a plant-based diet is one of the most healthful actions you can take, but it carries the very serious and potentially fatal risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Although plant-based diets are full of other vitamins and minerals, they are generally devoid of vitamin B12. Vitamin B12, or cobalamin, is naturally found in animal foods […] -
See articleWhy You Should Have a Fruit-Filled Summer
If you’re like most Americans, you probably aren’t eating enough fruit: Americans eat a single serving of fruit per day, on average. In fact, only a small minority—24 percent and 13 percent, respectively, of the population—are meeting the recommended minimum for fruit and vegetable consumption, which is between 5 and 9 servings per day. Low […] -
See articleCalorie Density Is the Key to Weight Loss
Losing weight is hard. We make progress, and then we find ourselves back where we started—or worse, even heavier than before. It’s almost as if our bodies are working against our weight loss goals, and that’s because they are. For millions of years our bodies have been conditioned to hold onto calories, not lose them. […] -
See articleWhat Is Chronic Kidney Disease and How Do You Prevent It?
WHAT IS KIDNEY DISEASE? Kidney disease, or CKD (chronic kidney disease), refers to any process that damages the kidney. The kidneys are the body’s filter and regulator for many of the contents in the blood. When the kidneys are damaged, their ability to regulate the amount of water, electrolytes, and toxins in the blood and […] -
See articleGot High Blood Pressure? Here’s How to Bring It Down Naturally
Blood Pressure: How High Is Too High? In November of 2017, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology released new guidelines on high blood pressure, or hypertension, stating that the cutoff for diagnosis is now 130/80. (Previously, the cutoff was 140/90.) GET OUR FREE 20-PAGE ULTIMATE PLANT-BASED BEGINNER’S GUIDE As a result […] -
See articleWhy You Should Say No to the Keto Diet
The keto diet has swept the country with promises of diabetes reversal and weight loss. In the luster of the diet, we need to consider: Is this too good to be true? Like any number of fad diets that have come and gone over the years, the keto diet has more marks of wily marketing […] -
See articleWhy the Paleo Diet Doesn’t Make Sense
The Paleo diet seems like a great idea: eat like a caveman to avoid the diseases of civilization. The logic, so it goes, is that our bodies are a product of the Stone Age, and even though we have temporally left the Paleolithic period, our biology has not changed and remains ill-equipped to handle volleys […]
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