Ana M Negrón, MD.

03/28/2022

Presentación en español acerca de cómo recobrar la salud a través de nuestra alimentación ancestral.

02/14/2022

https://www.telemundo51.com/local/comida-como-cura-el-documental/2268008/

¿Existe una dieta que pueda prevenir y sanar enfermedades crónicas? La reportera investigativa Myriam Masihy busca respuestas y cuenta su batalla contra una enfermedad crónica.

01/09/2021

Mask up, keep distance, wash hands, and get the vaccine when your turn comes.

10/07/2020

Birthday present

Scientific research reveals without a doubt that eating animals is not good for us, for our health, or the planet. But, what kind of research brings us evidence that killing animals is wrong?

I began this vegan journey over thirty years ago when I saw myself embedded in the world around me. A well of emotions fed my soul’s decision.

At first my loud and unapologetic judgements were mocked and criticized. The reactions were unexpected and unpleasant, but the rejection was easy to take—I was fueled by justified anger.

Soon another experience visited me. I was out of bounds with my medical colleagues—accused of being unprofessional not based in evidence. Already stacked against me were being Latina woman mother—I could only keep a place among my brethren advancing their values.

This meant I sanitized my declamation and cleared it of all emotion—learned to use science as a shield. I mastered the language of scientific evidence.

Moving away from showing my true self, I even heard myself denouncing the term veganism in favor of the more clinical Whole Foods Plant Based. This descriptive phrase facilitated a belief that I might be able to command respect while advocating for a diet without animals.

I retreated into the proverbial closet reserved for those not accepted by society and forced to live a double life.

When asked, “So, do you advocate veganism?”, feeling judged I wrapped tight in my white shell coat, turned cynical, and would say something like ‘you can call yourself vegan eating French fries and drinking Coca Cola’. After which I always felt a deep embarrassing painful sadness.

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Last night I spoke to a friend. She possesses deep courage, enormous conviction, and crystal clear clarity. Feminism is vegan she said. For the first time in a long time, my soul did not feel timid. Each living being has one unalienable right and that is to live life on their own terms.

Dancing around this elephant in our room, looking to convince ourselves that eating animals is bad because it hurts our health—accepting the untold violence perpetrated on mostly females of these species. This is wrong, a betrayal, and our souls know it.

What right do we have to steal and use another sentient being? We need to gaze again into each other’s eyes and let ourselves feel. We need to stop searching for reasons and simply show love and respect to one another. Me first.

08/23/2020

Check out the recording of this PCRM hosted event of 8/22/20:
Mas Plantas, Mas Salud en español

03/29/2020

HEALTH CARE IS OUR JOB by Ana M. Negrón, MD

A diet based on eating plants—grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, with a few nuts and seeds—protects us from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and many cancers. Eating a plant-food diet is naturally low in fat, can arrest disease, and even reverse it! Prescriptions address symptoms—our diet works on the root cause.

Eating plants is far more nutritious than eating the animal (cow, chicken, or fish) who already benefited from the plants they ate. Plant foods are anti-inflammatory, are loaded with nutrients, are the only source of phyto-chemicals, feed our beneficial intestinal bacteria, and help repair damage done by free radicals. In fact plants are the optimal food for our species.

Meat, eggs, and cheese are not the natural foods of humans—they make us sick.

Along with not smoking, keeping our bodies in motion, and aiming for a restorative sleep without pills every night, the way we choose to eat is core to health care.

Health insurance is a lifeline to the medical system—for when we need life sustaining medications, fall suddenly sick, need to fix a broken bone, require emergency services, or when all else failed to keep us healthy.

Health depends on great nutrition, exercise, and sleep. It also depends on having shelter, food, and a basic income. In other words, health care is our job.

But, how can people do their job when we have abandoned them and continue to keep them from meeting these very basic needs?

03/25/2020

Genes and Us

Among their many roles, genes carry encoded messages for health and disease. Epigenetic research shows that the genes that win are the ones we feed. As some have said, our family tree loads the gun, but we pull the trigger.

The corona virus or COVID-19 pandemic is catching us in the midst of our own public health epidemic—one of rising rates of obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, making heart attacks the leading cause of death in this country.

These debilitating conditions compromise the immune system making the host more vulnerable to deal with threats, like the one we face today.

Chronic diseases have blossomed amidst a plethora of food that was never central to our existence. Meats, cheese, eggs, and extracted ingredients (flour, sugar, oil)—are not natural human food. Much like disease models in research laboratories where animals are on purpose made sick with food that is not of their species, humans have become sick on meat and dairy.

Challenges never cease—the key is in how we respond. The current pandemic is a crisis of epic proportions, but also perhaps a crisis of opportunities. We could reevaluate the medical paradigm of treating symptoms. Instead we might transition to a model where we promote the public’s health with excellent nutrition, regular exercise, restorative sleep, reduced stress, and a concern for each other, including the stranger we never met.

These are the pillars of health tested over hundreds of years and adopted by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. The Blue Zones of the world are examples of how a mostly whole foods plant diet low in fat yields longer lives without disabilities.

Let us focus on achieving the highest levels possible of health and immune competence, for each individual—it is within our power to do so. For over fifteen years my patients have enjoyed cooking with me an anti-inflammatory diet of whole plants low in fat, affordable, nutritious, delicious, and above all healing—fruits, legumes, vegetables, and whole grains.

We are eating the food of our species and enjoying its benefits.

10/22/2019

I am just returning from a Food and Climate Forum in México City. What most impressed me is not the profound understanding of the connection between climate and our meat and dairy diet, but that almost every person with whom I spoke had already changed their eating behavior and were advocating for it in their circle of family, friends, and coworkers. Such sense of responsibility in action is a model for every individual.

10/04/2019

Many physicians smoke, drink, eat junk food, love meat and cheese, or follow a low carb diet.
Some health professionals never floss, exercise, wear seatbelts, or get vaccinated,
We must understand that these practices reflect personal opinions and preferences—
they are not recommendations based on established scientific evidence.
Beware of anyone who gives you good news about your bad habits—
do they wish you health or do they want your attention?

05/29/2019

Come to the screening of Code Blue: Redefining the Practice of Medicine - a documentary showing one day only in Phoenixville's The Colonial this Saturday June 1st at 1:30. Stay for a discussion with Drs. Saray Stancic and Ana M Negrón.

04/10/2019

Macro Magic - Ana M. Negron, MD