For over 50 years, Dr. Michael Klaper has practiced medicine. And today, he says something that stops you in your tracks:

“I am profoundly embarrassed to be a physician in America today.”

Why?

Because most doctors are never trained in the most powerful tool available to prevent and reverse chronic disease: nutrition.

In this deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation, Rip sits down with Dr. Klaper to discuss his new book, Moving Medicine Forward: What More Doctors Should Know About Nutrition and How It Can Save Your Life.

Dr. Klaper shares:

• How witnessing violence in a trauma unit led him toward a philosophy of nonviolence
• The moment in the operating room that changed his understanding of heart disease forever
• Why “etiology unknown” is no longer an acceptable excuse
• The concept of the “Toxic Red Tide” flooding the bloodstream after animal-based meals
• Why obesity is a state of chronic inflammation
• How GLP-1 drugs should (and shouldn’t) be used
• What a true “Disease Reversal Clinic” could look like
• How doctors and patients alike can help move medicine forward

This episode is both a wake-up call and a roadmap. Because some chronic disease isn’t inevitable. And healing can occur.

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