Feb 28 2025 30 mins
Medicare Options and Heart Health in The Villages
In this episode of Open Forum in The Villages, Florida, host Mike Roth interviews Jim Bodenner, the president of the National Retiree Legislative Network. They explore the differences between Medicare Advantage Plans and traditional Medicare, the significant issues surrounding Advantage Plans, and recent terminations affecting 1 to 2 million participants. Jim shares his personal experience with a heart health crisis while traveling and the critical care he received due to traditional Medicare and a Medicare G supplement plan. He further delves into plant-based nutrition, wellness, and his engagement with the Whole Food Plant-Based Club, emphasizing the importance of managing health proactively. The episode also touches on a groundbreaking Ornish program approved by Medicare, linking plant-based nutrition to potentially slowing down or reversing Alzheimer’s disease. It ends with a mention of upcoming episodes and a call for support and listener engagement.
00:00 Introduction to the Open Forum Podcast
00:57 Support the Podcast: How You Can Help
01:38 Meet Jim Bodenner: Discussing Medicare
02:14 Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare
03:59 Real-Life Stories: The Impact of Medicare Plans
07:25 Jim's Personal Health Journey
11:30 Discovering Plant-Based Nutrition
13:43 The Ornish Program: A Game Changer
20:31 Alzheimer's Disease and Plant-Based Diets
27:43 Conclusion and Listener Engagement
Studies on Alzheimer's and a Plant Based Diet:
Reversal of Alzheimer’s Disease:
CNN Anderson Cooper interview with Dean Ornish:
The Last Alzheimer's Patient - The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper - Podcast on CNN Audio
The following are links to a peer reviewed scientific study published on June 7, 2024 that shows that a whole food, plant based diet can slow or reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ornish Alzheimer’s study. A video of results;
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-alzheimers-disease-be-reversed-with-a-plant-based-diet/
A second video:
Time Magazine article about the study:
https://apple.news/A2ziPLCwcRda5ggOVArlmVA
Full peer reviewed study:
https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s13195-024-01482-z.pdf?
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