My doctor said he’s gone almost totally vegetarian and so have almost all of his colleagues, including all of the cardiologists.
He didn’t exactly tell me I *had* to, but said that his decision was ‘evidenced based’ and his stated intent is to be healthy at 100.
He’s a fairly conservative, intelligent and sane person; doing the opposite of ‘do what I say, not what I do’, so it carries a lot of weight.
It all depends on the individual. Some people do well on a vegetarian diet, others do not.
‘evidenced based’ means that unless there’s a blood test or image or number of some kind, then you are not sick.
self-reported symptoms are not “evidence”. Neither is clinical experience for that matter. In other words, ‘evidence based’ docs are little better than human veterinarians ...
you should run kicking and screaming away from any doc that likes to throw around the term “evidence based”. A really good cardiologist is all about clinical experience and judgement, because almost nothing in the cardiac world is cut and dried ...