Published Case Studies and Growing Recognition with Brooke Goldner, M.D.

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]And um I did get a shout out from the editorinchief uh Dr. Kim Williams because while most of the time their uh art their journal gets 5,000 views or so, mine is the only article that got almost 50,000 views. So people are reading that. We just published another uh uh case series um of showing multiple women with lupus and Shogun's disease who all were symptom free within two to six weeks and all of them continued to be symptom free for years out uh for two years, four years, eight years out, continue to be symptom free. All of them were taken off their medication by their own doctors within a year of doing my program and remained symptom free all those years afterwards. and Frontiers is one of the most downloaded uh journals in the world. So, it was very important to us. It took us three years to get it published this because I wasn't willing to publish it in some journal nobody's ever heard of. I don't want to publish just to say I'm published. I wanted to publish in a journal that people read, especially that doctors read. And doctors read and download Frontiers at a higher rate than almost any other journal out there. And what's really cool is what they have found is in Frontiers, my article has more views than 98% of all other Frontier articles, which means doctors are reading and downloading it at a higher rate than almost any other article in their journal anywhere, which is just profoundly incredible for me because that's my greatest goal is to change the medical world and uh and it's happening. So, I'm very excited to see that. I've also gotten some attention. Uh, there's my husband. I've been over 40, which I always joke is really, you look good for your age. Um, I've been in movies. Maybe you've seen some of the movies. I've been on Home and Family show. I'm always on the local news here in Texas. Um, and uh, and I love it when they give me calls to talk about health and nutrition. Um, I'm also professor for autoimmune disease and T. Colin Campbell's uh, E Cornell course. Um, I'm also the only plant-based doctor on the Forbes Health Advisory Board. So, I get to edit articles on health for Forbes.

[00:02:14]And, uh, anytime I'm editing an article, I make sure they include nutrition research as part of whatever that health uh, issue is that they're talking about.

[00:02:22]And most recently, we were featured in People magazine, which is so wild. Um, but what it tells me, and like I said, I actually never had an interest in being a public person. I wanted to just quietly treat the homeless and have a quiet life. I did. Um, but what makes me happy about this is that it's reaching people. It's reaching the mainstream.

[00:02:43]Not just those of you who've heard about this conference, but those of you who are just maybe checking out people online um and and learning that there's hope and uh and that there's another way. And that's so so meaningful for me.

[00:02:56]It's worth it to work these hours to be able to keep bringing this message to the world.

[00:03:02]Um it has been shown that diet is a key link between the rise and spread of autoimmune disease. Uh I was on the news talking about how in the Crick Institute in London they were doing genetic researchers were trying to discover what changes must have happened in genetics to make autoimmune disease rise so uh so much over the past 40 years uh and and not only rise in rates but spread to areas of the world where we never saw autoimmune disease before. And instead of finding changes in our DNA, what they found is the rise and spread of autoimmune disease exactly mirrors the rise and spread of the western diet.

[00:03:39]We've also found that autoimmune disease or not, I'm sorry, not autoimmune disease, but um COVID uh is affected by diet. So, back when COVID first hit and we had no treatments, they were starting to look at diet. And what they found is that uh diet, especially if you're on any kind of plant-based diet, it re doing a lot of talking this weekend. It reduced your odds of having a a moderate to severe COVID by 73%.

[00:04:06]Which is very very significant. Uh think about it this way. If a medication reduces your symptoms by even a few percentage points, that's considered profound. But plant-based diets were linked to 73% lower odds of COVID 19, moderate to severe cases. That's a really big deal. And uh that this uh one study uh was looking at almost 3,000 healthcare workers on the front lines.

[00:04:31]And what I think was really interesting too um was that they found that people who were on a pescatarian diet also had a better outcome than regular regular diet. But look at the difference. Only a 59% protection versus 73. A lot of people think fish is good for you. No.

[00:04:52]fish actually reduced how much protection you got. And people who were on a low carb, high protein diet, like a keto diet, actually had almost a 50% higher chance of moderate to severe COVID. These people think they're so healthy because they're looking lean and mean, and it does uh create nice lean muscle tissue while it, you know, creates higher rates of cancer and heart disease, but also uh cause much higher rate of death from COVID. So, you could have a 73% lower risk or 48% higher risk depending on if you're a plant-based or a meat-based diet.

[00:05:25]Um the conclusion they made was that a diet rich in nutrients because there are no nutrients in meat must be protective which is true but they uh they did forget to mention the dilletterious effects of meat which is what stood out to me the most because this right here showed that any meat including fish lowered your protection of your immune system which is what I found treating people from autoimmune diseases for all this time. Um Harvard study also found healthy plant foods lowered risk.

[00:05:53]Another study um in Brazil also found the plant-based diets lowered your risk.

[00:05:58]Um and uh this they always have me on the news, although this was a coincidence. They wore smoothie green to interview me that day, is that John Hopkins research has shown that there's ingredients in cruciferous vegetables, specifically cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, have an ingredient called sulurophane. It's just one of the amazing ingredients that you can find in plant foods that itself prevents COVID from being able to replicate. So, sulfurophane actually blocks viral activity. And not only does it block it in COVID, but it's also been found to block it in the cold virus, flu virus, and even things like deni. So, it's really amazing how just this one ingredient found in cruciferous vegetables actually helps your immune system because if you can block the virus from replicating, it gives your immune system time to catch up and kill it, right?

[00:06:48]And it decreased viral load in the lungs. It decreased inflammation in the lungs and protected them from that hyperactive immune response that caused, you know, that that cytoine storm that usually hear about that caused all of those really awful effects from COVID, including long COVID. Um, also that same group found that sulfurophane uh in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables actually stops cancer from growing. So, it stops uh the growth of cancer. So, cell cycle arrest, reduces cell proliferation. again different types of growth induced cell death of cancer cells. This is your your immune system is what's supposed to get rid of cancer. It's supposed to find it and kill it. But when your immune system is not working properly, not only with autoimmune, but because you're on a diet that's really inflammatory and blocking its effects and you're not eating enough cruciferous vegetables, you're going to have more cancer as well. Reduced susceptibility to carcinogens, meaning you can get exposed to carcinogens.

[00:07:47]Everyone's so scared of microlastics and and pollution, but if you are eating the right foods, then you're not going to be as susceptible to getting cancer from those things. Oh my gosh, broccoli's looking good, isn't it? So, um I've also had people uh with long COVID who usually respond very quickly, usually within three weeks, their symptoms go away and they've been sick for years.

[00:08:10]So, what we understand is that a healthy immune system can reverse disease. It can fight disease and it can help you recover from disease, right? Chronic disease is man-made. You don't see animals in nature limping around with arthritis. The only animals that get diabetes and arthritis are the ones that humans raise, dogs and cats, right? When you're eating the right diet, your immune system functions and you can get sick and recover. You cannot get sick to begin with. And if you already were eating the wrong way before, you can reverse that disease process. So, how do you do it? My book, Goodbye Lupus, I talk about the six steps to healing with supermarket foods. And the first three steps are all about eliminating inflammatory foods. Now, I know if you're watching this conference, you've already heard what those are, right? I can almost hear you shout them with me, right? Animal products, processed foods, oils. Now, there is a caveat to the oils, but most oils. All right? Ve, including vegetable oils, and of course, meat oils, saturated fats, etc. These are are are products that make people sick and there's many different ways that they do. I know you're getting lectures on things like heart disease and how it clogs up the heart. Sure, you're getting lectures on cancer and how they are carcinogenic, which they absolutely are. Um, but my my uh passion is for how these ugly things affect your immune system. So, in Goodbye Lupus, I actually go through the science of this more deeply. And at the end of this, I'm also going to give you a link to a video series that you can watch for free uh that will give you a deeper dive into this. I don't have time to do that now, but I'm going to give you a quick overview. This is one of the pathways of your inflammatory immune system. Okay?

[00:09:48]And arachidonic acid, which creates these inflammatory immune cells. And you don't need to remember all this. I want you to just get the concept. But arachinic acid comes from these items uh different kinds of of fats from animal products especially processed foods which are full of those fats and any kind of meat or dairy. Okay, they are full of arachidonic acid. Now when you have high amounts of arachidonics in your system, you're going to create more of these enzymes to break it down. These boxes are the enzymes, five blocks, COX one and COX 2. And um when you have more of these enzymes uh you're going to make more of these byproducts. Lucatry B4th formoxin 2 prostaglandon2.

[00:10:33]Now these are uh inflammatory and the more of this that you have the more of this you make the more of this you make right. So more of this more of this more of this more of this more of this more of this. Yes it works right now. Uh five locks is an enzyme that actually helps with increasing cell growth. Now when cell growth happens in a normal way, you're fine. But what happens if you have too much cell growth? You're going to have more cancer. And if you have too much lucotry before, you're going to have too you're going to get inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, atherosclerosis and heart attacks, chronic inflammation, destructive destruction of healthy tissue, arthritis, edema, and pain. So if you have any of this, there's a good chance you have too much of this. Right?

[00:11:16]Now, by the way, as a doctor, all I learned was how to treat this with medication, right? We have medications that block these things. Like, for example, COX one. If you have too much COX one, you can have too many blood clots. If you have too many blood clots, what do you have? Heart attacks and strokes. Do you know what a COX one inhibitor is? Aspirin, right? So, you can take aspirin and it can help block this to have thinner blood. It also uh will give you ulcers, but that's all we know how to do in medicine. And I never learned where this came from. medicine.

[00:11:47]COX 2. COX 2 is helpful for repairing and improving uh blood vessel growth among other things. But if you have too much blood vessel growth, you're going to increase the blood supply to cancer and they'll have more cancer and blood supply and you can have more things like um irritable bowel and inflammatory bowel disease, chronic disease and pain again. So again, if you have too much of this, you're going to get too much of this. Does that make sense to you? So that gives us a much better answer than chasing these things down with meds. And by the way, don't get mad at doctors for that. This is doctors saved my life and I've saved lives as well using medications to try to chase down people's bad diets.