Dr. Esselstyn and Lee Fulkerson discuss the doctor’s background as an Olympic rowing champion and how that affected his approach to his career, and especially how it helped give him the perseverance to press onward in the face of tremendous obstacles.  Dr. Esselstyn also reviews his groundbreaking study that demonstrated that even advanced coronary artery disease could be halted, and in many cases reversed, simply by the adoption of a plant-based diet.  Dr. Esselstyn reveals his long friendship and professional association with Dr. T. Colin Campbell, and his recent publication of the results of his dietary treatment of 200 heart disease patients subsequent to his original research, which demonstrated even better results.Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn is an American physician, author and former Olympic rowing champion. A top surgeon at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Esselstyn is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, in which he demonstrated that a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet can both prevent—and reverse—coronary artery disease. The diet has numerous clinically proven results and has been advocated by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.