What is the difference between a CurePlan and the Ornish Reversal Program?

Years ago, after taking advantage of our CureScreen carotid ultrasound to detect plaque, a patient declined our help. He thought our program was the same as the Ornish Reversal Program, in which he had already been participating. This, however, is not true.

Over the years, we’ve had at least three patients who have compared our program to Ornish. Two of them chose the CureCenter and have shown measurable improvement. The third completed the Ornish Reversal Program with deterioration in his diabetes control. Turns out a whole food plant based diet can have a lot of starch that turns into sugar. He made an appointment to come back to the CureCenter. Sadly, he passed away in his sleep before his appointment.

Our plan is not the same as the Ornish Reversal Program. We think it is a better alternative for most.

What is the Ornish Reversal Program?

The Ornish Reversal Program improves health through lifestyle modifications that prevent or reverse heart disease. Although, on the surface, it sounds similar to the CureCenter’s program, it doesn’t address the role of sweets, starches, and snacks that can be very dangerous to your health.

What are some differences between this program and the CureCenter’s program?

Below is a list of some major differences in philosophy between the Ornish Reversal Program and the CureCenter’s Cureplan:

• CurePlan: Focuses on inflammation as a root cause of atherosclerosis.

• Ornish Program: Barely addresses inflammation.
  

• CurePlan: Encourages plant-focused nutrition and consumption of good fats. Limits sweets, starches, and snacking. Promotes Time Restricted Feeding (also known as intermittent fasting). We call it “window feeding.”

• Ornish Program: Encourages a diet unrestricted in carbohydrates and low in protein and good fats.
  

• CurePlan: Promotes oral health as a priority for arterial health. 

• Ornish Program: No mention of the role of oral inflammatory disease - a driver of arterial inflammation and a contributor to as many as 50% of strokes and heart attacks.
  

• CurePlan: Uses genetic testing to personalize your CurePlan.

• Ornish Program: No personalization based on genetic testing.
  

• CurePlan: Offers manageable nudges in the direction of simple solutions you can live with and accountability through measurement and feedback. Simple solutions are more sustainable and effective than radical complex solutions. Measurement supports success.

• Ornish Program: Requires strict adherence to a vegetarian diet and 72 hours of class attendance that may be difficult to schedule and complete.

The Ornish Program has financial relationships with McDonalds and other manufacturers of highly processed, carbohydrate-rich foods. They sell the root cause of Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease, even in their so-called “healthy” options.  

The CureCenter interests align with your interest.  We both benefit from your longevity and improved quality of life for a long healthy relationship.

The Ornish program is full of activity. Your CurePlan is focused on accomplishment. 

You will decide which is a better fit for you and your life.

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Interested in learning more about our CurePlan? Request a complementary Discovery Zoom Call with Dr. Backs to get started.

You have the Power: Improve your health.

At the CureCenter, we believe that the best results come for those who engage to become empowered for better health. End (or at least diminish) self-destructive choices and sustain better options. Do the best you can with what you have, forgive yourself when you fail, and get back on track for longer after each failure.

Our culture can disempower and sabotage us. We are brainwashed by our media and culture to eat addictive, poisonous junk and seek pleasure over purpose. We are encouraged to believe that our ills can be managed with pills and procedures that mostly serve the bottom line of the industries which profit from your chronic disease. You are not obliged to participate.  

The person you can rely upon most is you. The CureCenter will give you the data, measurement and improvement tools and encouragement.  We can coach you, but we can’t play your game. You, the Player, will play out your CurePlan to win or lose. 

Beware of saboteurs. They will be those closest to you who won’t understand your plan and, intentions aside, encourage you to “have just one bite” because “I made this for you” and “everything in moderation.”  Your success may be their discomfort. It is easier to pull you back in than to escape their own choices.

Caretakers have a stake in the health of those for whom they care. We owe it to our loved ones to stay as healthy as possible, as to not burden them with the consequences of a stroke or heart failure.

If there are barriers to success, we should acknowledge and seek ways to overcome them. Finances, time, responsibilities, and beliefs can stand in the way of success. Those we hang out with can drag us back from success if we challenge their choices. Do not let the other crabs pull you back in the bucket. Continue to inspire them to escape with you.

How can I use CureCoach.App to measure my nutrition?

CureCoach.App is our digital platform that supports our coaching effort to Cure Chronic Disease. When completing the Lifestyle Diet module, your answers provide you with tokens that are either green, yellow or red when viewing the summary page. 

The answer options are “Rarely,” “Sometimes,” and “Frequently.” Never should be reported as “rarely.” For example, rare use of sugar and frequent consumption of vegetables gets you a green token. Frequent consumption of sugar and rare use of vegetables provoke red tokens. For those choices that are less clearly good or bad, you get a yellow token. Your goal over time is to increase the number of green tokens and decrease the number of red tokens by changing the choices and answers to these questions. 

CureCoach.App can be accessed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone by clicking here.