Reclaiming Healing Through Nutrition: Resistance to Plant-Based Diets and the Biblical Call to Restoration

Despite growing scientific evidence supporting using plant-based diets (PBDs) in preventing and reversing chronic diseases, these therapies remain underutilized in clinical practice. This article explores the multifactorial resistance to PBDs—medical, ethical, and spiritual—while drawing on scriptural insights that affirm lifestyle-based healing. Based on seven years of implementation at Bethsaida Hospital in Indonesia under the leadership of Prof. Dasaad Mulijono, we present clinical outcomes including regression of coronary artery disease (CAD), a restenosis rate as low as 2%, remission of hypertension, diabetes control without insulin, LDL cholesterol levels below 30 mg/dL, and reversal of obesity. These findings highlight the powerful synergy between evidence-based nutritional medicine and the biblical vision of health and restoration.