In this extraordinary episode of Haverin About: Breathing Forward, host Stuart sits down with Dr. Peter D’Adamo, renowned author of Eat Right for Your Type and one of the world’s most original thinkers in integrative medicine, genomics, and nutrition.

What begins as a podcast friendship between two transplant survivors unfolds into one of the most thoughtful and illuminating conversations about science, philosophy, and survival.

Diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) — the same disease that took his father’s life — Peter’s journey led him through the harrowing process of lung failure, hospitalization, and eventual single-lung transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

In this remarkable story, Peter shares:

🫁 His shock at diagnosis and connection to his late father’s fibrosis

🔬 Why science and faith both have roles in healing

🏥 The brutal reality of IPF’s “staircase” decline

❤️ Receiving a lung from a 24-year-old donor from Tennessee — and what that means to him

💊 The strange mix of gratitude, impatience, and rediscovered humility after surgery

💬 How his background in medicine shapes his view of patient care and medical wisdom

🧠 Why he believes medicine is “a dialogue, not a dictatorship”

🙏 The philosophy that’s guided him — stoicism, humor, and quiet acceptance

From reflections on mortality and science fiction-like future transplant tech, to a witty discussion of life with one “good lung and one cranky one,” Peter brings intellect, humanity, and humor to a story that could only be told by him.

🔗 Follow Dr. Peter D’Adamo on Substack: https://pdadamo.substack.com/

💚 Register as an organ donor: https://organdonor.GOV

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