You have nothing to lose by looking into this and everything to gain... with no medications or side-effects. After my wife read THE CHINA STUDY book and we watched a documentary video FORKS OVER KNIVES (you can stream it on Netflix or Amazon) I switched to a 90%+ plant-based whole-foods diet over 3 years ago and have experience major improvements in my medical exam blood-work readings, and have not had a cold or flu (or indigestion) other than mild cold symptoms that lasted less than a day (I felt like "I'm fighting some kind of bug" and it never progressed).

From the link below:
"The authors state that osteoporosis is linked to the consumption of animal protein because animal protein, unlike plant protein, increases the acidity of blood and tissues. They add that to neutralize this acid, calcium (a very effective base) is pulled from the bones, which weakens them and puts them at greater risk for fracture. The authors add that "in our rural China Study, where the animal to plant ratio [for protein] was about 10 percent, the fracture rate is only one-fifth that of the U.S."[28]"

"The book is loosely based on the China-Cornell-Oxford Project, a 20-year study – described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology" – conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University and the University of Oxford. T. Colin Campbell was one of the study's directors.[8] It looked at mortality rates from cancer and other chronic diseases from 1973–75 in 65 counties in China; the data was correlated with 1983–84 dietary surveys and blood work from 100 people in each county. The research was conducted in those countries because they had genetically similar populations that tended, over generations, to live and eat in the same way in the same place. The study concluded that counties with a high consumption of animal-based foods in 1983–84 were more likely to have had higher death rates from "Western" diseases as of 1973–75, while the opposite was true for counties that ate more plant foods"