Dr. Michael Greger: How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the nutrition pioneer who started reversing heart disease with a plant-based diet and exercise back in … Continue reading
Why Coffee Is Good for You
Coffee contains compounds that have important health benefits. It is more than just dark-colored liquid with caffeine. Coffee actually contains hundreds of different compounds, some of which have important health … Continue reading
Video: Urban Farms across America
Filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette take a road trip to meet the people who are transforming urban lots and rooftops into gardens, and challenging the way this country grows and distributes … Continue reading
Video: Lifestyle Medicine
Using pre-diabetic treatment as an example, Dr. Michael Greger talks about the huge gap between what the research shows on the efficacy of using diet, exercise, and stress reduction in … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: 4 Things To Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most of the reasons we go see our doctors are for diseases that could have been … Continue reading
Video: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age
The emergence of pathogens resistant to even our antibiotics of last resort has raised the specter of a “post-antibiotic age” in which drugs to fight infections may be useless. This … Continue reading
Video: Arsenic, dioxin, illegal hormones fed to chickens
Dr. Michael Greger reports that new lab results show that many chickens raised in factory farms have been fed illegal substances including arsenic, dioxin, and hormones that cause vaginal cancer. … Continue reading
Video: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death in America
As it turns out, the leading causes of death in America are … ourselves. Dr. Michael Greger explains how we are killing ourselves and what we can do about it.
Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?
Dr. William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and … Continue reading
Fracking Operators Illegally Injecting Diesel Fuel, Study Finds
Fracking companies have continued to illegally inject diesel fuel into the ground over the last four years, despite repeated denials by the drilling industry, according to a report by the … Continue reading →