All Videos for Exercise

Hospitals Profit on Junk Food

Why is hospital food so unhealthy?



Are There Health Benefits of Spending Time in Nature?

Studies on green exercising, the value of greenspaces, or even just viewing trees outside the window on surgery recovery.



The Efficacy and Safety of Creatine for High Homocysteine

Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin D?

Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans?



The Immune System and COVID-19 Treatment

Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?



The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic

The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.



How to Lower Blood Pressure Naturally with Lifestyle Changes

The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.



What the New Blood Pressure Range Guidelines Mean

Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.



Effects of Marijuana on Weight Gain and Bone Density

Are the apparent adverse effects of heavy cannabis use on bone just due to users being skinnier?



Shedding Light on Shedding Weight

Randomized, controlled trials of phototherapy (morning bright light) for weight loss.



The Metabolic Harms of Night Shifts and Irregular Meals

What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.



Is Skipping Breakfast Better for Weight Loss?

Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies.



Trailer for How Not to Diet: Dr. Greger’s Guide to Weight Loss

17 ingredients to an ideal weight-loss diet and the 21 tweaks to accelerate the further loss of excess body fat.



Evidence-Based Weight Loss – Live Presentation

In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.



Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test

Does every-other-day-eating prevent the metabolic slowing that accompanies weight loss or improve compliance over constant day-to-day calorie restriction?



Potential Pitfalls of Calorie Restriction

How to preserve bone and mass on a low calorie diet.



The New Calories per Pound of Weight Loss Rule

Losing a pound of fat can take as few as 10 calories a day or as many as 55, depending on whether you’re improving food quality or just restricting food quantity.



The Reason Weight Loss Plateaus When You Diet

Understanding the metabolic and behavioral adaptations that slow weight loss.



Keto Diets: Muscle Growth and Bone Density

Ketogenic diets found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss.



Berries for Inflammation and Osteoarthritis Treatment

Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis.



Do the Health Benefits of Coffee Apply to Everyone?

Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.



Vegetarian Muscle Power, Strength, and Endurance

Randomized controlled trials put plant-based eating to the test for athletic performance.



The First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes

Meat-eating athletes are put to the test against veg athletes and even sedentary plant-eaters in feats of endurance.



The Gladiator Diet: How Vegetarian Athletes Stack Up

Comparing the diets of the Roman gladiator “barley men” and army troopers to the modern Spartans of today.



Best Brain Foods: Greens and Beets Put to the Test

Cocoa and nitrite-rich vegetables, such as green leafies and beets, are put to the test for cognitive function.



Can Saunas Detoxify Lead from the Body?

How much does sweating via sauna or exercise get rid of lead and mercury?



Are There Benefits of Energy Drinks?

The effects of Red Bull and Monster brand energy drinks on artery function and athletic performance.



Benefits of Ginger for Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease

Ground ginger powder is put to the test for weight loss and NAFLD, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.



Ground Ginger to Reduce Muscle Pain

There have been at least eight randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of ginger for pain.



Benefits of Beans for Peripheral Vascular Disease

Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?



Benefits of Blueberries for Blood Pressure May Be Blocked by Yogurt

What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the health benefits of berries and tea?



Foods to Improve Athletic Performance and Recovery

What are the effects of spinach and berries on oxidative stress, inflammation, and muscle soreness in athletes?



Are Sports Drinks Safe and Effective?

Commercial influences may have corrupted the American College of Sports Medicine’s hydration guidelines.



Coconut Water for Athletic Performance vs. Sports Drinks

Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes.



Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?

What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?



Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine.



Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain

Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?



Coconut Oil and Abdominal Fat

What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find?



Best Food to Counter Stress-Induced Immune Suppression

How might we improve immune function in children and adults under physical or psychological stress?



Dr. Greger in the Kitchen: My New Favorite Beverage

Dr. Greger blends up a vegetable smoothie inspired by a recipe in his How Not to Die Cookbook.