All Videos for Heart Disease

The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease Treatment

What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?



Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have, fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm.



Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?

Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally.



Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.



Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?



The Risks of Heart Stents

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that are all risk without benefit?



Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work?

There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery.



Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?

Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different plants. Which is the most healthful?



The Effects of Processed Meat on Lung Function

If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?



What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers?

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure?



Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy?

What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?



What’s the Ideal BMI?

Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?



The Effects of Obesity on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Cardiovascular Disease

Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.



The Best Knee Replacement Alternative for Osteoarthritis Treatment

Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?



Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.



Does Marijuana Cause Strokes and Heart Attacks?

The temporary quintupling of heart attack risk associated with cannabis smoking may be due to the increased heartrate, blood pressure, and carbon monoxide levels.



How to Reverse Heart Failure with Diet

An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.



Hospitals Profit on Junk Food

Why is hospital food so unhealthy?



The Optimal Vitamin B12 Dosage for Adults

Why the current Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin B12 may be insufficient.



Type 1 Diabetes Treatment: A Plant-Based Diet

Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?



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.



Should Vegetarians Take Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine?

What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?



How to Test for Functional Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine?

Not taking B12 supplements or regularly eating B12 fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Animal Protein?

Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Saturated Fat?

How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vegan Junk Food?

Just because you’re eating vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Omega 3s?

Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin D?

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



Do Vegetarians Really Have Higher Stroke Risk?

The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.



What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention

What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?



How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.



Modifiable Risk Factors and Comorbidities for Severe COVID-19 Infection

There are things you can do right now to reduce your risk of falling seriously ill and dying from this disease.



How to Lower Lp(a) with Diet

What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).



Treating High Lp(a): A Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis

What is this lipoprotein(a) and what can we do about it?



What Are the Best Foods?

A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.



Pandemics: History and Prevention

How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).



What Are the Best Beverages?

A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.



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.



The Metabolic Harms of Night Shifts and Irregular Meals

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