Benefits of Beans for Peripheral Vascular Disease
Do legumes (beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils) just work to prevent disease or can they help treat and reverse it as well?
All Videos for Lifespan
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Does an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?
Which would save more lives: a prescription to eat an apple a day, or statin drugs?
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Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
A video explaining my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.
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Why Patients Aren’t Informed About Mammograms
If doctors don’t understand health statistics how can they possibly counsel patients properly?
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Why Mammograms Don’t Appear to Save Lives
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years, but with mammograms, breast cancer may only grow and spread for 21.4 years.
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Breast Cancer & the 5-Year Survival Rate Myth
Watching this video, you’ll know more than an estimated 97% of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias.
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Women Deserve to Know the Truth About Mammograms
What do 9 in 10 women say they were never told about mammograms, even though they thought they had the right to know?
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Overtreatment of Stage 0 Breast Cancer DCIS
9 out of 10 women don’t realize that some breast cancers would never have caused any problems (or even become known in one’s lifetime). This is an issue ductal carcinoma in situ has brought to the fore.
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Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems?
Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in 2 million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?
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Understanding the Mammogram Paradox
The mammogram paradox is that women who are harmed the most are the ones who claim the greatest benefit.
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Can Mammogram Radiation Cause Breast Cancer?
What is the risk-benefit ratio of the cancers picked up by mammograms and the cancers caused by mammograms?
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Do Mammograms Save Lives?
For every life saved by mammography, as many as 2 to 10 women are overdiagnosed, meaning turned into breast cancer patients unnecessarily, along with all the attendant harms of chemo, radiation, or surgery without the benefits.
