All Videos for Lifespan

Do Apricot Seeds Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure?

Do those who choose alternative cancer treatments live longer?



Oxidized Cholesterol 27HC May Explain 3 Breast Cancer Mysteries

Oxidized cholesterol (concentrated in products containing eggs, processed meat, and parmesan cheese) has cancer-fueling estrogenic effects on human breast cancer.



Is Fiber an Effective Anti-Inflammatory?

Most Americans get less than half the recommended minimum fiber intake a day and the benefits of fiber go way beyond bowel regularity.



Do Lutein Supplements Help with Brain Function?

Avocados, greens, and lutein and zeaxanthin supplements are put to the test for improving cognitive function.



Brain-Healthy Foods to Fight Aging

What is the best source of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?



Does Adding Milk Block the Benefits of Coffee?

How to choose the healthiest coffee, and the effects of adding milk vs. soymilk.



The Best Advice on Diet and Cancer

What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?



How to Win the War on Cancer

How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers?



Black Salve as an Alternative Cancer Cure

Is black salve, a paste made from bloodroot, safe and effective for the treatment of skin cancer?



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?



Does an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?

Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs?



Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop

In this video, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.



Why Patients Aren’t Informed About Mammograms

If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients?



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. With mammograms, though, breast cancer may only grow and spread for…21.4 years.



Breast Cancer and the 5-Year Survival Rate Myth

After you watch this video, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias.



Women Deserve to Know the Truth About Mammograms

What do nine in ten women say they were never told about mammograms, even though they thought they had the right to know?



Overtreatment of Stage 0 Breast Cancer DCIS

Nine out of ten 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 forefront.



Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems?

Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?



Understanding the Mammogram Paradox

The mammogram paradox is that women who are harmed the most are the ones who claim the greatest benefit.



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?



Do Mammograms Save Lives?

For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients—and let’s not overlook all of the attendant harms of chemo, radiation, or surgery without the benefits.



Should Women Get Mammograms Starting at Age 40?

Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who should you trust?



Is it Worth Getting Annual Health Check-Ups?

What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?



How to Avoid Lectin Poisoning

How can we properly cook beans?



What Is the Ideal White Blood Cell Count?

Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?



What Does a Low White Blood Cell Count Mean?

Since white blood cell count is a sign of systemic inflammation, it’s no surprise that those with lower white blood cell counts live longer.



How the Leaded Gas Industry Got Away with It

How the lead industry got the best science money could buy.



How Much Should You Exercise?

Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us what the science says and letting us make up our own mind.



Best Foods to Improve Sexual Function

Selecting foods to improve pelvic blood flow and decrease inflammation both immediately after a meal and for the long term may improve sexual functioning in men and women.



Do Men Who Have More Sex Live Longer?

When done right, love may protect your lover’s life.



Should All Children Have Their Cholesterol Checked?

The current generation of American kids may be one of the first generations to be less healthy and have shorter lifespans than their parents.



Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer?

The aspirin compounds naturally found in plant foods may help explain the lower cancer rates among those eating plant-based diets.



Animal Protein Compared to Cigarette Smoking

Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?



What’s the “Natural” Human Diet?

What can our nutrient requirements, metabolism, and physiology tell us about what we should be eating?



The Hispanic Paradox: Why Do Latinos Live Longer?

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?



The Risks and Benefits of Sensible Sun Exposure

We don’t have to choose between the lesser of two evils: skin cancer versus internal cancers from vitamin D deficiency.



The Optimal Dose of Vitamin D Based on Natural Levels

Why do some recommend thousands of units of supplemental vitamin D when the Institute of Medicine set the recommended daily intake at just 600 to 800 units?



Will You Live Longer if You Take Vitamin D Supplements?

What do 56 randomized clinical trials involving nearly 100,000 people between the ages of 18 and 107 show vitamin D can do to our lifespan?



Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure?

Those with higher vitamin D levels tend to have lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, but is it cause and effect? Interventional trials finally put vitamin D to the test.



Slow Your Beating Heart: Beans vs. Exercise

A cup a day of beans, chickpeas, or lentils for three months may slow resting heart rate as much as exercising for 50 hours on a treadmill.