How to Delay the Age of Menopause with Diet and Lifestyle Factors
Approximately half of the variability of age of menopause among women is explained by genetics. What behaviors or circumstances can help explain the rest?
All Videos for Lifestyle Medicine
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How Not To Age – Live Presentation
In this live lecture, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his latest book, How Not to Age, a New York Times Best Seller.
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The Side Effects of Yoga
What is the rate of yoga injuries compared to other activities?
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Yoga Put to the Test for IBS, Inflammatory Bowel, Menopause, and Osteoporosis
A study using sham acupuncture underscores the necessity of controlling for expectancy effects.
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Yoga Put to the Test for Depression, Anxiety, and Urinary Incontinence
Which of the 50 different yoga styles have been shown to be best?
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Yoga Put to the Test for Headaches, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, and the Elderly
What happens when real yoga is compared to sham yoga?
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Yoga Put to the Test for MS, Back Pain, Neck Pain, Insomnia, and Breast Cancer
Is yoga better than other types of exercise, better than nothing but similar to other physical activity, or not beneficial even when it’s compared to doing nothing at all?
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How to Prove Whether Yoga Has Special Health Benefits
Yoga practitioners are healthier, but does practicing yoga lead to good health, or does good health lead to practicing yoga?
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The Risks and Benefits of Mindfulness for Weight Loss
Contrary to popular perception, the evidence for even the most well-founded benefits of mindfulness meditation is not entirely conclusive.
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Diet and Lifestyle for Cancer Prevention and Survival
What kind of diet should cancer patients eat?
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Workplace Health and Wellness Programs Put to the Test
Why do so many workplace wellness programs fail to deliver?
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The Return on Investment (ROI) for Employee Health and Wellness Programs
Workplace wellness programs report an average ROI of 3, returning $3 for every $1 invested.
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Coffee Put to the Test for Treating Parkinson’s Disease
Coffee can improve Parkinson’s symptoms within three weeks compared to placebo, but do the benefits last?
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How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?
If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.
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How Big Meat Manipulated the Science
Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality.
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Failing GRADE for Annals of Internal Medicine Meat Studies
The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine.
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Observational Studies Show Similar Results to Randomized Controlled Trials
How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?
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How Big Sugar Manipulated the Science for Dietary Guidelines
How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process?
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Should You Get Personalized Genetic Risk Testing?
Overrated “precision medicine” may just be serving vested interests, and consumer DNA testing can be useless—or even worse.
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How to Increase Your Life Expectancy 12 to 14 Years
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
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Fighting the Ten Hallmarks of Cancer with Food
The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.
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How Useful Is Personalized Nutrition?
Perhaps it should be less about personalized nutrition and more about taking personal responsibility for your health.
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Can Cholesterol Get Too Low?
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?
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Fasting to Reverse Diabetes
By losing 15 percent of their body weight, nearly 90 percent of those who’ve had type 2 diabetes for less than four years can achieve remission.
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Hospitals with 100 Percent Plant-Based Menus
The American Medical Association has passed a resolution encouraging healthy plant-based food options be available in hospitals.
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Lifestyle and Disease Prevention: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny
Treating the underlying cause of chronic lifestyle diseases.
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Are Doctors Misleading Patients About Statin Risks and Benefits?
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? If patients knew the truth of how little these drugs actually worked, almost no one would agree to take them.
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Who Should Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk and use it to determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug?
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How Much Do Doctors Actually Know About Nutrition?
See if you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors.
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The Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet
The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.
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The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Just How Bad Is Hospital Food?
What do hospitals have to say for themselves for feeding people meals that appear to be designed to inspire repeat business?
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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.
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Is the Obesity Paradox Real or a Myth?
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?
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Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases
Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.
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Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.
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Hospitals Profit on Junk Food
Why is hospital food so unhealthy?
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Type 1 Diabetes Treatment: A Plant-Based Diet
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?
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Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus
Green smoothies are put to the test for the autoimmune disease SLE (lupus).
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What to Eat for Stroke Prevention
More than 90% of stroke risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors.
