Preventing and Reversing Chronic Disease
Adding Years to Our Lives and Life to Our Years - Longevity

Do diet and lifestyle really make that much of a difference?

Some great resources

• NutritionFacts.org - Pick almost any major health concern and learn what the science really says about its origin, how to prevent and treat it. Dr. Greger and his team read through every study published in the major nutrition journals and present what the science really has to say.
• The Blue Zones - Inspired by the world's longest-lived cultures, BlueZones.com is helping you live longer, better. Read more about the diets followed by those in the Blue Zones.
• The Blue Zones Project - Helping communities become Blue Zones

Medicine is Catching On to the Power of Diet & Lifestyle to Influence Health

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine - Lifestyle Medicine will change how our health care system works by focusing more on the prevention of diseases which are the leading causes of death and disability (heart disease, diabetes, dementia/Alzheimer's) and on their reversal through lifestyle interventions, including diet and exercise.
• Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine - Leading a revolution in medicine that puts a new focus on health and compassion.
• TrueHealthInitiative.org - a non-profit organization established to promote messages about a healthy, sustainable diet and lifestyle in the service of adding years to lives and life to years around the globe.

Some Key Players

• Michael Greger, MD (General Practitioner, Clinical Nutrition)
• Kim Williams, MD (Cardiologist)
• Neal Barnard, MD (Author, Researcher, Founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
• Joel Kahn, MD (Holistic Cardiologist, Owner Greenspace Cafe)
• Joel Fuhrman, MD (Family Physician, Author, creator of the ANDI food index)
• T. Collin Campbell, PhD
  • NutritionStudies.org
• Caldwell Esselstyn, MD (Cardiologist and the author of the award-winning book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (2007))
• Dean Ornish, MD
  • The Ornish Reversal Program - Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) - Covered by Medicare and Many Health Insurance Companies Across a Growing National Network
    Scientifically Proven To Reverse the Progression of Heart Disease
    The Lifestyle Heart Trial study
• David Katz, MD
• John A. McDougall, MD
• Brooke Goldner, MD (The story of her "accidental cure" of lupus is featured in the film "Eating You Alive")
• Michael Klaper, MD
• Zach Bush, MD (Internal Medicine, Endocrinology & Metabolism)
• Ellsworth Wareham, MD (A pioneer of open heart surgery and proponent of diet and lifestyle as major contributors to health, retired as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the age of 74 but continued to train residents and assist in surgery until age 95. He died in December, 2018, at the age of 104.)
• Rich Roll, ultra-athlete - Podcast on YouTube
• Gut Health - The Microbiome
  • Dr. Robynne Chutkan 
  • Dr. Angie Sadeghi
  • The Paddison Program
  • Martin J. Blaser MD
  • Sonnenburg Lab - Justin and Erica Sonnenburg

My Favorite Podcasts

• Mastering Diabetes - a thorough explanation of Type 2 Diabetes, root cause, reversal, and management - Scientific Evidence Against a Ketogenic Diet with Michelle McMacken, MD - E73
• The Shocking Truth About Carbs & Diabetes | Rich Roll Podcast with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH of Mastering Diabetes

Documentary-style, Educational Films

• Forks Over Knives (2011) - Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the chronic diseases that afflict us, can be controlled or even reversed by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
• Eating You Alive (2016) - A feature-length documentary revealing the truth behind why Americans are so sick and what we can do about it.
• What The Health (2017) - The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick. What The Health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation’s health and how big business influences it.
• Game Changers (2019) - Directed by Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by James Cameron, The Game Changers tells the story of James Wilks — elite special forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter — as he travels the world on a quest for the truth behind the world's most dangerous myth: that meat is necessary for protein, strength and optimal health. Meeting elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes, what James discovers permanently changes his relationship with food and his definition of true strength.

Nutritional Approaches to Treating Cancer

• The Gerson Therapy
• ChrisBeatCancer.com

Other Topics

• Do Genes Determine Your Destiny?
• More to come...