In 2018, I began researching how changing my diet could help me better endure the winters. In this process, I came across a group of doctors who had developed a critique of the Western medical system, which tends to focus solely on treating disease. Instead, they emphasize prevention through changes in nutritional habits. Physicians who are critical of mainstream approaches (often pharma-driven, symptom-focused) and who advocate preventive, nutrition-based, or integrative models of health. Promoting whole-food, plant-based nutrition to maintain a good life and prevent and reverse chronic diseases, which coincidentally also contributes to environmental health.
Dr. Michael Greger – Active speaker and researcher. Founder of NutritionFacts.org, providing evidence-based information from peer-reviewed research on nutrition and health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKaOL2IBPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGftwDxPFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-yBkUcifc
Dr. Neal Barnard – Founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM); plant-based diets for diabetes, and heart health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ONFix_e4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQzM2IA-qU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHYHjchn6w
Dr. Michael Klapper – Medical education, public outreach, and clinical guidance promoting vegan, minimally processed diets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TokqrtFfi8
Dr. John McDougall – Starch-based whole-food diets, very critical of medical reliance on drugs/surgeries.
These in turn referenced the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (whole-food, plant-based nutrition to reverse cardiovascular disease), Dr. T. Colin Campbell (critiques animal-protein heavy Western diets and their ties to chronic illness.), and Dr. Dean Ornish (Diet, exercise, stress reduction, and love/support can reverse heart disease.).
Other speakers include:
Kim A. Williams, Sr. Plant-based nutrition as a strategy to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNW_5EqqWoo
Dr. William Li. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjkzfeJz66o
Dr. Brenda Davis. Plant-based registered dietitian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhCIloH0nrg
Dr. Julia Rucklidge. Studies the role of nutrition in mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqXHHCc5lA
Dr. Milton Mills. Why Diary is Unhealthy.
https://youtu.be/XT5IczyhFGQ?si=vmok4J7R7vlD3G0Q&t=190
Joel Fuhrman. The importance of legumes in the diet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKI5zS9Vfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76XklHNzWx0
Dr. Eva Schernhammer.VEGANScreener to help prevent and detect nutritional deficiencies in people following mainly plant-based diets. As well as the effect of night work on the body. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ORkweW-zI
Dr. Joanne Kong. Plant-based physician who focuses on environmental and health benefits of vegan diets.
Dr. Michelle McMacken. Teaching doctors about evidence-based plant-based diets in clinical care.
Dr. Rosane Oliveira. Geneticist and nutrition scientist, founder of the UC Davis Integrative Medicine program, advocate of plant-based diets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQh4JaxddI
En Español
Dr. Gaby Cora. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4KhmreKT0
Dr. Mauricio Cruz – Mexican physician who promotes plant-based diets for chronic disease prevention. Elaine Hsiao. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWT_BLVOASI&list=PLIge6oiQJKHRx7Depc1R7fjNVX4hl3nYH&index=29