From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases With Food

The connection between our food choices and disease treatment. Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our leading causes of death and disability. This is Dr. Greger's 2014 live presentation.
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Every year I scour the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition, pulling together what I find to be the most interesting, practical, and groundbreaking science on how to best feed ourselves and our families. I start with the 12,000 or so papers published annually on human nutrition and, thanks to a crack team of volunteers (and now staff!), I'm able to whittle those down to about 3,000 studies, which are downloaded, categorized, read, analyzed, and churned into a few hundred short videos. This allows me to post new videos and articles every day, year-round, to NutritionFacts.org. This certainly makes the site unique. There’s no other science-based source for free daily updates on the latest discoveries in nutrition. The problem is that the amount of information can be overwhelming.
Currently I have videos covering 1,814 nutrition topics (nutritionfacts.org/topics/). Where do you even begin? Many have expressed their appreciation for the breadth of material, but asked that I try to distill it into a coherent summary of how best to use diet to prevent and treat chronic disease. I took this feedback to heart and in 2012 developed Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death (nutritionfacts.org/video/uproo..., which explored the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing our top 15 killers. Not only did it rise to become one of the Top 10 Most Popular Videos of 2012 (nutritionfacts.org/2012/12/29/..., it remains my single most viewed video to date, watched over a million times (NutritionFacts.org is now up to more than a million hits a month!).
In 2013 I developed the sequel, More Than an Apple a Day: Combating Common Diseases (nutritionfacts.org/video/more-..., in which I explored the role diet could play in treating some of our most common conditions. I've been presenting it around the country (www.DrGreger.org/dates.html) over the past year and it ended up #1 on our Top 10 Most Popular Videos of 2013 (nutritionfacts.org/2014/01/09/....
Now I'm honored to bring you the third of the trilogy, From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases with Food, in which I explore the role of diet in correcting some of our leading causes of disability. To more easily navigate through the menu of diseases, it is also available on DVD through my website (www.drgreger.org/dvds) or Amazon (smile.amazon.com/s/ref=smi_www.... If you want to share copies with others, I have a five for $40 special (enter coupon code 5FOR40TTA). All proceeds from the sales of all my books, DVDs, and presentations go to the 501c3 nonprofit charity that keeps NutritionFacts.org free for all, for all time. If you want to support this initiative to educate millions about eradicating dietary diseases, please consider making a donation (nutritionfacts.org/donate/).
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Recorded live at the University of Pittsburgh on July 5, 2014 thanks to NAVS and Aaron Wissner.
Image Credit: Monica Trzaska.
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0:00 Introduction
0:30 Heart disease
6:17 Chronic back pain
9:07 Stroke prevention
11:59 Diabetic neuropathy
18:28 Alzheimer's disease
26:24 Cancer prevention
39:29 Best diet for disease prevention
47:25 Industry profits versus health
50:45 Physicians and plant-based diets

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[@tanya7835]

This video should be required viewing for every human on the planet. A+

[@henceqed]

2 viewings for most of the western countries, as it might take 2 times to get through all the SAD indoctrination we've had all our lives.

[@tanya7835]

henceqed Very true.

[@DarkRain110187]

henceqed ***** Amen!

[@silversobe]

Especially doctors!

[@valnaples]

*STANDING OVATION* to you, dear Michael Greger! You've done it AGAIN! all respect and love to you, dude! you really hit a home run here!

[@CharGC123]

Dr Greger, you are a real, live, superhero! Thank you SO much for all you do, and the way you do it, and also your "associates" who also advocate a plant based diet! I was 58 y.o, weighed over 300 lbs, smoked, was diabetic, high cholesterol & BP, on 12 different medications...the whole time bomb waiting to blow up, and feeling powerless to change any of it! The crisis led me to research, and from there to all the sources promoting this way of eating. I am now 61, lost over 150lbs, no longer smoke, no more diabetes, off almost all meds because everything abated, and out riding my recumbent trike and loving it all! I want everyone to know it is never too late, but don't wait as long as I did! It works without a doubt, you can do it! It may seem difficult at first, but you learn to love it because you feel so wonderful and alive!

[@HappyHealthyVegan]

one of your best videos ever. we're going to try to get all of our family to watch it over the holidays - yeah i know that's months away, but this message is timeless and priceless.

[@milkmannen]

Thank God for people like Dr. Greger! Doing so much good for humanity.

[@sabatheus]

If there was only one KZbin video every American should see...

[@Joefest99]

This man is a hero! Thank you for helping preserve and lengthen my future Dr. Greger!

[@theneedledrop]

Thanks, Doc! I was wondering when you'd do another talk like this. Thank you again for all the effort an info.

[@MaherBaba]

u should show this to kelku chesta. he doesnt look healthy im worried he might have a cadillac arrest

[@mikeobie]

Review Kid A next classics week

[@robertofilipe8605]

arent you that stupid youtuber that likes heavy metal?? omg what a loser!!

[@douglasauruss]

Wow. The diabetes findings at 11:59 are just amazing. "Should have been front page headline news," is right!

[@tammygagne7072]

Clap, clap, clap....BRAVO!!! ENCORE!!! Thank you so much Dr. Greger!

[@fishermgcj]

Amazing information! Kudos to Dr.Gregor!

[@lucasaquino486]

Dr Greger, thank you so much for living

[@WhiteKitta]

Dr.Michael Greger is the BEST!!!

[@SolPhoebusApollo]

I wish everyone who isn't already vegan could watch this presentation and just start to consider the possibilities of a plant based diet. The end of the presentation was great, it's so simple and hopeful.

[@halfgridhomestead]

Love your speeches Dr. Greger!

[@WickedAwesomeRaw]

Wonderful eye and brain opening information. Thank you very much Doc!

[@alexandrawalters8953]

Dr. Greger, you’re a rock star. Thank you for helping me save my life!

[@madtical777]

man, you are a godsend!!

[@Kirsty11180]

Congratulations on delivering such an amazing speech!👏🌿

[@klaus-rudigerhase880]

Michael, thanks. Great talk again! Your 2012 annual talk, which I first learned about around Xmas last year, triggered my conversion to a 100% vegan starting Jan.1st this year. Each of your talk is some kind of empowerment, which is needed in a Meat-Egg-Dairy (MED) overloaded world. Unfortunately we have no such nutritional advocacy here in Germany but thanks to the internet, we have you. Good to see that the insurance sector has discovered the subject. That can become a driver for the vegan life style to become main stream. But be aware: They have their own agenda!

[@Curt_Randall]

The analogy to injurying yourself 3 times a day was genius.

[@lisanloves]

Thank you Dr Michael Greger for all the amazing work you do to help people understand nutrition and educate us on the most healthy diet. You do this in an entertaining way too :)

[@ailst]

I liked the standing ovations at the end! :D

[@rhigmus]

Fantastic speech! I wish I could give exponentially more thumbs-up. Thank you.

[@MsBossTone]

Thanks to that video, it`s my second month as a vegan :) Doctor, your lecture has changed my life - thank you! :)

[@SongnFeeling]

Thank you Dr. Michael :) for helping guide us.

[@squirtlesquirtle94]

Please keep doing what you are doing. I am a scientist and I wish we all acted for the good of everybody like you do. Thank you!

[@feelingoffbalance]

It's Christmas today, another fact-filled and entertaining treat from the badass doctor Greger!

[@JM83073]

My family calls Dr.Greger my guru because I regularly send videos and articles to them from his website and youtube. Lol. This was another great video full of facts and his trademark humor!

[@boldir5909]

Dr Greger, thank you, again!

[@Momfasa]

This is just epic. Thank you Dr. Greger!

[@beaelliott3209]

Thank you Dr. Greger for always connecting the dots as to why more physicians and institutions aren't on track with a plant based diet. It's always the $money$ that motivates them another way. What a cheap trick to betray their patients for dollars. :/ Your integrity shines brightly through it all! Bravo!!!

[@cookingwithplants]

This is such an amazing presentation. A few friends of mine have now asked me for vegan recipes to help them try a plant based lifestyle... very exciting!!!

[@horacegoins8616]

Thanks Doc never stop sharing . The world needs to hear such valuable information.

[@ellahope6494]

Buffy end of 2015 went off chicken, fish, I had only been eating since 2000 drinking distilled water since 2011 and Bragg's Apple cider viniger with the mother and there nutritional yeast, I also have seen great results, few weeks, slept till 4:30 am no waking up for bathroom. Now I sleep though till 5 am. My clock set for 6 am. Used to be wanting to stay in bed. No more refresh, wake up, do stretches, squats, balance on legs one at time, push ups, against wall. I am 66 yr. old. I have two glasses of water one with Bragg apple viniger 2 teaspoons other lemon fresh. Then some times juice carrots, celery, eat apple, pear, banana, pineapple. orange. That is my morning. Or if I want half a cantaloupe. Winters oatmeal gluten free, nuts, flax-seed, hemp, nuts. My ex who left me and son when young died pass month, over weight, sick, only 72. He had liver cancer never knew it. Before that he had diabeties, and cholesterol and blood pressure. I in 2000 reached first time 260lbs. 5ft 5 11 months later 145lbs, no diabeties. I am well now. God is great our Creator gave us all we need for our wonderful bodies that heal themselves.

[@PeanutStudiosChannel]

Awesome talk. Everyone should know about this!

[@wallyevans4228]

Had the opportunity to hear him along with De Campbell and Esslystyn a few years ago ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@justgivemethetruth]

great presentation

[@TheAnnaFisher]

Thank you, this was awesome, Dr. Greger!

[@thevegancorner]

Absolutely amazing, thanks! I wish all of your videos were available in other languages too as I'd like to show them to parents and friends. Nowadays it almost seems that if you don't know English, you are not entitled to health. Thanks again, very informative and educative video.

[@simonb4689]

what language do you need ?

[@jakobdieckmann]

Dutch please

[@IsaFromUruguay]

Yeah dutch would be amazing. My folks at home don't have the attention span to keep listening to an english presentation. Lazy I know, but that's how some of them are.

[@reorganization]

Simon Cooks German, please ^^

[@martyschumacher6979]

I got your last Dvd, and am sending it to my aunt, who has problems caused by meat eating. I tell her about what I have learned from you, but no change happens. It is so frustrating to see pain in my relatives, but they have to find their own answers.

[@blacktaxi2d]

The subtitle should be "laughing to keep from crying" it is so sad that almost everyone will disregard this information no matter how many people i tell, including my own sickly family members

[@henceqed]

I feel you truly! I'm standing right there with you on this. I would give anything to make my mom listen and adhere to information like this, but its so soul crushing when she says no. Sometimes I feel like I've failed her but what else can we do but put it in front of them?

[@TheEcoRunner]

Be the shining healthy example, it's the best thing we can do.

[@AstralS7orm]

Also take command of the food supply chain. People are often lazy and eat what's available first. Plants keep very well, even without refrigeration.

[@kingerbee1]

They disregard this information for if they listen to it they would have to do some thing about what they eat. They would rather rely on allopathic doctor to be responsible for there health.

[@AstralS7orm]

There's no such thing as "allopathic doctor". All GPs should do that - if they don't, they are sick care, not health care. Health care should start with keeping healthy people healthy as long as possible, also known by the unsexy name of preventative medicine. The problem is compounded by the fact that you're trying to change the habits of a lifetime, or actually more than one. (People learn cooking from their parents most of the time or worse, not at all.)f you were to start with kids *and their parents who control the food and money supply*, you'd have huge results. So many programs are missing the parent part and thus flounder. The simplest solution is... eating less. To eat less, you can manipulate a diet in many ways, some healthier than others, but going plant based (fiber and water loaded thus) is a very simple one. Another might be making it very bland (most low carb diets?). So now the title of an "allopathic" and "holistic" is relegated mostly to quacks. Generally those people have a bit inflated view of their practice, themselves, and little scientific backing of their ideas, starting cults rather than using properly tested solutions. Heck, even the quality of the research is often so-so or plain bad, if you throw even that out, there be dragons.) For instance, even Ornish research is quite suspect, as they never really check adherence to his scheme in general public. On the other hand, many diet studies are too short, limited to a year or less, which is way too short a time to actually verify a diet - or they rely too much on markers, which are known to have been developed on people with SAD, not on disease endpoints or direct health measures (like this artery study). And then you have great studies, but done on too small numbers of people... However, there is sheer mass of evidence that says more vegetables and fruit are better. The remaining question is to check how much of other foodstuffs you can eat and stay healthy and how that differs from person to person. Unfortunately, way too many people attack the solved problem time and again or attack a small subproblem of it, checking for a singular, reduced cause of health in a generally healthy diet and lifestyle. The remaining basic questions are whether an inverse diet, which has been shown to also be effective at weight loss, is safe in the long term; and what makes it more effective and/or easier to implement than plant based diets, because that happened too.

[@afrolukas83]

Thank you Dr. Greger! Another superb video, plant based diet for the win!

[@NutritionDatabase]

Time to get an HD camera, doc.

[@denisea.9033]

Thank you so much for this and for being a trail blazer in openly sharing such live saving information. I think it's slowly coming around, a family member was just told by her oncologist that he wanted her eating no animal products at all 🙏🏼. That was so encouraging and promising to hear.

[@rockinvegan1765]

awesome and very entertaining. I will listen to it again:) Thanks Doc!!!

[@simpleecomplexx]

I got your "heart of the problem" pun at 5:10. I heart Dr. Greger :D

[@jonchambers8864]

Fantastic presentation, thank you!

[@vinnettepope8255]

Awesome presentation. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Qbxdef1]

Great speech!!!! You need to do more than one a year! Very inspiring!

[@konstantinkesper7387]

Great talk! Thank you.

[@thepsychonaut8212]

top notch as always doc!! TY

[@maysunmitscherlich3416]

❤️❤️❤️🌱Thank you Dr Greger!!!

[@coolkids3511]

Thank you, Dr. Greger.

[@jah0524]

Why can't this be on prime TV on all channels? The word gets out to almost no one on youtube....only those that are already fans of his or followers of his website will see this. Gotta get it on TV where people may actually see it.

[@Jester123ish]

TV and the media in general are utterly conservative, they usually present this kind of thing as 'out there' even when it does get on. They're more interested in fads like the Paleo Diet but it is starting to change a little. A comprehensive picture of human health where a Vegan diet comes up as one of the healthiest around, hah, keep dreaming. This is still not something the orthodox nutritional and medical communities are prepared to tell people. They still see nutrition as based on a food's nutritional values, and not so much the type of food, in that paradigm things like meat, milk and eggs are something you should eat, apparently....

[@TheDot872]

Because the crooks affiliated with big pharma and western medicine would be put out of business.

[@t4health527]

That was his best talk yet!!

[@matti7fcb]

You are helping and reaching so many people...

[@anacristinacapetillo241]

Amazing talking, very interesting information for people like me who have just begun a plant based diet

[@michaelc2509]

Thank you Thank you!!!! For your hard work!!!

[@sophieklara2310]

I hella love this channel ... I can't get enough . Through this channel I know what I need to include in my rawtill4 diet :) thx

[@JamScottMusic]

I love this guy!! however - bit perplexed as to how anyone could give these videos the thumbs down.....

[@c1humley]

Thumbs down usually comes from somebody who profits from raising cattle or dairy or other animal products, or the keto diet promoters. They bring their fellow trolls with them.

[@DonMatesz]

Awesome presentation. Thank you Dr. Greger. The tide is turning.

[@t4health527]

Does he only present this once? Or is it a tour? Is it always at Pittsburg? It would be fun to see next year's talk live

[@valnaples]

Tally, please check out Doc's prior talks "Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death" and "More Than an Apple a Day" here on youtube...the man is a MIRACLE!

[@t4health527]

I have seen both those, but I particularly think this one was his best yet! It would be so cool to see this live

[@valnaples]

TallythePlantEater Tally, go to his website and you'll see his speaking engagements listed. He does tour around to speak at health "immersions" and so forth.

[@MrGlassnipples]

Here you go, hopefully this is what you were looking for! :) -Cheers www.drgreger.org/speaking-dates

[@valnaples]

Jeffrey Anderson Thanks for that link to help her, Jeffrey!

[@noventar]

Thank you Dr. "Gregor Clegane" , for 'the mountain' of great information about healthy eating.

[@sunflower-mm4wd]

Can you be my doctor? Mine don't even talk about vegetables ..just gives you pill.

[@hammypie]

That's everyone's doc lol. We need doctors to watch this!!

[@EilidhLawson]

Just wonderful. You're work is changing the world for the better. Please could you do a video on Crohn's disease. My sister has suffered most of her life and over the years has been advised to 'avoid fibre' and to 'just eat any calories'.

[@banjohead66]

nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/

[@1too3fore]

I love steamed veggies for breakfast, like broccoli, carrots and pumpkin. That's what I had immediately after getting up today. Jam packed with nutrients. I would have enjoyed a Korean sweet potato if I had some on hand, too. I plan on growing a ton of veggies next year as I construct a food forest around my house. Hoping to also grow choice edible mushrooms, in particular, oyster.

[@Shockness101]

Thanks again for another great talk. I've been subscribed to this channel for years and only just realised. Will be keeping up to date more often now :)

[@asmrbykelsea]

Thank you so much for all your videos. This is the best one yet. I sent it to both of my parents. You are saving lives! Keep up the awesome work.

[@hugomarquez3189]

The connection with degenerative disc disorder is of most interest to me. I had a massive episode of a sciatica 10 years ago at 26, with disc herniation, it semi paralyzed me for a few months (couldn’t stand up for more than 5 mins). I have PTSD from that, to this day, and I’ve never been the same physically, but I have improved a great deal ever since turning vegan a year ago, along with some PRI exercises I’m doing, and wearing orthotics. I am not gonna give the entire credit to my vegan diet, a lot of it is biomechanics (I put most of my weight on my right side, and my pelvis shifts causing more pressure on the discs). I was already doing better before, but I am even better now. I hope my body can heal itself too, although the discs don’t come back, but maybe I can protect them better from further wearing down.

[@r2ocky1]

Amazing

[@BathingBuff]

Such a great lecture! I watched it twice.

[@qwe098qwe098qwe098]

Incredible speaker!

[@jeromefalcon3001]

Amazing presentation!

[@WeCelebrateEatingPlants]

Thank you! 🥦❤ Loved this all over again. Everyone should see this

[@authorKurtFrenier]

Briliant talk..

[@oftheearth]

Nice to hear there is someone out there speaking about this ~>

[@silviyakozhuharova504]

Thank you very much! You are great!

[@katherinescott1331]

Excellent information for everyone.

[@ThisSaturatedMind]

Yay! Another annual review!

[@1imesub]

Love the conclusion.

[@martyschumacher6979]

Thanks vegan Doc's for teaching me how to stay healthy. I am sure I will be well along, long, time now that I indulge in delicious plant food. : )

[@georgesbackyardgym]

when are coming too Australia ?

[@Jester123ish]

He should, that'd be the best!

[@C.R.MacDonald]

Another amazing presentation from Dr. Greger! McDougall, Esselstyn, Campbell, Barnard, Greger, etc. provide a great service to the public with their work. Does your diet reverse heart disease? Discussion ended. Circulation health should be a top priority in alleviating disease and disability through a low fat, plant-based vegan diet. Current views: 10,130 in 24 hours! Spread the news-- let's watch it climb!

[@bam111965]

Great news!!! Thank you.

[@cyndielake4092]

Dr. Gregor your videos are so important and helpful in figuring out what health really looks like. I would be remiss however to point out that the Kellogg's cereal company wasn't actually never owned by Dr. Kellogg but was the brain child of his younger brother Will Kieth.

[@PhilippeOrlando]

We do have a population that uses food to trump the lack of excitement in life. It's a fact I witness every day in my job. Palability primes on disease prevention. I've been asked many time by people I work with: " But what do you eat for pleasure?" "As a vegan, what do you use for pleasure?" Usually I roll my eyes in awe and terror and honestly I'm still working at finding answers that wouldn't be too insulting, I have none ready yet, so for now I just stare at them and change the subject as fast as the context allows me. People are a sad bunch, really.

[@AstralS7orm]

The best answer is "relationships". Albeit an excellent colorful and tasty selection of vegetables is a close competitor. So many people are actually addicted to so-called pleasure foods... designed to be addictive.

[@abc784]

tell them "it's all pleasure".

[@DarkRain110187]

You can tell them about vegan milkshakes, all natural with *no added sugar* and some fiber. That's what I would do for pleasure. I was really impressed with the taste and consistency the first time my friend made me a coconut milkshake! I hadn't fully transitioned into a vegan diet at this point, but after I drank the milkshake, first I was like, why is this so good? And then I was like, *...All is right with the world. I can live like this*, lol. I've yet to try vegan ice cream; my friend told me it's really good, but a vegan ice cream parlor is considerably harder to find. But seriously, vegan food can be quite delicious with some foodie knowledge. I've watched Food Network for years, and I made myself a vegan Italian sammich with toasted Ezekiel sprouted bread, Italian Deli tofurkey, pinch of black pepper, pinch of crushed red pepper, some relish, and a splash of olive oil and balsamic vinegar of Modena and voila(!), a healthy and fancy sounding vegan sammich, lol. Next time I'm gonna add some portobello mushrooms with that, seared in a pan with some Himalayan salt and olive oil... Damn, now I'm hungry.

[@shakgohir]

Would be grrat to see one of his presentations live.

[@jackwilliamatkins1158]

At 60 years of age I found it difficult to sustain myself properly on keto. I think I did get some gains and also a wealth of knowledge about nutrition. I've watched thousands of videos and found that NO-ONE has really outlined all the facts properly but I do realise that we are in early days. I've decided to return to a healthy carb diet and will try again if I need to and hopefully try keto-os later as well.

[@smarshall110988]

maybe a daft idea, but I think he should do a world tour!

[@hotchocolatefitness]

great video as always

[@deanamohialdeen661]

Amazing as usual doctor :)

[@agustn]

Awesome!!

[@PiedPiper97601]

Cool stuff. At some point the critique on doctor behavior is going to have to include commentary on financial incentives and make suggestions on how to reward physicians (not just the insurance companies) with healthy patients.

[@AstralS7orm]

Maybe inverse: reward patients for sticking with the right doctor and lifestyle via lower insurance cost?

[@johncharles9528]

AWESOME info!

[@bobc3997]

Great video. I wish I could get all my friends to watch it. I have a friend that works in the processed food industry and he refuses to watch any of these videos. How can we change that behavior? I liked the reference from insurance companies. Money drives things, and insurance companies may well join the movement for plant based diets.

[@thomasbatts6025]

What's up with the only 360p video? Will watch, but I can't read all the figures, :/

[@kronier]

Epic

[@Campo007]

I'm singing the ABBA song everyday!!

[@spirittwo7381]

Super poopers sounds like ABBA song! LOL!

[@BethShearon]

Thank you! It's 2020 and I'm still running into people who don't know (!!!?!?!!!)