Dr. Michael Greger

Okay.

And so then doctors graduate without this powerful tool in their medical toolbox.

To actually heal.

To actually help people.

Instead...

You know, for about 80% that walks into a primary care doctor's office are these chronic diseases, lifestyle diseases, like the high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and the obesity, and the heart disease.

And yes, we have drugs that can slow down the rate at which our diabetics go blind.

and lose their kidney function and lose their lower limbs.

But not actually make our patients better.

That's why we went to medical school, right?

We want to actually heal people.

But instead, I mean, it's just so frustrating because unless you treat the cause, the underlying cause, you're not actually going to reverse the disease.

The root.

Right, the root cause.

But that's the exciting thing about lifestyle medicine.

Okay, so how did I get into this whole lifestyle medicine thing?

I'm proud to be a co-founder of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, now the fastest growing medical specialty in the country.

I'm very excited.

Okay, it all started with my grandmother.

I was just a kid when my grandma