Dr. Michael Greger
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We started doing DVDs until finally I was able to put it online.
Yeah, of course.
And then can reach millions with that same kind of medicine.
So now, I had to give up the clinical practice.
So I feel like I'm still practicing medicine, but just on a kind of a broader scale, writing, research, speaking, all that, just getting this information out there.
It's like, in a certain sense, we really don't need any more research.
We have enough to save so many lives, and there's always unanswered questions.
Of course.
I love the research, but we have enough now to really reverse the course of the way our country's headed.
Yeah.
So it's all really the gold standard of what we know in medicine comes from the so-called peer-reviewed medical literature, right?
So these are the studies in these peer-reviewed medical journals where at least this is kind of bar to entry.
Like on the internet, you can say anything, right?
Earth is flat, whatever, right?
Right.
And look, you can say there's crazy things published in the peer reviewed literature as well, but at least there's kind of a barred entry where fellow scientists actually look at your work with kind of a skeptical eye and make sure you're just like not totally making stuff out of whole cloth, right?
And so that's where we look to.
And so there's been decades, decades of this mountain of research building up, but it just hasn't kind of gotten over to the general public.
Again, just because there's not money.
to be made, right?