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How Not to Hurt—Live Presentation

Modern pain management is a multibillion-dollar system of drugs, devices, and surgeries that too often do more harm than good, but, thankfully, there are safe, simple, side-effect-free “single-cent solutions” hidden right in our pantries.

Stretches and Other Self-Care Treatments for Plantar Fasciitis

Skip the invasive procedures. The best first-line defense for plantar fasciitis is simple: rest, ice, and calf/arch stretching.

Do Medical, Surgical, and Physical Therapy Treatments Work for Plantar Fasciitis?

Certain common treatments for heel pain can do more harm than good.

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How to Prevent Plantar Fasciitis

If plantar fasciitis is an overuse injury where damage outpaces repair, how can we reduce microtrauma and also facilitate healing?

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What Is Plantar Fasciitis (and Other Causes of Heel Pain)?

How to differentiate between plantar fasciitis and other causes of heel pain, such as heel fat pad atrophy.

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Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis): What It Is and How to Prevent and Treat It

When it comes to frozen shoulder, less is sometimes more.

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Preventing Rotator Cuff Shoulder Pain with Diet

What is the role of cholesterol and advanced glycation end products in shoulder health?

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Why Do Surgeons Continue to Perform Worthless Operations?

Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients undergo unnecessary, unhelpful, and even painful procedures that may result in catastrophic complications.

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Rotator Cuff Surgery May Cause More Shoulder Pain Than Relief

The most common shoulder surgery provides no meaningful benefit over placebo sham surgery, yet it continues to put millions at risk.

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Chiropractic Manipulation, Physical Therapy, and Exercise Therapy for Shoulder Pain Relief

How do chiropractic adjustments and physical therapy fare compared to placebo or sham interventions?

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Steroid Injections for Shoulder Pain Relief May Do More Harm Than Good

Corticosteroid shots may offer brief shoulder relief, but studies show they can increase the risk of subsequent rotator cuff tears up to sevenfold.

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Common Meds Like Ibuprofen (NSAIDs) May Turn Temporary Pain into Chronic Pain

Inflammation can actually protect against the development of chronic pain.

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The Health Benefits of Psyllium, Flaxseeds, and Other High-Fiber Foods

While psyllium is a go-to fiber for acid reflux and constipation, ground flaxseed beat it head-to-head in clinical trials—delivering superior bowel regularity, blood sugar reductions, cholesterol drops, and weight loss at a fraction of the cost.

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The Best Diet for Treating Acid Reflux (GERD)

Dietary approaches can be safer, cheaper, and work better than drugs for acid reflux symptoms like heartburn.

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Do Proton Pump Inhibitors Work for Acid Reflux (GERD)?

By triggering withdrawal symptoms that mimic the original condition, these risky drugs keep patients hooked for years.

HOW NOT TO HURT Trailer for Dr. Greger’s New Book on Chronic Pain Relief

A trailer for Dr. Greger’s forthcoming book on dietary approaches to pain management.

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Dietary Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia Pain

One of the most extraordinary findings in all of pain medicine had been lost down the memory hole.

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Are Ultra-Processed Foods Addictive?

Our cravings aren’t an accident. They’re a business model.

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How to Get the Ideal Ferritin Level and Avoid Symptoms of Iron Deficiency

Donating blood can bring down iron levels down to the sweet spot between 15 to 50.

The Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Arthritis, Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, and Body Weight

Dozens of human trials reveal where turmeric delivers—and where it doesn’t.

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Medically Assisted Death

Physician-assisted suicide–perhaps more accurately termed physician-assisted dying or medical aid in dying–allows the terminally ill to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of a lethal dose of medication expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.

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VSED: The Downsides of Fasting for Ending Life

What are the pros and cons of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to end your life?

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VSED: The Benefits of Fasting for Ending Life

Even under hospice with excellent palliative care, some spend their last months in uncontrollable suffering. What can be done in places in the United States that outlaw physician-assisted dying?

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How to Die a Good Death

Hospice is often framed as “giving up,” but, ironically, hospice patients sometimes actually live longer

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Yoga Put to the Test for Headaches, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, and the Elderly

What happens when real yoga is compared to sham yoga?

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Yoga Put to the Test for MS, Back Pain, Neck Pain, Insomnia, and Breast Cancer

Is yoga better than other types of exercise, better than nothing but similar to other physical activity, or not beneficial even when it’s compared to doing nothing at all?

The Risks and Benefits of Mindfulness for Weight Loss

Contrary to popular perception, the evidence for even the most well-founded benefits of mindfulness meditation is not entirely conclusive.

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The Best Diet for Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pain Relief

Anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndromes.

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Fasting for Post-Traumatic Brain Injury Headache

What effect do fasting and a plant-based diet have on TBI and migraines?

How Common Are Muscle Side Effects from Statins?

Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials but appear to be so high out in the real world?

Kombucha’s Side Effects: Is It Bad for You?

What are the risks versus benefits of drinking kombucha?

Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.

Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work?

There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery.

The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes

Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.

Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases

Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.

Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.

Berries for Inflammation and Osteoarthritis Treatment

Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis.

Ground Ginger to Reduce Muscle Pain

There have been at least eight randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of ginger for pain.

Marijuana Legalization and the Opioid Epidemic

What happened in states after medical marijuana laws were passed? Did opioid overdoses go up, stay the same, or go down?

Is Aloe Vera Gel the Best Treatment for Lichen Planus?

We shouldn’t ever swallow aloe vera, but how does using it topically for a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease compare to steroids?

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