Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.

Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered, what makes medicine meaningful?

Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?

How can we build healthcare institutions that nurture the doctor-patient

connection? What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of

suffering? In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health

care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's

worth of hard-earned wisdom. Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we

will hear stories that are by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and

enlightening. We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do. Join us as we think

out loud about what illness and

healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.

What is the leading cause of death among Americans? Smoking? Accidents? Actually, it's the

American diet. Accumulating medical evidence now shows that poor diet not only contributes to heart disease,

diabetes, and stroke, but also to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, liver disease, and so much more.

Despite its direct and indirect roles in causing half or more of all deaths,

food is just not something doctors learn about in their training, nor is it something that's emphasized enough to patients

by the medical establishment.

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Michael Greger, a specialist in lifestyle medicine, and one

of the most trusted voices in evidence-based

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