PickVidsBest Medicine & infectious disease Videos
The 141 Medicine & infectious disease videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 18 intermediate, 120 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Low Carb Down Under, LastWeekTonight.
Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH
Robert Lustig of UCSF lectures on the biochemistry of sugar, arguing that fructose and lack of fiber drive the obesity epidemic via insulin.
We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
CGP Grey narrates an animated adaptation of Nick Bostrom's Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.
Dr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
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Why Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction
CGP Grey explains why European diseases devastated the Americas while few deadly diseases traveled the other way.
Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin)
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Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
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Minding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
Gary Taubes presents the argument of his book Why We Get Fat to Googlers in 2011.
Fasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
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The Epidemic of Fake Disease
A Medlife Crisis video by cardiologist Rohin Francis on overdiagnosis and over-screening.
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky's lecture on how the body's stress response, evolved for short-term physical emergencies, harms long-term health when triggered by psychological stressors.
I Found The Source of the Coronavirus
A 2020 video by laowhy86 arguing that the coronavirus did not originate outside China, pointing to evidence about the Wuhan institute and a possible patient zero.
Type 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU
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Simulating an epidemic
3Blue1Brown builds toy SIR models to simulate how an epidemic spreads and tests scenarios like social distancing, travel restrictions, central gathering places and quarantine.
The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
A two-minute time-lapse from the Kishony Lab showing bacteria spreading across a giant petri dish with increasing antibiotic doses, evolving resistance as they go.
Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?
Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin discuss the evidence for the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab, including the furin cleavage site and gain-of-function research.
Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the US opioid epidemic, tracing how prescription painkillers fed addiction and heroin use.
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
A short clip of Penn and Teller arguing, in blunt and profane language, for vaccination and against anti-vaccine claims.
Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC
Cardiologist James O'Keefe argues in a TEDx talk that moderate running confers the best longevity benefits, while extreme endurance training can damage the heart.
Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0
Robert Lustig of UCSF updates his sugar talk, arguing that fructose and processed foods drive obesity and metabolic syndrome through their endocrine effects.
exercises for tendinitis (tendonitis) and carpal tunnel (cps)
A short video of stretching and hand exercises for preventing and easing tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome, from a percussion teacher.
Ringing in Ears Tinnitus Treatment
A short promotional video demonstrating a head-thumping technique that is claimed to relieve tinnitus.
How I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
Actress Claudia Christian tells how she overcame alcoholism using the Sinclair Method, which uses naltrexone to gradually reduce cravings.
Dr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
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