Obesity increases the likelihood of various other health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, sleep apnea, and even certain types of cancer. Some health experts forecast that 42 percent of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030 but it’s not just a problem in America; obesity is also on the rise in other countries like never before. Aside from some exceptions, obesity is the result of excessive food intake and a lack of activity. “70% of the diseases that [...]
Raised in the city, Brion Whitfold grew up without knowing much about his Ojibway culture or heritage. Then he was diagnosed with diabetes and the more Brion’s health deteriorated, the deeper his interest grew in connecting with his origins.
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey thinks that aging is a disease. The good news? It is a CURABLE disease. Aubrey believes that our whole ‘aging is a good thing’ culture is dangerous for our health.
People & Power: The Cancer Sell takes viewers on a journey to Tijuana, Mexico to explore the many alternative cancer therapy clinics. Sarah Macdonald leads the way in this investigative documentary. She discovers their are several online supplement stores and cancer chat rooms. 25 minutes.
Dr. Max Gerson claims to be able to cure cancer. The cure? Diet. Is this documentary an infomercial or the future of medicine? You decide. The Beautiful Truth has won many awards and been featured at film festivals. Yet, we can’t help but feel that there’s something not quite right about the good doctor’s research.
On a finite budget, the National Health Service cannot afford to offer every treatment on the market, so how is it decided which medications should be made available?
This documentary follows those who suffer from the rare disease named Cataplexy. Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone.
This documentary tells the story of three women tormented 24 hours a day by the need for orgasms. They suffer from the rare disease Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS). It is a little understood neurological condition where women suffer from constant uncontrollable genital arousal.
The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.
In The Suicide Tourist, Zaritsky tells two interwoven stories about suicide: In the first, he follows a terminally-ill man, 59 year-old American Craig Ewert, through the last four days of his life – preparing to leave his adopted home in England for the last time, then on his journey to Zurich, and into the care of Dignitas, with whose help he will end his life.
At over 8 feet tall, Sultan Kosen of Turkey is the world’s tallest man. We follow his journey around the world in search of a cure for his gigantism, the life threatening disease that causes him to grow even further beyond his record-breaking height
34 year old Yao Defen stands 7 feet 8 inches tall and suffers from gigantism. Gigantism occurs when a tumor develops on the brain’s pituitary gland.
For the past 35 years, 51 year-old Jose Mestre, from Lisbon, has been losing his face to a massive growth, distorting it out of all recognition – and it’s still growing.
An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor – and Vitamin A.
The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.
Over 25 years ago, Ian Waterman caught a virus that destroyed half his nervous system. He was left like a rag doll, with no sense of touch below the neck and no idea of where his limbs were unless he could see them. The doctors told him that he would never walk, feed himself or dress himself again. Yet, against all the odds, he has made an apparently miraculous recovery.
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