How Not to Hurt Summit

A founding member and fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, is a physician, a New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized speaker on the nexus of nutrition and disease. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, testified before Congress, and was an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. In 2017, Dr. Greger was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

His books How Not to Die, The How Not to Die Cookbook, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age became instant New York Times bestsellers.

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Dr. Greger is the founder of NutritionFacts.org, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to sharing the latest in evidence-based lifestyle medicine research to help you and those you love live longer, healthier lives. All proceeds he receives from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements are donated directly to charity. Science should be free for all—and free from conflicts of interest.

The inspiration for Dr. Greger’s work started with his grandmother. He was only a child when she was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease. She had already had many bypass surgeries and was told there was nothing more the surgeons could do. At age 65, she was confined in a wheelchair with crushing chest pain and sent home from the hospital to die. Then, she learned about Nathan Pritikin, one of the early lifestyle medicine pioneers who had been gaining a reputation for reversing terminal heart disease. He had just opened a new center in California, and Dr. Greger’s grandmother, in desperation, become one of the first patients at Pritikin’s live- in program where everyone was placed on a plant-based diet and then started on a graded exercise regimen. They wheeled his grandmother in, and she walked out. As featured in Pritikin’s biography Pritikin: The Man Who Healed America’s Heart:

Frances Greger, from North Miami, Florida, arrived in Santa Barbara at one of Pritikin’s early sessions in a wheelchair. Mrs. Greger had heart disease, angina, and claudication; her condition was so bad she could no longer walk without great pain in her chest and legs. Within three weeks, though, she was not only out of her wheelchair but was walking ten miles a day.

Dr. Greger made it his life’s mission to uncover and share the latest in evidence-based nutrition research so everyone may be able to have a long, vibrant life, just as his grandmother did. Science should be free for all— and free from conflicts of interest. NutritionFacts.org

Klaus Mitchell is a health advocate, entrepreneur, and author of Built From Pain: The Revolutionary Approach to Overcome Chronic Pain..

His personal journey with chronic pain drove him deep into the science of pain, lifestyle medicine, and human resilience, and eventually led him to build one of the largest conscious health platforms.

As founder of Everkind Digital, which owns platforms Plant Based News and The Sustainability Awards (together over 4 million followers and 70+ million monthly impressions). Klaus is also co-founder of the new event and media platform Health + AI Insiders.

He has spoken at UN COP conferences, universities, and companies including Meta, and has been featured on several health platforms including Dr. Alan Desmond’s The Eat This Podcast (number two health and nutrition podcast in the UK), Dr. Scott Stoll’s online education series, and Dr. Michael Greger’s podcast. He has also interviewed prominent figures in medicine including Dr. Kim Williams (former President of the American College of Cardiology), as well as Rich Roll and others.

Other notable work includes co-starring in Heineken’s Worlds Apart campaign, a social experiment covered by CNN, Good Morning America, and USA Today, and script editing Netflix’s Seaspiracy, which broke into the global top ten across 32 countries in 2021.