An MIT-educated neurosurgeon quit his job after realizing surgeries weren’t addressing the root cause of patients’ problems. He observed that the outcome of surgeries would vary greatly: for some it would help, for others a bit and for others, it would not help at all even though he performed them perfectly every time. Some patients even called before the surgery to say that they were okay and no longer needed surgery.

So he started asking patients questions and after 9 years he concluded that patients who got better and healed did the following (at 19:42 in the video): low salt diet; mostly plant-based diet; did things that would cause sweat: exercise, sauna, or living in hot weather; did not smoke; drank little to no alcohol; had good social support: family, friends, etc; slept 8 hours a day; were not stressed or managed to release it back, e.g. meditate.

Then he talks about the moral dilemma. If he helps patients to truly heal by sharing what he has learned, he and the hospital would not make money.