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Best Medicine & infectious disease Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 23 Medicine & infectious disease talks from a 139-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include Dr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google, Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem', and Minding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity. The broader topic archive has 851 labeled comments across 2009–2026, but this list only includes videos classified as talks. Each row shows its recorded recommendation count and a reason based on its tags and HN history. Use the recent-video archive to browse every format by latest HN mention instead.

  1. 1
    Dr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2016–2022.

    8 recommenders
  2. 2
    Dr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    7 recommenders
  3. 3
    Minding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2011–2022.

    7 recommenders
  4. 4
    Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2011–2022.

    6 recommenders
  5. 5
    Type 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2015–2022.

    4 recommenders
  6. 6
    Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Fitness, sleep & longevity; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    3 recommenders
  7. 7
    How I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Mental health & neurodiversity; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    3 recommenders
  8. 8
    Dr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    3 recommenders
  9. 9
    Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Neuroscience & the brain; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    3 recommenders
  10. 10
    Dr. Jason Fung: Fasting as a Therapeutic Option for Weight Loss

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2019–2020.

    3 recommenders
  11. 11
    Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2021–2021.

    3 recommenders
  12. 12
    Myopia: A Modern Yet Reversible Disease — Todd Becker, M.S. (AHS14)

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2021–2025.

    2 recommenders
  13. 13
    Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2021–2023.

    2 recommenders
  14. 14
    Keynote - Karen Sandler

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Hacker culture & free software; the recorded mentions span 2012–2016.

    2 recommenders
  15. 15
    Matter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Biology & biotechnology; the recorded mentions span 2023–2024.

    2 recommenders
  16. 16
    The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2020–2021.

    2 recommenders
  17. 17
    David Sinclair | Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To | Talks at Google

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Fitness, sleep & longevity; the recorded mentions span 2020–2021.

    2 recommenders
  18. 18
    Dr. Matthew Phillips - 'Metabolic Strategies as Therapies in Cancer and Neurodegeneration'

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2022–2023.

    2 recommenders
  19. 19
    FoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, & the Aftermath

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Nutrition & diet science; the recorded mentions span 2021–2022.

    1 recommenders
  20. 20
    Can we eat to starve cancer? - William Li

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2016–2021.

    1 recommenders
  21. 21
    How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.

    1 recommenders
  22. 22
    Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives

    0 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Fitness, sleep & longevity; the recorded mentions span 2015–2016.

    0 recommenders
  23. 23
    OSCON 2011: Karen Sandler

    0 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Hacker culture & free software; the recorded mentions span 2012–2018.

    0 recommenders