Delve into the digestive system with this lighthearted and informative documentary that demystifies the role gut health plays in our overall well-being.
Un joven y ambicioso ejecutivo de empresa es enviado para traer de vuelta al CEO de su compañía, que se encuentra en un idílico pero misterioso "centro de bienestar", situado en un lugar remoto de los Alpes suizos. El joven pronto sospecha que los tratamientos milagrosos del centro no son lo que parecen. Cuando empieza a desentrañar sus terribles secretos, su cordura será puesta a prueba, pues de repente se encontrará diagnosticado con la misma y curiosa enfermedad que mantiene allí a todos los huéspedes, deseosos de encontrar una cura.
Nick Naylor, jefe de prensa de una gran compañía de tabaco, dedica su vida a defender los derechos de los fumadores contra la cultura neopuritana dominante. Enfrentado a grupos de defensa de la salud y a un oportunista senador, Nick pasa a la ofensiva como relaciones públicas del consumo de cigarrillos, pero al mismo tiempo comienza a pensar en la imagen que está dando a su hijo pequeño Joey.
El cinematógrafo Morgan Spurlock graba el período de 30 días de su vida en que no come más que comida rápida de McDonald's. El documental también examina el problema de la obesidad en los EE.UU.; programas del almuerzo de las escuelas; y el efecto de los grupos de presión de la industria de la comida rápida.
Documental conmovedor sobre una estudiante de posgrado de veintiocho años que se puso frente a la cámara para mostrar el suplicio de tener el síndrome de fatiga crónica.
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one's perceptions, the human body can heal itself from any disease.
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.
This documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species. And also discusses several misconceptions about food and diet.
Lo que la Salud es una tierra que rompe el documental de longitud del rasgo de los cineastas premiados de Cowspiracy, que sigue el viaje emocionante del cineasta intrépido, Kip Andersen, ya que destapa los impactos de alimentos de animal industriales muy tratados en nuestra salud personal y mayor comunidad, y explora por qué las organizaciones de salud principales siguen promoviendo la industria a pesar de estudios médicos innumerables e investigación mostrando efectos deletéreos de estos productos en nuestra salud.
La Píldora Mágica es un documental que realiza un seguimiento a doctores, pacientes, científicos, cocineros, agricultores y periodistas de todo el mundo que combaten las enfermedades con un cambio en la alimentación. Este cambio consiste en hacer de la grasa la principal fuente de calorías. Para sus seguidores, ayudará a mejorar de la salud de la gente, los animales y el planeta, ya que la mayoría de las enfermedades modernas son solo síntomas del mismo problema. El documental ha generado una gran controversia, habiendo siendo criticado públicamente por asociaciones médicas.
Fasting may serve as the solution to solve our epidemic of chronic illnesses today. However, most think of only one method of fasting when they hear the term ‘fasting.’ This documentary explores 7 different methods of fasting including Time-Restricted Feeding, Intermittent & Prolonged Fasting, Long-Term Water Fasting, Religious Fasting, Eating Disorders, Improvising or Fasting Unsafely, Fasting Mimicking Diet, and Juice Fasting. The film interviews 54 people including the world’s leading scientists and medical professionals on fasting, as well as individuals who used fasting to treat obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular problems, skin problems, high blood pressure, chronic headaches, joint pain, and many others. This feature motion picture is the most comprehensive and objective look at fasting on film.
Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementia—many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted.
Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."
Imagine a world where the trapped emotions, fears, anxieties and unprocessed life experiences we hold in our bodies are the source for everything that ails us. That’s the world we live in. Now imagine a world where everyone is manifesting from their heart the perfect creation that’s inside each of us. Imagine a world where abundance, inner peace, longevity and loving relationships abound. Imagine emotion experts from around the world sharing their wisdom and negative-emotion clearing techniques to light a new pathway for humanity. Imagine we are sacred, spiritual beings here for a much larger reason, serving a much higher purpose, a divine purpose. That’s where we’re going.
“Food Relovution: What We Eat Can Make A Difference” is an eye-opening and compelling feature documentary that examines the consequences of the meat culture as concerns grow about health, world hunger, animal welfare and the environmental cost of livestock production. It aims to show how these global issues affect everyone and are interrelated, and how making our food choices with a sense of awareness, knowing what we are buying and what we are eating is the first fundamental step towards a better world.
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.