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95% Reduce Medications: Dr. Brad Moore on the Power Reversing Diseases

Nov 22, 2025

Dr. Brad Moore, a leader in lifestyle medicine at George Washington University, discusses how lifestyle choices, not genetics, drive chronic diseases. He emphasizes that 95% of patients can reduce medications by making simple changes in diet, movement, and stress management. Moore highlights the importance of tailored, gradual lifestyle changes over strict diets and explains how sleep affects hunger hormones. He also covers the crucial difference between weight as a symptom and the root causes of health issues, advocating for a whole-food, plant-forward diet.

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ANECDOTE

Personal Turning Point To Lifestyle Medicine

Dr. Brad Moore discovered lifestyle medicine after personal struggles and research into exercise benefits.
That experience shifted his practice from prescribing pills to offering lifestyle change options to patients.

INSIGHT

Lifestyle Drives Chronic Disease

Lifestyle explains about 80% of chronic disease while genetics explains roughly 20%.
Addressing lifestyle as the root cause lets the body heal rather than applying high-tech band-aids.

ANECDOTE

Residency Pathway At GW

Dr. Brad Moore started a lifestyle medicine residency pathway at GW to train clinicians in behavior change.
Residents can finish board-eligible in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine through the pathway.

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Show Title: 95% Reduce Medications: Dr. Brad Moore on the Power Reversing Diseases

Show Description: Discover how lifestyle medicine can reverse chronic disease in this powerful conversation between Chuck Carroll and Dr. Brad Moore, Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Program at George Washington Medical Faculty Associates.

Dr. Moore explains why the root cause of conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and heart disease is often lifestyle—not genetics. He shares how simple changes in food, movement, sleep, and stress can dramatically improve health, reduce medications, and transform long-term outcomes.

You'll learn what separates patients who succeed with lifestyle change from those who struggle, why focusing only on weight can backfire, and how sleep and stress alter hunger, cravings, and metabolism. Dr. Moore also breaks down the science behind insulin resistance, saturated fat, and rapid improvements seen when patients adopt a whole-food, plant-forward diet.

This special bonus episode was recorded live at GreenFare Organic Cafe in Reston, VA. The menu is entirely free of salt, oil, and sugar and 100 percent organic.

What You'll Learn:

– How lifestyle medicine reverses chronic disease – Why genetics matter less than most people think – The truth about insulin resistance and saturated fat – Why focusing on weight alone slows progress – How sleep and stress affect appetite and metabolism – The difference between "cannonball" and "baby-step" approaches – Why 95% of lifestyle medicine patients reduce medications – How the military is incorporating lifestyle medicine – How to work with Dr. Brad Moore at GW

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