Movie
What the Health
Overview
Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.
Details
- Release date
- 2017-03-16
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Spark Media
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kip Andersen as Self
- Larry Baldwin as Self
- Neal Barnard as Self
- Tia Blanco as Self
- David Carter as Self
- Jake Conroy as Self
- Garth Davis as Self
- Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. as Self
- Mike Ewall as Self
- Alan Goldhamer as Self
- Michael Greger as Self
- Mu Jin Han as Self
Crew
- Kip Andersen - Director
- Keegan Kuhn - Director
- Kip Andersen - Writer
- Keegan Kuhn - Writer
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