How to Boost Your Longevity Hormone
What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a...
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How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a new human hormone was discovered. It was the 21st documented fibroblast growth factor, so they called it FGF21. Since its discovery, FGF21 has become recognized...
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Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated,...
Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?
Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters? Is there a link...
Keeping Better Score of Your Diet
How can you get a perfect diet score? How do you rate the quality of...
Plant-Based Hospital Menus
The American Medical Association passed a resolution encouraging hospitals to offer healthy plant-based food options....
Ideal vs. Normal Cholesterol Levels
Having a “normal” cholesterol level in a society where it’s normal to die from a...
Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins?
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out...
Should You Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if...
Heme and Impossible Burgers
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer,...
Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits...
An Ideal Waist Size
The book Dieting Makes You Fat was published originally in the 1980s and then repeatedly...
Obesity’s Impact on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, as well as reverse type 2...
Cannabis, Strokes, and Heart Attacks?
The temporary quintupling of heart attack risk associated with cannabis smoking may be due to...
Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal...
The Largest Study on Fasting in the World
The Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a...
Is Stainless Steel or Cast Iron Cookware Best? Is Teflon Safe?
What is the best type of pots and pans to use? In my last video,...
Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin...
What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Not taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke...
The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests...
A King’s Breakfast, a Prince’s Lunch, and a Pauper’s Dinner
Harness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch...
Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning
A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you...
The Pros of Garlic Powder for Heart Disease
See what a penny a day’s worth of garlic powder can do. In ancient Greece,...
Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds
Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed. I previously...
The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating
Calories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re...
