What Does Personalized Nutrition Actually Deliver?
There’s a lot of focus on personalized nutrition, but maybe we should focus on taking...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
There’s a lot of focus on personalized nutrition, but maybe we should focus on taking personal responsibility for our health. “Personalized nutrition (PN) is rooted in the concept that one size does not fit all,” and who doesn’t want to...
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Which Foods Help a Leaky Gut?
What is the recommended diet for treating leaky gut? Which foods and food components can...
Keeping Better Score of Your Diet
How can you get a perfect diet score? How do you rate the quality of...
How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart...
Are Doctors Knowledgeable About Nutrition?
Do you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors? “A poor diet now outranks...
Fiber or Low FODMAP for SIBO?
It may not be the number of bacteria growing in our small intestine, but the...
Are Carboxymethylcellulose, Polysorbate 80, and Other Emulsifiers Safe?
Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additives. What are they doing to our gut...
True Health Intiative: Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet
The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet. About...
Boosting BDNF Levels in Our Brain to Treat Depression
We can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
Inhospitable Hospital Food
What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be...
Can You Sustain Weight Loss on Ketosis?
Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance? The new data are said to...
What Is the Best Diet for Preventing Colon Cancer?
What would happen within just two weeks after swapping the diets of Americans with those...
What Is Orthorexia?
I trace the source and legitimacy of a disorder purporting to describe an “unhealthy obsession...
What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger....
Is Cheese Really Good for Our Health?
What is the real story behind the recent studies that show cheese has neutral or...
Why Should (or Shouldn’t) We Eat a Macrobiotic Diet?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed largely of whole grains, vegetables,...
Kidney Toxins Created by Meat Consumption
As I discuss in my video How to Treat Heart Failure and Kidney Failure with...
Updating Our Microbiome Software and Hardware
Good bacteria, those living in symbiosis with us, are nourished by fruits, vegetables, grains, and...
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items...
Decreasing Inflammation and Oxidation After Meals
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling...
One Way to Treat Asthma and Autoimmune Diseases with Diet
Cutting two teaspoons of salt’s worth of sodium from one’s daily diet can significantly improve...
What Meat and Eggs Do to Our Microbiome
As I’ve explored before, whether young or old, male or female, smoker or non-smoker, with...
How Not to Die from Heart Disease
The most likely reason most of our loved ones will die is heart disease. It’s...
