Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent stages of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis. Important to our understanding and the prevention of...
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How Is Natural Killer Cell Function Boosted by Forest Bathing?
Can the aroma of wood essential oils replicate the immune-boosting effects of walking in a...
Forest Bathing to Boost Anticancer Immunity
Natural killer cells are one of the ways our body fights off cancer, and visiting...
Ephedra-Like Weight Loss Minus the Risks
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Headache and Migraine Relief from Foods
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of...
Curing Canker Sores (Aphthous Ulcers) with Diet
Does excluding dairy products, food additives, and gluten-containing grains from one’s diet help those with...
Most Women May Experience at Least One False-Positive Mammogram
Odds are most women will get at least one false-positive mammogram, but, thankfully, most women...
Countering Stress-Induced Immune Suppression with Diet
How might we improve immune function in children and adults under physical or psychological stress? “Natural immunomodulators”—compounds that...
Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the...
What Happens If You Have Red Wine or Avocados with a Meal?
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after meal)...
Decreasing Inflammation and Oxidation After Meals
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling...
Pill-Free Ways to Improve Your Sex Life
“Sex is important to health,” according to the Harvard Health Letter. “Frequent sexual intercourse is...
A Half Teaspoon of Dried Rosemary May Improve Cognitive Function
In Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia notes that rosemary is for remembrance, an idea...
What Happens When Pregnant Women Eat More Animal Protein
Are high-protein diets during pregnancy healthful or harmful? That question was answered about 40 years...
Meat Can Cause Stress Hormone Levels to Rise and Testosterone Levels to Drop
A critique of the scientific validity of the dietary advice in Men’s Health magazine discovered...
The Best Diet for Chest Pain
The Dean Ornish program that led to improved arterial function and the dramatic drop in...
Is It Healthier to Be Happier?
More than 60 years ago, the World Health Organization defined health as a “state of...
The Health Effects of Heavy Metal Music
As I discussed in my video Music as Medicine, the stress-reducing effects of music appear...
How Well Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Actually Work?
One of the reasons people may undervalue diet and lifestyle changes is an overconfidence in...
How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
How Many Minutes of Daily Meditation to Combat Stress?
In the film The Holiday, Cameron Diaz exclaims “Severe stress … causes the DNA in...
Why Certain Plant Compounds May Mimic Dietary Restriction
A new concept, called xenohormesis, has arisen to explain the mystery of why so many...
How Humans Benefit from Stressed Plants
Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle—most of us usually think of plants more as objects...
Is Liquid Smoke Safe?
We know smoke inhalation isn’t good for us, but what about smoke ingestion? Decades ago,...
