Combating Air Pollution Effects with Food
There is a food that offers the best of both worlds—significantly improving our ability to...
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Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?
Do low-carb and ketogenic diets have a metabolic advantage for weight loss? When you don’t eat enough carbohydrates, you force your body to burn more fat. “However, this rise in fat oxidation [burning] is often misconstrued as a greater rate...
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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...
What Does Drinking Soy Milk Do to Hormone Levels?
The vast majority of breast cancers start out hormone-dependent, where estradiol, the primary human estrogen,...
High Blood Pressure May Lead to Low Brain Volume
Having hypertension in midlife (ages 40 through 60) is associated with elevated risk of cognitive...
Are the BPA-Free Plastics Like Tritan Safe?
Do BPA-free plastics such as Tritan, have human hormone-disrupting effects? And what about BPS and...
Eating Seaweed Salad May Boost Immune Function
Eating seaweed salad may boost the efficacy of vaccinations and help treat cold sores, herpes,...
Pill-Free Ways to Improve Your Sex Life
“Sex is important to health,” according to the Harvard Health Letter. “Frequent sexual intercourse is...
Chia Seeds vs. Flaxseeds: What Are the Differences and Benefits?
Chia seeds, one of the main crops grown in the Western Hemisphere, have been eaten...
How to Survive a Pandemic: Paperback Pre-Order
I’m thrilled to announce that after being released only in audio and digital format, my...
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...
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...
How to Foster a Healthy Gut Flora
What’s more important: probiotics or prebiotics? And where can we best get them? “Virtually every...
Contaminants Found in 90% of Herbal Supplements Tested
The majority of dietary supplement facilities tested were found noncompliant with good manufacturing practices...
Boosting Antiviral Immune Function with Green Tea
Unlike most antiviral drugs, green tea appears to work by boosting the immune system to...
Vitamin D Supplements for Increasing Aging Muscle Strength
We have known for more than 400 years that muscle weakness is a common presenting...
My New Book, How to Survive a Pandemic, Is Out Now
How to Survive a Pandemic is now out! Note: if you checked on Amazon and noticed...
Mad Cow Disease and Cosmetics
As I discuss in my video Which Intestines for Food and Cosmetics?, the Food and...
Medical Meat Bias
When famed surgeon Michael DeBakey was asked why his studies published back in the 1930s...
What to Take for Menstrual Cramps
In my video Ginger for Migraines, I described how ginger works as well as the...
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...
Using Green Tea to Help Prevent Cancer and Treat Cancer
Tea consumption is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and premature death...
Does Aspartame Cause Lymphoma?
The approval of aspartame has a controversial history. The Commissioner of the U.S. Food and...
Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Vitamin C Supplements
Mainstream medicine has long had a healthy skepticism of dietary supplements, extending to the present...
