Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
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Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?
What evidence exists to suggest oil pulling can effectively treat serious diseases, such as paralysis, meningitis, cancer, and AIDS? I’ve produced videos on how coconut oil is safe to put on your hair or put on your skin, but you certainly don’t want to eat it. In fact, you may not even want...
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Eat Beans to Live Longer
Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart; the more you eat, the…longer you live? Legumes...
Overdosing on Poppy Seeds
The opium poppy used to make heroin is the same opium poppy used to make...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
Why Athletes Should Eat Nutritional Yeast
Does powering up at the gym also power up our immune system? Research has shown...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
Chronic Headaches and Pork Parasites
Neurocysticercosis is the sciencey name for an infection of the human central nervous system by...
Why the Egg-Cancer Link?
Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that’s better...
How Eggs Can Impact Body Odor
I previously lampooned the egg industry PR campaign that tried to promote eggs as a...
How to Design a Misleading Study
Imagine working for the now defunct Twinkie division of Hostess and wanting to take the...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Dr. Greger Addresses Gluten in New DVD
Until recently, those complaining to their doctors about symptoms associated with the wheat protein gluten...
Test to See If Your Diet Is Alkaline- or Acid-Forming
In my video Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, & Calcium Loss I presented evidence challenging the notion...
Does Animal Protein Cause Osteoporosis?
For most of the last century, a prevailing theory within the field of nutrition was...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
Cancer and the Animal-to-Plant Protein Ratio
It is now eight years since the famous Ornish study was published, suggesting that 12...
How to Treat Multiple Sclerosis with Diet
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable and frightening degenerative autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous...
Dr. Greger’s 2014 Year-in-Review Presentation
Order my new live presentation on DVD or download it now (all proceeds go to...
Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
How Animal Proteins May Trigger Autoimmune Disease
Although slaughterhouse workers with the most poultry exposure appear to suffer the greatest excess mortality...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Improving Attractiveness in Six Weeks
Inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption may kill millions around the globe every year, so the...
