No Purveyor of Unhealthy Products Wants the Public to Know the Truth
In 2011, Denmark introduced the world’s first tax on saturated fat. “After only 15 months,...
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Is Fasting an Effective Treatment for Diabetes?
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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70% Taking Common Antidepressants Suffer Sexual Side Effects
What’s the latest on treating depression with the spice saffron? Years ago, I covered a...
What About the Trans Fat in Animal Fat?
The years of healthy life lost due to our consumption of trans fats are comparable...
We’re Hiring Two Positions (and Cookbook Reminder)
A reminder that my new cookbook is now available for preorder! We will be rolling...
The Food Industry’s “model of systemic dishonesty”
In 1993, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that a high intake of trans fat...
How to Treat Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) with Diet
Given the role that oxidant free radicals are thought to play in aging and disease,...
Topical Green Tea for Acne and Fungal Infections
Which plant should we use for which skin disease? That’s the topic of my video...
Topical Lemon Balm Lotion for Alzheimer’s
Improving cognitive performance with aromatherapy in young, healthy volunteers is one thing, but how about...
Updating Our Microbiome Software and Hardware
Good bacteria, those living in symbiosis with us, are nourished by fruits, vegetables, grains, and...
The Role of Meat and Dairy Viruses in Cancer
“Nearly 20% of cancer cases arising worldwide can be linked to infectious agents, including viruses.”...
Vitamin C for Male Infertility and Lead Poisoning?
What is the clinical relevance of vitamin C among lead-exposed infertile men? Compared to controls,...
Preorder the How Not to Diet Cookbook & Get a Signed Bookplate!
I’m thrilled to announce that The How Not to Diet Cookbook is now available for preorder for everyone...
Can Vitamin C Supplements Help with Lead Poisoning?
“Even if a nutritional manipulation is proven effective in reducing blood lead levels, reliance on...
Garlic Powder to Lower Lead Levels
There are so-called chelation drugs that can be taken for acute, life-threatening lead poisoning—for instance...
Eating to Block Lead Absorption
Intake of certain nutrients has been associated with lower lead levels in the body. For...
Adult Exposure to Lead
“Children in approximately 4 million households in the United States are being exposed to high...
Why You Don’t Want “Normal” Blood Lead Levels
“By the 1950s, lead—a dangerous neurotoxin that was once buried deep in the ground, far...
How to Survive a Pandemic Is Now Out in Paperback!
My newest book, How to Survive a Pandemic, is now out in paperback! This book cuts...
The Flint Lead Crisis May Be the Tip of the Iceberg
Back in the 1960s, a Pulitzer prize-winning scientist described the problem of childhood lead poisoning...
How the Lead Paint and Gas Industries Got Away with It
We have known for thousands of years that lead can be toxic and for more...
Food Combining for Prostate Cancer
What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods? In...
What Explains the Egg-Cancer Connection
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered...
How to Lower Your Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio
The potassium content in greens is one of two ways they can improve artery function...
How to Treat Bacterial Vaginosis
Vitamin C is pitted head-to-head against antibiotics for bacterial vaginal infections. A study published in...
