How to Foster a Healthy Gut Flora
What’s more important: probiotics or prebiotics? And where can we best get them? “Virtually every...
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The Benefits and Risks of Hair Loss Drugs
For more than a century, fasting has been used as a weight-loss treatment. I’ve talked about the benefits of caloric restriction. Well, the greatest caloric restriction is getting no calories at all. Fasting has been branded “the next big weight...
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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...
The Benefits of Slow Breathing
There are all manner of purported hiccup “cures,” which include everything from chewing on a...
Get Your Donations Matched (and COVID-19 Updates)
A very generous donor has offered to match all donations up to $10,000. Donations can...
How to Treat Hiccups
Nearly everyone has experienced hiccups, but what exactly are they? It used to be thought...
Takeaways from My Webinar on COVID-19
On December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital in the...
What About the Sodium in Miso?
According to the second World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research expert report, “[s]alt...
How to Prevent the Infection that May Trigger Type 1 Diabetes
The compelling finding of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP) circulating disproportionately within the bloodstream of type...
The Role of Meat and Dairy in Triggering Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes “arises following the autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic β [beta] cells…[and]...
How to Treat Endometriosis with Diet
“Endometriosis is a major cause of disability and compromised quality of life in women and...
What to Eat and Avoid for Women with BRCA Gene Mutations
Five studies have been performed on breast cancer survival and soy foods involving more than...
How Not to Die in a Pandemic Webinar Coming Up
Due to the continuing spread of coronavirus, I’m doing a webinar on the subject: How Not...
The Difference Between Alpha and Beta Receptors Explain Soy’s Benefits
“[S]oyfoods have become controversial in recent years…even among health professionals…exacerbated by misinformation found on the...
Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Uveitis and Eye Cancer
In 1989, ophthalmologists in India found that eyedrops made from the spice turmeric (known as...
