Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Vitamin C Supplements
Mainstream medicine has long had a healthy skepticism of dietary supplements, extending to the present...
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How Many Minutes of Life Does a Burger Cost?
The evidence linking cannabis use to psychotic disorders is considered strong enough to warrant a public health warning. “Even as proponents of [cannabis] legalization contend that smoked marijuana is a harmless natural substance that improves the quality of life,...
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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...
What’s the Best Ferritin Level to Lower Cancer Risk?
If cancer is indeed a so-called ferrotoxic disease, a consequence, in part, of iron toxicity,...
Lowering Your Cancer Risk by Donating Blood
Back in the early 1980s, a pathologist in Florida suggested that the reason premenopausal women...
The Foods to Avoid to Lower Stroke Risk
“Stroke remains one of the most devastating of all neurological diseases,” killing about 5 million...
How to Boost the Fat Burning Hormone FIAF
Although recent increases in the availability of junk food and decreases “in institutionally driven physical...
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...
Supplement Labeling Fraud Is Widespread
The regulation of dietary supplements in the United States has been described as “too little,...
Proof That Lifelong Cholesterol Reduction Prevents Heart Disease
“It is well accepted that coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease that begins early...
All Children Should Have Their Cholesterol Checked Between Ages 9 and 11
Coronary artery disease does not magically appear. The disease begins “during early childhood and progress[es]...
What Not to Do When You Handle Receipts
The plastics chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, was banned for use in baby...
Last Day to Register for Next Webinar
Today is the last day to register for my upcoming webinar: Why Do Vegetarians Have...
Consider the Evidence When You Make Life-or-Death Decisions
In the 1940s and ’50s, the American Medical Association was not only saying that “smoking...
