Risks vs. Benefits of Colonoscopies
Though colonoscopies can cause serious harm in about 1 in every 350 cases, sigmoidoscopies, procedures...
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True Health Intiative: Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet
From a case report to a randomized controlled trial, aloe is put to the test against cancer. For a half century, aloe vera “gel processors and distributors armed with biblical quotes and anecdotal testimonials…[have sought] recognition for their products”—too often,...
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How to Ease the Pain of Colonoscopy
Peppermint was not “officially” discovered until 1696, but we’ve probably been using it for thousands...
The Best Diet for Depression
Depression affects more than 150 million people worldwide, making it a leading cause of losing...
Are You Up for the Challenge?
Take the Daily Dozen Challenge Today we are launching a Daily Dozen Challenge to help...
The Risks and Benefits of Calcium Supplements
There has been an assumption for decades that as a natural element, calcium supplements must...
If Calcium Supplements Aren’t Safe, What About Calcium in Food?
In 12 short years, government panels have gone from suggesting widespread calcium supplementation may be...
How to Treat Fainting
Syncope, otherwise known as fainting, is the sudden, brief loss of consciousness caused by diminished...
How Bad Is Bacon?
How many years of life are lost to potentially preventable cancers? Every year, more than...
What to Take After Surgery
Medicine is messy. One of the reasons researchers experiment on animals is they can create...
Knowingly and Secretly Deciding to Put the Buying Public at Risk
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to...
How to Prevent Gut Inflammation
When you count all the little folds, the total surface area of our gut is...
Dr. Greger on Alcohol
I recently took the stage at TEDxSedona to talk about Food as Medicine. Watch it here. ...
We Are Human-Microbe Superorganisms
The microbiome revolution in medicine is beginning to uncover the underappreciated role our healthy gut...
Which Vegetables Have the Most Nitrates?
What is the optimal timing and dose of nitrate-containing vegetables? In terms of timing for...
The Risks of Fish Oil Supplements
It’s been a bad few years for fish oil, as I discuss in my video,...
What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
I’ve always pictured my role primarily as providing the latest science, but you can’t understand...
The Health Benefits of Laughter, Tears, and Kisses
In my video, Music as Medicine, I explored a study about how listening to Mozart...
The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
How Healthy Is the Mediterranean Diet?
The heart of a traditional Mediterranean diet is mainly vegetarian—much lower in meat and dairy...
Plant-Based Is Not the Same as Vegetarianism
Referring to heart disease, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD asks, “Why is there reticence to...
Moderation Kills
What if we don’t want just low risk for a heart attack, but no risk?...
Best Food for the Common Cold
It is well known that deficiencies in certain vitamins and minerals can lead to significant...
How Too Much Cholesterol Can Contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease
Millions suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and the available and foreseeable treatments are disappointing at best....
Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?
For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...
