The Amount of Vitamin D Supplementation I Recommend
Optimal Vitamin D Dose Randomized, controlled clinical trials have found that vitamin D supplements extend...
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Micromorts: Putting Risk Into Perspective
Toxoplasma brain parasites can cause personality alterations. Of all causes of foodborne disease, a brain parasite called toxoplasma is ranked as the fourth leading cause of hospitalization and the second leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly a...
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How Much Do Vitamin D Supplements Affect Lifespan?
Living Longer With Vitamin D? In 1822, a Polish physician was the first to publish...
Where Vitamin D Supplements Fail
The Benefits of Vitamin D As I discuss in my video Do Vitamin Supplements Help...
Changing Protein Requirements
There has been a history of enthusiasm for protein in the nutrition world. A century...
The Downside of Curcumin Supplements
Supplement manufacturers often fall into the same reductionist trap as the drug companies. Herbs are...
The Disconnect Between Science and Policy
Back in 1912, when hardly anyone smoked cigarettes, lung cancer was like a museum curiosity:...
Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment
A cancer diagnosis is seen as a teachable moment in medicine where we can try...
Cancer-Causing Caramel Color
Caramel coloring may be the most widely consumed food coloring in the world. Unfortunately, its...
What to Feed Your Gut Bacteria
For many years, it was believed that the main function of the large intestine was...
New Eating Guide Now in Print
In January we launched the Evidence-Based Eating Guide, which is available for free download here....
White Rice vs. Brown Rice
Rice and Diabetes Risk In 2012, a meta-analysis was published tying white rice consumption to...
The Purported Benefits of Eating Fish
In the landmark Global Burden of Disease study, researchers compiled the top 20 causes of...
From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition
Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as...
Ginger or Cannabis for Morning Sickness
Nausea and vomiting are common during pregnancy, affecting 70 to 85 percent of women worldwide—but...
Eating the Way Nature Intended
The Paleolithic period, also known as the Stone Age, only goes back about two million...
Wheatgrass Juice Put to the Test
In an editorial that accompanied a landmark study showing an extract of the spice turmeric...
Turmeric Curcumin Put to the Test for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
My video Striking with the Root: Turmeric Curcumin and Ulcerative Colitis tells the story how...
Invite Dr. Greger to Come Speak in Your City
I am in the final stretch of finishing my next book, How Not to Diet,...
How to Avoid Fatty Liver Disease
In the documentary Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock eats exclusively at McDonald’s for a month and...
The Best Food for Slowing Your Resting Heart Rate
Monitoring resting heart rate has strong advantages. Taking your pulse is cheap, takes little time,...
One Heartbeat per Second to Beat the Clock
Immanuel Kant, the famed 18th century philosopher, described the chemistry of his day as a...
The Best Foods to Slow Your Metabolism
The largest component of our daily energy budget is resting metabolic rate. As I discuss...
Health Benefits of Citrus Zest
New data demonstrating a DNA protective agent present in at least some fruits and vegetables...
How to Boost DNA Repair with Produce
“In the light of strikingly consistent observations from many epidemiological [population-based] studies, there can be...
