Should We Drink Kombucha
What are the risks versus benefits of drinking kombucha? Is Kombucha Tea Good for You?...
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Fighting Cancer with Whole Plant Foods
Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in terms of tumor response rate, survival time, or quality of life? Can mushrooms be medicinal? Mushroom-based products make up a sizable chunk of the $50...
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Treating Hashimoto’s Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a daily half teaspoon...
Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of...
A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?
How much nori, dulse, or arame approximates the recommended daily allowance for iodine? Dairy milk...
Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk
Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine. “Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal...
What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?
How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?
Worldwide, physical inactivity accounts for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but...
Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes...
Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming...
Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park
We had the pleasure of talking with Remy Morimoto Park about food, culture, and AAPI...
Food Safety and Cultivated Meat
What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In...
Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far...
Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an...
Skincare as You Age Infographic
When I dove into the scientific research for my book How Not to Age, I...
Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...
Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures
In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying...
Inhospitable Hospital Food
What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be...
Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable...
Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients...
Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only...
The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote...
Heart Stents and Their Risks
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How...
