How Humans Benefit from Stressed Plants
Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle—most of us usually think of plants more as objects...
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Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes?
Studies funded by the Avocado Board suggest avocados may facilitate weight loss, but compared to what? What are the effects of avocado on metabolic syndrome, “a clustering of risk factors”—high blood sugars, high blood triglycerides, high blood pressure, and obesity—that...
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Hives from Tick Bite-Induced Meat Allergies
In a previous video Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick, I started talking about...
How a Tick Bite Can Lead to Food Allergies
In the beginning, Aristotle defined two forms of life on planet Earth: plants and animals....
What Do Eggs Do To Our Arteries?
In reaction to the study that found a similar exponential increase in artery clogging plaque...
Dietary Cholesterol Affects Blood Cholesterol Levels
In my video, Eggs vs. Cigarettes in Atherosclerosis, I profiled a study showing that both...
Do Walnuts Really Improve Artery Function?
Good news for nut lovers: Eating at least one serving of walnuts per week may...
Salmon May Be the Greatest Source of Dietary Pollutants
In my video Diabetes and Dioxins, I explored a nationwide study that found a strong...
Dr. Greger Takes on Smoothies in New DVD
Smoothies have been one of the most requested topics, but for years there seemed to...
Dr. Greger’s 2015 Live Year-in-Review Presentation
View my new live presentation here: Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded...
Three Brands of Nutritional Yeast Contain Detectable Lead Levels But the Risk is Minimal
Note from Dr. Greger: In short, we found detectable amounts of lead in samples of...
Dioxins Stored in Our Own Fat May Increase Diabetes Risk
Finding higher diabetes rates among those heavily exposed to toxic pollutants—such as those exposed to...
Why Would Eating Fish Increase Diabetes Risk?
In the past two years, six separate meta-analyses have been published on the relationship between...
Why Deep Fried Foods May Cause Cancer
In the latest study on dietary patterns and breast cancer risk among women, healthier eating...
Do Cholesterol Statin Drugs Cause Breast Cancer?
What does breast cancer have to do with cholesterol? There are many potential mechanisms by...
Breast Cancer Cells Feed on Cholesterol
One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. There...
Using Diet to Treat Asthma and Eczema
I previously discussed the power of fruits and vegetables to help prevent and treat asthma...
Treating Asthma With Plants vs. Pills
In my video Treating Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted a landmark study on...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Treat Asthma
In my video Preventing Asthma With Fruits and Vegetables, I highlighted an international study of...
How Fruits and Vegetables Can Prevent Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the prevalence is increasing around...
Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Unhealthy Foods
Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable. This is in...
Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
In 2013, Maryland became the first state to ban the feeding of an arsenic-containing drug...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Exploiting Autophagy to Live Longer
Thanks to advances in modern medicine, we are living longer lives, but we’re doing it...
