Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
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Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Worth Trying?
The World Health Organization concluded that cell phone radiation may cause brain tumors, but what about effects on cognitive function? “At present, we do not know precisely the degree to which the risk of cancer and other adverse health effects...
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Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of...
Eliminate Most of Your Chronic Disease Risk in Four Steps
In 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the doctor of the future will give no medicine,...
How Much Longer Do Fruit- and Vegetable-Eaters Live?
Probably the least controversial advice in all of nutrition is to eat more fruits and...
My New Book HOW NOT TO DIE Is Now Available for Pre-Order!
It’s hard to express how excited I am that How Not to Die is going...
How Plants Can Be Both Safer and More Effective
During the last decade, the drug industry has followed an assumption that a single drug...
Plants as Intellectual Property: Patently Wrong?
Since ancient times, Mother Nature has been a fertile source for drugs used to treat...
Why Certain Plant Compounds May Mimic Dietary Restriction
A new concept, called xenohormesis, has arisen to explain the mystery of why so many...
How Humans Benefit from Stressed Plants
Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle—most of us usually think of plants more as objects...
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...
