How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
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The Validity of SIBO Tests
Trimethylamine oxide, more commonly known as TMAO, is considered the smoking gun of microbiome-disease interactions. What Is TMAO? When we eat foods with high concentrations of choline, a nutrient I discuss in more detail below, certain bacteria in our...
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Dr. Greger Addresses Gluten in New DVD
Until recently, those complaining to their doctors about symptoms associated with the wheat protein gluten...
Test to See If Your Diet Is Alkaline- or Acid-Forming
In my video Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, & Calcium Loss I presented evidence challenging the notion...
Does Animal Protein Cause Osteoporosis?
For most of the last century, a prevailing theory within the field of nutrition was...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
Cancer and the Animal-to-Plant Protein Ratio
It is now eight years since the famous Ornish study was published, suggesting that 12...
How to Treat Multiple Sclerosis with Diet
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable and frightening degenerative autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous...
Dr. Greger’s 2014 Year-in-Review Presentation
Order my new live presentation on DVD or download it now (all proceeds go to...
Stopping Heart Disease in Childhood
A landmark paper in 1953 radically changed our view about the development of heart disease...
How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
How Animal Proteins May Trigger Autoimmune Disease
Although slaughterhouse workers with the most poultry exposure appear to suffer the greatest excess mortality...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Improving Attractiveness in Six Weeks
Inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption may kill millions around the globe every year, so the...
Want to Be Healthier? Change Your Taste Buds
How can we overcome our built-in hunger drives for salt, sugar, and fat? We now...
How to Get Parents to Eat Their Vegetables
Changing the name of healthy foods can have a significant impact on children’s eating habits...
How to Get Our Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
When researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, which do you think they picked?...
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
What happens if we give one group of kids a plate of cookies and the...
Food Dyes and ADHD
There are currently thousands of additives in our food supply. Some are good—like supplementing foods...
Dr. Greger’s New Nutrition DVD Now Available
Exciting news! I just signed a book deal with a new non-fiction division of famed...
How to Treat ADHD Without Drugs
Every year in the United States, doctors write 20 million prescriptions for stimulants like Ritalin...
Avoid Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn
What does chemical warfare and microwave popcorn have in common? The poison gas phosgene, first...
Pistachios May Help Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a major cause of decreased quality of life in men—so much so...
Foods for a Long Life and Love Life
Motivating patients to change poor lifestyle habits can be extremely difficult. Preventing cardiovascular events such...
