Head-Shrinking from Grilling Meat
A year ago I posted a two minute video entitled Carcinogens in the Smell of...
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IBD and Cannabis
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions. “We are walking communities comprised not only of a Homo sapiens host, but also of trillions of symbiotic commensal...
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Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes
Researchers just found out that the boost in detoxifying enzymes triggered by cruciferous vegetable consumption...
Dr. Greger’s New Year-in-Review Presentation
Watch my new live presentation online at More Than an Apple a Day or order...
Dr. Greger’s New DVD
The newest volume of my Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVD series launches today. Order on...
Foods That May Block Cancer Formation
More than 85% of breast cancers are sporadic and attributable to long-term exposure to environmental...
Avoiding Cooked Meat Carcinogens
When the muscles of mammals, fish, or birds are cooked at high temperatures carcinogenic chemicals...
Estrogenic Chemicals in Meat
We’ve known since 1939 that there were “cancer-producing substances” in roasted meat. Scientists have since identified these...
Plant-Based Diets for Fibromyalgia
Millions suffer from fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by months of widespread pain, often accompanied by...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Uric Acid from Meat and Sugar
Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications...
Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention
The Black Women’s Health Study I profiled in my last blog Prevent Breast Cancer by...
Prevent Breast Cancer by Any Greens Necessary
Recently a study of 50,000 African-American women was published, a sadly neglected demographic when it...
Why Less Breast Cancer in Asia?
Though breast cancer is the most common cancer among women around the world, the rate...
Mushrooms for Breast Cancer Prevention
Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so “early” detection via mammogram may be too...
Plant-Based Diets for Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, is a medical disorder characterized by the so-called...
Plant-Based Diets for Psoriasis
Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms, including boosting our adrenal...
Dr. Greger’s Natural Nausea Remedy Recipe
I travel a lot. When I was on the road full time, there were months...
98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple...
Plant-Based Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound...
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people...
How to Gain Weight on Diet Soda
There are three ways that all low-caloric sweeteners could theoretically be harmful independent of their...
Are Microgreens Healthier?
USDA researchers recently published a study assessing the nutrition content of 25 commercially available microgreens, seedlings of...
Aspartame: Fibromyalgia and Preterm Birth
When we learned how bad butter was, the food industry responded by giving us margarine,...
