Are Bioidentical Hormones Safe?
Hormone replacement therapy for menopause grew to prominence in the 1990s, when millions of women...
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Treating Hashimoto’s Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet
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How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake
Recently the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention commemorated “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week,” which...
Countering Dietary Pollutants and Pesticides
We have so polluted our planet that eight different pesticides were recently found contaminating the...
Protecting Our Babies from Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Americans are walking chemical cocktails according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control...
How Chemically Contaminated Are We?
Every few years the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures the levels of...
Saffron vs. Prozac for Depression
Millions of Americans suffer from depression every year, a disabling disease that can end up...
Treating PMS with Saffron
Premenstrual Syndrome is among the most common health problems reported by women, affecting approximately 1...
Eating Green to Prevent Cancer
Why do people who eat more plants get less cancer? The largest prospective study of...
What Is the Healthiest Meat?
Thanks to the Chinese space program, scientists in Beijing recently published a formal nutritional analysis...
Lead Poisoning Risk from Venison
The reason animal products trigger inflammation in the body within hours of consumption is thought...
The Real Paleo Diet
We evolved eating huge amounts of plants. It’s estimated that 200,000 years ago we got...
How Much Soy Is Too Much?
If animal proteins promote cancer because they boost our blood levels of the growth hormone...
Animal Protein and the Cancer Promoter IGF-1
For years we didn’t know why eating a plant-based diet appeared to so dramatically improve...
Vegan Men: More Testosterone But Less Cancer
Just a few days of walking and eating healthy plant foods can lower the level...
How Do Plant-Based Diets Fight Cancer?
Why do centenarians—those who live to be over a hundred years old—escape cancer? As you...
Treating an Enlarged Prostate with Diet
The majority of American men will develop a pathologically enlarged prostate gland (also known as benign prostatic...
Cancer-Proofing Your Body
Lifestyle medicine pioneer Nathan Pritikin was an unlikely candidate to spark a nutrition revolution....
Plant-Based Workplace Intervention
A billion people in the world are now overweight. That’s great news for the $13...
Biblical Daniel Fast Tested
Researchers recently set out to replicate the “Daniel Fast,” the biblical nutrition trial outlined in...
Poultry Paunch: Meat and Weight Gain
Meat is considered fattening due to its caloric density and fat content, but nuts are...
Diet vs. Exercise: What’s More Important?
When trying to lose weight, which is most important: diet or exercise? The vast majority of those...
The Ice Diet
Other than fiber, what else do plants make that animals don’t that could help account...
Boosting Gut Flora Without Probiotics
Obesity is so rare among those eating plant-based diets, nutrition researchers have been desperate to...
