What Meat and Eggs Do to Our Microbiome
As I’ve explored before, whether young or old, male or female, smoker or non-smoker, with...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Calories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re healthier, too. Time-restricted feeding, where you limit the same amount of eating to a narrow evening window, has benefits compared to eating in the...
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The Benefits of Slow Breathing
There are all manner of purported hiccup “cures,” which include everything from chewing on a...
What About the Sodium in Miso?
According to the second World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research expert report, “[s]alt...
What Happens When Pregnant Women Eat More Animal Protein
Are high-protein diets during pregnancy healthful or harmful? That question was answered about 40 years...
Proof That Lifelong Cholesterol Reduction Prevents Heart Disease
“It is well accepted that coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease that begins early...
How the Egg Industry Tried to Bury the TMAO Risk
“Metabolomics is a term used to describe the measurement of multiple small-molecule metabolites in biological...
How to Lower Your Sodium Intake
Reduction of salt consumption by just 15 percent could save the lives of millions. If...
The Benefits of Wakame Seaweed Salad on Blood Pressure
I used to think of seaweed as just a beneficial whole-food source of minerals like...
How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is the number-one risk factor for death in the world. In the...
Do DHA Supplements Improve Brain Function?
The concept of vitamins was first described by none other than Dr. Funk. In his...
The Healthiest Way to Eat Paleo
There have been about a half dozen studies published on Paleo-type diets, starting around 20...
Meat Can Cause Stress Hormone Levels to Rise and Testosterone Levels to Drop
A critique of the scientific validity of the dietary advice in Men’s Health magazine discovered...
Why We Should Cut Down on Salt Independently of Blood Pressure
If you put people on a low-salt diet, meaning only getting twice as much sodium...
The Best Source of Vitamin D
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D...
What Is the Optimal Vitamin D Level?
How Much Vitamin D Should We Take? If everyone took 2,000 units of vitamin D...
Where Vitamin D Supplements Fail
The Benefits of Vitamin D As I discuss in my video Do Vitamin Supplements Help...
Cancer-Causing Caramel Color
Caramel coloring may be the most widely consumed food coloring in the world. Unfortunately, its...
White Rice vs. Brown Rice
Rice and Diabetes Risk In 2012, a meta-analysis was published tying white rice consumption to...
The Purported Benefits of Eating Fish
In the landmark Global Burden of Disease study, researchers compiled the top 20 causes of...
From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition
Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as...
Best Diet for Diabetic Neuropathy
Neuropathy, or damage to the nerves, is a debilitating disorder, and diabetes is by far...
Black and Red Rice Are Better Than Brown, Which Is Healthier Than White
Why does switching from white rice to brown rice enable overweight individuals to significantly reduce...
How to Treat Chronic Kidney Disease with Food
“In the United States, approximately one in three adults aged 65 years and older has...
Raw vs. Cooked Garlic and Onions for Blood Thinning
As we age, our arteries stiffen. In my video Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Garlic and...
