Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less cancer? Lectins are to blame for the great “white kidney bean incident” of 2006 in Japan. One Saturday evening, a TV program introduced a new...
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Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
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...
Which Seaweed to Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
Sushi lovers, rejoice. Nori seaweed may favorably alter estrogen metabolism by modulating women’s gut flora,...
Foods with Natural Melatonin
We know that inadequate sleeping is associated with changes in diet—people tend to eat worse—but...
Starving Tumors of Their Blood Supply
About a third of common cancers may be prevented by eating a healthy, plant-based diet;...
Breast Cancer and Wine
After diagnosis, women with breast cancer may cut their risk of dying nearly in half...
Trans Fat in Animal Fat
Trans fats are bad. They may increase one’s risks of heart disease, sudden death, diabetes—and...
How Risky Are CT Scans?
The greatest radiation exposure risk comes not from the Fukushima fallout or the polonium naturally...
Anticancer Nutrient Synergy in Cranberries
In research I profiled in my video Which Fruit Fights Cancer Better?, cranberries were found...
Breast Cancer and Alcohol: How Much Is Safe?
Nearly 5,000 breast cancer deaths a year may be attributable to just light drinking (up...
Flax and Breast Cancer Survival
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of flaxseeds in breast cancer patients found that flaxseeds...
Flax and Breast Cancer Prevention
Just a teaspoon of ground flaxseeds a day may help protect against breast cancer. In...
Flax Seeds for Prostate Cancer
Why is there such a huge disparity in prostate cancer rates around the world? The...
Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes
Researchers just found out that the boost in detoxifying enzymes triggered by cruciferous vegetable consumption...
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...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention
The Black Women’s Health Study, which highlighted collards and carrots, was out of Boston University....
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...
