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?
What could help explain severe coronary disease in someone with a healthy lifestyle who is considered to be at low cardiovascular disease risk? A young man ended up in the ER after a heart attack and was ultimately found to...
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Lowering Your Cancer Risk by Donating Blood
Back in the early 1980s, a pathologist in Florida suggested that the reason premenopausal women...
Proof That Lifelong Cholesterol Reduction Prevents Heart Disease
“It is well accepted that coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease that begins early...
All Children Should Have Their Cholesterol Checked Between Ages 9 and 11
Coronary artery disease does not magically appear. The disease begins “during early childhood and progress[es]...
Do Poultry Viruses Cause Human Cancers?
The incidence of cancers has been rising for the last half century, and the question...
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 Sesame Seeds for Knee Osteoarthritis
Doctors have been injecting arthritis patients with gold since the 1920s. In fact, “[g]old-based medicines...
How Not to Die from Kidney Disease
Kidney failure may be both prevented and treated with a plant-based diet, and it’s no...
How Not to Die from Diabetes
We’ve known since the 1930s that type 2 diabetes can be prevented, arrested, and even...
The Healthiest Way to Eat Paleo
There have been about a half dozen studies published on Paleo-type diets, starting around 20...
Reversing Massive Obesity with Diet
Dr. Walter Kempner introduced the first comprehensive dietary program to treat chronic kidney disease and,...
From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition
Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as...
Eating the Way Nature Intended
The Paleolithic period, also known as the Stone Age, only goes back about two million...
How to Avoid Fatty Liver Disease
In the documentary Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock eats exclusively at McDonald’s for a month and...
The Benefits of Vinegar Beyond Weight Loss
A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study found that body weight and belly fat were significantly reduced...
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 Make Your Own CoQ10
Fecal Fluorescence on Meat Chlorophyll is the green pigment that makes green leaves green. If...
The Best Diet for Chest Pain
The Dean Ornish program that led to improved arterial function and the dramatic drop in...
How to Treat Chronic Kidney Disease with Food
“In the United States, approximately one in three adults aged 65 years and older has...
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dietary Copper
Though the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease has yet to be found, there is increasing...
Raw vs. Cooked Garlic and Onions for Blood Thinning
As we age, our arteries stiffen. In my video Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Garlic and...
Why Drugs and Diet Can Sometimes Fail in Diabetes
“People with type 2 diabetes are at elevated risk for a number of serious health...
Reduce Acid-Forming Proteins to Protect Kidney Function
Chronic kidney disease is a major public health problem affecting about one in eight Americans,...
