How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us of what the science says and letting us make up our own minds....
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How Many Minutes of Daily Meditation to Combat Stress?
In the film The Holiday, Cameron Diaz exclaims “Severe stress … causes the DNA in...
When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
Drugs vs. Lifestyle for Preventing Diabetes
In just one decade, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. According...
Should We Take Chlorella to Boost Natural Killer Cell Activity?
Multiple studies published over the last few decades suggest that exercise can mitigate the decline...
Making Plant-Based Diets the New Normal
A Nutritional Update for Physicians was published in the official journal of Kaiser Permanente, the...
Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of...
Eliminate Most of Your Chronic Disease Risk in Four Steps
In 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the doctor of the future will give no medicine,...
Why Certain Plant Compounds May Mimic Dietary Restriction
A new concept, called xenohormesis, has arisen to explain the mystery of why so many...
Blood Type Diet Perceived as “Crass Fraud”
It was Adolf Hitler who coined a propaganda technique he called, “The Big Lie,” arguing...
Is Liquid Smoke Safe?
We know smoke inhalation isn’t good for us, but what about smoke ingestion? Decades ago,...
What’s Driving America’s Obesity Problem?
Currently, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight. By 2030 it is estimated more than half...
Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
Foods That Fight Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
Osteoarthritis is the most frequent cause of physical disability among older adults in the world,...
Boosting Anticancer Immunity with Berries
For disease prevention and health maintenance, berries of all colors have “emerged as champions.” Research...
Comparing Vegans’ Arteries to Runners’
We know from the work of Drs. Dean Ornish and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. that...
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Why Athletes Should Eat Nutritional Yeast
Does powering up at the gym also power up our immune system? Research has shown...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
How to Treat ADHD Without Drugs
Every year in the United States, doctors write 20 million prescriptions for stimulants like Ritalin...
Pistachios May Help Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a major cause of decreased quality of life in men—so much so...
Preloading with Watercress Before Exercise
Could exercise be creating harmful free radicals? Oxidizing glucose to produce energy for our bodies...
