What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity? ...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you. “Physicians have a duty to inform their patients about the risks and benefits of the interventions available to them. However, physicians rarely communicate...
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What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized...
What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Just because you’re eating a vegetarian or vegan diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthfully. “Plant-Based...
What About Omega-3s and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk? In my last video,...
What About Vitamin D and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians...
Irregular Meals, Night Shifts, and Metabolic Harms
What can shift workers do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption? Shift...
Circadian Rhythms and Our Blood Sugar Levels
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugar. We’ve...
Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning
A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you...
Are Branched-Chain Amino Acids Good for Us?
I discuss why we may not want to exceed the recommended intake of protein. Diabetes...
The Efficacy of Weight-Loss Supplements
Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss? In a previous discussion,...
The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements
Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were...
Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds
Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed. I previously...
The Neurotoxin in Star Fruit
Starfruit contains a neurotoxin known as caramboxin that can cause irreversible brain damage at high...
The Safety of Fasting to Lose Weight
Why should fasts lasting longer than 24 hours and particularly for three or more days...
Flavonoid Benefits from Apple Peels
Peeled apples are pitted head-to-head against unpeeled apples (and spinach) in a test of artery...
Restricting Calories for Longevity?
Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing. We’ve...
Muscle Shrinkage and Bone Loss on Keto Diets?
Ketogenic diets have been found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and...
The Safety of Keto Diets
What are the effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease...
Keto Diet to Effectively Fight Cancer?
What does the science say about the clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and...
Diabetes Associations Recognize Plant-Based Diets
Plant-based diets are the single most important—yet underutilized—opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced...
What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger....
Does Everyone Get Health Benefits from Coffee?
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee. Three-quarters...
Is Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) an Effective Alternative Cure for Cancer?
The Mayo Clinic puts laetrile to the test to see if it is an effective...
Are Apricot Seeds an Alternative Cancer Cure?
If you choose alternative cancer treatments, do you live longer? In addition to conventional therapies,...
