Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals, but by microbes blanketing the earth. We presumably used to get B12 when we drank out of a mountain stream or sipped water from a well, based on studies showing vegetarians...
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What Is TMAO and How Can We Reduce Our Levels?
Trimethylamine oxide, more commonly known as TMAO, is considered the smoking gun of microbiome-disease interactions....
Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the...
Can Soy Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer?
As I discuss in my video The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention...
2400 Units of Vitamin D a Day for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia, one of the most common joint and muscle diseases, afflicting millions of Americans, is...
Vitamin C for Male Infertility and Lead Poisoning?
What is the clinical relevance of vitamin C among lead-exposed infertile men? Compared to controls,...
Can Vitamin C Supplements Help with Lead Poisoning?
“Even if a nutritional manipulation is proven effective in reducing blood lead levels, reliance on...
Garlic Powder to Lower Lead Levels
There are so-called chelation drugs that can be taken for acute, life-threatening lead poisoning—for instance...
Eating to Block Lead Absorption
Intake of certain nutrients has been associated with lower lead levels in the body. For...
Food Combining for Prostate Cancer
What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods? In...
How to Treat Bacterial Vaginosis
Vitamin C is pitted head-to-head against antibiotics for bacterial vaginal infections. A study published in...
A Half Teaspoon of Dried Rosemary May Improve Cognitive Function
In Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia notes that rosemary is for remembrance, an idea...
Contaminants Found in 90% of Herbal Supplements Tested
The majority of dietary supplement facilities tested were found noncompliant with good manufacturing practices...
Vitamin D Supplements for Increasing Aging Muscle Strength
We have known for more than 400 years that muscle weakness is a common presenting...
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...
Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Vitamin C Supplements
Mainstream medicine has long had a healthy skepticism of dietary supplements, extending to the present...
The Foods to Avoid to Lower Stroke Risk
“Stroke remains one of the most devastating of all neurological diseases,” killing about 5 million...
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...
Supplement Labeling Fraud Is Widespread
The regulation of dietary supplements in the United States has been described as “too little,...
A Supplement Shown to Improve Asthma
Asthma, “a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways,” affects approximately 10 percent of children. About...
How to Get the Benefits of Aspirin Without the Risks
For people without a personal history of cardiovascular disease, aspirin’s risks may outweigh its benefits,...
How Much Vitamin C Should You Get Every Day?
“For many years, the RDA [recommended daily allowance] for all vitamins were based on preventing...
How Phytoestrogens Can have Anti-Estrogenic Effects
When the Women’s Health Initiative study found that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy suffered...
How to Achieve Food Synergy
There are thousands of phytochemicals that will never make it onto the side of a...
