How to Increase Gut Bacterial Richness
We live in an “obesogenic environment,” with cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers? “Over the last several decades…medicine has waged a major war against cancer, concentrating on earlier diagnosis and improved therapy. The war is not being won. Nevertheless, medicine shows few...
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Vitamin D Supplements for Reducing Cancer Mortality
It all started with a famous study entitled “Do sunlight and vitamin D reduce the...
Vegans Should Consider Taking DHA Supplements
We are all fatheads. Indeed, about half the dry weight of our brain is fat....
Do DHA Supplements Improve Brain Function?
The concept of vitamins was first described by none other than Dr. Funk. In his...
The Best Source of Resistant Starch
Resistant starch wasn’t discovered until 1982. Before that, we thought all starch could be digested...
Make Sure Iodine Is in Your Prenatal
Although severe iodine deficiency was eliminated in the United States nearly a century ago after...
What About Canned Fruit?
Food cans used to be soldered with lead compounds—so much so that people living off...
Pomegranates Put to the Test for Prostate Cancer
The pomegranate “has been revered through the ages for its medicinal properties”––so much so that...
Why There Is So Much Commercial Corruption in Nutrition
The prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes has skyrocketed, as has the number of...
Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
The Best Source of Vitamin D
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D...
The Amount of Vitamin D Supplementation I Recommend
Optimal Vitamin D Dose Randomized, controlled clinical trials have found that vitamin D supplements extend...
How Much Do Vitamin D Supplements Affect Lifespan?
Living Longer With Vitamin D? In 1822, a Polish physician was the first to publish...
Where Vitamin D Supplements Fail
The Benefits of Vitamin D As I discuss in my video Do Vitamin Supplements Help...
The Downside of Curcumin Supplements
Supplement manufacturers often fall into the same reductionist trap as the drug companies. Herbs are...
From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition
Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as...
Turmeric Curcumin Put to the Test for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
My video Striking with the Root: Turmeric Curcumin and Ulcerative Colitis tells the story how...
Health Benefits of Citrus Zest
New data demonstrating a DNA protective agent present in at least some fruits and vegetables...
Should Plant-Based Women Supplement with DHA During Pregnancy?
A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of DHA supplementation of pregnant and breastfeeding women...
Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Take DHA Supplements?
One of the reasons breastfed infants may have better cognitive and visual development is because...
How to Make Your Own CoQ10
Fecal Fluorescence on Meat Chlorophyll is the green pigment that makes green leaves green. If...
How to Treat Lupus with Turmeric
Different autoimmune diseases tend to target different organs. If our immune system attacks the insulin-producing...
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dietary Copper
Though the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease has yet to be found, there is increasing...
Do Flaxseeds Offer Sufficient Omega-3’s for Our Heart?
According to two of perhaps the most credible nutrition authorities, the World Health Organization and...
