Is Creatine Safe and Efficient for High Homocysteine?
Those on a healthy plant-based diet who have elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
We can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as by eating and avoiding certain foods. There is accumulating evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) may be playing a role in human depression. BDNF controls...
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Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine in Vegetarians?
What are the consequences of having to make your creatine rather than relying on dietary...
Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin...
What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
Not taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke...
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? ...
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...
The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests...
Eating to Lower Lp(a)
What should we eat—and not eat—to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a)? Lipoprotein A,...
Headache and Migraine Relief from Foods
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of...
Is All Vegan Food Healthy?
How do healthier plant-based diets compare to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods when it...
The Pros of Garlic Powder for Heart Disease
See what a penny a day’s worth of garlic powder can do. In ancient Greece,...
A Look at the 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet
What are the effects of eating only five days a week or following a fasting-mimicking...
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...
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 Preventing Colon Cancer?
What would happen within just two weeks after swapping the diets of Americans with those...
What Are the Best Foods for Preventing Colon Cancer?
A low-fiber diet is a key driver of microbiome depletion, the disappearance of diversity in...
High Oxalate Greens and Kidney Stones
Given their oxalate content, how much is too much spinach, chard, beet greens, chaga mushroom...
Do the Oxalates in Spinach Cause Kidney Stones?
Even though dietary oxalates may have a limited effect on the risk of kidney stones...
Is the Cyanide in Flaxseeds Destroyed by Cooking?
My Daily Dozen recommends at least one tablespoon of ground flaxseeds a day, but what’s...
A Test for Orthorexia Nervosa?
“Orthorexia nervosa is defined as an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy food.” Want to know...
