Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections. “Acne is a disease unique to humans.” Why do we even get it? Well, think about the distribution of those greasy sebaceous glands. They’re “on the...
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How to Become a Soy Equol Producer
Certain gut bacteria can supercharge the benefits of soy foods, resulting in even more bone...
Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Healthiest of Healthy Foods
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try...
Are Avocados Associated with Greater Risk or Reduced Risk of Cancer?
Avocado consumption can improve artery function, but what effect might guacamole have on cancer risk?...
Natural Dietary Treatments for Fibroids
The same diet that helps regulate hormones in women may also reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting...
Are Lectins in Food Good or Bad for You?
Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less...
Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff...
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....
Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?
Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast....
Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the...
What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs?
Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the...
Do the Pros of Brown Rice Outweigh the Cons of Arsenic?
Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet...
Why Was Chicken the Primary Source of Arsenic Exposure in Children?
What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry...
Açaí vs. Wild Blueberries for Artery Function
“Plant-based diets…have been found to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease” and some of our...
Kidney Toxins Created by Meat Consumption
As I discuss in my video How to Treat Heart Failure and Kidney Failure with...
Can Soy Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer?
As I discuss in my video The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention...
What White Blood Cell Count Should We Shoot for?
At the start of my video What Does a Low White Blood Cell Count Mean?,...
The Food Industry’s “model of systemic dishonesty”
In 1993, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that a high intake of trans fat...
How to Treat Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) with Diet
Given the role that oxidant free radicals are thought to play in aging and disease,...
Updating Our Microbiome Software and Hardware
Good bacteria, those living in symbiosis with us, are nourished by fruits, vegetables, grains, and...
Food Combining for Prostate Cancer
What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods? In...
Pill-Free Ways to Improve Your Sex Life
“Sex is important to health,” according to the Harvard Health Letter. “Frequent sexual intercourse is...
Medical Meat Bias
When famed surgeon Michael DeBakey was asked why his studies published back in the 1930s...
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...
