How Can Animal Protein Intake Increase Childhood Obesity Risk?
If pregnant crickets are exposed to a predatory wolf spider, their babies will hatch, exhibiting...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction? “The creation and promotion of ‘female sexual dysfunction’ [as a mental disorder] is a textbook case of disease...
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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...
Dairy Industry Responds to Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer
What was the response to the revelation that as many as 37 percent of breast...
Cow Cancer Virus Implicated in Breast Cancer
Up to 20 percent of all cancers in general are linked to infections, particularly viruses,...
Why Did Doctors Keep Prescribing Cancer?
We’ve known about the role of estrogen in breast cancer going back to the 1800s,...
Dialing Down the Grim Reaper Gene
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be a 100 years old. What’s their...
A Highly Effective, Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Safer Treatment for Heavy Periods
Ginger is most famous for its role in preventing and alleviating nausea and vomiting. There...
The Effects of the Hops Phytoestrogen in Beer on Breast Cancer Risk
Hops have been used for centuries as a flavoring agent in beer, but “[o]ver the...
Beer Phytoestrogens
Why do alcoholic men develop so-called man boobs and other feminine traits? We know estrogens...
Estrogenic Growth Promoters in Meat
In 1979, an epidemic of breast enlargement was noted in Italian children. Poultry or veal...
The Best Dried Fruit for Osteoporosis
“We are in an epidemic of osteoporosis. There can be no doubt about that.” Ten...
How to Lower Phthalate Exposure Through Diet
Phthalates are hormone-disrupting plastics chemicals linked to a number of adverse health effects, such as...
The Role of Pesticides in Parkinson’s Disease
In the original description of Parkinson’s disease by none other than Dr. James Parkinson himself,...
The Best Source of Vitamin D
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D...
The Downside of Curcumin Supplements
Supplement manufacturers often fall into the same reductionist trap as the drug companies. Herbs are...
Ginger or Cannabis for Morning Sickness
Nausea and vomiting are common during pregnancy, affecting 70 to 85 percent of women worldwide—but...
Health Benefits of Citrus Zest
New data demonstrating a DNA protective agent present in at least some fruits and vegetables...
How Plastics Can Affect Your Love Life
Most of the attention on phthalates, a group of hormone-disrupting chemicals found in PVC plastics,...
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...
Almonds vs. Rice vs. Potatoes for Osteoporosis
Currently, an estimated ten million Americans suffer from osteoporosis, causing more than a million fractures, including...
What Happens If You Add Milk to Tea?
Our endothelium, the inner lining of our blood vessels that controls the function of every...
How to Treat Lupus with Turmeric
Different autoimmune diseases tend to target different organs. If our immune system attacks the insulin-producing...
Fennel Seeds for a Nitrate Boost
Dozens of studies now suggest that the nitrates in vegetables, such as beets and green...
