Even a small amount of fresh herbs can double or even quadruple the antioxidant power of a meal. The abilities of oregano to decrease chromosomal damage from radiation and marjoram to affect hormone levels in women with PCOS are put to the test.
Five cents’ worth of seaweed a day may dramatically improve a major cause of disability and compromised quality of life among women.
Which dietary changes could reduce free radical damage and also improve DNA repair in women with mutated BRCA genes?
What role do soy phytoestrogens play in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer?
Should the active ingredient in aspirin be considered an essential vitamin?
How can soy foods have it both ways with pro-estrogenic effects in some organs that can protect bones and reduce hot flash symptoms, yet also anti-estrogenic effects in others that protect against breast and endometrial cancer?
The link between Parkinson’s and dairy may not be explained just by the pesticides and lactose.
If the synthetic estrogen BPA is linked to billions of dollars’ worth of medical problems a year, why is it still allowed in the food supply?
What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.
Sun exposure is associated with lower rates of 15 different cancers and improved cancer survival. What happened when vitamin D supplements were put to the test?
What was the response to the revelation that as many as 37 percent of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus, a cancer-causing cow virus found in the milk of nearly every dairy herd in the United States?
As many as 37 percent of human breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus.
What happens when we put cancer on a plant-based diet?
Lifestyle approaches aren’t only safer and cheaper—they can work better, because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease.
Women were placed in harm’s way by their physicians, who acted as unsuspecting patsies for the drug companies.
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?
Pomegranate juice for prostate cancer was finally put to the test in a randomized, controlled, clinical trial.
In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.
Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?
When it comes to breast cancer risk, does the phytoestrogen in beer act more like the animal estrogens in Premarin or the protective phytoestrogens in soy?
Anabolic growth-promoting drugs in meat production are by far the most potent hormones found in the food supply.
Curcumin-free turmeric, from which the so-called active ingredient has been removed, may be as effective or even more potent.
The reason eating citrus fruits appears to protect against cancer may be because of DNA repair enzyme-boosting powers of a compound concentrated in the peel.
Eating a plant-based diet and avoiding scented personal care products and certain children’s and adult toys can reduce exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals.
What can we eat to combat “inflamm-aging,” the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?
Studies in the 1970s with terminal cancer patients appeared to show an extraordinary survival gain with vitamin C, a simple and relatively nontoxic therapy.
Why does the leading cancer and diet authority recommend we avoid bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and all other processed meats—including chicken and turkey?
Why is there a reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them from preventable disease and premature death?
What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?
Concerns about smoothies and oxalic acid, nitrate availability, dental erosion, and weight gain are addressed.
The consumption of animal fat appears to increase the growth of gut bacteria that turn our bile acids into carcinogens.
Protective properties of whole plant foods against diabetes include antioxidants, lipotropes, fiber, and the ability to suppress the estrogen-producing bacteria in our gut.
Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.
The lignans in rye could explain why rye intake is associated with lower breast and prostate cancer risk.
Based on the potential benefits of proper hydration such as reduced bladder cancer risk, how many cups of water should we strive to drink every day?
Which foods should we eat and avoid to prevent and treat acid reflux before it can place us at risk for Barrett’s esophagus and cancer?
There appear to be no consistent differences in the level of vitamins and minerals in organic versus conventionally grown produce, but organic fruits and vegetables have more phenolic phytonutrients.
The “twin vicious cycles” explain how the buildup of fat in the cells of our muscles, liver, and pancreas causes type 2 diabetes, which explains why dietary recommendations for diabetics encourage a reduction in fat intake.
What are the four problematic nutritional aspects of even plant-based Mediterranean diets?
The medical profession oversells the benefits of drugs for chronic disease since so few patients would apparently take them if doctors divulged the truth.
