All Videos for Vegans

How Much Longer Do You Live on Statins?

What are the pros and cons of relative risk versus absolute risk versus number-needed-to-treat versus average postponement of death taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs?



Fiber vs. Low FODMAP for SIBO Symptoms

It may not be the number of bacteria growing in your small intestine, but the type of bacteria, which can be corrected with diet.



How to Boost Brain BDNF Levels for Depression Treatment

Fasting and exercise can raise BDNF levels in our brain, but this can also be achieved by eating and avoiding certain foods.



Diet for Hypothyroidism: A Natural Treatment for Hashimoto’s Disease

What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?



The Best Diet for Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both?



The Healthiest Natural Source of Iodine

How much nori, dulse, or arame approximate the recommended daily allowance for iodine?



Are Vegans at Risk for Iodine Deficiency?

Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine.



The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Chemical Safety

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy.



The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Antibiotic Resistance

Miracle drug antibiotics are being squandered to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, unhygienic conditions on factory farms.



The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Food Safety

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals?



The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.



The Best Diet for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.



The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease Treatment

What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?



Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?

Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.



Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation

What do clinical studies show about the role of heme in the formation of a class of carcinogenic compounds?



Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer?

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.



What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers?

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure?



The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat

Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.



Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test

What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk?



Plant-Based Protein: Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful?

What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?



Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy?

What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?



The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes

Environmental assessment of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable.



The Effects of Obesity on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Cardiovascular Disease

Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.



Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases

Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.



Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.



Do Vitamin B12 Supplements Cause Acne?

Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.



How to Reverse Heart Failure with Diet

An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.



Which Diets Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?

Why don’t environmental groups advocate climate-friendlier diets?



Which Foods Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?

How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents?



Win-Win Dietary Solutions to the Climate Crisis

The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health.



The Best Type of Vitamin B12: Cyanocobalamin or Methylcobalamin?

For prevention and treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency, cyanocobalamin in chewable, sublingual, or liquid forms (rather than in a multivitamin) is best under most circumstances.



The Optimal Vitamin B12 Dosage for Kids, Pregnancy, and Seniors

At age 50, everyone, regardless of diet should start supplementing with B12-fortified foods or supplements but over age 65 only high-dose daily supplements may suffice.



The Healthiest Food Sources of Vitamin B12

What are the best green-light (whole food plant-based) sources of vitamin B12?



The Optimal Vitamin B12 Dosage for Adults

Why the current Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin B12 may be insufficient.



The Symptoms of Vitamin B12 Deficiency

B12 deficiency is known as “The Great Masquerader.”



Type 1 Diabetes Treatment: A Plant-Based Diet

Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?



The World’s Largest Fasting Study

Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.



The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention

The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.



The Efficacy and Safety of Creatine for High Homocysteine

Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.



Should Vegetarians Take Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine?

What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?