The Risks & Benefits of Sensible Sun Exposure
We don’t have to choose between the lesser of two evils: skin cancer versus internal cancers from vitamin D deficiency.
All Videos for African Americans
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What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype?
There appear to be just two types of people in the world: those who have mostly Bacteroides type bacteria in their gut, and those whose colons are overwhelmingly home to Prevotella species instead.
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Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to undermine public health interventions.
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Whole Beets vs. Juice for Improving Athletic Performance
What is the latest science on the performance-enhancing qualities of nitrate-rich vegetables?
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How to Reduce Carcinogenic Bile Acid Production
The consumption of animal fat appears to increase the growth of gut bacteria that turn our bile acids into carcinogens.
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Putrefying Protein and “Toxifying” Enzymes
Certain gut bacteria can “retoxify” carcinogens that your liver successfully detoxified, but these bacteria can be rapidly suppressed by simple dietary changes.
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Food as Medicine: Preventing & Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet
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.
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Diverticulosis: When Our Most Common Gut Disorder Hardly Existed
More than two-thirds of Americans over age 60 have diverticulosis, but it was nearly unknown a century ago, and remained extremely rare among populations eating whole food plant-based diets.
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Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement?
Squatting and leaning can help straighten the anorectal angle, but a healthy enough diet should make bowel movements effortless regardless of positioning.
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Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery
Even though modern African diets may now be as miserably low in fiber as American diets, Africans still appear to have 50 times less colorectal cancer than Americans (our second leading cancer killer).
