All Videos for Blood Pressure

The Optimal Dose of Vitamin D Based on Natural Levels

Why do some recommend thousands of units of supplemental vitamin D when the Institute of Medicine set the recommended daily intake at just 600 to 800 units?



Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure?

Those with higher vitamin D levels tend to have lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, but is it cause and effect? Interventional trials finally put vitamin D to the test.



Which Has More Caramel Coloring Carcinogens: Coke or Pepsi?

How many cola cancer cases are estimated to be caused by Coke and Pepsi in New York versus California, where a carcinogen labeling law (Prop 65) exists?



Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



Is Fish “Brain Food” for Older Adults?

Why has fish consumption been associated with cognitive impairment and loss of executive function?



Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality

How the food, drug, and supplement industries have taken advantage of the field of nutrition’s reductionist mindset



Curing Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

Diabetics suffering from nerve pain for years are cured within days with a plant-based diet.



Brown, Black, Purple, and Red Unlike White on Rice

White rice is missing more than fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Phytonutrients such as gamma oryzanol in brown rice may help explain the clinical benefits, and naturally pigmented rice varieties may be even healthier.



Treating Chronic Kidney Disease with Food

Plant-based diets have been shown to slow or stop the progression of kidney failure, but what about all the phosphorus and potassium in plant foods?



Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Garlic and Onions

Why should we wait ten minutes after chopping or crushing garlic before we cook it unless we’re going in for elective surgery within the next week?



Fennel Seeds to Improve Athletic Performance

What are the pros and cons of fennel fruits as a cheap, easy-to-find, light-weight, nonperishable source of nitrates?



Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?



The Five-to-One Fiber Rule

A guideline is suggested for how to read food labels for grain products such as bread and breakfast cereals.



Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt

Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry?



Oxygenating Blood with Nitrate-Rich Vegetables

Vegetables such as beets and arugula can improve athletic performance by improving oxygen delivery and utilization. But, what about for those who really need it—such as those with emphysema, high blood pressure, and peripheral artery disease?



Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis of the Brain

Lack of adequate blood flow to the brain due to clogging of cerebral arteries may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s dementia.



Music for Anxiety: Mozart vs. Metal

What physiologic effects does classical music have compared to new age music, grunge rock, techno, and heavy metal?



High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice

Eating a diet low enough in sodium (salt) can prevent the rise in hypertension risk as we age.



Food as Medicine: Preventing and 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.



Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed?

The reversal of blindness due to hypertension and diabetes with Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit diet demonstrates the power of diet to exceed the benefits of the best modern medicine and surgery have to offer.



How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day?

Most people have between 3 bowel movements a day and 3 a week, but normal doesn’t necessarily mean optimal.



The Best Kept Secret in Medicine

Lifestyle changes are often more effective in reducing the rates of heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and premature death than almost any other medical intervention.



How to Treat High Blood Pressure with Diet

The first-line treatment for hypertension is lifestyle modification, which often includes the DASH diet. What is it and how can it be improved?



Drugs & the Demise of the Rice Diet

What is the contemporary relevance of Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit protocol for the reversal of chronic disease?



How to Prevent High Blood Pressure with Diet

High blood pressure, the #1 killer risk factor in the world, may be eliminated with a healthy enough diet.



How Much Fruit Is Too Much?

Does the threshold for toxicity of fructose apply to fruit or just to added industrial sugars such as sucrose and high fructose corn syrup?



Improving on the Mediterranean Diet

What are the four problematic nutritional aspects of even plant-based Mediterranean diets?



Optimal Cholesterol Level

Why don’t authorities advocate a sufficient reduction in cholesterol down to safe levels?



The Problem with the Paleo Diet Argument

The Paleolithic period represents just the last two million years of human evolution. What did our bodies evolve to eat during the first 90% of our time on Earth?



Flaxseeds for Hypertension

Extraordinary results reported in a rare example of a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a dietary intervention (flaxseeds) to combat one of our leading killers, high blood pressure.



Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes

We’ve known for a half century that plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk, but how low does one have to optimally go on animal product and junk food consumption?



How Many Meet the Simple Seven?

The American Heart Association came up with seven simple lifestyle goals to combat the leading killer of men and women: heart disease.



Can Diet Protect Against Kidney Cancer?

Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.



Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise

The deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a Crossfit-based high-intensity circuit training exercise program.



Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape

Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit to cure malignant hypertension and reverse heart and kidney failure.



If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?

Does the fructose naturally found in fruit and fruit juice have the same adverse effects as excess “industrial fructose” (table sugar and high fructose corn syrup) and if not, why not?



Eliminating 90% of Heart Disease Risk

Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective



Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes

Lifestyle changes could potentially prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of Alzheimer’s disease every year in the United States



Protecting Teeth from Hibiscus Tea

How can we protect our tooth enamel from the erosive natural acids found in sour foods and beverages?



Hibiscus Tea vs. Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension

How do the blood-pressure lowering effects of hibiscus tea compare to the DASH diet, a plant-based diet, and a long-distance endurance exercise?