All Videos for Cancer

Soy Foods for Menopause Hot Flash Symptoms

Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausal hot flash and night sweat symptoms.



How to Die a Good Death

Hospice is often framed as “giving up,” but, ironically, hospice patients sometimes actually live longer



Dietary Sources of the “Longevity Vitamin” Ergothioneine

It may be even more important to include mushrooms (or tempeh) in our diet as we age.



Book Trailer for How Not to Age

Learn about my newest book, How Not to Age, a New York Times Best Seller.



Yoga Put to the Test for MS, Back Pain, Neck Pain, Insomnia, and Breast Cancer

Is yoga better than other types of exercise, better than nothing but similar to other physical activity, or not beneficial even when it’s compared to doing nothing at all?



Which Foods Are the Most Anti-Angiogenic?

For cancer prevention, researchers suggest “constant consumption” of anti-angiogenic foods.



Targeting Angiogenesis to Lose Weight

Expanding body fat releases blood supply-generating factors that may end up hooking up tumors, too.



Greens, Green Tea, and Nuts Put to the Test for Telomeres

Not all plant foods are linked to less cellular aging based on telomere attrition, and not all animal foods are linked to more.



Vitamin D Supplements Tested for COPD, Heart Disease, Depression, Obesity, and Cancer Survival

Before watching the video, can you guess which conditions vitamin D has actually been proven to work for in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials?



The Negative Effects and Benefits of Plant-Based Diets

What are the pros and cons of plant-based eating?



Strategies to Eat Less Meat

What is the most effective way to help people reduce their meat consumption?



Spontaneous Regression of Cancer with Fasting

How can we naturally increase the activity of our cancer-fighting natural killer cells?



A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting

I go over a case report of water-only fasting, followed by a whole food, plant-based diet for follicular lymphoma.



Oatmeal Diet Put to the Test for Diabetes Treatment

What are the extraordinary, lasting benefits we may get from a few days of an oatmeal diet?



Does Tongue Scraping Cause Cancer?

Tongue cleaning should be carried out gently with low pressure to avoid unnecessary tissue trauma.



The Best Diet for Cancer Patients

What diet should oncologists recommend?



Diet and Lifestyle for Cancer Prevention and Survival

What kind of diet should cancer patients eat?



Using the Cigarette Tax Playbook Against Big Food

How might we replicate one of our great public health victories—the reduction of smoking rates—in the field of nutrition?



The Potential Harm in Unnecessary Gluten-Free Diets

How might we prevent the inflammation from gluten-free diets?



The Side Effects of Burning Incense

Burning incense has been found to generate about four times the particulate matter as burning cigarettes.



Fasting-Mimicking Diet Before and After Chemotherapy

How might we replicate the protective effects of fasting with food?



Fasting Before and After Chemotherapy Put to the Test

Do the benefits of short-term fasting during cancer therapy found in the lab translate into the clinical setting?



Fasting Before and After Chemotherapy and Radiation

Might short-term fasting during cancer treatment minimize side effects while boosting efficacy?



Fasting for Cancer: What About Cachexia?

What did randomized controlled trials find as the effects of supplemental feeding on clinical outcomes?



The Best Diet for Treating Atrial Fibrillation

What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of Afib?



How to Treat H. Pylori Naturally with Diet

What food can eradicate H. pylori in the majority of patients?



The Role of Kimchi and H. Pylori in Stomach Cancer

What explains the Achilles’ heel in certain Asian diets?



How Much Does Chemotherapy Improve Survival?

If you put together all of the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.



How Effective Is Chemotherapy?

Most chemo drugs are approved by the FDA without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life.



How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.



How Big Meat Manipulated the Science

Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality.



The Health Risks vs. Benefits of Meat Consumption

The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death.



Failing GRADE for Annals of Internal Medicine Meat Studies

The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine.



Observational Studies Show Similar Results to Randomized Controlled Trials

How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?



How Big Sugar Manipulated the Science for Dietary Guidelines

How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process?



Weight Bias: Hating Their Guts

How common is weight stigmatization in health care?



Micromorts: How Risky Is It to Go Under Anesthesia?

A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one in a million chance of dying.



Animal Protein vs. Plant-Based Protein

I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.



Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test

What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?



How We Won the Fight to Ban Trans Fat

What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed?