All Videos for Cancer

Pesticides and Cancer Risk

Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? The effects of pesticides on cancer risk.



Are Onions Beneficial for Testosterone, Osteoporosis, Allergies, and Cancer?

What did randomized controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions?



Should We Be Concerned About Aflatoxin?

Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? And, what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?



Should We Be Concerned About the Effects of Ochratoxin?

The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated.



The Dangerous Effects of Heavy Metal Music

How might we moderate the rare but very real risk of headbanging?



White Button Mushrooms for Prostate Cancer

What can reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushroom extracts, and whole powdered white mushrooms do for cancer patients?



Medicinal Mushrooms for Cancer Survival

Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in terms of tumor response rate, survival time, or quality of life?



Lifestyle and Disease Prevention: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny

Treating the underlying cause of chronic lifestyle diseases.



Is It Safe to Eat Raw Mushrooms?

Microwaving is probably the most efficient way to reduce agaritine levels in fresh mushrooms.



The Benefits of Moringa: Is It the Most Nutritious Food?

Does the so-called miracle tree live up to the hype?



The Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet

The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.



The Food That Can Downregulate a Metastatic Cancer Gene

Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.”



How to Help Control Cancer Metastasis with Diet

Randomized controlled trials show lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival.



What Causes Cancer to Metastasize?

Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.



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 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.



Preventing Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Diet

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.



Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?

Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different plants. Which is the most healthful?



Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?

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



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.



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?



Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain?

How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? And the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties.



Why Does Forest Bathing Boost Natural Killer Cell Function?

Can the aroma of wood essential oils replicate the immune-boosting effects of walking in a forest?



Boosting Anticancer Immunity with Forest Bathing

Visiting a forest can induce a significant increase in both the number and activity of natural killer cells, one of the ways our body fights off cancer.



What’s the Ideal BMI?

Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?



Is the Obesity Paradox Real or a Myth?

How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?



The Effects of Obesity on the Immune System and Kidney and Liver Diseases

What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line of immune defense against cancer, as well as kidney function and fatty liver disease?



The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes

Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.



Do Vitamin B12 Supplements Cause Bone Fractures and Lung Cancer?

What do randomized controlled trials of high-dose daily vitamin B12 supplementation show about the effects on cancer risk, death, and longevity?



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.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Animal Protein?

Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Saturated Fat?

How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?



Stainless Steel or Cast Iron: Which Cookware Is Best? Is Teflon Safe?

What’s the best type of pots and pans to use?



The Role of the Toxic Food Environment in the Obesity Epidemic

Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.



Pandemics: History and Prevention

How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).



What Are the Best Beverages?

A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.



The Metabolic Harms of Night Shifts and Irregular Meals

What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.



Benefits of Garlic for Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold

Raw garlic is compared to roasted, stir-fried, simmered, and jarred garlic.