What would happen if babies were randomized at birth to a lifetime of low cholesterol levels? We already know because Mother Nature did exactly that! In this video, I introduce the concept of Mendelian randomization.
It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the first Surgeon General report against smoking was finally released. Another mountain of evidence for healthier eating exists today, but much of society has yet to catch up to the science.
Does a cancer-causing herpes virus in chickens pose a public health threat?
Green tea is put to the test against precancerous lesions, prostate cancer, and metastatic cancer, and compared to the effects of black tea.
One third of men in their 30s may already have tiny, cancerous tumors in their prostates. How much tea would we have to drink to build up cancer-suppressing levels in our prostate tissue?
How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.
Should the active ingredient in aspirin be considered an essential vitamin?
The aspirin compounds naturally found in plant foods may help explain the lower cancer rates among those eating plant-based diets.
How can soy foods have it both ways with pro-estrogenic effects in some organs that can protect bones and reduce hot flash symptoms, yet also anti-estrogenic effects in others that protect against breast and endometrial cancer?
The link between Parkinson’s and dairy may not be explained just by the pesticides and lactose.
Combining certain foods together may be more beneficial than eating them separately.
If the synthetic estrogen BPA is linked to billions of dollars’ worth of medical problems a year, why is it still allowed in the food supply?
What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.
We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.
Sun exposure is associated with lower rates of 15 different cancers and improved cancer survival. What happened when vitamin D supplements were put to the test?
What was the response to the revelation that as many as 37 percent of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus, a cancer-causing cow virus found in the milk of nearly every dairy herd in the United States?
As many as 37 percent of human breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus.
Type 2 diabetes can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed with a healthy enough diet.
The majority of U.S. dairy herds are infected with a cancer-causing virus, but until recently, human testing for exposure was not sufficiently sensitive.
What happens when we put cancer on a plant-based diet?
Lifestyle approaches aren’t only safer and cheaper—they can work better, because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease.
Women were placed in harm’s way by their physicians, who acted as unsuspecting patsies for the drug companies.
How might beans, berries, and intact (not just whole) grains reduce colon cancer risk?
Fiber isn’t the only thing our good gut bacteria can eat. Starch can also act as a prebiotic.
Perhaps dietary guidelines should stress fresh, frozen, and dried fruit—rather than canned.
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?
Pomegranate juice for prostate cancer was finally put to the test in a randomized, controlled, clinical trial.
In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.
Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?
When it comes to breast cancer risk, does the phytoestrogen in beer act more like the animal estrogens in Premarin or the protective phytoestrogens in soy?
Anabolic growth-promoting drugs in meat production are by far the most potent hormones found in the food supply.
We don’t have to choose between the lesser of two evils: skin cancer versus internal cancers from vitamin D deficiency.
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D level may be, how about getting vitamin D in the way nature intended—that is, from the sun instead of supplements?
What do 56 randomized clinical trials involving nearly 100,000 people between the ages of 18 and 107 show vitamin D can do to our lifespan?
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.
The field of nutrition got human protein requirements spectacularly wrong, leading to a massive recalculation.
Curcumin-free turmeric, from which the so-called active ingredient has been removed, may be as effective or even more potent.
Mainstream medicine’s permissive attitude towards smoking in the face of overwhelming evidence can be an object lesson for contemporary medical collusion with the food industry.
Might appeals to masculinity and manhood help men with prostate cancer change their diet to improve their survival?
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?
