Powdered ginger can be a highly effective, cheap, easy-to-use, safer treatment for nausea, migraine headaches, and menstrual blood loss and pain. Does it also work for IBS intestinal cramping?
What can we conclude about the role of IV vitamin C after 33 years of trials involving at least 1,600 patients?
If studies from the 1970s showed cancer patients treated with vitamin C lived 4 times longer and sometimes even 20 times longer, why isn’t it standard practice today?
Studies in the 1970s with terminal cancer patients appeared to show an extraordinary survival gain with vitamin C, a simple and relatively nontoxic therapy.
Immunocompromised patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, are often denied fresh fruits and vegetables to ostensibly protect them against foodborne illness.
Is the relief of nausea and vomiting after surgery from sniffing peppermint extract due to the mint, the alcohol vapors, or just the controlled breathing?
Beta glucan fiber in nutritional yeast may improve immune function, but there is a concern about lead contamination in some brands.
Is whole grain consumption just a marker for healthier behaviors, or do whole grains have direct health benefits?
Oats are put to the test against cetuximab-type chemo side effects to see just how soothing and anti-inflammatory they can be.
What is the best strategy to lower the level of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1?
Carcinogens in grilled and baked chicken may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, while curcumin, the yellow pigment in the spice turmeric, may sometimes help even in advanced stages of the disease.
Sweet potatoes are not just one of the healthiest and cheapest sources of nutrition; the predominant protein is a type of protease inhibitor that may have cancer-fighting properties.
For accessible cancers such as skin, mouth, and vulva, the spice turmeric can be applied in an ointment. Note: there’s an image of ulcerating breast cancer from 3:03 to 3:09 that viewers may find disturbing.
What role might the spice turmeric play in both the prevention of precancerous polyps, and the treatment of colorectal cancer?
Do the anticancer effects of phytates in a petri dish translate out into clinical studies on cancer prevention and treatment?
Blood flow within the hearts of those eating low-carb diets was compared to those eating plant-based diets.
The spice turmeric appears to be able to switch back on the self-destruct mechanism within cancer cells.
Less than a teaspoon a day of turmeric appears to significantly lower the DNA-mutating ability of cancer-causing substances.
Dramatically lower cancer rates in India may in part be attributable to their more plant-based, spice-rich diet.
The artificial food coloring Red No. 3 has yet to be banned—despite its purported role in causing thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.
Different brands of liquid smoke flavorings have been tested for DNA-damaging potential, p53 activation, and levels of known carcinogens. Smoked foods such as ham, turkey, barbequed chicken, herring, and salmon were also tested.
Antioxidant intake from foods (not supplements) is associated with lower cancer risk.
The smell of sweet orange essential oil may have anxiety-reducing properties without the potentially addictive, sedating, and adverse effects of Valium-type benzodiazepine drugs.
Simple changes in diet and lifestyle may quadruple a woman’s survival rate from breast cancer.
A plant-based diet may not only be the safest treatment for multiple sclerosis; it may also be the most effective.
Methionine restriction—best achieved through a plant-based diet—may prove to have a major impact on patients with cancer because, unlike normal tissues, many human tumors require the amino acid methionine to grow.
Nori seaweed snacks may favorably alter estrogen metabolism by modulating women’s gut flora, resulting in decreased breast cancer risk.
Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition, and developed this brand-new live presentation on the latest in cutting-edge research on how a healthy diet can affect some of our most common medical conditions.
A randomized phase II clinical trial on the ability of strawberries to reverse the progression to esophageal cancer.
About half of doctors admit to intentionally deceiving patients by prescribing placebos, but might the ends justify the means?
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of flax seeds in breast cancer patients finds flax appears to have the potential to reduce tumor growth—in just a matter of weeks.
For decades, studies on Gerson therapy for cancer have questioned its safety and efficacy. But, what does the latest head-to-head trial of a Gerson-style regime, versus chemotherapy, show in terms of survival and quality of life for pancreatic cancer ?
Four cups of broccoli sprouts a day may exceed the safe dose of the cruciferous phytonutrient sulforaphane.
Many of the most powerful drugs in modern medicine’s arsenal came from natural products, from penicillin to the chemotherapy agents Taxol® and vincristine.
Indian gooseberries (amla) block breast cancer cell growth and metastasis potential in vitro.
Persin, a natural toxin found in avocados, appears so effective at killing breast cancer cells that it is being considered as a chemotherapy agent.
Mushrooms may help prevent breast cancer by acting as an aromatase inhibitor to block breast tumor estrogen production.
Dr. Dean Ornish turns from reversing heart disease to trying to reverse prostate cancer.
