Is Oatmeal Good for People with Diabetes?
Before there was insulin, there was the “oatmeal cure.”
All Videos for Cholesterol
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The Role of Endotoxins in Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Why can a single meal high in saturated fat impair cognition?
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The Best Diet for Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pain Relief
Anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndromes.
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The Fat-Blocking and Appetite-Suppressing Effects of Thylakoids
What is a natural way to cut down on unhealthy food cravings?
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Answering Your Questions About Cholesterol and Diabetes
I answer some common questions I’ve been asked about cholesterol and diabetes, such as “What is the ideal LDL?” “What’s going on when someone eats healthfully but their glucose is still out of control?”
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Does Dietary Cholesterol (Eggs) Raise Blood Cholesterol?
Even nine out of ten studies funded by the egg industry show that eggs raise cholesterol.
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Cholesterol and Heart Disease: Why Has There Been So Much Controversy?
Is the role of cholesterol in heart disease settled beyond a reasonable doubt?
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The Benefits of Fenugreek for Preventing and Treating Diabetes
The spice fenugreek contains 4-hydroxyisoleucine, a peculiar amino acid that may explain its benefits for controlling blood sugar.
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Is Allulose a Healthy Sweetener?
Are rare sugars like allulose a healthy alternative for traditional sweeteners?
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Are the Health Benefits of Nuts Limited to Those Eating Bad Diets?
Do nut eaters live longer simply because they swap in protein from plants in place of animal protein?
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Exercising to Protect Your Arteries from Fast Food
There is a window of time in which sufficient physical activity can help mediate some of the damage caused by eating an unhealthy meal.
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Saturated Fat Causes Artery and Lung Inflammation
What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal?
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Should You Get Personalized Genetic Risk Testing?
Overrated “precision medicine” may just be serving vested interests, and consumer DNA testing can be useless—or even worse.
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Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
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How to Boost FGF21 with Diet for Longevity
Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?
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Life Extension with FGF21
What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21?
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Which Foods Are Anti-Inflammatory?
Foods that reduce inflammation. What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like?
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Foods That Cause Inflammation
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst?
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Pomegranate: A Natural Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Pomegranates are put to the test for weight loss, diabetes, COPD, prostate cancer, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Onions Put to the Test for Weight Loss, Cholesterol, and PCOS Treatment
Weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS treatment with diet. What can an eighth of a teaspoon a day of onion powder do for body fat, and what can raw red onion do for cholesterol?
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Are PCSK9 Inhibitors for LDL Cholesterol Safe and Effective?
Those with genetic mutations that leave them with an LDL cholesterol of 30 live exceptionally long lives. Can we duplicate that effect with drugs?
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Can Cholesterol Get Too Low?
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?
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Are Baruka Nuts the Healthiest Nut?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?
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3-MCPD in Refined Cooking Oils
There is another reason to avoid palm oil and question the authenticity of extra-virgin olive oil.
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How Low Should You Go for Ideal Cholesterol Levels?
Having a so-called normal cholesterol in a society where it’s normal to drop dead of a heart attack isn’t necessarily a good thing.
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Benefits of Cumin and Saffron for Weight Loss
The spice cumin can work as well as orlistat, the “anal leakage” obesity drug.
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How Much Longer Do You Live on Statins?
What are the pros and cons of relative risk versus absolute risk versus number-needed-to-treat versus average postponement of death taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs?
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The True Benefits vs. Side Effects of Statins
A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you.
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Are Doctors Misleading Patients About Statin Risks and Benefits?
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? If patients knew the truth of how little these drugs actually worked, almost no one would agree to take them.
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Who Should Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk and use it to determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug?
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The Efficacy and Side Effects of Moringa Leaf Powder
Why don’t I recommend moringa?
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The Food That Can Downregulate a Metastatic Cancer Gene
Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.”
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Benefits of Black Cumin Seed (Nigella Sativa) for Weight Loss
For three cents a day, black cumin may improve cholesterol and triglyceride levels, blood pressure, and blood sugar control, as well as accelerate the loss of body fat.
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Diet for Hypothyroidism: A Natural Treatment for Hashimoto’s Disease
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?
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How Common Are Muscle Side Effects from Statins?
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials but appear to be so high out in the real world?
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The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease Treatment
What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?
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Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have, fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm.
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Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?
Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally.
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Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.
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Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?
