How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions.
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions.
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight nerve response. Thankfully, there are foods we can eat at every meal to counter this reaction.
Which foods and cooking methods should we choose and avoid, given the role advanced glycation end products (glycotoxins) may play in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)?
Miso is packed with sodium, which is linked to both stomach cancer and high blood pressure, so is it safe to consume?
The majority of specialists in the field agreed that paraTB in meat and dairy likely represents a risk to human health and should be a high- or medium-priority public health issue.
Eating meat during breastfeeding is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, perhaps a consequence of meat glycotoxins or paratuberculosis bacteria that may be passed though breast milk.
“Fear of consumer reaction” led the U.S. dairy industry to suppress the discovery in retail milk of live paraTB bacteria, a pathogen linked to type 1 diabetes.
Increasing the cost of cigarettes through tobacco taxes is one of the most effective ways to decrease the harms of smoking. What does the science say about taxing sodium, sugar, and saturated fat?
How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.
The benefits of taking a daily aspirin must be weighed against the risk of internal bleeding.
Is it the casein or the cow insulin that explains the link between milk consumption and the development of type I diabetes?
Why might exposure to bovine proteins increase the risk of childhood-onset autoimmune type 1 diabetes?
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.
Is carbonated water good or bad for heartburn, dyspepsia, and bowel regularity?
What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.
We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.
What is the baggage that comes along with the nutrients in your food?
How might we prevent and reverse hypertension, the number-one risk factor for death in the world?
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?
What are the three significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function?
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?
What happens when Paleolithic-type diets are put to the test?
What is the optimal source and amount of protein for senior citizens?
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?
Neurotoxin contamination of the dairy supply doesn’t explain why the association between Parkinson’s and skim milk consumption is as strong as the disease’s association with whole milk.
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.
Anabolic growth-promoting drugs in meat production are by far the most potent hormones found in the food supply.
Vegetables and fruit, such as dried plums, may help build stronger bones.
The highest levels of phthalates, hormone-disrupting plastics chemical pollutants, are found in meats, fats, and dairy.
We don’t have to choose between the lesser of two evils: skin cancer versus internal cancers from vitamin D deficiency.
Avoid sugary and cholesterol-laden foods to reduce the risk of our most common cause of chronic liver disease.
Diabetics suffering from nerve pain for years are cured within days with a plant-based diet.
The improvement of arterial function on a whole food, plant-based diet appears so pronounced that cardiac patients can achieve a 90% reduction in angina attacks.
Adding milk to tea can block its beneficial effects, potentially explaining why green tea drinkers appear better protected than consumers of black tea.
Even when study subjects were required to eat so much that they didn’t lose any weight, a plant-based diet could still reverse type 2 diabetes in a matter of weeks.