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How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Sleeping Pills

Taking less than just 18 Ambien-class sleeping pills in an entire year may triple the risk of dying prematurely.

Greens, Green Tea, and Nuts Put to the Test for Telomeres

Not all plant foods are linked to less cellular aging based on telomere attrition, and not all animal foods are linked to more.

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What to Eat to Prevent Telomere Shortening

The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of plant-based diets may explain why they can effectively reverse cellular aging by elongating telomeres.

Better to Exercise Before or After Meals for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar Control?

If people burn more fat on the days they exercise before eating, rather than afterwards, why doesn’t this translate into more weight loss?

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The Best Time to Exercise for Weight Loss

Burn off significantly more body fat exercising before meals, rather than after them.

Improving VO2 Max: A Look at Vegetarian and Vegan Athletes

Plant-based diets improve the performance of athletes and nonathletes alike.

Is Swimming Good for Weight Loss?

Exercising in cool water or under cool conditions on land can lead to an increase in post-workout calorie intake.

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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.

Diet and Lifestyle for Cancer Prevention and Survival

What kind of diet should cancer patients eat?

Do Vegans Have Lower Bone Density and More Fractures?

What are the bone fracture rates of omnivores vs. vegetarians vs. vegans?

Why All Athletes Should Eat Plant-Based Diets

Enhance athletic performance with diet.

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Dietary Approach to Naturally Treating Menopause Symptoms

Specific foods have been shown in randomized controlled trials to improve symptoms like hot flashes.

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How a Plant-Based Diet Can Help Reduce Racial Health Disparities

Why are Black Americans sicker and die younger than their white counterparts, and what can we do about it?

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The Best Diet for Healthy Aging

Swapping just 1 percent of plant protein in place of animal protein was associated with signiﬁcantly less age-related deﬁcit accumulation.

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How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.

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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Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?

Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?

Life Extension with FGF21

What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21?

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How to Increase Your Life Expectancy 12 to 14 Years

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?

Prunes: A Natural Remedy for Constipation

Prunes, figs, and exercise are put to the test as natural home remedies for constipation.

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How Useful Is Personalized Nutrition?

Perhaps it should be less about personalized nutrition and more about taking personal responsibility for your health.

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Extreme Weight-Loss Devices

I discuss the safety and efficacy for weight loss of everything from Botox and corsets to siphons and tapeworms.

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Avoid These Foods to Prevent a Leaky Gut

Avoid these foods for leaky gut prevention: common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier.

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Fasting to Reverse Diabetes

By losing 15 percent of their body weight, nearly 90 percent of those who’ve had type 2 diabetes for less than four years can achieve remission.

How to Boost Brain BDNF Levels for Depression Treatment

Fasting and exercise can raise BDNF levels in our brain, but this can also be achieved by eating and avoiding certain foods.

Why Does Forest Bathing Boost Natural Killer Cell Activity?

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.

Is the Obesity Paradox Real or a Myth?

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

Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases

Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.

Are There Benefits of Pole Walking for Weight Loss?

Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic walking (“exerstriding”), beat our regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?

Hospitals Profit on Junk Food

Why is hospital food so unhealthy?

Are There Health Benefits of Spending Time in Nature?

Studies on green exercising, the value of greenspaces, or even just viewing trees outside the window on surgery recovery.

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—Vitamin D?

Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans?

The Immune System and COVID-19 Treatment

Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?

The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic

The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.

How to Lower Blood Pressure Naturally with Lifestyle Changes

The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.

What the New Blood Pressure Range Guidelines Mean

Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.

Effects of Marijuana on Weight Gain and Bone Density

Are the apparent adverse effects of heavy cannabis use on bone just due to users being skinnier?

Shedding Light on Shedding Weight

Randomized, controlled trials of phototherapy (morning bright light) for weight loss.