Are There Benefits of Energy Drinks?
The effects of Red Bull and Monster brand energy drinks on artery function and athletic performance.
All Videos for Heart Disease
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CHIP: The Complete Health Improvement Program
A community-based education program educating physicians and patients alike about the power of nutrition as medicine.
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What Is the Optimal Diet?
The CHIP program has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it out into the community.
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Benefits of Beans for Peripheral Vascular Disease
Do legumes (beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils) just work to prevent disease or can they help treat and reverse it as well?
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The Effects of Avocados on Inflammation
The impact of high-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, walnuts—and olive oil put to the test.
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Does an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?
Which would save more lives: a prescription to eat an apple a day, or statin drugs?
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How to Reduce Cholesterol Oxidation
Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts, but there are things you can do to reduce exposure.
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Oxidized Cholesterol as a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
Oxidized cholesterol can be 100 times more toxic than regular cholesterol, raising additional concerns about foods such as ghee, canned tuna, processed meat, and parmesan cheese.
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Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?
What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?
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Is It Better to Drink a Little Alcohol than None at All?
Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where yes, excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to actually have lower mortality than abstainers?
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The Best Source of Resveratrol
Is there any benefit to resveratrol, and if so should we get it from wine, grapes, peanuts, or supplements?
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Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
A video explaining my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.
