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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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Fighting the Ten Hallmarks of Cancer with Food

The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.

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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How to Heal a Leaky Gut with Diet

The recommended diet for leaky gut treatment. Which foods and food components can boost the integrity of our intestinal barrier?

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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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Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Arthritis

What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?

Are Baruka Nuts the Healthiest Nut?

How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?

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Medicinal Mushrooms for Cancer Survival

Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in terms of tumor response rate, survival time, or quality of life?

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Fasting for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

More than half of IBS sufferers appear to have a form of atypical food allergy.

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?

Are Emulsifiers Like Carboxymethylcellulose and Polysorbate 80 Safe?

Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additive. What are they doing to our gut microbiome?

Cannabis for IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)

Cannabis for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Even though cannabis smoking may help with IBD symptoms in the short-term, it may make the long-term prognosis worse.

The Best Diet for Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both?

The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

The Best Diet for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.

Preventing Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Diet

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.

Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better

Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims.

The Effects of Processed Meat on Lung Function

If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?

The Effects of Obesity on the Immune System and Kidney and Liver Diseases

What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line of immune defense against cancer, as well as kidney function and fatty liver disease?

The Effects of Obesity on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Cardiovascular Disease

Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.

The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes

Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.

The Best Knee Replacement Alternative for Osteoarthritis Treatment

Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?

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.