All Videos for Inflammation

Best Supplements for Prostate Cancer

What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods?



Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution

There is a food that offers the best of both worlds—significantly improving our ability to detox carcinogens like diesel fumes and decreasing inflammation in our airways—all while improving our respiratory defenses against infections.



The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation

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.



How to Prevent Blood Sugar & Triglyceride Spikes After Meals

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 Are Better: Chia Seeds or Flaxseeds?

What effect do chia seeds have on weight loss, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation?



Best Foods to Improve Sexual Function

Selecting foods to improve pelvic blood flow and decrease inflammation both immediately after a meal and for the long term may improve sexual functioning in men and women.



Sodium & Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound?

There are two ways in which salt may drive autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, type I diabetes, Sjögren’s syndrome, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.



How to Treat Asthma with a Low-Salt Diet

Cutting two teaspoons of salt’s worth of sodium from one’s daily diet can significantly improve lung function in asthmatics.



Best Foods for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

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)?



Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Inflammatory Orbital Pseudotumor

From conjunctivitis to uveitis to a low-grade form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, there is something in the spice turmeric with dramatic anti-inflammatory effects.



BPA on Receipts: Getting Under Our Skin

Using skin lotion or hand sanitizer before touching thermal paper, such as cash register receipts and printed tickets, can facilitate the absorption of BPA into the body.



Vitamin D for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Vitamin D supplements were put to the test for Crohn’s disease.



Vitamin D for Asthma

Vitamin D supplements are put to the test in childhood asthma.



Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda?

Sugar is no longer considered just empty calories, but an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. So what happens if you switch to artificial sweeteners?



Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer?

The aspirin compounds naturally found in plant foods may help explain the lower cancer rates among those eating plant-based diets.



Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease?

The benefits of taking a daily aspirin must be weighed against the risk of internal bleeding.



Ginger for Osteoarthritis

A quarter- to a half-teaspoon a day of powdered ginger can be as pain-relieving as ibuprofen, without the risk of damage to the intestinal lining.



Wakame Seaweed Salad May Lower Blood Pressure

Seaweed salad is put to the test for hypertension.



Gut Microbiome – Strike It Rich with Whole Grains

What can we eat to increase good gut bacteria richness in our colon?



Sesame Seeds for Knee Osteoarthritis

Can the consumption of sesame seeds improve the clinical signs and symptoms of arthritis?



How Not to Die from Kidney Disease

What are the three significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function?



Paleo Diet Studies Show Benefits

What happens when Paleolithic-type diets are put to the test?



Ginger for Nausea, Menstrual Cramps, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Powdered ginger can be a highly effective, cheap, easy-to-use, safer treatment for nausea, migraine headaches, and menstrual blood loss and pain. Does it also work for IBS intestinal cramping?



Could Lactose Explain the Milk and Parkinson’s Disease Link?

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.



HOW NOT TO DIE: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, & Reversing Our Top 15 Killers

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.



The Hispanic Paradox: Why Do Latinos Live Longer?

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest. Why?



Will You Live Longer if You Take Vitamin D Supplements?

What do 56 randomized clinical trials involving nearly 100,000 people between the ages of 18 and 107 show vitamin D can do to our lifespan?



Turmeric or Curcumin: Plants vs. Pills

Curcumin-free turmeric, from which the so-called active ingredient has been removed, may be as effective or even more potent.



Gut Dysbiosis: Starving Our Microbial Self

Inadequate consumption of prebiotics—the fiber and resistant starch concentrated in unprocessed plant foods—can cause a disease-promoting imbalance in our gut microbiome.



Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



How to Prevent Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Avoid sugary and cholesterol-laden foods to reduce the risk of our most common cause of chronic liver disease.



Finger on the Pulse of Longevity

To maximize our lifespan, the target resting heart rate may be one beat a second or less.



Can Vinegar Help with Blood Sugar Control?

Before drugs came along, the consumption of vinegar with meals was used as a folk remedy for diabetes, but it wasn’t put to the test until recently.



Brown, Black, Purple, and Red Unlike White on Rice

White rice is missing more than fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Phytonutrients such as gamma oryzanol in brown rice may help explain the clinical benefits, and naturally pigmented rice varieties may be even healthier.



How to Regenerate Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) Naturally

Chlorophyll in our bloodstream after eating greens may react with wavelengths of sunlight that penetrate through our skin to reactivate the antioxidant Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinol).



Fighting Lupus with Turmeric: Good as Gold

A quarter teaspoon of the spice turmeric was put to the test for the treatment of uncontrollable lupus (SLE) nephritis in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.



Which Foods Increase Happiness?

Certain foods are linked not only to increased happiness, but also to greater “eudaemonic” well-being—feelings of engagement, creativity, meaning, and purpose in life.



How to Counter the Inflammation of Aging

What can we eat to combat “inflamm-aging,” the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?



Antibacterial Toothpaste: Harmful, Helpful, or Harmless?

Is triclosan in Colgate Total toothpaste safe in regards to the nitrate-reducing bacteria on our tongue and potential endocrine-disrupting effects on thyroid function and obesity?



Resveratrol Impairs Exercise Benefits

Research on resveratrol, a component of red wine, looked promising in rodent studies, but what happened when it was put to the test in people?