All Videos for Japan

Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?



Treating Acne with Barberries

What happens when the most antioxidant-packed dried fruit available is put to the test in a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial for moderate to severe acne?



Lead Contamination of Tea

How much green, white, black, and oolong tea can we consume before the benefits of tea start to be countered by the risks of lead contamination for children, pregnant women, and adults in general?



What Explains the French Paradox?

Why do heart attack rates appear lower than expected in France, given their saturated fat and cholesterol intake? Is it their red wine consumption, their vegetable consumption, or something else?



Preserving Athlete Immunity with Chlorella

The green algae, chlorella, may help attenuate the drop in immune function antibodies associated with over-strenuous exercise.



Laughter as Medicine

What effects do laughing, crying, kissing, cuddling, and sex have on immune function and allergic responses?



The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100

What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?



Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet

The fat-burning properties of brown adipose tissue can be boosted by cold exposure, certain flavor molecules, and arginine-rich foods.



Fish Consumption and Suicide

The mercury content in fish may help explain links found between fish intake and mental disorders, depression, and suicide.



Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise

Diet and exercise synergize to improve endothelial function, the ability of our arteries to relax normally.



If White Rice Is Linked to Diabetes, What About China?

Protein consumption can exacerbate the insulin spike from high glycemic foods.



Preventing Ulcerative Colitis with Diet

The toxic rotten egg gas hydrogen sulfide may explain why animal protein is associated with inflammatory bowel disease.



Never Too Late to Start Eating Healthier

Since many tumors take decades to grow it’s remarkable that cancer risk can so dramatically be reduced– even late in life.



From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases with Food

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our leading causes of death and disability.



Saving Lives by Treating Acne with Diet

Over-activated TOR signaling may help explain the link between acne and subsequent risk for prostate and breast cancer.



Treating Asthma with Plants vs. Supplements?

Whole fruits and vegetables were compared to both antioxidant pills, as well as supplements containing fruits and vegetable extracts, for their ability to treat seasonal allergies, improve lung function, and control asthma.



Caloric Restriction vs. Animal-Protein Restriction

The lifespan extension associated with dietary restriction may be due less to a reduction in calories, and more to a reduction in animal protein (particularly the amino acid leucine, which may accelerate aging via the enzyme TOR).



Dietary Sources of Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors

Foods of animal origin (especially fish) appear to be the most important source of human exposure to industrial pollutants such as alkylphenol xenoestrogens.



Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors and Allergies

The dramatic rise of allergic diseases such as eczema and seasonal allergies may be related to dietary exposure to endocrine-disruptor xenoestrogens, such as alkylphenol industrial pollutants.



Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet

The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt suggests an explanation for why many of our most common and deadliest diseases were rare or even nonexistent in populations eating plant-based diets.



Prostate Cancer and Organic Milk vs. Almond Milk

Does the hormonal stimulation of human prostate cancer cells by cow milk in a petri dish translate out clinically in studies of human populations?



Dietary Treatment of Glaucoma

Blueberries may help protect against age-related macular degeneration, and black currants may help halt the progression of glaucoma.



Increased Lifespan from Beans

The intake of legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—may be the single most important dietary predictor of a long lifespan. But what about concerns about intestinal gas?



Which Seaweed Is Most Protective Against Breast Cancer?

Nori seaweed snacks may favorably alter estrogen metabolism by modulating women’s gut flora, resulting in decreased breast cancer risk.



Cancer Risk from CT Scan Radiation

Pediatric CAT scans are estimated to cause hundreds of cancer deaths every year.



Fukushima & Radioactivity in Seafood

The majority of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant tragedy was absorbed by the Pacific Ocean. What does that mean for seafood safety?



Flaxseeds for Sensitive Skin

Instead of treating sensitive skin topically, with lotions and creams, why not treat it from the inside out—with diet?



Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer

What happens when men with prostate cancer and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) are placed on a relatively low-fat diet, supplemented with ground flax seeds?



Can Gargling Prevent the Common Cold?

Gargling, as commonly practiced in Japan, can not only soothe a sore throat, but may even prevent one.



Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant – UPDATE: don’t eat! (See doc note below)

The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other non- and low-caloric natural and artificial sweeteners, and may actually have antioxidant potential.



Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue

Levels of flame-retardant chemical pollutants (PBDEs) in the tissues of women from around the world are compared.



How Much Soy Is Too Much?

To maintain the low IGF-1 levels associated with a plant-based diet, one should probably eat no more than 3-5 servings of soy foods a day.



Too Much Soy May Neutralize Benefits

Vegans consuming 7 to 18 servings of soy foods a day may end up with circulating IGF-1 levels comparable to those who eat meat.



Smoking vs. Kale Juice

The effect of kale juice on LDL and HDL cholesterol, and the antioxidant capacity of the blood.



Chicken’s Fate is Sealed

The egg industry is attempting to improve the fatty acid lipid profile of eggs by feeding blubber from the Canadian harp seal hunt to laying hens.



Bowels of the Earth

Which country has the largest (and smallest) average stool size?