Diet for Hypothyroidism: A Natural Treatment for Hashimoto’s Disease
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?
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?
More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy.
Miracle drug antibiotics are being squandered to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, unhygienic conditions on factory farms.
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.
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.
Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.
What do clinical studies show about the role of heme in the formation of a class of carcinogenic compounds?
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?
Environmental assessment of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable.
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.
Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.
What do randomized controlled trials of high-dose daily vitamin B12 supplementation show about the effects on cancer risk, death, and longevity?
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.
How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents?
The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health.
B12 deficiency is known as “The Great Masquerader.”
Green smoothies are put to the test for the autoimmune disease SLE (lupus).
Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?
Just because you’re eating vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy.
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?
What’s the best type of pots and pans to use?
What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of foods, but only within the natural range.
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches.
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.
Healthier plant-based diets compared to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods on diabetes risk.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.