Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that are all risk without benefit?
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery.
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?
How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? And the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties.
Increased risk of metabolic complications starts at an abdominal circumference of 31.5 inches in women and 37 inches in most men, though it’s closer to 35.5 inches for South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese men.
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?
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?
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.
The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health.
Why is hospital food so unhealthy?
Why the current Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin B12 may be insufficient.
Did traffic fatalities go up or down after cannabis legalization?
The diving reflex shows that it’s possible to have selective adrenal hormone effects.
Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.
What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.
Not taking B12 supplements or regularly eating B12 fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians.
Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?
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.
Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk?
Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans?
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
More than 90% of stroke risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors.
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
There may be an even deadlier pandemic threat waiting in the wings…of chickens.
What should we expect in the coming months and years with SARS-CoV-2?
There are things you can do right now to reduce your risk of falling seriously ill and dying from this disease.
What does the clinical course of COVID-19 look like for both those who survive and those who don’t?
What can we learn from other countries and the 1918 pandemic to slow COVID-19?
How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).
Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.
What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference.
Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss?
Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have products that were even accurately labeled.