All Videos for Plant-Based Diets

How Well Does Cooking Destroy the Cyanide in Flaxseeds?

Are flax seeds like bitter almonds, where just a few ounces could kill you, or more like regular almonds, where regular dietary intake wouldn’t even come close?



The Orthorexia Nervosa Test

See how you score on the orthorexia “diagnostic” test.



The Best Diet for Diabetes

The case for using a plant-based diet to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger.



Dairy and Cancer

How do we explain the increased risk of prostate cancer but the decreased risk of colon cancer associated with dairy consumption?



Best Foods for Halitosis and Gingivitis

The best and worst foods for bad breath and gum inflammation.



How to Treat Periodontitis with Diet

Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.



Are Vegetarians at Risk for Eating Disorders?

Who has the healthiest thoughts, attitudes, and habits regarding food?



Vegetarian Muscle Power, Strength, and Endurance

Randomized controlled trials put plant-based eating to the test for athletic performance.



The First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes

Meat-eating athletes are put to the test against veg athletes and even sedentary plant-eaters in feats of endurance.



The Gladiator Diet: How Vegetarian Athletes Stack Up

Comparing the diets of the Roman gladiator “barley men” and army troopers to the modern Spartans of today.



How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies

How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.



Benefits of a Macrobiotic Diet for Diabetes

What happens when you add massive amounts of carbs to the daily diet of type 2 diabetics in the form of whole grains?



Pros and Cons of a Macrobiotic Diet

What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables, and beans?



Urinary Tract Infections from Eating Chicken

Can UTI-causing ExPEC E. coli bacteria be transferred human-to-human from those who eat chicken?



Best Supplement for Canker Sores

Vitamin C, turmeric, beta-glucan fiber, and vitamin B12 are put to the test for recurring canker sores (aphthous ulcers).



A Workplace Wellness Program That Works

What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living?



The Weight-Loss Program That Got Better with Time

The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the most effective.



What Is the Optimal Diet?

The CHIP program has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it into the community.



Are Apples the Best Food for a Better Sex Life in Women?

Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction?



How to Win the War on Cancer

How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers?



Does Tea Tree Oil Work for Nail Fungus?

Tea tree essential oil is pitted against the antifungal cream lotrimin for the treatment of fungal nail infection, but what about treating the underlying cause?



Is Organic Meat Less Carcinogenic?

Researchers tested 76 samples of different kinds of organic and conventional meats for 33 different carcinogens.



How to Lower Heavy Metal Levels with Diet

What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body?



Does an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?

Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs?



How to Reduce Cholesterol Oxidation

Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts, but there are things you can do to reduce exposure.



The Benefits of Kale and Cabbage for Cholesterol

Dinosaur kale and red cabbage are put to the test.



Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine.



Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop

In this video, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.



How to Convert Into an Equol Producer

Certain gut bacteria can supercharge the benefits of soy foods, resulting in even more bone protection, better control of menopausal symptoms, and lower prostate cancer risk, but how can we foster the growth of these good bacteria?



Avocados Lower Small Dense LDL Cholesterol

What are the effects of oatmeal, walnuts, extra virgin olive oil, and avocados on LDL cholesterol size?



Exclusion Diets for Eczema

Infants of mothers randomized to cut out eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema even years later.



Are Avocados Healthy?

Avocado consumption can improve artery function, but what effect might guacamole have on cancer risk?



The Best Diet for Fibroids

The same diet that helps regulate hormones in women may also reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting pollutants.



Are Lectins in Food Good or Bad for You?

Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less cancer?



Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong

A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.



Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of all the things I try to fit into my daily routine.



How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels

Should we be concerned about high-choline plant foods, such as broccoli, producing the same toxic TMAO that results from eating high-choline animal foods, such as eggs?



Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?

Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast.



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2

What happens when metastatic prostate cancer patients were taught to increase intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, and to decrease consumption of meat, dairy, and junk?



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1

Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer, but that was for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease?