All Videos for Plant-Based Diets

What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs?

Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?



Do the Pros of Brown Rice Outweigh the Cons of Arsenic?

Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?



How Much Arsenic in Rice Is Too Much?

What are some strategies to reduce arsenic exposure from rice?



Where Does the Arsenic in Chicken Come From?

What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry to stop feeding arsenic-based drugs to poultry?



The Benefits of Açai vs. Blueberries for Artery Function

What are the effects of açai berries, cooked and raw blueberries, grapes, cocoa, green tea, and freshly squeezed orange juice on artery function?



How to Treat Heart Failure & Kidney Failure with Diet

One way a diet rich in animal-sourced foods like meat, eggs, and cheese may contribute to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death is through the production of toxin called TMAO.



The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention & Treatment

Soy is put to the test for the treatment of prostate cancer.



What Is the Ideal White Blood Cell Count?

Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?



Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban

The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.



Microbiome: We Are What They Eat

What happens to our gut flora when we switch from a more animal-based diet to a more plant-based diet?



Best Supplements for Prostate Cancer

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



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.



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.



Don’t Wait Until Your Doctor Kicks the Habit

Just as most doctors smoked in the 1950s, most physicians today continue to consume foods that are contributing to our epidemics of dietary disease.



How to Develop a Healthy Gut Ecosystem

What we eat determines what kind of bacteria we foster the growth of in our gut, which can increase or decrease our risk of some of our leading killer diseases.



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)?



Meat Consumption and the Development of Type 1 Diabetes

Eating meat during breastfeeding is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, perhaps a consequence of meat glycotoxins or paratuberculosis bacteria that may be passed though breast milk.



Best Foods to Reduce Stroke Risk

What are the protective components of dietary patterns and foods associated with lower risk of cerebrovascular disease, or stroke?



The Effect of Animal Protein on Stress Hormones, Testosterone, and Pregnancy

What happened to women who were randomized to eat more meat and dairy during pregnancy? What effect does animal protein consumption have on cortisol and testosterone levels in men?



How Do We Know That Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease?

What would happen if babies were randomized at birth to a lifetime of low cholesterol levels? We already know because Mother Nature did exactly that! In this video, I introduce the concept of Mendelian randomization.



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?



Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO

How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.



Plants with Aspirin Aspirations

Should the active ingredient in aspirin be considered an essential vitamin?



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.



Salt of the Earth: Sodium and Plant-Based Diets

Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?



Wakame Seaweed Salad May Lower Blood Pressure

Seaweed salad is put to the test for hypertension.



Morning Sickness May Protect Mother and Child

Why do those eating plant-based diets appear to suffer less from morning sickness?



How Smoking in 1959 Is Like Eating in 2019

Given that diet is the number-one cause of death and disability, nutrition is surely the number-one subject taught in medical school, right? And it’s certainly the number-one issue your doctor talks with you about, right? If only. How can there be such a disconnect between the available evidence and the practice of medicine?



Animal Protein, Pregnancy, and Childhood Obesity

What pregnant women eat may affect even the health of their grandchildren.



How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.



What Is the Healthiest Diet?

What is the baggage that comes along with the nutrients in your food?



How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure

How might we prevent and reverse hypertension, the number-one risk factor for death in the world?



How Not to Die from Kidney Disease

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



How Not to Die from Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed with a healthy enough diet.



How Not to Die from Cancer

What happens when we put cancer on a plant-based diet?



Should Vegans Take DHA to Preserve Brain Function?

Learn why I recommend 250mg a day of a pollutant-free source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.



How Not to Die from Heart Disease

Lifestyle approaches aren’t only safer and cheaper—they can work better, because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease.



Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer

Fiber isn’t the only thing our good gut bacteria can eat. Starch can also act as a prebiotic.



Paleo Diet Studies Show Benefits

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