Plant-Based Diet for Treating and Reversing Stage 3 Kidney Disease
I share a touching story of the power of plant-based eating for chronic kidney failure.
All Videos for Potassium
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Potassium Chloride Salt Substitute Side Effects
Healthy kidneys are required for potassium excretion. If you aren’t sure if you’re at risk, ask your doctor about getting your kidney function tested.
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Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Effective?
Is potassium chloride win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake?
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Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes
A staggering 99.99 percent of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay below the recommended sodium intake (even though it may be twice our natural intake).
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How to Reduce the Glycemic Impact of Potatoes
Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index of white potatoes.
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Glycemic Index of Potatoes: Why You Should Chill and Reheat Them
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40 percent lower glycemic impact.
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Extreme Weight-Loss Devices
I discuss the safety and efficacy for weight loss of everything from Botox and corsets to siphons and tapeworms.
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The Benefits of Moringa: Is It the Most Nutritious Food?
Does the so-called miracle tree live up to the hype?
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Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Animal Protein?
Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?
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Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vegan Junk Food?
Just because you’re eating vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy.
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How to Lower Blood Pressure Naturally with Lifestyle Changes
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.
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Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe?
The reasons why fasting longer than 24 hours, and particularly three or more days, should only be done under the supervision of a health professional and preferably in a live-in clinic.
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Can Aloe Cure Cancer?
From a case report to a randomized controlled trial, aloe is put to the test against cancer.
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Benefits of Beans for Peripheral Vascular Disease
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?
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Are Sports Drinks Safe and Effective?
Commercial influences may have corrupted the American College of Sports Medicine’s hydration guidelines.
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Coconut Water for Athletic Performance vs. Sports Drinks
Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes.
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Lowering Our Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio to Reduce Stroke Risk
The potassium content in greens is one of two ways they can improve artery function within minutes of consumption.
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Treating Chronic Kidney Disease with Food
Plant-based diets have been shown to slow or stop the progression of kidney failure, but what about all the phosphorus and potassium in plant foods?
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What Are the Healthiest Foods?
Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which foods best supply shortfall nutrients while avoiding disease-promoting components?
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The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100
What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?
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Treating Dry Eye Disease with Diet: Just Add Water?
Causes of dry eye disease include LASIK laser eye surgery, but there are dietary approaches to prevention and treatment.
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Canned Beans or Cooked Beans?
Canned beans are convenient, but are they as nutritious as home-cooked? And, if we do use canned, should we drain them or not?
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Nutrient-Dense Approach to Weight Management
Americans eating meat-free diets average higher intakes of nearly every nutrient, while maintaining a lower body weight—perhaps due, in part, to their higher resting metabolic rates.
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Testing Your Diet with Pee and Purple Cabbage
Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones. The pH of one’s urine can be estimated with natural pigments, using kitchen chemistry.
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Potassium and Autoimmune Disease
Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms—including boosting our adrenal gland function, due to the consumption of potassium rich foods.
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Preventing Strokes with Diet
Increasing the intake of potassium-rich foods is associated with a significantly lower stroke risk.
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98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due primarily to inadequate plant food intake.
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Gerson Therapy for Cancer
Gerson Therapy is a largely diet-based alternative treatment for cancer. What have 65 years of medical research concluded about its efficacy and safety?
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Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.
