The TAME Trial: Targeting Aging with Metformin
If you have diabetes, metformin can make things better, but if you don’t, the drug may make things worse.
All Videos for Prediabetes
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Do Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent Diabetes, Cancer Mortality, and Overall Mortality?
Randomized interventional trials are necessary to establish cause-and-effect.
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Better to Exercise Before or After Meals for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar Control?
If people burn more fat on the days they exercise before eating, rather than afterwards, why doesn’t this translate into more weight loss?
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Oatmeal Diet Put to the Test for Diabetes Treatment
What are the extraordinary, lasting benefits we may get from a few days of an oatmeal diet?
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How Does Oatmeal Help with Blood Sugars?
The prebiotic fiber in oats helps to explain why oatmeal can improve diabetic control.
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Is Oatmeal Good for People with Diabetes?
Before there was insulin, there was the “oatmeal cure.”
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Answering Your Questions About Cholesterol and Diabetes
I answer some common questions I’ve been asked about cholesterol and diabetes, such as “What is the ideal LDL?” “What’s going on when someone eats healthfully but their glucose is still out of control?”
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The Benefits of Fenugreek for Preventing and Treating Diabetes
The spice fenugreek contains 4-hydroxyisoleucine, a peculiar amino acid that may explain its benefits for controlling blood sugar.
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Is Allulose a Healthy Sweetener?
Are rare sugars like allulose a healthy alternative for traditional sweeteners?
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Onions Put to the Test for Weight Loss, Cholesterol, and PCOS Treatment
Weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS treatment with diet. What can an eighth of a teaspoon a day of onion powder do for body fat, and what can raw red onion do for cholesterol?
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The Efficacy and Side Effects of Moringa Leaf Powder
Why don’t I recommend moringa?
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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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The Benefits of Millet for Diabetes
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes to one and a third cup of millet every day?
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How Circadian Rhythms Affect Blood Sugar Levels
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
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Are BCAA (Branched Chain Amino Acids) Healthy?
Why we may want to strive not to exceed the recommended intake of protein.
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Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet?
Ground ginger and ginger tea are put to the test for blood sugar control.
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Which Coffee Is Healthier: Light vs. Dark Roast?
Dark roast coffee is more effective than light roast coffee in reducing body weight.
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Is Cheese Healthy? Compared to What?
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk.
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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?
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Pros and Cons of a Macrobiotic Diet
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables, and beans?
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A Workplace Wellness Program That Works
What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living?
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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.
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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.
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Benefits of Brewer’s Yeast for Diabetes
A half-teaspoon a day of brewer’s yeast is put to the test in a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial.
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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.
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Coconut Oil and Abdominal Fat
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find?
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The Best Food for High Cholesterol
Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla—dried Indian gooseberries—too good to be true?
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Is it Worth Getting Annual Health Check-Ups?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?
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Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure
What happened when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure?
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How to Avoid Lectin Poisoning
How can we properly cook beans?
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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.
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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?
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Is White Rice a Yellow-Light or Red-Light Food?
Do the health benefits of rice consumption outweigh any potential risk from the arsenic contamination?
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What Does a Low White Blood Cell Count Mean?
Since white blood cell count is a sign of systemic inflammation, it’s no surprise that those with lower white blood cell counts live longer.
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How Much Should You Exercise?
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us what the science says and letting us make up our own mind.
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The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.
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Are the BPA-Free Alternatives Safe?
Do BPA-free plastics, such as Tritan, have human hormone-disrupting effects? And what about BPS and BPF?
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Sodium & Autoimmune Disease: Rubbing Salt in the Wound?
There are two ways in which salt may drive autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, type I diabetes, Sjögren’s syndrome, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.
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How to Become a Fecal Transplant Super Donor
What’s more important: probiotics or prebiotics? And where can we best get them?
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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.
