Should Vegetarians Take Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine?
What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?
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?
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
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.
There are things you can do right now to reduce your risk of falling seriously ill and dying from this disease.
What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).
What is this lipoprotein(a) and what can we do about it?
A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.
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.
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.
Keto diets put to the test for diabetes reversal.
The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.
Why don’t more people take the weight loss medications currently on the market?
Plant-based diets as the single most important, yet underutilized, opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and death.
Most Americans get less than half the recommended minimum fiber intake a day and the benefits of fiber go way beyond bowel regularity.
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk.
The effects of Red Bull and Monster brand energy drinks on artery function and athletic performance.
Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs?
Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?
Does soy food consumption explain why Japanese women appear to be so protected from hot flash symptoms?
Dr. Greger whips up some matcha ice cream inspired by a recipe in his How Not to Die Cookbook.
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.
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?
Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?
Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?
A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine?
Even at low-level exposure, arsenic is not just a class I carcinogen, but may also impair our immune function and increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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.
Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?