Preventing and Treating Sarcoidosis
The cause of sarcoidosis is unknown, but new research indicates that mycobacteria, like MAP bacteria found in dairy and meat products, are likely involved in some sarcoidosis cases.
All Videos for Vaccines
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Do Vitamin E Supplements Have Benefits for Cancer, Immunity, and Longevity?
Those who buy vitamin E supplements may in effect be paying to live a shorter life.
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How Much Exercise Does It Take to Boost Immunity?
Exercising may make our immune systems more than five times better at fighting infection.
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Benefits and Side Effects of the Shingles Vaccine
How does the new shingles vaccine compare to the previous one?
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Benefits and Side Effects of the Pneumonia Vaccine
Randomized controlled trials have found that pneumonia vaccines significantly reduce the risk of pneumococcal pneumonia in people 65 and older.
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Benefits and Side Effects of the Flu Vaccine
Randomized placebo-controlled trials show that flu shots can be extraordinary lifesavers.
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Should We Be Concerned About Aflatoxin?
Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? And, what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?
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Elderberry Benefits and Side Effects: Does It Help with Colds and the Flu?
How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries?
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How COVID-19 Ends: Vaccination, Mutations, and Herd Immunity
What should we expect in the coming months and years with SARS-CoV-2?
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Would Zinc Lozenges Help with COVID-19?
Zinc may help slow the replication of other coronaviruses, but what about SARS-CoV-2?
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The Immune System and COVID-19 Treatment
Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?
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Social Distancing, Lockdowns, and Testing: How to Slow the COVID-19 Pandemic
What can we learn from other countries and the 1918 pandemic to slow COVID-19?
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Duct Tape and Wart Removal
Duct tape beat out cryotherapy (freezing) for treating warts in a randomized controlled head-to-head trial.
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The Role of Pesticides and Pollution in Autism
What are the effects of smoking, pesticides, vaccine mercury, and air pollution on autistic spectrum disorder risk?
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Benefits of Nutritional Yeast for Cancer
How can the beta glucan fiber in brewer’s, baker’s, and nutritional yeast improve wound healing and, potentially, anti-cancer immunity?
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Best Food to Prevent Common Childhood Infections
The amount of beta-glucan fiber in just a dusting of nutritional yeast a day is put to the test in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial for the prevention of common childhood illnesses.
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Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease?
Is the exaggerated reaction of many Crohn’s disease patients to baker’s, brewer’s, and nutritional yeast just a consequence of their inflamed leaky gut, or might the yeast be a contributing cause?
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The Role of Burger Viruses in Cancer
Polyomaviruses discovered in meat can survive cooking and pasteurization.
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How to Boost Your Immune System with Wakame Seaweed
Eating seaweed salad may boost the efficacy of vaccinations and help treat cold sores, herpes, Epstein-Barr virus, and shingles.
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Does Paratuberculosis in Meat Trigger Type 1 Diabetes?
The majority of specialists in the field agreed that paraTB in meat and dairy likely represents a risk to human health and should be a high- or medium-priority public health issue.
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Using the Produce Aisle to Boost Immune Function
Vegetables tested head-to-head to see which boosts immune function best.
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How to Counter the Inflammation of Aging
What can we eat to combat “inflamm-aging,” the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?
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Preserving Athlete Immunity with Chlorella
The green algae, chlorella, may help attenuate the drop in immune function antibodies associated with over-strenuous exercise.
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Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?
Evidence-based medicine may ironically bias medical professionals against the power of dietary intervention.
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How Long to Detox from Fish Before Pregnancy?
How many months does it take to clear 99% of the mercury and other industrial toxins from one’s body, and what role might our fat stores play in holding on to fat-soluble pollutants?
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Boosting Immunity Through Diet
Inadequate fruit and vegetable intake may help explain the loss of immune function associated with aging that is linked to an increased risk of dying from pneumonia and influenza.
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Carcinogenic Retrovirus Found in Eggs
Avian leukosis/sarcoma virus has been found in 14% of retail egg samples.
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Mercury in Vaccinations vs. Tuna
Balancing the risks and benefits of fish consumption.
