What do randomized controlled trials of high-dose daily vitamin B12 supplementation show about its effects on cancer risk, death, and longevity? In 2019,

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18.12.2024

Acne and Vitamin B12

Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections. “Acne is a disease unique to humans.” Why do we even get it? Well, think about

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13.12.2024

Eating to Reverse Heart Failure

An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive

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11.12.2024

Pole Walking to Lose Weight?

Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic pole walking or “exerstriding,” beat out regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?

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06.12.2024

Diets with the Lowest Carbon Footprint

Why don’t environmental groups advocate for climate-friendlier diets? In what “was arguably the largest ever environmental protest in the world,” more

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04.12.2024

How Heavy Is Your Food’s Carbon Footprint?

How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause, measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents? “Our eating habits are

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29.11.2024

Eating to Fight the Climate Crisis

The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health. “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any

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27.11.2024

Junk Food in Hospitals

Why is hospital food so unhealthy? “Put in stark terms, CVD claims 1 American life every 39 seconds and is responsible for more deaths annually than

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22.11.2024

Celebrating Native American Cuisine with Chef Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D.

Meet Chef Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. We had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Frank about her work, food, and Native American cuisine. Read on and enjoy her

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20.11.2024

Cannabis and Cars

Did traffic fatalities increase or decrease after cannabis legalization? Is cannabis-impaired driving a public health and safety concern? Well, the number

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15.11.2024

A Look at Bariatric Surgery

Obesity isn’t new, but the obesity epidemic is. We went from a few corpulent queens and kings, like Henry VIII and Louis VI (known as Louis le Gros, or

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12.11.2024

Celebrating Veterans Day with Bill Muir

We had the pleasure of talking with Bill Muir about his work in the military and as a Registered Nurse, food access, his book, and Veterans Day. We hope

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08.11.2024

Drinking Water, Losing Weight

A few times a day, drink two cups of cold water on an empty stomach for weight loss. After drinking two cups (half a liter) of water, you can get a surge

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06.11.2024

Boosting Your Metabolism Safely

If you drink two cups of water, the adrenal hormone noradrenaline can surge in your bloodstream, similar to the response of smoking a few cigarettes or

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01.11.2024

Does Drinking Water Affect Our Adrenal Hormones?

Drinking water can be a safe, simple, and effective way to prevent yourself from fainting. Within three minutes of drinking a few cups of water (12 mL/kg

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30.10.2024

Ephedra-Like Weight Loss Minus the Risks

The diving reflex shows that it’s possible to have selective adrenal hormone effects. Thermogenic drugs like DNP can cause people to overheat to death;

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25.10.2024

Epigenetics and Obesity

Identical twins don’t just share DNA; they also share a uterus. Might that help account for some of their metabolic similarities? “Fetal overnutrition,

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23.10.2024

Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?

Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention has already had its share

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18.10.2024

Eating an Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus

Green smoothies are put to the test for the autoimmune disease lupus. There are dozens and dozens of journals I try to stay on top of every month, and one

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17.10.2024

Spend Time in Nature for Your Health?

For perhaps 99.99 percent of our time as a species on Earth, we lived outdoors in the natural environment. Might there be a health benefit to returning

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11.10.2024

Exploring Mexican Cuisine with Alexa Soto

We had the pleasure of talking with Alexa Soto about her work, food, Mexican cuisine, and Hispanic Heritage Month. We hope you enjoy this interview and

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09.10.2024

The Largest Study on Fasting in the World

The Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a therapeutic measure”—was described as “the ideal

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04.10.2024

Can Fasting Be Healing?

Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from? The story of life on Earth is a story of starvation. Ash from massive volcanoes and asteroids blocked

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02.10.2024

What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet?

The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are vegetarian diets so effective in preventing and treating diabetes? Maybe

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27.09.2024

Can We Safely Use Melamine Dishes and Polyamide Plastic Utensils?

I recommend glass, ceramic, porcelain, or stainless steel tableware and wooden or stainless steel cooking utensils. Melamine is used to make a variety of

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25.09.2024

Is Stainless Steel or Cast Iron Cookware Best? Is Teflon Safe?

What is the best type of pots and pans to use? In my last video, I expressed concerns about the use of aluminum cookware. So, what’s the best type of pots

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20.09.2024

Can We Safely Use Aluminum Foil, Bottles, and Pots?

DNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware. “Over the last decades, the toxicity of aluminum for humans has been heavily discussed and is still

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18.09.2024

Is Creatine Safe and Efficient for High Homocysteine?

Those on a healthy plant-based diet who have elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day

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13.09.2024

Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine in Vegetarians?

What are the consequences of having to make your creatine rather than relying on dietary sources? “Almost universally, research ﬁndings show a poor

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11.09.2024

Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency. There were two cases of young, strictly vegetarian

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06.09.2024

What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

Not taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians. Leonardo da Vinci

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04.09.2024

What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity? In 2014, a study on stroke risk

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30.08.2024

What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized with more meat and dairy? As Japan westernized, the country’s stroke

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28.08.2024

What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

Just because you’re eating a vegetarian or vegan diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthfully. “Plant-Based Diets Are Associated with a Lower Risk of

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23.08.2024

What About Omega-3s and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk? In my last video, we started to explore what might explain the higher stroke risk in

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21.08.2024

What About Vitamin D and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans? In the “Risks of Ischaemic Heart

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16.08.2024

The 411 on Statins

The cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor has become the best-selling drug of all time, generating more than $140 billion in global sales. This class

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14.08.2024

The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians

The first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk. “When ranked in order of importance,

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09.08.2024

Eating to Lower Lp(a)

What should we eat—and not eat—to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a)? Lipoprotein A, also known as Lp(a), is an independent,

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07.08.2024

How to Treat High Lp(a), an Atherosclerosis Risk Factor

What could help explain severe coronary disease in someone with a healthy lifestyle who is considered to be at low cardiovascular disease risk? A young

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Bone Fractures, Lung Cancer, and Vitamin B12 Supplements?

Acne and Vitamin B12

Eating to Reverse Heart Failure

Pole Walking to Lose Weight?

Diets with the Lowest Carbon Footprint

How Heavy Is Your Food’s Carbon Footprint?

Eating to Fight the Climate Crisis

Junk Food in Hospitals

Celebrating Native American Cuisine with Chef Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D.

Cannabis and Cars

A Look at Bariatric Surgery

Celebrating Veterans Day with Bill Muir

Drinking Water, Losing Weight

Boosting Your Metabolism Safely

Does Drinking Water Affect Our Adrenal Hormones?

Ephedra-Like Weight Loss Minus the Risks

Epigenetics and Obesity

Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?

Eating an Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus

Spend Time in Nature for Your Health?

Exploring Mexican Cuisine with Alexa Soto

The Largest Study on Fasting in the World

Can Fasting Be Healing?

What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet?

Can We Safely Use Melamine Dishes and Polyamide Plastic Utensils?

Is Stainless Steel or Cast Iron Cookware Best? Is Teflon Safe?

Can We Safely Use Aluminum Foil, Bottles, and Pots?

Is Creatine Safe and Efficient for High Homocysteine?

Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine in Vegetarians?

Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency

What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

What About Omega-3s and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

What About Vitamin D and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?

The 411 on Statins

The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians

Eating to Lower Lp(a)

How to Treat High Lp(a), an Atherosclerosis Risk Factor

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