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Should We Drink Kombucha

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Treating Hashimoto's Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet

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Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both? Several

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A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?

How much nori, dulse, or arame approximates the recommended daily allowance for iodine? Dairy milk supplies between a quarter and a half of the daily

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Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk

Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine. “Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal thyroid function.” In fact, the two thyroid hormones

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13.06.2025

What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?

How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone

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Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Our overconsumption of salt is 15 times deadlier than diets too high in soda. Is potassium chloride a healthy salt substitute?

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06.06.2025

Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy. By cultivating muscle meat

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Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming practices. Cultivating muscle meat

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Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park

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Food Safety and Cultivated Meat

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years

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23.05.2025

Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects

Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world? “There is now overwhelming

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21.05.2025

Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent

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16.05.2025

Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far exceeding the efficacy of other treatments. “One of

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Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic. If you search online for “Crohn’s disease and diet”

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Skincare as You Age Infographic

When I dove into the scientific research for my book How Not to Age, I uncovered the best ways we can care for our skin as we mature. What are the most

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Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet

What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can we get rid of it? Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most

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03.05.2025

Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures

A pandemic triggered by a bird flu virus could leave hundreds of millions dead. What can we do about it?

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Inhospitable Hospital Food

What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be designed to inspire repeat business? “Hospital food needs a

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30.04.2025

Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable diseases than they really have—fraud that results

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Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?

Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients based on how much they themselves will get paid. In 2007, we

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Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients. Angioplasty and

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The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote expensive, risky procedures with no benefit? “Percutaneous

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Heart Stents and Their Risks

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2024 Year in Review

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Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?

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The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures

There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t

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What About Millet and Diabetes?

What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes to one and a third cups of millet every day? How does

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Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?

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Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?

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Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?

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Heme Iron and Cancer

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Heme and Impossible Burgers

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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

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Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?

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Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?

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Plant-Based Meats and Puberty, Obesity, and Fracture Risk

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Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?

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Does Black Cumin Seed (Nigella Sativa) Help with Weight Loss?

Should We Drink Kombucha

Treating Hashimoto's Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet

Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?

Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk

What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?

Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat

Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects

Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease

Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission

Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome

Skincare as You Age Infographic

Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet

Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures

Inhospitable Hospital Food

Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding

Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?

Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?

The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents

Heart Stents and Their Risks

2024 Year in Review

Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?

The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures

What About Millet and Diabetes?

Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?

Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?

Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?

Heme Iron and Cancer

Heme and Impossible Burgers

Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?

Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?

Plant-Based Meats and Puberty, Obesity, and Fracture Risk

Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?

Celebrating Food, Activism, and Black History Month with Jenné Claiborne

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