Where Are Phosphate Additives Found?
In my videos Phosphate Additives in Meat Purge and Cola and Phosphate Additives in Chicken,...
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Could Bovine Leukemia Virus be a Cause of Breast Cancer?
The lead trapped in our skeleton can leach back into our bloodstream when we temporarily or permanently lose bone due to pregnancy, weight loss, menopause, or osteoporosis. The half-life of lead in the bloodstream is only about a month. In...
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Phosphate Additives in Chicken Banned Elsewhere
In my video Phosphate Additives in Meat Purge and Cola, I talked about the danger...
What Do Meat Purge and Cola Have in Common?
In my video, Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet, I profiled research suggesting that the use...
What to Eat to Reduce Our Toxic Exposure
It is not very common that a single molecule attracts enough interest to merit international...
Our Immune System Uses Plants to Activate Gut Protection
It might seem that our skin is the first line of defense between our insides...
Dr. Greger Addresses GMOs in New DVD
The world’s preeminent scientific journal recently editorialized that we are now swimming in information about...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Are Canned Beans as Healthy as Home-Cooked?
Beans are an essential part of any healthful diet. The federal government recommends about half...
Will the Real Paleo Diet Please Stand Up?
Paleolithic diets are currently the rage, attracting athletes, dieters, and health seekers of all stripes....
Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
Eat Beans to Live Longer
Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart; the more you eat, the…longer you live? Legumes...
Overdosing on Poppy Seeds
The opium poppy used to make heroin is the same opium poppy used to make...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
Why Athletes Should Eat Nutritional Yeast
Does powering up at the gym also power up our immune system? Research has shown...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
Chronic Headaches and Pork Parasites
Neurocysticercosis is the sciencey name for an infection of the human central nervous system by...
Why the Egg-Cancer Link?
Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that’s better...
How Eggs Can Impact Body Odor
I previously lampooned the egg industry PR campaign that tried to promote eggs as a...
How to Design a Misleading Study
Imagine working for the now defunct Twinkie division of Hostess and wanting to take the...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Dr. Greger Addresses Gluten in New DVD
Until recently, those complaining to their doctors about symptoms associated with the wheat protein gluten...
Test to See If Your Diet Is Alkaline- or Acid-Forming
In my video Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, & Calcium Loss I presented evidence challenging the notion...
Does Animal Protein Cause Osteoporosis?
For most of the last century, a prevailing theory within the field of nutrition was...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...