Which Diet Works Even Better the Longer You Do It?
The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the most effective. CHIP, the Complete Health Improvement Program—now known as […]
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Foods That Improve Sexual Function in Women
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What about dietary approaches for female sexual dysfunction? “The creation and […]
How Effective Is Chemotherapy for Colon, Lung, Breast, and Prostate Cancers?
How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers? “Over the last several decades…medicine has waged a major war against cancer, concentrating on […]
How to Reduce the Cancer-Causing Properties of Meat
What are the preparation methods to reduce exposure to carcinogens in cooked meat? What are some ways we can decrease our exposure to the carcinogenic […]
Heavy Metal Detox Diet
What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body? I’ve previously explored the issue of lead contamination in calcium supplements, […]
Cabbage Leaf Wraps for Arthritic Knees
Unbelievably, a randomized controlled trial of cabbage leaf wraps for arthritis was published. In a section of the British Medical Journal called “Minerva,” where interesting […]
Randomized Controlled Trials of Beans
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well? Legumes—all kinds of beans, […]
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Guacamole
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test. In the preface of my book How Not to Die, after bemoaning […]
Probiotics vs. Antibiotics for Autism
What role do antibiotics play in the development and treatment of autism spectrum disorder? “There are many examples in nature of intestinal microbes altering host […]
Spinach and Berries to Prevent Muscle Soreness
What are the effects of spinach and berries on oxidative stress, inflammation, and muscle soreness in athletes? Higher fruit and vegetable consumption was “positively associated […]
Dinosaur Kale and Red Cabbage Put to the Test
Dinosaur kale and red cabbage are put to the test. LDL cholesterol is bad, but oxidized LDL may be even worse. What role might our […]
Is Soy Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful for Fibroids?
When it comes to uterine fibroids, is soy harmful, harmless, or helpful? About one in four women will eventually suffer from fibroids, most commonly manifesting […]
Mayo Clinic Tests Shark Cartilage Supplements for Cancer
Shark cartilage supplements carry risks, but so do many cancer treatments. The question is, do they work? When it comes to marketing unproven cancer treatments, […]
How Good Are Avocados for You?
The nutritional benefits of guacamole extend beyond the nutrients in avocados. Avocados have been described as a “major dietary source of antioxidants.” While this may […]
Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods. Whenever […]
Are Avocados a Weight Loss Food?
Studies funded by the Avocado Board suggest avocados may facilitate weight loss, but compared to what? What are the effects of avocado on metabolic syndrome, […]
Does Coconut Oil Help with Abdominal Fat?
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find? I begin my video Flashback Friday: Coconut Oil and Abdominal Fat with a popular infographic that […]
The Dangers of Talcum Powder
What role does diet and baby powder play in the development of fibroids and ovarian cancer? If you randomly select a group of women and ultrasound their […]
Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Healthiest of Healthy Foods
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine. In my book How Not […]
Tomato Sauce Put to the Test for Prostate Cancer
What happened when cancer patients were given three quarters of a cup of canned tomato sauce every day for three weeks? “Occasionally…positive things happen in […]
Lycopene Supplements Put to the Test
High doses of lycopene—the red pigment in tomatoes—were put to the test to see if it could prevent precancerous prostate lesions from turning into full-blown […]
Transform Your Already Delicious Quest 4-Cheese Pizza Into This Arugula Artichoke Pizza with Goat Cheese
Best of all, it takes mere minutes to glow up your pizza.
Presumed Safety of Probiotics Questioned
In certain medical conditions, probiotic supplements may actually make things worse. If you’ve ever made sauerkraut at home, you know you don’t have to add […]
Natural Dietary Treatments for Fibroids
The same diet that helps regulate hormones in women may also reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting pollutants. Fibroids are the most common benign tumors in women. […]
Should You Get an Annual Health Check-Up?
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor? Physicians and patients have come to expect the annual check-up as […]
Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
What does the world’s leading authority on carcinogens have to say about mobile phones? Do cell phones cause cancer? That’s a question billions of people […]
Fever Benefits for Autism in a Food
Dramatic improvements in children with autism when they have a fever suggest that the disorder may be reversible if one can replicate the phenomenon in other […]
Benefits of Turmeric for Arsenic Exposure
What happened when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure? Arsenic is a […]
Are Lectins in Food Good or Bad for You?
Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less cancer? Lectins are to blame for the great “white kidney […]
How to Avoid Lectin Poisoning
How should we properly cook beans? In the 1800s, a compound was discovered in castor beans, which we would come to know as the first […]
How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels
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 […]
Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. […]
Is White Rice a Yellow-Light or Red-Light Food?
Arsenic is not just considered to be a carcinogen; it’s also designated as a “nonthreshold carcinogen, meaning that any dose, no matter how small, carries […]
Can Soy Prevent and Treat Prostate Cancer?
As I discuss in my video The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Treatment, a compilation of 13 observational studies on soy […]
No Purveyor of Unhealthy Products Wants the Public to Know the Truth
In 2011, Denmark introduced the world’s first tax on saturated fat. “After only 15 months, however, the fat tax was abolished,” due to massive pressure […]
The Food Industry’s “model of systemic dishonesty”
In 1993, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that a high intake of trans fat may increase the risk of heart disease by 50 percent. […]
How to Treat Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) with Diet
Given the role that oxidant free radicals are thought to play in aging and disease, one reason fruits and vegetables may be so good for […]
Updating Our Microbiome Software and Hardware
Good bacteria, those living in symbiosis with us, are nourished by fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans, whereas bad bacteria, those in dysbiosis with us and […]
Vitamin C for Male Infertility and Lead Poisoning?
What is the clinical relevance of vitamin C among lead-exposed infertile men? Compared to controls, lead battery industry workers given 1,000 mg of vitamin C […]
Can Vitamin C Supplements Help with Lead Poisoning?
“Even if a nutritional manipulation is proven effective in reducing blood lead levels, reliance on such an intervention places most of the burden for prevention […]
Food Combining for Prostate Cancer
What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods? In my video Pomegranate vs. Placebo for Prostate Cancer, I discussed […]
How to Lower Your Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio
The potassium content in greens is one of two ways they can improve artery function within minutes of consumption. More than a thousand years ago, […]
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items rather than a decrease in consumption of unhealthy items, but […]
What Happens if You Have Red Wine or Avocados with a Meal?
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat. […]
Decreasing Inflammation and Oxidation After Meals
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight […]
Pill-Free Ways to improve Your Sex Life
“Sex is important to health,” according to the Harvard Health Letter. “Frequent sexual intercourse is associated with reduced heart attack risk.” But, as I discuss […]
What to Take for Menstrual Cramps
In my video Ginger for Migraines, I described how ginger works as well as the leading “drug” in the treatment of migraines, “one of the […]
What to Eat and Avoid for Women with BRCA Gene Mutations
Five studies have been performed on breast cancer survival and soy foods involving more than 10,000 breast cancer patients, and together they found that those […]
