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NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.8 • 877 Ratings

Overview

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and the just-released How Not to Age, brings you the latest in evidence-based nutrition research, delivered in easy to understand video segments.

NutritionFacts.org is a non-profit and non-commercial public health organization, and more than 2,000 videos on virtually every aspect of healthy eating are available on our website. New videos and blogs are uploaded every day–always without any sponsors, ads, brand partnerships, or paid subscriptions.

180 Episodes

Friday Favorites: Are Baruka Nuts the Healthiest Nut?

How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

The Effects of Hormesis from Low-Dose Radiation on Life Extension

Our bodies are exposed to about 20,000 hits of radiation from cosmic rays every second. Is that good or bad?

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2025

Choosing the Safest and Most Effective Sunscreen (webinar recording)

Has sunscreen been proven to prevent skin aging and cancer?

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

Friday Favorites: Foods That Cause Inflammation and Those That Reduce It

Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst, and which ones reduce inflammation? What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like?

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

The Benefits and Side Effects of Red and Green Rooibos Teas

Is green rooibos (analogous to green tea) healthier than red rooibos, the commercially more common oxidized form that’s akin to black tea?

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2025

The Side Effects of Artificial Food Coloring and Dyes: Cancer and ADHD

Excluding artificial food colors from children’s diets can improve ADHD symptoms.

Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025

How to Improve Your Heart Rate Variability

A healthy heart doesn’t beat like a metronome.

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025

The Third Way to Boost NAD+

How can we conserve NAD+ by preventing overactivation of the enzymes PARP-1 and CD38, which guzzle NAD+?

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

Friday Favorites: Fruits and Vegetables Put to the Test for Boosting Mood

A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Which NAD+ Booster Is Best?

You can naturally get your body to make more NAD+ by boosting the NAD+ synthesizing enzyme NAMPT.

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2025

Risks of NAD+ Boosting Supplements

Particular caution should be used for NAD+-boosting supplements by those with cancer, a personal or strong family history of cancer and perhaps also by those with inflammatory disorders and certain active infections.

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

Friday Favorites: Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Arthritis

What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

Lesser-Known NAD+ Boosting Supplements—Tryptophan, NADH, NMNH, and NRH

What are the pros, cons, and efficacy of dihydronicotinamide riboside (reduced NR), perhaps the most potent NAD+ precursor, as well as reduced NMN, taking NAD+ directly, or making it from scratch from tryptophan?

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2025

Risks and Benefits of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN), a NAD+ Booster

NR may just be a waste of money, safe but ineffective. NMN seems similarly useless in humans, but it may not even be safe.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

Friday Favorites: Foods That Heal and Prevent Leaky Gut

Common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier. Which foods should we avoid to prevent leaky gut? Which foods and food components can boost the integrity of our intestinal barrier?

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

Risks and Benefits of Nicotinamide Riboside (NR), a NAD+ Booster

The suppression of NAD+ synthesis by NR in humans may explain the disparate rodent results.

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025

Risks and Benefits of Nicotinamide (NAM), a NAD+ Booster

The metabolism of NAM may deplete our methylation capacity, interfering with the normal metabolism of hormones and neurotransmitters, and produce a neurotoxic compound in the process.

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

Friday Favorites: Are Onions Beneficial for Testosterone, Osteoporosis, Allergies, and Cancer?

What did randomized controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions?

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

Risks and Benefits of Nicotinic Acid (NA), a NAD+ Booster

Given niacin’s decades of use as a cholesterol drug, we have a good idea of its safety profile.

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2025

Friday Favorites: The Dangerous Effects of Heavy Metal Music

How might we moderate the rare but very real risk of headbanging?

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

Do NAD+ Levels Decline with Age?

What is NAD+ and what role does it play in the aging process?

Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2025

Who Is Rescuing Whom? Pets and Life Extension

Do pet parents (or pawrents) live longer?

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

Friday Favorites: Cannabis for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Even though using cannabis may help with IBD symptoms in the short-term, it may make the long-term prognosis worse.

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

Nitrates in Food to Help Fight Respiratory Tract Infections

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that an infusion of spinach leaves has evidently been used since ancient times to treat respiratory symptoms.

Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2025

The Benefits of Saffron for Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Eight threads of saffron a day can improve visual acuity in older adults with mild or moderate age-related macular degeneration.

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025

Friday Favorites: Mushrooms for Prostate Cancer and Cancer Survival

Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in tumor response rate, survival time, or quality of life?

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

What Is Essential Hand Tremor and How to Prevent and Treat It

What is the role of dietary beta-carboline alkaloids in the development of the most common movement disorder?

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025

Microbiome Manipulation with Oligomannate for Treating Dementia

A prebiotic derived from a type of brown seaweed is used for mild to moderate Alzheimer’s dementia in China. Does it work?

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2025

Friday Favorites: How Useful Is Personalized Nutrition?

Perhaps it should be less about personalized nutrition and more about taking personal responsibility for our own health.

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Varicose Veins

Perhaps Ugandans had more than 50 times fewer varicose veins for the same reason they had 50 times less heart disease and up to 50 times less colon cancer.

Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2025

Do Ashwagandha, Ginseng, and Maca Root Have Benefits for Female Sexual Dysfunction?

Which of these three works, which doesn’t, and which may be too toxic to take safely?

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

Friday Favorites: The Effects of Cleaning Products and Air Fresheners on Lung Health

There is a reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prohibit not only smoking, but also scented or fragranced products in its office buildings.

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

Fecal Transplant Experiments Show the Microbiome’s Role in Aging

Centenarian stool has anti-aging effects when fed to mice.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

Anti-Inflammatory Foods: The Benefits of Berries

Which fruits have anti-inflammatory effects and which do not?

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2025

Friday Favorites: Can Cholesterol Get Too Low?

Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

Melatonin Supplements for Sleep and Anti-Aging?

The secretion of melatonin appears to progressively decline with age, dropping as much as 70 percent between middle and older age.

Transcribed - Published: 12 February 2025

The Best Foods for Your Skin

Greens, apples, tomato paste, and grapes are put to the test as edible skin care candidates.

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

Friday Favorites: The Benefits and Side Effects of Moringa Leaf Powder

Does the so-called miracle tree live up to the hype? Do I recommend it?

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

Supplements for Sarcopenia (Age-Related Muscle Loss)

HMB, magnesium, omega 3s, and vitamin D are put to the test for muscle strength and function.

Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2025

Obesity: Is a GLP-1 Deficiency Its Cause, and How to Treat It Without Ozempic and Other Drugs

What is a safer and cheaper way to lose weight than GLP-1 drugs?

Published: 3 February 2025

Friday Favorites: The Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet

The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Using Prebiotics, Intact Grains, Thylakoids, and Greens to Boost Our GLP-1 for Weight Loss

Boost our natural satiety hormone GLP-1 through out diet.

Published: 29 January 2025

A Plant-Based Diet for Weight Loss: Boosting GLP-1 and Restoring Our Natural Satiety Circuit

Why does our natural GLP-1 satiety mechanism fail, and what can we do about it?

Published: 27 January 2025

Friday Favorites: Berries for Inflammation and Osteoarthritis Treatment

What did double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis find?

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Natural Ozempic Alternatives: Boosting GLP-1 with Diet and Lifestyle

Certain spices and the quinine in tonic water can boost GLP-1, but at what cost?

Published: 22 January 2025

Comparing the Benefits and Side Effects of Ozempic (Semaglutide)

Obesity can be so devastating to our health that the downsides of any effective drug would have to be significant to outweigh its weight-loss benefits.

Published: 20 January 2025

Friday Favorites: Fasting for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

More than half of IBS sufferers appear to have a form of atypical food allergy.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Is Ozempic (Semaglutide) Safe? Does It Increase Cancer Risk?

How common are serious potential side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, such as suicide, pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, thyroid cancer, and pancreatic cancer?

Published: 15 January 2025

How to Control the Side Effects (Including “Ozempic Face”) of GLP-1 Drugs

How might we mitigate the gastrointestinal and muscle loss side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs?

Published: 13 January 2025

Friday Favorites: Are Melamine Dishes and Polyamide Plastic Utensils Safe?

I recommend glass, ceramic, porcelain, or stainless-steel tableware and wooden or stainless-steel cooking utensils.

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

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