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227 Episodes
The cause of sarcoidosis is unknown, but new research indicates that mycobacteria, like MAP bacteria found in dairy and meat products, are likely involved in some sarcoidosis cases.
Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2025
A plant-based lifestyle is put to the test against early and late-stage cancer
Transcribed - Published: 25 August 2025
Why don’t more big payors in healthcare embrace plant-based eating?
Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025
An increasing number of case reports have linked turmeric extract supplements to liver injury.
Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2025
The adverse effects of industrial pollutants in seafood may counteract the benefits of nutrients in fish.
Transcribed - Published: 18 August 2025
What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety?
Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025
Can celery, a vegetable relatively high in sodium, lower blood pressure?
Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2025
Diet as a primary intervention for type 2 diabetes is the most effective in achieving remission when emphasizing whole, plant-based foods with minimal consumption of animal products.
Transcribed - Published: 11 August 2025
The Squatty Potty is put to the test.
Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025
Certain soft drinks and bottled (heated) carrot juice may contain carcinogenic levels above safety standards.
Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2025
How can we plan well-balanced plant-based diets for infants and kids?
Transcribed - Published: 4 August 2025
Most chemo drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. If you put together all the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.
Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025
Eating well-balanced plant-based diets during pregnancy can reduce risks of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia.
Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2025
Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.
Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2025
A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of dying.
Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2025
The weed purslane appears to not only be the safest treatment available for the autoimmune disease lichen planus, but the most effective, too.
Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2025
Are the higher IQs found in vegetarian children the result of confounding factors or reverse causation?
Transcribed - Published: 21 July 2025
Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile dysfunction, sexual function, sperm count, and semen quality.
Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025
Is the purported decline of nutrients in our crops due to soil degradation, or is that just supplement industry propaganda?
Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2025
What percentage of meat samples test positive for drug residue violations?
Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025
Typical daily doses of black pepper can affect the metabolism of certain drugs, so make sure you tell your prescribing health professional about your black pepper consumption.
Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2025
Pregnancy greatly reduces our ability to metabolize caffeine.
Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025
Chlorohydrin contaminates hydrolyzed vegetable protein products and refined oils.
Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025
At a retail level, about 10 percent of commercial pork products tested contain the hepatitis E virus.
Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2025
Do the reactions ascribed to monosodium glutamate (MSG) represent a menace, myth, or marvel?
Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025
Why do some pine nuts cause a bad taste in our mouth that can last for weeks?
Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025
There doesn’t appear to be any difference between the negative effects of high fructose corn syrup and table sugar on body fat, blood pressure, blood sugars, triglycerides, or cholesterol, but high-fructose corn syrup did appear to be more pro-inflammatory.
Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025
Who won in a head-to-head test of nutrition knowledge––doctors or patients?
Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025
Pomegranates are put to the test for weight loss, diabetes, COPD, prostate cancer, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025
What is the leading cause of heart disease, our leading cause of death?
Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2025
Which kind of flaxseed has more cancer-fighting lignans?
Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025
The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.
Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025
Meta-analyses of studies involving more than ten million participants confirm that greater egg consumption confers a higher risk of premature death from all causes.
Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025
From a rarity to an epidemic disease, diverticulosis is a disease of fiber deficiency.
Transcribed - Published: 9 June 2025
The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated. Is “toxic mold syndrome” real? And what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?
Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025
The best apple, bean, berry, lentil, and nut are the ones you’ll eat the most of; but if you don’t have a strong preference, which has the highest antioxidant power?
Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025
What does the "milk pus test" tell us about the U.S. milk supply?
Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025
Let’s discuss weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS treatment with diet. What can a daily eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder do for body fat, and what can raw red onion do for cholesterol?
Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025
Is there an advantage to eating a raw plant-based diet over a diet of raw and cooked whole plant foods?
Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025
One reason kids may not be eating more healthfully is that their parents vastly overestimate the quality of their child’s diet.
Transcribed - Published: 26 May 2025
I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.
Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025
What role do vegetarian diets and organic foods play in the prevention or promotion of a birth defect called hypospadias?
Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2025
Why do contaminated poultry products cause the most foodborne deaths?
Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025
At this very moment, many of us have tumors growing inside our bodies, so we cannot wait to start eating and living more healthfully.
Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2025
Is the link between flavonoid consumption and longevity cause-and-effect, and are all sources of flavonoids equally healthy?
Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?
Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025
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
Has sunscreen been proven to prevent skin aging and cancer?
Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025
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