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202 Episodes
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
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
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
Excluding artificial food colors from children’s diets can improve ADHD symptoms.
Transcribed - Published: 28 April 2025
A healthy heart doesn’t beat like a metronome.
Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025
How can we conserve NAD+ by preventing overactivation of the enzymes PARP-1 and CD38, which guzzle NAD+?
Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025
A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being.
Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025
You can naturally get your body to make more NAD+ by boosting the NAD+ synthesizing enzyme NAMPT.
Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2025
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
What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?
Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025
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
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
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
The suppression of NAD+ synthesis by NR in humans may explain the disparate rodent results.
Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025
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
What did randomized controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions?
Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025
Given niacin’s decades of use as a cholesterol drug, we have a good idea of its safety profile.
Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2025
How might we moderate the rare but very real risk of headbanging?
Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025
What is NAD+ and what role does it play in the aging process?
Transcribed - Published: 19 March 2025
Do pet parents (or pawrents) live longer?
Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025
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
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
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
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 the role of dietary beta-carboline alkaloids in the development of the most common movement disorder?
Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025
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
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