NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast
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NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast
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...
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Does Eating Too Fast Affect Weight Loss?
Extending meal duration by even four minutes may facilitate weight loss.
Friday Favorites: Does Sunscreen Cause or Prevent Skin Cancer? Which Type Is Best to Use?
Sunscreen is put to the test in a randomized controlled trial to see if it can actually prevent skin cancer. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Admin...
How to Lower Cholesterol with Dr. Greger’s Portfolio Plus Powder Recipes
There’s a simple way to try to fit all the cholesterol-lowering foods into your daily diet.
How to Lower Cholesterol with Herbs and Spices
Can small daily doses of herbs and spices really drop LDL cholesterol by double digits?
Friday Favorites: How Hot Peppers May Extend Your Life
Spice can hack your brain by making foods taste saltier.
Foods That Lower Cholesterol
Adding specific nuts, beans, and fruits to our diet can drive LDL cholesterol even lower—often with drug-like effects.
Statin Drugs vs. Cholesterol-Lowering Dietary Supplements
What happened when rosuvastatin was pitted against six common dietary supplements?
Friday Favorites: Fecal Transplants for Ulcerative Colitis, MS, Depression, Bipolar, and Alcoholism
I go over randomized, controlled trials and case reports of stool transplants for various clinical conditions.
Barberries Rather Than Berberine to Lower Cholesterol
How many dried barberries do you need to eat to get the cholesterol-lowering dose of berberine?
How to Lower Cholesterol with Supplements That Actually Work
What are the whole-food equivalents of some of the most powerful cholesterol-lowering supplements?
Friday Favorites: Dietary Cholesterol and Inflammation from Abdominal Obesity
The optimal intake of dietary cholesterol may be zero.
Why I Don’t Recommend Red Yeast Rice Cholesterol-Lowering Supplements
Red yeast rice contains the drug lovastatin and may also contain kidney toxins.
Why I Don’t Recommend Policosanol Cholesterol-Lowering Supplements
Sometimes, looking at the latest meta-analysis can lead you astray.
Friday Favorites: The Return on Investment (ROI) for Employee Health and Wellness Programs Put to the Test
Workplace wellness programs report an average ROI of 3, returning $3 for every $1 invested. Why do so many workplace wellness programs fail to deliver...
The Latest Clinical Trial of Turmeric Curcumin for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment
Can turmeric really sharpen memory within hours?
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Changes in Structure
Why does preserving the food matrix make a difference?
Friday Favorites: Vitamin D Supplements Tested for COPD, Heart Disease, Depression, Obesity, and Cancer Survival
Before watching the video, can you guess which conditions vitamin D has actually been proven to work for in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controll...
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Calorie Density
The biological mechanisms our bodies use to regulate our weight likely evolved in the context of eating at least four or five pounds of food a day.
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Changes in Texture
The average rate of caloric intake of ultra-processed foods is about double that of unprocessed foods.
Friday Favorites: Is Spicy Food Good for You?
Those who regularly eat spicy foods tend to live longer, but is it cause and effect?
Mercury Exposure from Tuna Fish vs. Silver Dental Amalgam Fillings
The mercury exposure from amalgam fillings is like eating one can of tuna every two months.
Diets and Foods Shown to Improve Depression in Randomized Controlled Trials
Dietary interventions were put to the test for major mental illness.
Friday Favorites: Does Coffee Inhibit Iron Absorption? What Are the Effects of Having Too Much Iron?
Coffee and common herbal teas impair iron absorption, which may help explain some of their benefits.
Why Might Vegetarians Develop Less Depression
The largest study to date found that vegetarians have a 30% lower chance of developing depression over time.
SIBO and Leaky Gut: What the Science Says
Is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) a real disorder?
Friday Favorites: Dietary Sources of the “Longevity Vitamin” Ergothioneine
As we age, it may be even more important to include mushrooms (or tempeh) in our diet.
Do Vegetarians Have More or Less Depression and Anxiety?
Snapshot-in-time cross-sectional studies are mixed when it comes to vegetarian diets and mental health outcomes.
Getting Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
Can offering kale purée to babies shape their future taste for greens?
Friday Favorites: Are Menopausal Hot Flashes Inevitable? How Can Soy Foods Help?
Why do 85% of menopausal women suffer hot flashes in some countries but only 15% in others? Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausa...
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Loss of Phytonutrients
The 150 key nutritional components that are tracked in nutritional databases are only a tiny fraction of the more than 26,000 compounds present in our...
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Packaging Chemicals
What are the human health effects of the mineral oils, phthalates, and bisphenols leaching from packaging materials into processed foods?
Friday Favorites: Improving VO2 Max: A Look at Vegetarian and Vegan Athletes
Plant-based diets improve the performance of athletes and nonathletes alike
How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Industrial Contaminants
There are contaminants of processed foods that don’t show up on the ingredients label.
Friday Favorites: How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Sleeping Pills
Taking even less than 18 Ambien-class sleeping pills in an entire year may triple the risk of dying prematurely.
Cold Water Immersion for Gout Flares
Cold water immersion is put to the test for burns, priapism, gout, and muscle aches.
Is Shrimp Good for You? Antibiotic Resistance
The FDA finds 1 in 10 imports of shrimp have unsafe levels of drug residues yet only tests about 1 in 1,000 shipments.
Friday Favorites: The Best Diet for COVID and Long-COVID
Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbiditie...
Is Shrimp Good for You? Pollutants and Food Safety
Eating just a single shrimp could exceed the safety limit for banned pesticides and chemicals.
Use Fiber to Burn Calories in Your Sleep with an Intestinal Workout
Our gut can be sedentary too—unless we feed it fiber.
Friday Favorites: The Effect of Sleep on Weight Loss
Those randomized to 8.5 hours of sleep a night lost significantly more body fat than those who got 5.5 hours. Getting even one more hour of sleep a ni...