Video: What is the Optimal Vitamin C intake?
. Dr. Michael Greger explains that experiments showing how much vitamin C our bodies absorb and excrete can give us a sense of how many vitamin C rich fruits and … Continue reading
Video: How Not To Die (An Animated Summary)
. We have tremendous power over our health and longevity. In this short animated video, Dr Michael Greger summarizes his best-selling book How Not to Die. . . . Email Subscribers … Continue reading
Video: Anti-inflammatory Diet as a Treatment for Depression
. If depression can be induced with pro-inflammatory drugs, might an anti-inflammatory diet be effective in preventing and treating mood disorders? In this short video, Dr. Michael Greger discusses … Continue reading
Video: The Hispanic Paradox — Why do Latinos live longer?
. Time to spill the beans on why U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest—despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and worse access to health care. . … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective. Medical myths and … Continue reading
Video: What is the “Natural” Human Diet?
. Dr. Michael Greger asks, “What can our nutrient requirements, metabolism, and physiology tell us about what we should be eating?” . Chimpanzee eating figs.
Dr. Michael Greger: Survival of the Fittest — Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of course just because someone calls it that doesn’t mean it’s true, in fact physical inactivity … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: Fast Food Restaurants in Children’s Hospitals
The food industry spends billions on advertising. Promotion costs for individual candy bars can run in the tens of millions. McDonald’s alone spends a billion dollars on advertising every year. … Continue reading
Video: American Medical Association’s Complicity with the Corporations that Poison Us
. If the balance of scientific evidence favors plant-based eating, why isn’t the medical profession at the forefront of encouraging people to eat healthier? Looking back to the 1950s, we … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: Why Smoothies Are Better Than Juicing
Studies such as a recent Harvard School of Public Health investigation found that the consumption of whole fruits is associated with a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas … Continue reading
Video: Curry for the Cure — Turmeric and Ulcerative Colitis
. Good news for the millions of people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease: A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found a strong therapeutic effect caused by curcumin. The best source of … Continue reading
Video: Meat Industry Reaction to New Cancer Guidelines
According to the World Health Organization, processed meat, such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunchmeat, is now classified as a class 1 carcinogen, the highest designation. This finding supports … Continue reading
Video: The Protein Combining Myth
As Dr. Michael Greger explains in this video, the myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago. Human serum retinol … Continue reading
Video: Coffee and Mortality
What effect does coffee and tea consumption have on longevity, cancer risk, GERD reflux, bone fractures, glaucoma, sleep quality, and atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat)? In this video, Dr. Michael Greger … Continue reading
