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Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer?

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.

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Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?

Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.

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The Best Diet for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.

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The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative...

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Are Emulsifiers Like Carboxymethylcellulose and Polysorbate 80 Safe?

Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additive. What are they doing to our gut microbiome?

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Are Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) Tests Valid?

Even if we could accurately diagnose SIBO, if there is no difference in symptoms between those testing positive and those testing negative, then what’s the point?

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Fiber vs. Low FODMAP for SIBO Symptoms

It may not be the number of bacteria growing in your small intestine, but the type of bacteria, which can be corrected with diet.

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The Role Meat May Play in Triggering Parkinson’s Disease

What does the gut have to do with developing Parkinson’s disease?

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Can Vegan Fecal Transplants Lower TMAO Levels?

If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora?

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Avoid These Foods to Prevent a Leaky Gut

Avoid these foods for leaky gut prevention: common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier.

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How to Heal a Leaky Gut with Diet

The recommended diet for leaky gut treatment. Which foods and food components can boost the integrity of our intestinal barrier?

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How to Keep Your Microbiome Healthy with Prebiotic Foods

We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up our end of the bargain.

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How to Boost FGF21 with Diet for Longevity

Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?

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Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?

Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?

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Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes

A staggering 99.99 percent of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay below the recommended sodium intake...

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Food for Hair Growth

Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss.

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How to Cultivate a Healthy Gut Microbiome with Food

Our gut flora is determined by what we eat, for good or for ill.

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Does the Sweetener Allulose Have Side Effects?

How safe are fourth-generation sweeteners, such as the rare sugar allulose?

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Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Guts of Vegetarians vs. Meat-Eaters

Those eating plant-based have a reduced load of antibiotic resistance genes in their gut.

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The Potential Harm in Unnecessary Gluten-Free Diets

How might we prevent the inflammation from gluten-free diets?

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Lower Protein Diet Proven to Help Kidney Disease

How might we cut the risk of dialysis and death in half?

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The Purported Benefits of Vitamin K2: Should You Take Supplements?

Our body can make vitamin K2 from the K1 in green leafy vegetables.

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The Best Diet for Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pain Relief

Anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndromes.

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How Does Oatmeal Help with Blood Sugars?

The prebiotic fiber in oats helps to explain why oatmeal can improve diabetic control.

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A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting

I go over a case report of water-only fasting, followed by a whole food, plant-based diet for follicular lymphoma.

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Fecal Transplants for Ulcerative Colitis, MS, Depression, Bipolar, and...

I go over randomized, controlled trials and case reports of stool transplants for various clinical conditions.

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Plant-Based Diet for Minimal Change Disease of the Kidney

What are the three reasons plant protein is preferable to animal protein for kidney protection?

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Fecal Transplants for Aging and Weight Loss

Does poop from centenarians have anti-aging properties?

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The Best Diet for COVID and Long-COVID

Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.

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How to Prevent Wrinkles with Diet

The evidence supports the recommendation to follow a whole food, plant-based diet for healthier looking skin.

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