Best of 2017 Podcast
Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., N.D. | January 5, 2018
Listen to this great healthcare podcast featuring the best of 2017 - happy new year and enjoy! https://ownstream.co/bestof2017/...
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Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., N.D. | January 5, 2018
Listen to this great healthcare podcast featuring the best of 2017 - happy new year and enjoy! https://ownstream.co/bestof2017/...
Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., N.D. | December 12, 2017
About a month ago, I listened to one of most inspirational talks I have ever heard in my life on the opening night of our conference. It was delivered by D. Anthony Evans. If you saw the documentary Food Choices,...
Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., N.D. | December 12, 2017
About a month ago, I listened to one of most inspirational talks I have ever heard in my life on the opening night of our conference. It was delivered by D. Anthony Evans. If you saw the documentary Food Choices,...
Michael Greger MD | October 31, 2017 | Health
One of the most common eye disorders, dry eye disease, causes irritation or discomfort, and can decrease functional vision, sometimes causing a dramatic deterioration in the quality of life. About five million Americans over age 50 suffer from moderate-to-severe...
Michael Greger MD | October 26, 2017 | Health
Why is meat consumption a risk factor for diabetes? Why does there appear to be a stepwise reduction in diabetes rates as meat consumption drops? Instead of avoiding something in meat, it may be that people are getting something...
Michael Greger MD | October 24, 2017 | Health
We've known that being overweight and obese are important risk factors for type 2 diabetes, but, until recently, not much attention has been paid to the role of specific foods. I discuss this issue in my video, Why Is...
Michael Greger MD | October 19, 2017 | Health
Do coffee drinkers live longer than non-coffee drinkers? Is it "wake up and smell the coffee" or don't wake up at all? I discuss these questions in my video, Coffee and Mortality. The largest study ever conducted on diet...
Michael Greger MD | October 17, 2017 | Health
The relative paralysis of our arteries for hours after eating fast food and cheesecake may also occur after consuming olive oil. Olive oil was found to have the same impairment to endothelial function as high-fat foods like sausage and...
Michael Greger MD | October 12, 2017 | Health
The phenomenon of postprandial angina was described more than 200 years ago: chest pain that occurs after a meal, even if you're just sitting down and resting. This could be intuitively attributed to redistribution of blood flow away from...
Michael Greger MD | October 10, 2017 | Health
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants--the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and surrounded by an outer layer packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals to protect the seedling plant's DNA from free radicals. No wonder they're so...
Janice Stanger, PhD | October 9, 2017 | Lifestyle
Lani Muelrath Shows You How to Fuel Change From the Inside Out Do you struggle with your weight, compliance with endless diets, and guilt with every slip up? In her insightful, beautifully written book The Mindful Vegan, author Lani Muelrath...
Michael Greger MD | October 5, 2017 | Health
For the first 90% of our evolution, humans ate diets containing less than a quarter teaspoon of salt a day. Why? Because we ate mostly plants. Since we went millions of years without salt shakers, our bodies evolved into...
Michael Greger MD | September 26, 2017 | Health
Until about ten years ago, brown adipose tissue (BAT) was considered to be biologically active only in babies and small children where it generates heat by burning fat. But now, there is no doubt that active brown fat is...
Michael Greger MD | September 21, 2017 | Health
During World War I, it was discovered that many of the chemicals for new explosives had toxic or even lethal effects on the workers in the munitions factories. Chemicals such as di-nitro-phenol (DNP) can boost metabolism so much that...
Michael Greger MD | September 19, 2017 | Health
In my video Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure, I profiled a paper that added up all the deaths caused by medical care in this country, including the hundred thousand deaths from medication side effects, all the...
Michael Greger MD | September 14, 2017 | Health
Previously, I've explored the beneficial effects of flaxseeds on prostate cancer (Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer), as well as breast cancer prevention and survival (Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention and Breast Cancer Survival & Lignan Intake). The cancer-fighting effect of flaxseeds...
Michael Greger MD | September 12, 2017 | Health
Depression is a serious and common mental disorder responsible for the majority of suicides. As I've covered in Antioxidants & Depression, intake of fruits, vegetables, and naturally occurring antioxidants have been found to be protectively associated with depression. Therefore,...
Michael Greger MD | September 7, 2017 | Health
Water is by far the number-one nutrient in our diet. Studies have suggested that proper hydration may lower our risk of heart disease and cancer, and may even make us better kissers. Brushing artificial skin against the lips of...
Michael Greger MD | September 5, 2017 | Health
The endothelium is the inner lining of our blood vessels. Laid end-to-end, endothelial cells from a single human would wrap more than four times around the world. And it's not just an inert layer; it's highly metabolically active. I've...
Michael Greger MD | August 29, 2017 | Health
A study out of the University of North Carolina found no association between dietary fiber intake and diverticulosis. They compared those who ate the highest amount of fiber, 25 grams, to those who ate the smallest amount, which was...
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