All Videos for Eggs

Brain-Healthy Foods to Fight Aging

What is the best source of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?



The Gladiator Diet: How Vegetarian Athletes Stack Up

Comparing the diets of the Roman gladiator “barley men” and army troopers to the modern Spartans of today.



How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies

How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.



Pros and Cons of a Macrobiotic Diet

What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables, and beans?



Does Adding Milk Block the Benefits of Coffee?

How to choose the healthiest coffee, and the effects of adding milk vs. soymilk.



Urinary Tract Infections from Eating Chicken

Can UTI-causing ExPEC E. coli bacteria be transferred human-to-human from those who eat chicken?



Detoxifying with Chlorella

Chlorella is put to the test for liver disease, cholesterol, and detoxifying carcinogens.



A Workplace Wellness Program That Works

What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living?



The Weight-Loss Program That Got Better with Time

The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the most effective.



Is Organic Meat Less Carcinogenic?

Researchers tested 76 samples of different kinds of organic and conventional meats for 33 different carcinogens.



Coconut Water and Depression

What is the science behind the marketing of foods for antidepressant effects?



Do Chia Seeds Help with Belly Fat?

The secret to unlocking the benefits of chia seeds may be grinding them up.



How to Lower Heavy Metal Levels with Diet

What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body?



Benefits of Blueberries for Blood Pressure May Be Blocked by Yogurt

What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the health benefits of berries and tea?



The Effects of Avocados on Inflammation

High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test.



How to Reduce Cholesterol Oxidation

Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts, but there are things you can do to reduce exposure.



Oxidized Cholesterol as a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease

Oxidized cholesterol can be a hundred times more toxic than regular cholesterol, raising additional concerns about foods such as ghee, canned tuna, processed meat, and parmesan cheese.



How to Prevent Alzheimer’s with Diet

What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia?



How Much Lead Is in Organic Chicken Soup (Bone Broth)?

Let’s review lead from occupational exposures, shooting ranges, eggs, and bone broth.



Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop

In this video, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.



Coconut Oil and Abdominal Fat

What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find?



The Effects of Radiation Leaking from Microwave Ovens

Simple kitchen experiments can confirm that microwaves leak from microwave ovens during operation, but do they pose a health risk?



Are Microwaves Safe?

The hazards of microwave ovens may not be what you might expect.



Exclusion Diets for Eczema

Infants of mothers randomized to cut out eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema even years later.



Best Foods to Avoid for Eczema

Randomized, double-blind, controlled trials suggest that excluding certain foods, such as eggs and chicken, can significantly improve atopic dermatitis.



Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong

A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.



How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels

Should we be concerned about high-choline plant foods, such as broccoli, producing the same toxic TMAO that results from eating high-choline animal foods, such as eggs?



Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?

Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast.



Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease?

Is the exaggerated reaction of many Crohn’s disease patients to baker’s, brewer’s, and nutritional yeast just a consequence of their inflamed leaky gut, or might the yeast be a contributing cause?



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2

What happens when metastatic prostate cancer patients were taught to increase intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, and to decrease consumption of meat, dairy, and junk?



What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs?

Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?



How to Treat Heart Failure & Kidney Failure with Diet

One way a diet rich in animal-sourced foods like meat, eggs, and cheese may contribute to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death is through the production of toxin called TMAO.



What Is the Ideal White Blood Cell Count?

Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?



Microbiome: We Are What They Eat

What happens to our gut flora when we switch from a more animal-based diet to a more plant-based diet?



How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer

The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions.



The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation

Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.



Which Are Better: Chia Seeds or Flaxseeds?

What effect do chia seeds have on weight loss, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation?



How to Develop a Healthy Gut Ecosystem

What we eat determines what kind of bacteria we foster the growth of in our gut, which can increase or decrease our risk of some of our leading killer diseases.



Best Foods for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Which foods and cooking methods should we choose and avoid, given the role advanced glycation end products (glycotoxins) may play in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)?



Benefits of Marjoram for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Even a small amount of fresh herbs can double or even quadruple the antioxidant power of a meal. The abilities of oregano to decrease chromosomal damage from radiation and marjoram to affect hormone levels in women with PCOS are put to the test.