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Where to Find Taurine and the Best Source

I compare the cost, convenience, and safety of various plant, animal, and supplement sources of taurine.



Who Should Avoid Coffee?

There are certain medical conditions that are worsened by coffee intake.



Lychee Fruit and Hypoglycin: How Many Are Too Many?

There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but only under certain circumstances?



What to Eat for Stroke Prevention

More than 90% of stroke risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors.



Are Weight-Loss Supplements Safe?

Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have products that were even accurately labeled.



Neurotoxicity Effects of Star Fruit

Star fruit contains a neurotoxin known as caramboxin that can cause irreversible brain damage at high enough doses.



Keto Diets: Muscle Growth and Bone Density

Ketogenic diets found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss.



Are Keto Diets Safe?

The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.



Is Weight Loss on Ketosis Sustainable?

Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance?



Is Keto an Effective Cancer-Fighting Diet?

The clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer: what does the science say?



Are Weight-Loss Pills Effective?

Studies show many doctors tend to overestimate the amount of weight loss caused by obesity drugs or were simply clueless.



Are Acid-Blocking Drugs Safe?

Do the benefits outweigh the risks for acid-blocker drugs (proton pump inhibitors like Nexium/Prilosec/Prevacid)? What about baking soda?



Dangers of Dietary Supplement Deregulation

The majority of dietary supplement facilities tested were found noncompliant with good manufacturing practices guidelines.



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)?



Aspartame and the Brain

The reason artificially sweetened beverages have been associated with depression may be because of psychological disturbances recently tied to aspartame (“Equal” or “NutraSweet”).



Chronic Headaches and Pork Tapeworms

Chronic headaches such as migraines or “tension” headache symptoms may be a sign of pork tapeworms in the brain.



Eating Outside Our Kingdom

A higher rate of cancer deaths among those that handle and process meat is attributed to infection with viruses, and chronic exposure to animal proteins.



Infant Seizures Linked to Mother’s Spirulina Use

Contamination of spirulina supplements with toxins from blue-green algae raises safety concerns.



Safety of Noni & Mangosteen Juice

Multilevel marketing companies accused of using exaggeration and pseudoscience to promote potentially dangerous products, such as Metabolife and Hydroxycut, by designing studies that appear to purposely mislead consumers.



Avoiding Epilepsy Through Diet

Avoiding pork tapeworm parasites (cysticercosis) is not as easy as just avoiding pork.



Pork Tapeworms on the Brain

Neurocysticercosis, infection with pork tapeworm larvae brain parasites, is an increasingly serious public health problem in the United States, potentially causing headaches, dizziness, seizures, other neurological disorders, and sudden death.