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Understanding the Mammogram Paradox

The mammogram paradox is that women who are harmed the most are the ones who claim the greatest benefit.



Do Mammograms Save Lives?

For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients—and let’s not overlook all of the attendant harms of chemo, radiation, or surgery without the benefits.



Should Women Get Mammograms Starting at Age 40?

Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who should you trust?



Benefits of Nutritional Yeast for Cancer

How can the beta glucan fiber in brewer’s, baker’s, and nutritional yeast improve wound healing and, potentially, anti-cancer immunity?



Topical Honey for Canker Sores

What works better against aphthous ulcers? Honey applied with a cotton swab three times a day after meals was compared head-to-head against an over-the-counter soothing pain-relieving paste and a prescription steroid cream.



Lycopene Supplements vs. Prostate Cancer

High doses of lycopene—the red pigment in tomatoes—were put to the test to see if it could prevent precancerous prostate lesions from turning into full-blown cancer.



Dietary Cure for Hidradenitis Suppurativa

What is the role of dairy- and yeast-exclusion diets on arresting and reversing an inflammatory autoimmune disease?



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?



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1

Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer, but that was for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease?



How to Stop Hiccups

What are hiccups, why do we get them, and what can we do about them?



Do Vitamin D Supplements Reduce the Risk of Dying from Cancer?

Sun exposure is associated with lower rates of 15 different cancers and improved cancer survival. What happened when vitamin D supplements were put to the test?



Ginger for Nausea, Menstrual Cramps, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Powdered ginger can be a highly effective, cheap, easy-to-use, safer treatment for nausea, migraine headaches, and menstrual blood loss and pain. Does it also work for IBS intestinal cramping?



Pomegranate vs. Placebo for Prostate Cancer

Pomegranate juice for prostate cancer was finally put to the test in a randomized, controlled, clinical trial.



Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet?

How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional surgical approaches? Is there a safer alternative?



The Best Way to Get Vitamin D: Sun, Supplements, or Salons?

If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D level may be, how about getting vitamin D in the way nature intended—that is, from the sun instead of supplements?



Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Might appeals to masculinity and manhood help men with prostate cancer change their diet to improve their survival?



Plant-Based Treatment for Angina

Even without an exercise component, a plant-based diet can reduce angina attacks 90% within 24 days.



Plant-Based Diets and Artery Function

The improvement of arterial function on a whole food, plant-based diet appears so pronounced that cardiac patients can achieve a 90% reduction in angina attacks.



Reversing Diabetes with Surgery

When type 2 diabetes is reversed after gastric bypass surgery, is it due to the actual operation or just the severely restrictive diet required for recovery?



Treating Infant Colic by Changing Mom’s Diet

Cow’s milk proteins can pass through breast milk—which may explain why maternal dairy-free diets are so effective in treating infant colic.



How to Prevent Fainting

Syncope (fainting) triggered by standing, strong emotions, or common phobias to blood, injections, and injuries can be easily prevented with a number of safe, simple, effective exercises.



Speeding Recovery from Surgery with Turmeric

The anti-inflammatory effect of curcumin, the pigment in the spice turmeric, was put to the test to see if it could reduce postoperative pain and fatigue after surgery.



Optimal Diet: Just Give It to Me Straight, Doc

Why is there a reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them from preventable disease and premature death?



Treating Dry Eye Disease with Diet: Just Add Water?

Causes of dry eye disease include LASIK laser eye surgery, but there are dietary approaches to prevention and treatment.



Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.



How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer

What was the medical community’s reaction to being named the third leading cause of death in the United States?



Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed?

The reversal of blindness due to hypertension and diabetes with Dr. Kempner’s rice and fruit diet demonstrates the power of diet to exceed the benefits of the best modern medicine and surgery have to offer.



Stomach Stapling Kids

Bariatric weight-loss surgery (like Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) is increasingly performed in children as young as five years old.



Music as Medicine

Music can beat out anti-anxiety drugs, Mozart can reduce allergic reactions, and how listening to your favorite tunes can significantly affect your testosterone levels.



Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool

What might happen if nutritional excellence were taught in medical school?



C. difficile Superbugs in Meat

Why does the United States appear to have the highest level of C. diff contamination of the meat supply?



Peppermint Aromatherapy for Nausea

Is the relief of nausea and vomiting after surgery from sniffing peppermint extract due to the mint, the alcohol vapors, or just the controlled breathing?



Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure

More people might be open to changing their diet and lifestyle if they knew how little modern medicine has to offer for combating chronic diseases.



MRSA Superbugs in Meat

The emergence of pathogens resistant to even our antibiotics of last resort has raised the specter of a “post-antibiotic age” in which drugs to fight infections may be useless. This has focused attention on the mass use of antibiotics in farm animal feed to promote growth and prevent infection in high density production.



Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment

When doctors withhold dietary treatment options from cardiac patients, they are violating the cornerstone of medical ethics, informed consent.



One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic

Many of our most common diseases found to be rare, or even nonexistent, among populations eating plant-based diets.



Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice

Coronary heart disease, our #1 cause of death, was found to be almost non-existent in a population eating a diet centered around whole plant foods.



Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease

If doctors can eliminate some of our leading killers by treating the underlying causes of chronic disease better than nearly any other medical intervention, why don’t more doctors do it?



Chronic Headaches and Pork Tapeworms

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



Eggs and Choline: Something Fishy

Too much choline—a compound concentrated in eggs and other animal products—can make bodily secretions smell like rotting fish, and may increase the risk of heart disease, due to conversion in the gut to trimethylamine.