Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee.

What are the extraordinary, lasting benefits we may get from a few days of an oatmeal diet?

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

What is the optimum dose of wild blueberries to eat at a meal?

Before there was insulin, there was the “oatmeal cure.”

Why do people who eat more plants get less breast and prostate cancer?

Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes.

Coffee and common herbal teas impair iron absorption, which may help explain some of their benefits.

Long-term plant-based eating may improve exercise capacity and endurance.

Should we be concerned about the pimples, cadmium, and “colonic crunch” associated with consumption of sunflower seeds?

Why can a single meal high in saturated fat impair cognition?

Dr. Greger whips up another of his go-to breakfast meals.

Randomized, double-blind, controlled trials suggest that excluding certain foods, such as eggs and chicken, can significantly improve atopic dermatitis. Infants of mothers randomized to cut out eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema even years later.

Apple cider vinegar may help with ovulatory function in those with PCOS.

Even getting just one more hour of sleep a night may help with weight control.

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

Those randomized to 8.5 hours of sleep a night lost significantly more body fat than those who got 5.5 hours.

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

Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?

Fava bean sprouts and soy nuts are put to the test for Parkinson’s disease as natural sources of L-dopa.