Nutrition Video
Friday Favorites: Are Fortified Kids’ Breakfast Cereals Healthy or Just Candy?
The industry’s response to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary.
The Benefits of Topical Vitamin C for Reversing Skin Aging
What are the pros and cons of alpha hydroxy acid lotions and chemical peels, as well as the roles of topical antioxidants vitamin E and C, in reversing the signs of aging?
The Benefits of Topical Niacinamide for Reversing Skin Aging
Niacinamide, a form of vitamin B3 also known as nicotinamide, is a precursor to two potent antioxidants that can help reverse signs of skin aging.
Friday Favorites: Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal for Weight Loss or Should It Be Skipped?
Is the link between breakfast skipping and obesity cause-and-effect? Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies.
Topical Retinoids to Reverse Skin Aging
Tretinoin, also known as all-trans retinoic acid (sold under a variety of brands including Retin-A), can reverse the signs of aging, but at what cost?
What Is the Most Important Anti-Aging Cream Ingredient?
Most anti-aging creams may work no better than typical moisturizers.
Friday Favorites: The Healthiest Food Sources of Vitamin B12
What are the best green-light (whole food plant-based) sources of vitamin B12?
How Not To Age – Live Presentation
In this live lecture, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his latest book, How Not to Age.
Soy Foods for Menopause Hot Flash Symptoms
Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausal hot flash and night sweat symptoms.
Friday Favorites: What Are the Best Foods?
A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.
Menopausal Hot Flashes Are Not Inevitable
Why do 85 percent of menopausal women suffer hot flashes in some countries but only 15 percent in others?
Does Prevagen Really Work?
Why did the makers of Prevagen settle a class action lawsuit in 2020 with the FTC over deceptive business practices and false advertising? Is Prevagen safe?
Friday Favorites: The 3,500 Calorie per Pound Rule Is Wrong
How many fewer calories do you have to eat every day to lose one pound of body fat?
VSED: The Downsides of Fasting for Ending Life
What are the pros and cons of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to end your life?
VSED: The Benefits of Fasting for Ending Life
Even under hospice with excellent palliative care, some spend their last months in uncontrollable suffering. What can be done in places in the United States that outlaw physician-assisted dying?
Friday Favorites: Fasting for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases
Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease and autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.
How to Die a Good Death
Hospice is often framed as “giving up,” but, ironically, hospice patients sometimes actually live longer
Is It Possible to Reverse Aging and Live Forever?
Some animals, like the immortal jellyfish, can effectively live forever, so why can’t we?
Friday Favorites: What Are the Best Beverages?
A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda
Caffeine Shampoo and Rosemary Oil for Hair Growth
I cover natural topical treatments for hair growth, including pumpkin seed oil, caffeine, green tea, pyrithione zinc, ginger, Chinese knotweed, and rosemary.