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What Foods Help Hair Growth? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss. Androgenic or androgenetic alopecia is one of the most common chronic…
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The Mineral Intake Recommendations Only 1 in 6,000 U.S. Adults Meet | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] A staggering 99.99% of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake)…
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Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for death in human…
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Does Less Protein Increase FGF21 for Longevity? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects? Over a century ago,…
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How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our end of the bargain. If you look at…
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Which Foods Help a Leaky Gut? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What is the recommended diet for treating leaky gut? Which foods and food components can boost the integrity of our intestinal barrier? Our…
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Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier, causing a leaky gut. Intestinal permeability, the leakiness of our…
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Can Vegan Fecal Transplants Lower TMAO Levels? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora? “Almost 2,500 years…
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Might Meat Trigger Parkinson’s Disease? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What does the gut have to do with developing Parkinson’s disease? Parkinson’s disease is an ever-worsening neurodegenerative disorder that results in death and…
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Fiber or Low FODMAP for SIBO? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] It may not be the number of bacteria growing in our small intestine, but the type of bacteria, which can be corrected with…
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The Validity of SIBO Tests | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Even if we could accurately diagnose small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), if there is no difference in symptoms between those testing positive and…
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Are Carboxymethylcellulose, Polysorbate 80, and Other Emulsifiers Safe? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additives. What are they doing to our gut microbiome? When grocery shopping these days, unless you’re…
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Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and…
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Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far exceeding the efficacy of other treatments. “One of…
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What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are vegetarian diets so effective in preventing and treating…
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Syncing Your Brain and Body Clocks | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Exposure to bright light synchronizes the central circadian clock in our brain, whereas proper meal timing helps sync the timing of different clock…
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Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Endotoxins can build up on pre-cut vegetables and undermine some of their benefits. You may remember when I introduced the endotoxin theory literature…
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Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed. I previously explored the “Potent Antihypertensive Effect of Dietary Flaxseed…
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The Safety of Keto Diets | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What are the effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk? Given the decades of experience using ketogenic…