Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive? Although we’re spending billions of dollars on fancy new types of chemotherapy,…
Read more Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer? | NutritionFacts.orgSham surgery trials have shown that some of our most popular surgeries are themselves shams. Intragastric balloons “arrived with much fanfare in the 1980s,” since they could be…
Read more From Gastric Balloons to Fake Knee Surgeries: When the Fix Is an Illusion | NutritionFacts.orgWegovy injections vs. pills: Doctors explain the differences When it comes to GLP-1 pills vs. injections, doctors share which form may be best for you. Updated: 3:01 PM…
Read more Wegovy injections vs. pills: Doctors explain the differencesThe extent of risk from bariatric weight-loss surgery may depend on the skill of the surgeon. After sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the third most common bariatric…
Read more Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat, and average postponement of death when taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs? In response to…
Read more A Longer Life on Statins? | NutritionFacts.orgA Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you. “Physicians have a duty to inform their patients about the risks…
Read more The Real Benefits of Statins and Their Side Effects | NutritionFacts.orgWhat is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out of their way—in direct-to-consumer ads, for example—to “present pharmaceutical drugs as a preferred…
Read more Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins? | NutritionFacts.orgHow can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The muscle-related side effects from…
Read more Should You Take Statins? | NutritionFacts.orgThe people at highest risk for contracting hepatitis B include health care workers, IV drug users and people having sex. So why do babies get vaccinated for hepatitis…
Read more Hepatitis B vaccine Q&A: Why do babies need the shot?Even if we could accurately diagnose small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), if there is no difference in symptoms between those testing positive and those testing negative, what’s the…
Read more The Validity of SIBO Tests | NutritionFacts.org“Clearly, in spite of the widely held ‘belief’ in the health benefits of M. oleifera [moringa], the interest of the international biomedical community in the medicinal potential of…
Read more Why I Don’t Recommend Moringa Leaf Powder | NutritionFacts.orgWhy is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world? “There is now overwhelming…
Read more Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects | NutritionFacts.orgSwitching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent stages of Crohn’s disease…
Read more Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease | NutritionFacts.orgPlant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far exceeding the efficacy of other treatments. “One of the most common questions physicians…
Read more Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission | NutritionFacts.orgAre there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss? In a previous discussion, I noted that an investigation found that four out of five bottles of…
Read more The Efficacy of Weight-Loss Supplements | NutritionFacts.orgOnly 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were even accurately labeled. According to a national survey, one-third of adults who have…
Read more The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements | NutritionFacts.orgAt six months pregnant, Sonja Lee Finnegan flew from Switzerland to France to buy $20,000 worth of drugs from a person she had never met. The drug she…
Read more The Mothers Who Aren’t Waiting to Give Their Children Cystic-Fibrosis DrugsElevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed. I previously explored the “Potent Antihypertensive Effect of Dietary Flaxseed in Hypertensive Patients” study in…
Read more Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds | NutritionFacts.orgNo medication in the history of modern weight loss has inspired as much awe as the latest class of obesity drugs. Wegovy and Zepbound are so effective that…
Read more Ozempic Can Turn Into No-zempicWithin the first five seconds of a recent Ozempic commercial, a sky-blue injector pen tumbles toward the viewer, encircled by a big red O. Obesity drugs have become…
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