Nutrition
The Benefits and Risks of Hair Loss Drugs | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What are the pros and cons of Propecia and Rogaine for hair loss? “Any consumer looking on the Internet for a treatment for…
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Nutrition
Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive? Although we’re spending billions of dollars on…
Nutrition
From Gastric Balloons to Fake Knee Surgeries: When the Fix Is an Illusion | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Sham surgery trials have shown that some of our most popular surgeries are themselves shams. Intragastric balloons “arrived with much fanfare in the…
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Wegovy injections vs. pills: Doctors explain the differences
[ad_1] Wegovy injections vs. pills: Doctors explain the differences When it comes to GLP-1 pills vs. injections, doctors share which form may be best…
Nutrition
Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] The 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,…
Nutrition
A Longer Life on Statins? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat, and average postponement of death when taking cholesterol-lowering…
Nutrition
The Real Benefits of Statins and Their Side Effects | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you. “Physicians have a duty to inform…
Nutrition
Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What 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…
Nutrition
Should You Take Statins? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug?…
Fact Checking
Hepatitis B vaccine Q&A: Why do babies need the shot?
[ad_1] The people at highest risk for contracting hepatitis B include health care workers, IV drug users and people having sex. So why do…
Nutrition
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…
Nutrition
Why I Don’t Recommend Moringa Leaf Powder | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] “Clearly, in spite of the widely held ‘belief’ in the health benefits of M. oleifera [moringa], the interest of the international biomedical community…
Nutrition
Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real…
Nutrition
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…
Nutrition
The Efficacy of Weight-Loss Supplements | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss? In a previous discussion, I noted that an investigation found that four…
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The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were even accurately labeled. According to a national survey,…
Health
The Mothers Who Aren’t Waiting to Give Their Children Cystic-Fibrosis Drugs
[ad_1] At six months pregnant, Sonja Lee Finnegan flew from Switzerland to France to buy $20,000 worth of drugs from a person she had…
Nutrition
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…
Health
Ozempic Can Turn Into No-zempic
[ad_1] No medication in the history of modern weight loss has inspired as much awe as the latest class of obesity drugs. Wegovy and…