NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

What is the optimal source and amount of protein for senior citizens?

Only about one in 10,000 people make it to be 100 years old. What’s their secret?

Powdered ginger can be a highly effective, cheap, easy-to-use, safer treatment for nausea, migraine headaches, and menstrual blood loss and pain. Does it also work for IBS intestinal cramping?

Pomegranate juice for prostate cancer was finally put to the test in a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Neurotoxin contamination of the dairy supply doesn’t explain why the association between Parkinson’s disease and skim milk consumption is as strong as the association with whole milk.

Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating?

Single meals can affect testosterone and cortisol (stress hormone) levels. Some foods eaten regularly during pregnancy may even reprogram children’s responses to stress later in life.

90% of our exposure to the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A comes from certain components of our diet.

In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.

What can our nutrient requirements, metabolism, and physiology tell us about what we should be eating?

Time to spill the beans on why U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest—despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and worse access to health care.

When it comes to breast cancer risk, does the phytoestrogen in beer act more like the animal estrogens in Premarin, or the protective phytoestrogens in soy?

The reason why women who handle hops start menstruating is because of a phytoestrogen that ends up in beer, called 8-prenylnaringenin (8-PN).

Anabolic growth-promoting drugs in meat production are by far the most potent hormones found in the food supply.

A salted meal can impair artery function within 30 minutes by suppressing a key detoxifying antioxidant enzyme in our body.