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Friday Favorites: Are Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Cast Iron, and Teflon Safe?
What’s the best type of pots and pans to use? These are the first two videos in a three-part series on cookware. Check out the last one: Are Melamine Dishes and Polyamide Plastic Utensils Safe? ( ). I’ve previously discussed aluminum in antiperspirants (Antiperspirants and Breast Cancer ( )), in food (How to Avoid Phosphate […]
Continue readingDo Hair Dyes Cause Cancer?
Is the higher rate of bladder cancer among hairdressers due to exposure to hair dyes? And what about at-home use of hair colorants? Why does our hair turn gray in the first place? What can we do about it? I discuss everything in the Preserving Your Hair chapter in my new book How Not to […]
Continue readingFriday Favorites: Does Sugar Lead to Weight Gain?
The sugar industry’s response to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic. For more on the sugar industry’s influence, check out Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science ( ). Here are my popular sugar videos for more: • If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit? ( ) • How Much Fruit Is Too Much? […]
Continue readingGinkgo Biloba as a Brain Health Supplement for Dementia
The benefits of ginkgo for the brain: It does not seem to play a role in preventing cognitive decline or dementia, but it may play a role in treating it. What about the new class of anti-Alzheimer’s drugs? Check out: Controversy Around FDA’s Approval of Biogen Alzheimer’s Drug, Aducanumab ( ). Unfortunately, the problems found […]
Continue readingFriday Favorites: How to Test for Functional Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency. Now if you do get your homocysteine tested and despite both B12 supplementation and eating beans and greens it’s still too high (meaning double digits), I have a suggestion: Should Vegetarians Take Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine? ( ) […]
Continue readingDHEA: What Is It and What Are Its Benefits?
DHEA levels naturally decline with age. Does replenishing youthful levels have restorative effects? Should we take DHEA supplements? What about injections of human growth hormone for anti-aging benefits? See my last video The Side Effects of Human Growth Hormone as an Anti-Aging Therapy ( ) for more on that. For background on the Premarin debacle […]
Continue readingThe Side Effects of Human Growth Hormone as an Anti-Aging Therapy
Taking human growth hormone supplements (somatotropin) may actually accelerate the aging process. If hormone injections don’t work, what does? That’s the topic of my new book, How Not to Age ( ), and you can get your copy now from your local public library or wherever books are sold. If you haven’t seen them yet, […]
Continue readingFriday Favorites: Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Lupus
Green smoothies are put to the test for the autoimmune disease SLE (lupus). I think I only have one other video on lupus: Fighting Lupus with Turmeric: Good as Gold ( ). It’s not for lack of trying, though—there just hasn’t been much research out there. I talk about another autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes, […]
Continue readingDo Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent Diabetes, Cancer Mortality, and Overall Mortality?
The benefits of Vitamin D supplements: randomized interventional trials are necessary to establish cause-and-effect. My other recent video on vitamin D is Vitamin D Supplements Tested for COPD, Heart Disease, Depression, Obesity, and Cancer Survival ( ). Our Optimum Nutrient Recommendations page ( ) has more information on vitamin D supplementation. You may also be […]
Continue readingAcid Reflux Medicine May Cause Osteoporosis
Stomach acid–blocking proton pump inhibitor drugs—PPIs with brand names like Prilosec, Prevacid, Nexium, Protonix, and AcipHex—appear to significantly increase the risk of bone fractures. I recently gave a webinar on osteoporosis. We’ll post the recording in a few weeks, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, check out my previous video on osteoporosis, Fall […]
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