Diet and Nutrition
Is Personalized Genetic Testing Worth It?
Overrated “precision medicine” may just be serving vested interests, and consumer DNA testing can be ...View More
Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest st ...View More
Does Less Protein Increase FGF21 for Longevity?
Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to g ...View More
How to Boost Your Longevity Hormone
What can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a new human hormone was disco ...View More
How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our end of the bargai ...View More
How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat
The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nut ...View More
The Link Between Breast Cancer and a Virus in Meat and Dairy
Exposure to the bovine leukemia virus from meat and dairy (or a blood transfusion from those who eat ...View More
Could Bovine Leukemia Virus be a Cause of Breast Cancer?
As many as 37% of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to the bovine leukemia virus. ...View More
NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat
Billion-dollar drugs have been pulled from the market for less carcinogenic contamination than is fo ...View More
Peeling Back the Onion Claims
What did randomized, controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eati ...View More
