Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Protein.

If you are really into heavy duty exercise and heavy duty weightlifting, for example, then you do benefit from upping your protein intake.

And protein shakes, protein smoothies, yes, those will help regenerate muscles after exercise and build muscle.

Now, they will not build muscle on their own.

You do have to do the work.

But it will enhance your chance of improving your musculature.

That much is true.

There's also some evidence for creatine in terms of endurance.

Basically, if someone is into really heavy-duty athletics, if you're into the 100-meter swim, for example, yes, you can cut off a fraction of a second by using creatine.

And swimmers do that.

It is a supplement that is allowed, and they do bank on it.

But aside from creatine and protein supplements, I don't think that there's anything that has been demonstrated to improve performance.

It depends on what the disease is and what we mean by treatment.

Obviously, if someone is diabetic, for example, they have to be very careful about their diet.

If they eat the wrong things, of course, their diabetes will go astray.

So it's very important to know exactly what your carbohydrate intake, what is your sugar intake.

So in that sense, you can't treat disease with diabetes.

with food.

If someone has high cholesterol, for example, which of course is a risk factor for heart disease, well, you can indeed reduce your blood cholesterol levels by an appropriate diet.

But when it comes to