NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast
Episodes
Who Should Avoid Coffee?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are certain medical conditions that are worsened by coffee intake.
Friday Favorites: The Role of Kimchi and H. Pylori in Stomach Cancer and How to Treat H. Pylori Naturally with Diet
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What explains the Achilles’ heel in certain Asian diets?
The Healthiest Way to Drink Coffee
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do those who drink filtered coffee tend to live longer than those who drink unfiltered coffee?
Does Coffee Help Boost Autophagy and Lifespan?
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In terms of longevity, three cups of decaf coffee appeared to be just as protective as three cups of regular coffee.
Friday Favorites: How to Keep Your Microbiome Healthy with Prebiotic Foods
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up our end of the bargain.
Preventing and Treating Sarcoidosis
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The cause of sarcoidosis is unknown, but new research indicates that mycobacteria, like MAP bacteria found in dairy and meat products, are likely invo...
Reversing Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Progression with a Plant-Based Diet and Lifestyle Program
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A plant-based lifestyle is put to the test against early and late-stage cancer
Friday Favorites: Why Don’t Health Insurers Encourage Healthier Eating?
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why don’t more big payors in healthcare embrace plant-based eating?
Turmeric Supplements and Liver Toxicity
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An increasing number of case reports have linked turmeric extract supplements to liver injury.
Are Environmental Toxins Lower in Wild-Caught or Farmed Fish?
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The adverse effects of industrial pollutants in seafood may counteract the benefits of nutrients in fish.
Friday Favorites: Do Vitamin C Supplements Help with Anxiety?
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety?
The Benefits and Side Effects of Celery
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can celery, a vegetable relatively high in sodium, lower blood pressure?
Can a Plant-Based Diet Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diet as a primary intervention for type 2 diabetes is the most effective in achieving remission when emphasizing whole, plant-based foods with minimal...
Friday Favorites: The Best Poop Position for Constipation
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Squatty Potty is put to the test.
Cancer from Benzene from the Preservative Sodium Benzoate in Beverages?
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Certain soft drinks and bottled (heated) carrot juice may contain carcinogenic levels above safety standards.
The Growth and Nutrient Intakes of Children Raised on Plant-Based Diets
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we plan well-balanced plant-based diets for infants and kids?
Friday Favorites: How Effective Is Chemotherapy? And How Much Does It Improve Survival?
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most chemo drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. If you put together...
Preventing Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy with Diet
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eating well-balanced plant-based diets during pregnancy can reduce risks of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia.
Do Not Eat Pawpaws
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative di...
Friday Favorites: Micromorts – How Risky Is It to Go Under Anesthesia?
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of dying.
The Benefits of Purslane for Treating Oral Lichen Planus
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The weed purslane appears to not only be the safest treatment available for the autoimmune disease lichen planus, but the most effective, too.
Are the IQs of Vegetarian Children Higher?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are the higher IQs found in vegetarian children the result of confounding factors or reverse causation?
Friday Favorites: Mixed Nuts Put to the Test for Erectile Dysfunction
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile dysfunction, sexual function, sperm count, and semen quality.
Is Soil Degradation Reducing the Nutrition of Fruits and Vegetables?
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the purported decline of nutrients in our crops due to soil degradation, or is that just supplement industry propaganda?
Drug Residues in Meat and Their Effect on Antibiotic Resistance
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What percentage of meat samples test positive for drug residue violations?
Friday Favorites: Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Is Black Pepper Good for You?
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Typical daily doses of black pepper can affect the metabolism of certain drugs, so make sure you tell your prescribing health professional about your ...
How Much Caffeine Is Safe During Pregnancy?
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnancy greatly reduces our ability to metabolize caffeine.
Friday Favorites: The Side Effects of 3-MCPD in Bragg’s Liquid Aminos and Refined Cooking Oils
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chlorohydrin contaminates hydrolyzed vegetable protein products and refined oils.
Hepatitis E Virus in Pork
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a retail level, about 10 percent of commercial pork products tested contain the hepatitis E virus.
Is MSG Bad or Good for You?
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do the reactions ascribed to monosodium glutamate (MSG) represent a menace, myth, or marvel?
Friday Favorites: Pine Mouth Syndrome – Prolonged Bitter Taste from Certain Pine Nuts
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do some pine nuts cause a bad taste in our mouth that can last for weeks?
Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There doesn’t appear to be any difference between the negative effects of high fructose corn syrup and table sugar on body fat, blood pressure, bloo...
How Much Do Doctors Know About Nutrition?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who won in a head-to-head test of nutrition knowledge––doctors or patients?
Friday Favorites: Pomegranate – A Natural Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis and More
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pomegranates are put to the test for weight loss, diabetes, COPD, prostate cancer, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Eliminating Heart Disease, the Number One Cause of Death
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the leading cause of heart disease, our leading cause of death?
Golden vs Brown Flaxseed: Which Has More Benefits?
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which kind of flaxseed has more cancer-fighting lignans?
Friday Favorites: Why Don’t People Eat Healthier?
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.
Is One Egg a Day Too Much?
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta-analyses of studies involving more than ten million participants confirm that greater egg consumption confers a higher risk of premature death fr...
Diverticulosis Diet: Should Nuts, Seeds, and Popcorn Be Avoided?
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From a rarity to an epidemic disease, diverticulosis is a disease of fiber deficiency.
Friday Favorites: Should We Be Concerned About Ochratoxin and Aflatoxin?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated. Is “toxic mold syndrome” real? And what do we do about toxic ...
The Highest Antioxidant: Apple, Bean, Berry, Lentil, or Nut?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The best apple, bean, berry, lentil, and nut are the ones you’ll eat the most of; but if you don’t have a strong preference, which has the highest...
Is There Really Pus in Milk?
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does the "milk pus test" tell us about the U.S. milk supply?
Friday Favorites: Onions Put to the Test for Losing Weight, Lowering Cholesterol, and Treating PCOS
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s discuss weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS treatment with diet. What can a daily eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder do for body fat, and wha...
Pros and Cons of Raw Food Diets
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there an advantage to eating a raw plant-based diet over a diet of raw and cooked whole plant foods?
Perceptions of Childhood Obesity and Diet Quality
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One reason kids may not be eating more healthfully is that their parents vastly overestimate the quality of their child’s diet.
Friday Favorites: Animal Protein vs. Plant-Based Protein
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.
Pesticide Exposure and Hypospadias Birth Defects in Vegetarians
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What role do vegetarian diets and organic foods play in the prevention or promotion of a birth defect called hypospadias?
Food Poisoning: Causes and Prevention
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do contaminated poultry products cause the most foodborne deaths?
Friday Favorites: How to Increase Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
How to Slow Cancer Growth
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At this very moment, many of us have tumors growing inside our bodies, so we cannot wait to start eating and living more healthfully.
How to Get Enough Polyphenols for Life Extension
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the link between flavonoid consumption and longevity cause-and-effect, and are all sources of flavonoids equally healthy?
Friday Favorites: Are Baruka Nuts the Healthiest Nut?
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?
The Effects of Hormesis from Low-Dose Radiation on Life Extension
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our bodies are exposed to about 20,000 hits of radiation from cosmic rays every second. Is that good or bad?
Choosing the Safest and Most Effective Sunscreen (webinar recording)
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has sunscreen been proven to prevent skin aging and cancer?
Friday Favorites: Foods That Cause Inflammation and Those That Reduce It
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst, and which ones reduce inflammation? Wh...
The Benefits and Side Effects of Red and Green Rooibos Teas
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is green rooibos (analogous to green tea) healthier than red rooibos, the commercially more common oxidized form that’s akin to black tea?
The Side Effects of Artificial Food Coloring and Dyes: Cancer and ADHD
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Excluding artificial food colors from children’s diets can improve ADHD symptoms.
How to Improve Your Heart Rate Variability
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A healthy heart doesn’t beat like a metronome.
The Third Way to Boost NAD+
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we conserve NAD+ by preventing overactivation of the enzymes PARP-1 and CD38, which guzzle NAD+?
Friday Favorites: Fruits and Vegetables Put to the Test for Boosting Mood
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being.
Which NAD+ Booster Is Best?
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can naturally get your body to make more NAD+ by boosting the NAD+ synthesizing enzyme NAMPT.
Risks of NAD+ Boosting Supplements
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Particular caution should be used for NAD+-boosting supplements by those with cancer, a personal or strong family history of cancer and perhaps also b...
Friday Favorites: Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Arthritis
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?
Lesser-Known NAD+ Boosting Supplements—Tryptophan, NADH, NMNH, and NRH
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the pros, cons, and efficacy of dihydronicotinamide riboside (reduced NR), perhaps the most potent NAD+ precursor, as well as reduced NMN, ta...
Risks and Benefits of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN), a NAD+ Booster
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NR may just be a waste of money, safe but ineffective. NMN seems similarly useless in humans, but it may not even be safe.
Friday Favorites: Foods That Heal and Prevent Leaky Gut
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier. Which foods should we avoid to prevent leaky gut? Which foods ...
Risks and Benefits of Nicotinamide Riboside (NR), a NAD+ Booster
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The suppression of NAD+ synthesis by NR in humans may explain the disparate rodent results.