“Behind the Scenes at NutritionFacts.org” I’m often asked how long it takes me to come up with one of my daily videos. Once the script is done, it doesn’t take more than like ten hours to create and record—it’s the research phase that takes the most time. I don’t think people understand how much work…
[Music] in 1989 the late Charles Janeway give a presentation that was to revolutionize her understanding of the immune system he proposed that we we must have some ancient innate first line of defense we knew about vaccinations for centuries how our bodies can learn from past infections but he figured that’s not good enough…
[Music] fibromyalgia is one of the most common joint and muscle diseases afflicting millions of Americans characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain and often accompanied by other symptoms such as fatigue the medical profession used to think it was all in people’s heads but today there’s irrefutable evidence that it is indeed a disorder of the…
“Eating More to Weigh Less” What happens if you have people add fruit to their regular diet? Three apples or three pears a day as snacks between meals on top of whatever else they were eating. Fruit is low in calories, but not zero, so if you add food to people’s diets, even healthy foods…
[Music] when famed surgeon Michael DeBakey was asked why his studies published back in the 30s linking smoking and lung cancer simply ignored he had to remind people what it was like back then we were a smoking society was in the movies it was everywhere medical meetings were one heavy haze of smoke smoking…
“Are Weight Loss Pills Effective?” Current options for weight loss medications include the ridiculously named Qysmia, a combination of phentermine (the phen in fen-phen) and topiramate, a drug that can cause seizures if you stop it abruptly. It was explicitly rejected multiple times for safety reasons in Europe, but remains for sale here in the…
[Music] previously explored the use of spinach for athletic performance and recovery attributed to its anti-inflammatory effects but most athletes aren’t using spinach to beat back inflammation they use drugs typically non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen used by up to 95% of collegiate athletes and even three-quarters of kids playing high school football including prophylactic…
[Music] in the nineteenth chapter of the Quran Mary is giving birth to Jesus I didn’t even know Jesus was in the Koran the things they don’t teach it in Hebrew school it says the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree she cries out and she’s answered by Gabriel…
