nutrition
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Is Personalized Genetic Testing Worth It?
Extreme “precision medicine” may serve your interests, and consumer DNA testing may be ineffective—or worse. Today, you can sequence your…
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Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to Longer Lives?
Why are peanuts associated with reduced mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for…
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Does Small Protein Increase FGF21 Longevity?
Fasting and exercise can increase the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get the same results?…
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How to Boost Your Hormones for Longevity
What can we do to increase the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a new human hormone was discovered.…
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Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
We have established a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding our end of the bargain.…
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How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat
So-called biases can get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nutrition are often confusing and…
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The Link Between Breast Cancer and Viruses in Meat and Dairy
Exposure to bovine leukemia virus in meat and milk (or blood transfusions from those who eat meat or milk) is…
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Can Bovine Leukemia Virus Cause Breast Cancer?
About 37% of breast cancer cases may be caused by exposure to bovine leukemia virus. The incidence of breast cancer…
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Carcinogenic Contaminants in Medicines and Meat
Billions of drugs have been put on the market for less carcinogenic contamination than found in one serving of grilled…
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Stripping The Onion’s Claims
What have randomized, controlled human trials found about the ways we can benefit—or not benefit—from eating onions? Onions can be…
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