Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins 

Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins 

Endotoxins can build up on pre-cut vegetables and undermine some of their benefits. You may remember when I introduced the endotoxin theory literature in my video The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory, which sought to explain how a single Sausage and Egg McMuffin meal could...
Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy? 

Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy? 

The industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the American Medical Association’s Council on Foods and Nutrition was presented with a new product, Vi-Chocolin, a vitamin-fortified chocolate bar, “offered ostensibly as a specialty...
Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds 

Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds 

Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed.  I previously explored the “Potent Antihypertensive Effect of Dietary Flaxseed in Hypertensive Patients” study in my video Flaxseeds for Hypertension. That was...
The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating 

The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating 

Calories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re healthier, too.   Time-restricted feeding, where you limit the same amount of eating to a narrow evening window, has benefits compared to eating in the evening and earlier in the...
What the Science Says About Time-Restricted Eating 

What the Science Says About Time-Restricted Eating 

Are there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating?    The reason many blood tests are taken after an overnight fast is that meals can tip our system out of balance, bumping up certain biomarkers for disease, such as blood sugars, insulin,...