Chlorella Put to the Test

Chlorella Put to the Test

Chlorella is put to the test for liver disease, cholesterol, and detoxifying carcinogens. “Depression is a debilitating mental disorder with a severe impairment to quality of life,” but, as I’ve discussed before, the drugs don’t work particularly well and have a bunch...
How Might Ginger Help with Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease?

How Might Ginger Help with Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease?

Ground ginger powder is put to the test for weight loss and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Ginger has been used in India and China for thousands of years to treat illnesses, but so has mercury, so that doesn’t really tell you much. That’s what we have...
Why I Don’t Recommend Melatonin Supplements

Why I Don’t Recommend Melatonin Supplements

Over-the-counter melatonin (“anti-gonad hormone”) supplements tend not to contain what they say they do, and the contaminants could be dangerous. If you’re crossing three or more time zones during a journey and plan to stay at your destination for a week or more, long...
Jet Lag Treatment Cheat Sheet

Jet Lag Treatment Cheat Sheet

Use cheat sheets to figure out exactly when and how to treat jet lag using light exposure and light avoidance at specific times of the day, based on which direction you’re going and how many time zones you cross. “Jet lag is a blessing to circadian biologists because...
Paper-Filtered Coffee and Cholesterol

Paper-Filtered Coffee and Cholesterol

New data suggest even paper-filtered coffee may raise “bad” LDL cholesterol. In my video from more than a decade ago called Is Coffee Bad for You?, I explained that the “cholesterol-raising factor from…coffee does not pass [through] a paper filter.” As I discuss in my...