Are Bioactives the New Magic Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease? By Emeran Mayer, MD What is responsible for the multiple benefits of a largely plant based diet? The benefits of a largely plant-based diet have been implicated in primary disease prevention, disease-risk reduction, as well as healthy aging. The most well known example of a largely …
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The Surprising Health Benefits of Chocolate By Fiona Riddle You’ve probably come across a headline or two along the lines of “new study reveals chocolate is good for your health” or “eating chocolate everyday will help you live longer.” And who doesn’t want to believe that something as delicious as chocolate can actually be beneficial …
Do Millions of People Need a Gluten Free Diet? By Emeran Mayer, MD Going gluten-free is a popular trend fueled by the media, the internet, and a sizable group of medical practitioners. This trend is based on the claim that a gluten free diet (GFD) has vast benefits for a number of disorders affecting mind …
Insects: The “New” Frontier By E. Dylan Mayer I distinctly remember a class I took in my undergraduate studies at Boulder where a guest speaker came in and introduced us to the idea of eating insects. She brought our class multiple insect dishes including cricket chocolate chip cookies and cricket popcorn. Just about everyone was …
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away By Emeran Mayer, MD There are numerous benefits we have derived from our microbial co-inhabitants on planet Earth over millions of years. It starts with the realization that we humans wouldn’t be here if microbes living in the planet’s oceans had not developed the sophisticated language that …