Treating Hashimoto’s Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/26/2025

Treating Hashimoto’s Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet

What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a daily half teaspoon of powdered black cumin in Hashimoto’s patients?“Autoimmune thyroiditis, also known as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, is an organ-specific autoimmune disorder,” where our body attacks our own thyroid glan

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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/24/2025

Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both?Several autoimmune diseases affect the thyroid gland, and Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are the most common. Graves’ disease results in hyperthy

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A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/19/2025

A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?

How much nori, dulse, or arame approximates the recommended daily allowance for iodine?Dairy milk supplies between a quarter and a half of the daily iodine requirement in the United States, though milk itself has “little native iodine.” The iodine content in cow’s milk is mainly determined by factor

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Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/17/2025

Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk

Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine.“Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal thyroid function.” In fact, the two thyroid hormones are named after how many iodine atoms they contain: T3 and T4. “Given that iodine is extensively stored in the thyroid gland itself, it can safely

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What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/12/2025

What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?

How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries?The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone over the age of six months get a routine flu shot every year, unless you have some sort of contraindication, such as an allergy to any of the vacci

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Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/10/2025

Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Worldwide, physical inactivity accounts for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but what we eat accounts for nearly 20 times that. As I discuss in my video Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes, unhealthy diets shave hundreds of millions of disability-free

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Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/05/2025

Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy.By cultivating muscle meat directly, without associated organs like intestines, the incidence of foodborne diseases “could be significantly reduced,” as could exposure to anti

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Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 06/03/2025

Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming practices.Cultivating muscle meat directly from cells instead of raising and slaughtering animals would reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses “due to fecal contamination during slaug

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Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/29/2025

Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park

We had the pleasure of talking with Remy Morimoto Park about food, culture, and AAPI Month. We hope you enjoy this interview and her recipes for Crunchy Pad Thai Inspired Salad and Miso Soup.Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. I am a vegan cookbook author and health and wellne

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Food Safety and Cultivated Meat
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/27/2025

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals?In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years Hence,” Winston Churchill predicted that we would one day “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by gr

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Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/22/2025

Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects

Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world?“There is now overwhelming evidence to support reducing LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol)”—so-called bad cholesterol—to reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

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Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/20/2025

Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent stages of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis.Important to our understanding and the prevention of the global increase of inflammatory bow

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Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/15/2025

Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far exceeding the efficacy of other treatments.“One of the most common questions physicians treating patients with IBD [inflammatory bowel disease] are asked is whether changing diet could positively a

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Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/13/2025

Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.If you search online for “Crohn’s disease and diet” or “ulcerative colitis and diet,” the top results are a hodgepodge of conflicting advice, as you can see below and at 0:15 in my video Preventing

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Skincare as You Age Infographic
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/08/2025

Skincare as You Age Infographic

When I dove into the scientific research for my book How Not to Age, I uncovered the best ways we can care for our skin as we mature. What are the most important lifestyle factors? The best topical creams? Are there any beneficial procedures? This infographic summarizes the main takeaways.Get this i

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Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/06/2025

Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet

What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can we get rid of it?Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most frequent chronic liver disease, thanks in part to our epidemic of obesity, and is even seen in children. “[N]early 70–80% of obese children may have N

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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/02/2025

Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures

In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying hens, were affected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). These numbers are staggering yet barely scratch the surface of a potentially larger threat looming over the country.

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Inhospitable Hospital Food
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 05/01/2025

Inhospitable Hospital Food

What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be designed to inspire repeat business?“Hospital food needs a revolution.” I was surprised to learn that most inpatient meals served in hospitals are “not required to meet national nutrition standards for a healthy diet.

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Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/29/2025

Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable diseases than they really have—fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary costs, and unnecessary patient harm.“The history of medicine abounds with dogmas assumed and later overcome”

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Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/24/2025

Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?

Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients based on how much they themselves will get paid.In 2007, we learned from the COURAGE trial that angioplasty and stents—percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—don’t reduce the risk of death or heart attack

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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/22/2025

Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients. Angioplasty and stents—percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—for stable, non-emergency coronary artery disease are among “the most common invasive procedures per

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The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/17/2025

The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?“Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)”—angioplasty and stent placement—“continues to be frequently performed for patients with stable [non-emergency] coronary ar

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Heart Stents and Their Risks
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/15/2025

Heart Stents and Their Risks

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that are all risk without benefit?Millions of people have gotten stents for stable coronary artery disease (CAD), yet we now know that angioplasty and stent

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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on 04/11/2025

2024 Year in Review

Celebrating 2024. Celebrating Your Support.What a year NutritionFacts.org had! Our successes, output, and outreach in 2024 are thanks to your support. We simply cannot do what we do without your generosity. Thank you.You’re invited to read our 2024 Year in Review in full. Please share in the work we

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