Too much choline—a compound concentrated in eggs and other animal products—can make bodily secretions smell like rotting fish, and may increase the risk of heart disease, due to conversion in the gut to trimethylamine....
Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones. The pH of one's urine can be estimated with natural pigments, using kitchen...
The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has been called into...
Reducing the ratio of animal to plant protein in men’s diets may slow the progression of prostate...
A plant-based diet may not only be the safest treatment for multiple sclerosis; it may also be the most...
Methionine restriction—best achieved through a plant-based diet—may prove to have a major impact on patients with cancer because, unlike normal tissues, many human tumors require the amino acid methionine to...
Within a few weeks of eating healthier, our taste sensations change such that foods with lower salt, sugar, and fat content actually taste...
Those eating a more plant-based diet may naturally have an enhanced antioxidant defense system to counter the DNA damage caused by free radicals produced by high-intensity...