NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Health & Wellness Podcasts

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and the just-released How Not to Age, brings you the latest in evidence-based nutrition research, delivered in easy to...

Location:

United States

Genres:

Health & Wellness Podcasts

Science Podcasts

Medical

Description:

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and the just-released How Not to Age, brings you the latest in evidence-based nutrition research, delivered in easy to understand video segments. NutritionFacts.org is a non-profit and non-commercial public health organization, and more than 2,000 videos on virtually every aspect of healthy eating are available on our website. New videos and blogs are uploaded every day–always without any sponsors, ads, brand partnerships, or paid subscriptions.

Language:

English

Episodes

Friday Favorites: Dietary Sources of the “Longevity Vitamin” Ergothioneine

5/8/2026

As we age, it may be even more important to include mushrooms (or tempeh) in our diet.

Duration:00:06:34

Do Vegetarians Have More or Less Depression and Anxiety?

5/6/2026

Snapshot-in-time cross-sectional studies are mixed when it comes to vegetarian diets and mental health outcomes.

Duration:00:05:04

Getting Kids to Eat Their Vegetables

5/4/2026

Can offering kale purée to babies shape their future taste for greens?

Duration:00:05:11

Friday Favorites: Are Menopausal Hot Flashes Inevitable? How Can Soy Foods Help?

5/1/2026

Why do 85% of menopausal women suffer hot flashes in some countries but only 15% in others? Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausal hot flash and night sweat symptoms.

Duration:00:08:15

How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Loss of Phytonutrients

4/29/2026

The 150 key nutritional components that are tracked in nutritional databases are only a tiny fraction of the more than 26,000 compounds present in our food.

Duration:00:04:56

How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Packaging Chemicals

4/27/2026

What are the human health effects of the mineral oils, phthalates, and bisphenols leaching from packaging materials into processed foods?

Duration:00:06:07

Friday Favorites: Improving VO2 Max: A Look at Vegetarian and Vegan Athletes

4/24/2026

Plant-based diets improve the performance of athletes and nonathletes alike

Duration:00:05:13

How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Industrial Contaminants

4/22/2026

There are contaminants of processed foods that don’t show up on the ingredients label.

Duration:00:05:34

Friday Favorites: How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Sleeping Pills

4/17/2026

Taking even less than 18 Ambien-class sleeping pills in an entire year may triple the risk of dying prematurely.

Duration:00:06:08

Cold Water Immersion for Gout Flares

4/15/2026

Cold water immersion is put to the test for burns, priapism, gout, and muscle aches.

Duration:00:05:57

Is Shrimp Good for You? Antibiotic Resistance

4/13/2026

The FDA finds 1 in 10 imports of shrimp have unsafe levels of drug residues yet only tests about 1 in 1,000 shipments.

Duration:00:07:15

Friday Favorites: The Best Diet for COVID and Long-COVID

4/10/2026

Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.

Duration:00:06:18

Is Shrimp Good for You? Pollutants and Food Safety

4/8/2026

Eating just a single shrimp could exceed the safety limit for banned pesticides and chemicals.

Duration:00:04:55

Use Fiber to Burn Calories in Your Sleep with an Intestinal Workout

4/6/2026

Our gut can be sedentary too—unless we feed it fiber.

Duration:00:03:43

Friday Favorites: The Effect of Sleep on Weight Loss

4/3/2026

Those randomized to 8.5 hours of sleep a night lost significantly more body fat than those who got 5.5 hours. Getting even one more hour of sleep a night may help with weight control.

Duration:00:09:47

Flushing Calories with Fiber for Weight Loss

4/1/2026

Could eating more fiber mean absorbing fewer calories from everything else we eat?

Duration:00:05:42

Mercury Exposure from Tuna vs. Thimerosal in Vaccines

3/30/2026

A single can of tuna causes as much mercury exposure as how many mercury-containing vaccines?

Duration:00:03:01

Friday Favorites: Why Vegans Should Eat More Plant-Based

3/27/2026

One cannot assume that simply avoiding animal foods will necessarily produce a healthy diet.

Duration:00:05:29

Can Cold Showers Improve Immune Function?

3/25/2026

Does cold stress impair or boost our immunity?

Duration:00:04:37

What Is Titanium Dioxide, and Is It Safe?

3/23/2026

Banned in Europe for concerns regarding DNA damage, titanium dioxide remains legal in U.S. foods.

Duration:00:04:55