In certain medical conditions, probiotic supplements may actually make things worse. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Support NutritionFacts.org with a donation at http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate. This is a link to the video I alluded to: Preventing the Common Cold with Probiotics? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-the-common-cold-with-probiotics). I also talk about the potential benefits in my videos Preventing and Treating Diarrhea with Probiotics (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-and-treating-diarrhea-with-probiotics/) and Gut Feelings: Probiotics and Mental Health (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-feelings-probiotics-and-mental-health/). Perhaps it would be safer and more effective to instead focus on fostering the growth of the good bacteria with have by feeding them prebiotics (fiber and resistant starch): • Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden) • Boosting Good Bacteria in the Colon Without Probiotics (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-good-bacteria-in-the-colon-without-probiotics/) • Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/resistant-starch-colon-cancer) • Gut Dysbiosis - Starving Our Microbial Self (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-obesity-infectious) • How to Become a Fecal Transplant Super Donor (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Become-a-Fecal-Transplant-Super-Donor) • Microbiome: We Are What They Eat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Microbiome-We-Are-What-They-Eat) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/culture-shock-questioning-the-efficacy-and-safety-of-probiotics and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/culture-shock-questioning-the-efficacy-and-safety-of-probiotics. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Icons created by Laymik, Tinashe Mugayi, Nikita Kozin, and Tomas Knopp from The Noun Project. Image credit: Kristina DeMuth https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Oxidized cholesterol (concentrated in products containing eggs, processed meat, and parmesan cheese) has cancer-fueling estrogenic effects on human breast cancer. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ The video I mentioned is How to Reduce Cholesterol Oxidation (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-reduce-cholesterol-oxidation/). For the role in Alzheimer’s disease see Oxidized Cholesterol as a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxidized-cholesterol-as-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease/). This is the 3rd in a 3-video series on cholesterol and cancer. In case you missed the first two: Eggs and Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-breast-cancer) and Dietary Cholesterol and Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-cholesterol-and-cancer). There’s all sorts of foods that can decrease breast cancer risk, though, and even improve survival. See, for example: • Broccoli vs. Breast Cancer Stem Cells (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/broccoli-versus-breast-cancer-stem-cells/) • Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-asian-women-have-less-breast-cancer/) • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-prevention/) • Breast Cancer vs. Mushrooms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-vs-mushrooms/) • Preventing Breast Cancer by Any Greens Necessary (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-breast-cancer-by-any-greens-necessary/) • Which Dietary Factors Affect Breast Cancer Most? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Which-Dietary-Factors-Affect-Breast-Cancer-Most) • How to Block Breast Cancer's Estrogen-Producing Enzymes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Block-Breast-Cancers-Estrogen-Producing-Enzymes) • Is Soy Healthy for Breast Cancer Survivors? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-Soy-Healthy-for-Breast-Cancer-Survivors) Best way to get D? See The Best Way to Get Vitamin D: Sun, Supplements, or Salons? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-way-to-get-vitamin-D-sun-supplements-or-salons) and The Risks and Benefits of Sensible Sun Exposure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-risks-and-benefits-of-sensible-sun-exposure). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxidized-cholesterol-27hc-may-explain-3-breast-cancer-mysteries and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxidized-cholesterol-27hc-may-explain-3-breast-cancer-mysteries. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgments for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Image credit: Ed Uthman / flickr https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

The CHIP program has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it out into the community. Subscribe to Dr. Greger’s free nutrition newsletter at https://www.nutritionfacts.org/subscribe and get a free recipe from his new HOW NOT TO DIE COOKBOOK. (All proceeds Dr. Greger receives from his books, DVDs, and speaking directly support NutritionFacts.org). This is the first in a 4-video series on CHIP, the Complete Health Improvement Program. Stay tuned for: • The Weight Loss Program That Got Better with Time (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Weight-Loss-Program-That-Got-Better-with-Time) • CHIP, the Complete Health Improvement Program (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chip-the-complete-health-improvement-program) • A Workplace Wellness Program that Works (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-workplace-wellness-program-that-works) More on the power of lifestyle medicine in videos such as: • Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/) • What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (https://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/) • The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Actual-Benefit-of-Diet-vs-Drugs) • Why Prevention is Worth a Ton of Cure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Why-Prevention-is-Worth-a-Ton-of-Cure) • How Not to Die from Heart Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-heart-disease) • How Not to Die from Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabetes/) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-is-the-optimal-diet and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-is-the-optimal-diet. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Image credit: Monsruo Estudio / Unsplash https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Grape juice and whole grapes are put to the test for brain function, including cognitive decline in early Alzheimer’s. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ When commercial entities fund studies it’s more for marketing purposes than science. That doesn’t necessarily mean the findings are invalid, but you do have to pay special attention to things like the framing of the research question, the experimental methods, statistical analysis, and biased interpretation of results (spin). The blueberry video I mentioned is Benefits of Blueberries for the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-the-brain). There’s also Benefits of Blueberries for Mood and Mobility (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-blueberries-for-mood-and-mobility). What else might help protect brain function? • Dietary Theory of Alzheimer's (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-theory-of-alzheimers/) • How to Slow Brain Aging by Two Years (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-slow-brain-aging-by-two-years/) • Benefits of Rosemary for Brain Function (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Benefits-of-Rosemary-for-Brain-Function) • Best Aromatherapy Herb for Alzheimer's (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Best-Aromatherapy-Herb-for-Alzheimers) • How to Prevent Alzheimer’s With Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Prevent-Alzheimers-With-Diet) • Best Brain Foods: Berries and Nuts Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Best-Brain-Foods-Berries-and-Nuts-Put-to-the-Test) • Brain Healthy Foods to Fight Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brain-healthy-foods-to-fight-aging) • Do Lutein Supplements Help with Brain Function? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-lutein-supplements-help-with-brain-function) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-grapes-for-brain-health and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-grapes-for-brain-health. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org