Diet

Chocolate’s Dirty Secret: Unveiling the Risks of Lead and Cadmium Contamination

By Brandon LaGreca / September 2, 2024 / Comments Off on Chocolate’s Dirty Secret: Unveiling the Risks of Lead and Cadmium Contamination

Chocolate has long been a beloved indulgence, bringing joy to millions around the world. However, recent research has highlighted a troubling issue lurking within this sweet treat: the presence of toxic metals, specifically lead and cadmium, which pose significant health risks.

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The Easy Way to Get More Greens in Your Diet

By Brandon LaGreca / January 25, 2024 / Comments Off on The Easy Way to Get More Greens in Your Diet

Are you eating these greens on a regular basis? If the answer is no, there is an easier way. All of the plants listed above are crops organically grown on the Standard Process® farm and compose their flagship green powder supplement, SP® Power Mix.

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Viome vs. Biohm: Which Is Best for Microbiome Testing?

By Brandon LaGreca / June 3, 2023 / Comments Off on Viome vs. Biohm: Which Is Best for Microbiome Testing?

Microbiome research is changing the way we practice medicine. After decades of refining the optimization of probiotics, we must now consider the nuances of prebiotics and postbiotics. Think of prebiotics as food for the gut microbiome and postbiotics as health-aiding metabolites produced by microbes. Add to this the consumer trend of sampling and shipping one’s…

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Are You Eating Fake Food?

By Brandon LaGreca / June 14, 2022 / Comments Off on Are You Eating Fake Food?

Traveling late at night when a craving hits? No problem as the nearest gas station has your belly and brain covered with an assortment of colorful and wildly flavorful snack options. How could any reasonable human being find fault in such an agricultural marvel? 

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Cancer Cause or Cancer Contributor?

By Brandon LaGreca / November 21, 2019 / Comments Off on Cancer Cause or Cancer Contributor?

What causes cancer, and what contributes to cancer formation? These are two different concepts that overlap and influence each other.

A cause of cancer is a carcinogen. A contributor to cancer formation can be mutagenic but is context-driven by the strength and duration of exposure, genetic predisposition to cancer, and the collective burden of other environmental triggers. 

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My Anticancer Smoothie Recipe

By Brandon LaGreca / December 12, 2018 / Comments Off on My Anticancer Smoothie Recipe

I’ve recently lectured about my experience living with a small bowel obstruction. During that talk I shared my smoothie recipe, formulated for its ease of digestion and nutrient density. Although no longer suffering from episodes of small bowel obstruction, I have maintained my ritual of blending a breakfast smoothie for its anticancer benefits.

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To Heat or Not to Heat: The Failing of Raw Food Diets

By Brandon LaGreca / June 25, 2018 / Comments Off on To Heat or Not to Heat: The Failing of Raw Food Diets

The findings of Francis Pottenger are often cited as proof that humans, as animals, should be consuming a raw diet. Being that humans are the only Earth-dwellers who have harnessed fire, raw food is indeed the only option on the menu for the rest of the animal kingdom.

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Ferment Your Way to a Healthier Gut with Homemade Sauerkraut

By Brandon LaGreca / April 16, 2018 / Comments Off on Ferment Your Way to a Healthier Gut with Homemade Sauerkraut

Teeming with life and full of bubbly deliciousness, sauerkraut is digestive vigor in a jar. 

When made at home, sauerkraut is inexpensive and simple to prepare. One head of cabbage yields about a quart of sauerkraut and trillions of beneficial bacteria to supplement your gut flora. 

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The Problem with GcMAF

By Brandon LaGreca / December 7, 2017 / Comments Off on The Problem with GcMAF

One of the new players in the holistic treatment of cancer is a compound called Gc protein-derived macrophage activating factor (GcMAF). As the name implies, this naturally occurring protein activates macrophages, an innate element of immune function. GcMAF can be deactivated by the enzyme alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (nagalase), which is produced by cancer cells and viruses.

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The Ethics of Eating Meat

By Brandon LaGreca / August 4, 2017 /

The ethics of eating meat extend beyond the ascribed relations of humans to livestock and humans to game. 

Life consumes life, and as omnivores, we cannot separate ourselves from this fundamental, underlying ecological truth. As such, our consumption of food, whether mineral, plant, fungal, or animal in origination, must be related to in the larger context of how all species have survived over the millennia.

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