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Can Chocolate Protect Your Heart? A 21,000-Person Study Found Out | Dr. Howard Sesso

Can chocolate actually protect your heart or are we giving candy a health halo it doesn't deserve? Dr. Howard Sesso from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medica

Diet Power: Olympian Gets Stronger, No Longer Eats Meat | Kendrick Farris

Can an athlete become stronger, recover faster, and clean and jerk more than 440 pounds without eating meat? Three-time Olympian Kendrick Farris says the answer is yes.

Fiber May Matter More Than Protein for Muscle and Longevity

Can fiber be even more important than protein for athletic performance, muscle health, and healthy aging? Dr. Regan A. Stiegmann and Dr. Sharon McDowell-Larsen join "Th

The Pleasure Trap Is Getting Worse. Here's How to Escape It. | Dr. Doug Lisle

Why does healthy eating feel so hard—even when we know exactly what to do? Dr. Doug Lisle joins Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room to explain the psychology behind The Plea

Food Is Medicine? Meet the Doctor Growing It

Can food really be medicine? Dr. Ron Weiss is a physician who believes the answer starts long before a meal reaches your plate—it starts in the soil. In this episode of

She Survived Cancer and a Heart Transplant, Then Made History | Dr. Dawn Mussallem

Dr. Dawn Mussallem survived stage 4 cancer, received a heart transplant, and became the first person in history to complete a full marathon just one year later. Her rem

How to Get Healthy When Nobody Else Is | Brenda Workman

Brenda Workman transformed her health. Now she is working to transform an entire state.   After losing 60 pounds and getting off cholesterol and blood pressure medica

How to Keep One Bad Meal From Ruining Your Diet | Alan Stein Jr. & Dr. Hana Kahleova

What happens when you know exactly what you should do for your health but you still don't do it? Motivation may not be the answer. Best-selling author and performance

Chef AJ: How to Keep Going When Life Gets Hard

Chef AJ has been through one of the hardest chapters of her life. But she is still laughing. Still exercising. Still showing up. Still making plans. And most importantly,

Meat Causes Erectile Dysfunction: How and Why | Dr. Neal Barnard

Is meat really masculine or could it be causing erectile dysfunction? Dr. Neal Barnard joins Chuck Carroll to examine the connection between meat, blood flow, heart hea

Lower Cholesterol With Food: The Portfolio Diet Explained | Dr. David Jenkins

Can you lower LDL cholesterol by changing the foods you eat?   Dr. David Jenkins, the pioneering nutrition researcher behind the Portfolio Diet, joins Chuck Carroll t

Can't Poop? Do This to Help Constipation | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

Gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz returns with a complete guide to constipation, including the symptoms many people overlook even when they are having a bowel moveme

When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy | Dr. Matthew Lederman

Can trying to eat perfectly actually make you less healthy? Dr. Matthew Lederman joins Chuck Carroll to explore the hidden connection between food perfectionism, fear,

Real Meat vs. Fake Meat: Which Is Healthier? | Dr. Neal Barnard

Are Impossible Burgers and fake meats worse for you than a steak or hamburger? Dr. Neal Barnard joins Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast to examine one of today's b

Food Addiction Is Real: How to Break Cravings | Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD

Junk food was harder for Susan Peirce Thompson to quit than crack cocaine.   The founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating joins Chuck Carroll for a deeply personal conve

Why Modern Medicine Isn't Making Us Healthy | Drs. Joel Fuhrman & Columbus Batiste

Why do chronic diseases remain so common when we have more medicine and medical technology than ever before? Chuck Carroll is joined by two leading physicians for a pow

Raw Milk and Cow Hearts: Dr. Neal Barnard on Soccer Star's Dangerous Diet

Erling Haaland eats six meals and roughly 6,000 calories every day to fuel his extraordinary performance on the soccer field. But should anyone else be eating like him?

She Survived a Mass Shooting, Then Cancer | Krista Ryan

Krista Ryan survived the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas. Years later, she faced another life-altering challenge when she was diagnosed

What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About Food | Dr. Alan Desmond

A leading gastroenterologist reveals that many doctors are never taught about food, nutrition, and the diseases that can been prevented with diet education.   Dr. Ala

Brain Tumor Diagnosis Changed How Top Doctor Sees Health Care | Dr. Bobby Mukkamala

The president of the American Medical Association became the patient after being diagnosed with a large brain tumor. Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, immediate past president of th