Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
Listen to Dr. Mercola's Weekly Podcast, as the legendary natural health pioneer continues to lead you on your journey towards optimal health.
Episodes
- Sunspots usually stay flat and stable over time, while skin cancer often changes shape, color, texture, or sensation as abnormal cells grow and spread
- Melanoma warning signs follow the ABCDE rule: asymmetry, irregular borders, uneven color, larger diameter, and evolution over time, giving you a simple way to check your own skin each month
- Researchers followed more than 1.39 million adults and found that advanced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) disease was strongly associated with higher cancer risk, especially once people reached the more severe stages tied to insulin resistance, kidney dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease
- Cancer incidence rose from 81.2 cases per 10,000 perso...
- Eccentric exercise — movements where your muscles lengthen under tension, such as walking downstairs or lowering into a squat — builds greater force with less oxygen demand and less cardiovascular strain than conventional exercise
- Muscle soreness after eccentric exercise usually comes from inflammation and irritation in connective tissue r...
- Creatine acts like a rapid energy backup system for your cells, helping your muscles, brain, and heart regenerate ATP during physical exertion, mental stress and recovery from illness or aging
- Research suggests creatine may support not only exercise performance but also aspects of memory, mood, and mental processing speed — particularly in older...
- Targeted delivery technologies — lipid nanoparticles, liposomes, and microencapsulation — solve the absorption problem by protecting an active compound and carrying it across the barriers that would normally destroy it or block its absorption
- These are not fringe ideas. They are the same class of delivery science behind some of the most ad...
- Manuka honey eye drops reduced dry eye symptoms after cataract surgery more effectively than standard artificial tears, with patients reporting notable improvements in irritation, redness, and visual comfort within one month
- Researchers found that people using Manuka honey improved their dry eye symptom scores by 27.3 points on average, compared to 4....
- Supplements were never meant to be miniature drugs. They exist to complement a nutrient-dense diet, not to override a poor one the way pharmaceuticals are used to suppress symptoms
- Compliance is the supplement world's quietest failure. Good intentions are common; the willingness to swallow a fistful of capsules every day is not, and a supplement sitti...
- The label on a supplement bottle tells you what went into the capsule — not what reaches your cells. For a great many products, the gap between those two numbers is enormous, and it is invisible at the point of purchase
- The scientific term for how much of a compound actually reaches your bloodstream in active form is bioavailability. Most oral s...
- There is no single temperature that automatically makes exercise unsafe because humidity, direct sunlight, and airflow often influence heat stress as much as the temperature itself
- Your body maintains a core temperature near 98.6 degrees F, but exercise and hot weather together increase heat production, raising the risk of heat-related illness when he...
- Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide were living with a mental disorder in 2023, and anxiety and depression accounted for much of the increase, making mental illness one of the leading causes of disability across the globe
- Teenagers ages 15 to 19 now carry the highest burden of mental disorders, replacing middle-aged adults as the most affected group a...
- Chronic kidney disease often develops silently for years, but even early kidney damage sharply increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and dangerous heart rhythm problems
- Two common tests called eGFR and UACR reveal hidden kidney stress long before symptoms appear and provide an early warning sign that your cardiovascular system is...
- Human brain tissue contains far higher concentrations of microplastics than liver or kidney tissue, and researchers found the burden increased sharply between 2016 and 2024
- Researchers discovered that patients with microplastics embedded inside carotid artery plaque faced a 4.53-fold higher risk of heart attack, stroke, or death compared to patients w...
- In my May 2026 CBS Chicago interview, I explained that your body already contains detox systems that work continuously through your liver, skin, kidneys, and digestive tract, but processed foods, seed oils, and dehydration overload those pathways and slow recovery
- Regular sun exposure and increased outdoor activity naturally support detoxification by ...
- Your abdominal muscles physically influence your brain every time you move by creating pressure changes that affect brain fluid circulation, nervous system signaling, and mechanical stimulation inside the skull
- Research showed that exercises combining movement with coordination and focus, including yoga, tai chi, Pilates, dance and bodyweight training...
- The amount of time stool stays inside your body strongly influences your gut bacteria, short-chain fatty acid production, inflammation levels, and metabolic health
- Researchers found that slower gut transit shifts bacteria away from carbohydrate fermentation and toward protein fermentation, increasing irritating compounds like ammonia and hydrogen sulf...
- Glioblastoma is considered one of the most aggressive brain cancers, with survival often limited to about a year, largely because tumors adapt by rewiring how they use nutrients and energy
- Tumors divert vitamin B3 (niacinamide) away from normal energy production into a pathway that supports their survival, suggesting a metabolic weakness that could po...
- Newly declassified government records suggest a U.S. national laboratory considered a laboratory origin for COVID-19 to be just as plausible as a natural origin as early as May 2020, raising new questions about what officials knew during the pandemic's early months
- The released documents describe federally funded coronavirus research that included spi...
- Adults with higher cardiorespiratory fitness had significantly lower risks of dementia, depression, and psychotic disorders, showing that your long-term brain health is strongly tied to how efficiently your body uses oxygen during movement
- Researchers found that even small improvements in exercise capacity reduced dementia and depression risk, meaning...
- The pharmaceutical industry has perfected this model: drugs are designed to be taken perpetually rather than cure, side effects create demand for additional drugs, and the entire regulatory apparatus is structured to suppress affordable natural therapies that challenge it
- SSRIs epitomize this dynamic — massively overprescribed, frequently life-r...
- Researchers found that every 10% increase in ultraprocessed food intake linked to measurable declines in attention performance, even in adults without dementia
- Attention problems such as brain fog, distractibility, slower thinking, and mental fatigue often appear long before obvious memory loss and may reflect early metabolic stress in the brain
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