Don’t Supplement Glutathione or Taurine Against Cancer!

Posted on April 7, 2026 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Do you take supplements? How about Glutathione and Taurine? This summary of a couple of research studies shows that supplementing these can backfire when it comes to cancer! Cancer cells use these for their own gain in unusual ways!

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A FB friend shared an article with me: Scientists Discover Cancer Tumors Are “Addicted” to This Common Antioxidant, which cited a research article titled “Catabolism of extracellular glutathione supplies cysteine to support tumours” published in Nature (here) with a second research paper that is mentioned in the summary article, which is titled “Taurine from tumour niche drives glycolysis to promote leukemogenesis”, found here.

What is important to know about these articles is that they explain that taking excessive antioxidants can lead to serious harm by supporting cancer development and growth! While cancer lives on glucose and glutamate, we now understand that it can recruit other elements with specific functions and use them to achieve its goal of getting access to food (glucose, primarily)! This is how:

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Food Trends: BUSTED! WiO Tortilla Chips

Posted on March 16, 2026 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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Here is a product that hit my junk bin on social media, which I found very curious (and quite disgusting) upon further examination. It is now added to my top-of-the-line junk foods list to be avoided!

WiO Tortilla Chips

Take a look at the advertisement: No artificial colors. No added sugars, no erythritol, no preservatives, no artificial colors, and no synthetics.

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Junk Protein Craze!

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

High Protein or Junk Protein?

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With the release of new dietary guidelines (check out my deep dive on that here) a new high-protein craze has taken the public by storm—especially the ultra-processed-food (UPF) manufacturers. To be clear, “craze” isn’t necessarily a bad thing—protein is vital for health—but the haste with which people are grabbing anything labeled “high protein” is concerning.

Context is everything. When it comes to your health, the most important question isn’t just how much protein you’re getting, but what on earth are you eating to get that protein?!

If you eat a donut pumped with a high-protein filling, is it a health food? No. It’s still an UPF.

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Bean-Eaters’ Tragedy 2025-2030: The New DGA

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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The new DGA (Dietary Guidelines for Americans) was released a few days ago. Everyone is talking about beans these days! People want to eat beans! Why do they, might you ask? Because of the many years of misinformation campaign! And because the new DGA reduced the amount recommended.

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How to Prevent Being Floxed

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

I just returned from a wonderful 2-week trip to Africa. I was an invited speaker to present on the topic of migraine in a conference, the World Nutrition Summit 2025, in Cape Town, South Africa. After the conference, my husband and I flew to Zimbabwe and Botswana for an additional week of the most amazing experience. I am sharing some pictures and videos for you to enjoy at the end of this article—here just one, my favorite time with two cheetahs—they are trained, not sedated.

Picture of me with two cheetahs. It was an amazing experience walking and caressing these amazing creatures!

Beauty and the Beast

When we arrived in Zimbabwe, the world changed from a quite familiar civilized world of Cape Town, to something very strange. In a lovely (5*) hotel, which had no TV though had WIFI, in a room without internal walls with a double shower without curtains, we woke in the morning to monkeys jumping on the roof from a couple of trees in front of our balcony (these were 1-story attached “huts”). It was quite surreal. The following day I discovered that on the other side of the electric fence, a stone throw from my glass sliding door, wild animals—elephants, zebras, lions, warthogs, cheetahs, mongooses, ostriches, giraffes, etc.,—could be expected to pop up anywhere, at any time. It was the most amazing and exhilarating experience.  It isn’t like we were “in nature” but somehow nature was “in” our room.

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Understanding The EAT-Lancet 2.0

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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  1. The EAT-Lancet: Our Worst Nightmare

As defined by its authors, EAT-Lancet is a “new evidence-based insight on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries”. Once I crossed everything out that it is not true, this is what remains: “Eat-Lancet is a new insight within planetary boundaries”. There is absolutely nothing evidence-based in what they present, nothing focuses on true human health and nutrition, and nothing is safe and just. Let me hammer the Eat-Lancet 2.0 into a heap of dust by discussing some of its main tenets.

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The Fiber War

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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Do you eat foods rich in fiber? Why? Chances are, you are eating a fiber-rich diet because you have been told repeatedly it is healthy and essential, and you may have even heard something about the gut-brain connection and that it is very important to keep your gut in good health. But have you ever asked why your gut would need something that is not food? After all, your gut is the center for digestion and nutrient absorption of the foods you eat. Therefore, everything you eat is assumed to be digested and absorbed, yet most fiber is indigestible, and no fiber of any kind has nutrients for your body to absorb.

So why are we told to eat fiber? And is the need for fiber really true?

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The Antioxidants That Aren’t

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

The Big Lie

We live in a world where all information must be scrutinized very carefully. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to all the information necessary to make evaluative studies and comparisons. There is a market to sell anything and everything (see my previous articles on grounding and sugar as examples). There are particularly few sources of unbiased truth on the matter of nutrition. My blog has been aiming to be one of these sources for over a decade.

This time I am biting into a huge toxic subject: plant antioxidants.

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Grounding? Is that Really a thing?

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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The Grounding Myth: Why You Can Skip the Special Mats and Shoes

“Grounding,” also called “earthing,” is the belief that by physically connecting to the Earth (e.g., walking barefoot or using conductive mats), your body absorbs electrons from the Earth that neutralize oxidative stress, inflammation, and “imbalances” in charge. Advocates claim it improves sleep, mood, and pain. But these claims have no basis in physics, physiology, or credible scientific research.

What Grounding Actually Means (in Physics)

In electrical engineering, “grounding” refers to creating a reference voltage (typically 0 Volt) by connecting a circuit to the Earth. This allows excess charge to safely discharge, protecting electrical systems—not biological ones. The human body, which is full of conductive salt water, does not need this type of discharge for health. We do not accumulate “excess positive charge” that must be bled off through our feet. Read: Plonsey, R., & Barr, R. C. (2007). Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach (https://a.co/d/8xekdqF)

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How Much Protein Should You Eat?

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

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My Take on Protein

Protein is discussed everywhere these days. One of the questions is whether the protein consumed will be usable as protein by our body. After all, eating an avocado won’t remain or be used as an avocado in our body. Foods change in our stomach to a mush (chyme), that is unrecognizable. What about protein? How is protein used by our body? And how much of it should we eat for health and strength?

I have frequently been criticized for the amount of protein consumption I support. I am a proponent of a high animal protein diet, not necessarily carnivore (an animal product only diet) but in large part animal based. I am also often challenged to explain why I believe that eating a lot of animal protein is the right thing to do since there is so much noise about how protein, specifically animal protein, is bad for us. How come I still recommend eating so much meat? There are plenty of blogs and academic articles claiming that meat causes various cancers.

Let me start by explaining what protein is, what it does, how much we need to eat and why, then I describe some of the misinformation around between animal and plant protein, the amount needed for health, and the cancer connection. Buckle up! This will be a bumpy ride!

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