A half-teaspoon a day of brewer’s yeast is put to the test in a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial.
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This video is part of my extended series on baker’s, brewer’s, and nutritional yeasts. For more on the pros and cons, check out:
• Preserving Immune Function in Athletes With Nutritional Yeast (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preserving-immune-function-in-athletes-with-nutritional-yeast/)
• Best Food to Prevent Common Childhood Infections (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Best-Food-to-Prevent-Common-Childhood-Infections)<
• Benefits of Nutritional Yeast for Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Benefits-of-Nutritional-Yeast-for-Cancer)
• Best Food for Hay Fever (Seasonal Allergies) (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/Best-Food-for-Hay-Fever-Seasonal-Allergies)
• Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/does-nutritional-yeast-trigger-crohns-disease)
• Is Candida Syndrome Real? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/is-candida-syndrome-real)
• Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/is-nutritional-yeast-healthy-for-everyone)
What if you changed your whole diet? See How Not to Die from Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabetes/) and How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-high-blood-pressure/).
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Super interesting! Thanks so much! Do you think nutritional yeast should have the same effects?
Interesting 🤔
Would nutritional yeast provide similar benefits?
Wow
I will buy it on Iherb
Thanks dr. Greger! How does brewer's yeast taste like?
One of the side effects of brewers yeast for some people is bloating and gas. The last time I tried it (about 15 years ago) I had a WHOLE DAY of bloating and gas, with the most evil smelling burps imaginable. Never again. I take nutritional yeast every day now and have had no problems. Brewers Yeast was one of the favourite supplements of the late Adelle Davis, who is probably the most discredited health guru ever after Robert Atkins. She insisted that she did not know of anyone who drank a quart of milk a day (two pints) ever getting cancer. She herself died of cancer aged only seventy.
Is it advisable for people with normal blood pressure and blood sugars to take brewer’s yeast?
Sehr interessant. Vielen Dank auch an die Übersetzung Frau Hoffmann.⚘⚘
I was watching Dr.Greger's video while munching a tablespoon of yeast.
When I was a kid my mom was furious with me as I was eating through her jars of baker's yeast, she though I was deranged or something… too bad I couldn't tell her that in the future a famous doctor will recommend just that.
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Is there a tasty way to eat it rather than munching on a teaspoon raw?
1,800 mg of yeast is more than one (1) tsp, and not the 1/2/ tsp Dr. G mentions in video. Another example of why one should go by weight not volume. ( are you listening Dr. G?)
Also yeast has the highest concentration of purines of any food. Very significant if you have gout or gout concerns.
Am I the only one who gets sick to the stomach when I eat Brewer's Yeast?
Thanks!
shouldn't we be worried about the risk of crohn's disease associated with brewer's yeast?
Was this study done with Active yeast or Sterile inactivated yeast ? Would Nutritional Yeast work just as well ?
This sounds like it would be perfect for my Mom's insulin resistance and early-stage Alzheimer's, but she's always claimed to have allergic reactions to yeast — mostly affecting her sinuses. I wonder, though, if it's safe to introduce brewer's yeast to her in tiny amounts. Has anyone tried that with some success?
I love brewers yeast. Tastes superb.
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whats the difference between brewers yeast and nutritional yeast?
thanks.
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Can we eat too much antioxidants? What are the side effects?
Cual levadura de cerveza es la mejor para tomar?
Does nutritional yeast offer the same benefits as brewers East?
Brewer's Yeast, Nutritional Yeast, isn't it about the same thing? only that the nutritional yeast is not a product of the brewery industry, but is grown to be a flavoring and a food supplement. They feed the yeast B vitamins so that it can be more of a B supplement besides a food. It does taste really nice in things like vegan cheese…however. Dr. Russell Blaylock in his book, Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills, has it on a list of foods which contain excitotoxins, along with MSG etc.
I'm having trouble determining the recommended daily dose of Brewer's Yeast. Dr Greger's study cited 1/2tsp (approximately 2,000mg), other sources recommend 500mg-1,000mg. I have started taking it, 1/2tsp daily, for Type 2 Diabetes. Help please.
Brewer's yeast is very different from nutritional yeast and it taste awful. The tablets might be better when it's brewer's yeast. The taste will make you want to ceast taking it. I purchased brewer's yeast by mistake ome time thinking it was the same and ewww it is not, I got rid of it and replaced it with nutritional yeast which taste so much better. Does nutritional yeast work for diabetes also?
Fresh or deactivated yeast?
Brilliant news thank you for this
Thanks for sharing!