Did you ever wonder if certain foods have a direct effect on your health?

Well, I'm here to solve that mystery since you are the foods you eat.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host Dr Michael Greger.

Today we answer a wide variety of your questions like the best way to treat

insomnia or information on how to lower your cholesterol and whether or not you can eat too many beans.

Hello, this is Dr. Michael Greger coming to you live from my treadmill, my stationary treadmill, because so many people,

complain that I was making people seasick and don't want to make people sick.

That's kind of the antithesis of what I'm trying to do.

Let's get to your questions.

First one up is nutritionally.

For weight loss longevity to peanuts, are they more like nuts or legumes, and which nuts

and seeds have highest concentration

to plant sterols to bring down LDL. So, nutritionally, peanuts are very similar to

tree nuts and so in terms of weight loss very similar kind of

Cloric density and in terms of longevity walnuts really beat all other tree nuts as well as peanuts.

And I don't think peanut butter works at all.

The silica prevent AG's?

No.

I mean, no.

Not that I know of, nor would it boost collagen.

I do have a webinar on collagen boosting foods. of

nor would it boost collagen boosting foods. Check it out.

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