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Mastering Nutrition episode 19 is a recording of the 07/12/16 Facebook Live event, "As Chris Masterjohn, PhD, Anything About Health, Fitness, and Nutrition"

Mastering Nutrition Episode 19: You Asked Me Anything About Health, Fitness, and Nutrition, Facebook Live, 07/12/16

This episode is a recording of the Facebook Live event, “Ask Chris Masterjohn, PhD, Anything About Health, Fitness, and Nutrition” that originally aired on Tuesday, July 12, at 5:00 PM eastern time. You can watch it as a video, stream or download it as a podcast, or even read the transcript. Here is the video: …

Chris Masterjohn PhD., talks about Dietary Management of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH)

Mastering Nutrition Episode 16: Dietary Management of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH)

In this episode, I discuss dietary management of familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). This question was asked on the Facebook Live episode from 06/16/2016, “Ask Chris Masterjohn, PhD Anything About Heart Disease,” but I was unable to get to the question within Facebook’s time limit. Please note that HeFH is a medical issue and the purpose of …

The Facebook Live episode where Chris Masterjohn, PhD, answered questions about saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, ApoE E4 genetics, carbohydrate, insulin, PCSK9, the LDL receptor, thyroid hormone, blood cholesterol, the total-to-HDL-cholesterol ratio, other blood lipid measurements, prehypertension, and much more.

Mastering Nutrition Episode 15: You Asked Me Anything About Heart Disease, Facebook Live, 06/16/2016

This past Thursday, we all showed up live on Facebook so you could ask me anything about heart disease. Here’s the video, and the audio recording as a podcast.  Don’t forget this Saturday at 2:00 PM eastern time you can show up live again to ask me anything about methylation! Here is the full schedule …

Mastering Nutrition with Chris Masterjohn

Introducing Mastering Nutrition… Wait For It… PODCAST! Episodes 1, 2, and 3 are now live!

I’m excited to announce that with this post I am launching Mastering Nutrition PODCAST!   Here are episodes 1, 2, and 3: I would love it if you could give me feedback by heading to ITunes, subscribing, and leaving me a rating and review. If I get a positive response, I’ll begin releasing more content …

Does Carnitine From Red Meat Contribute to Heart Disease Through Intestinal Bacterial Metabolism to TMAO?

New over at Mother Nature Obeyed, my take on the new Nature Medicine paper from Stanley Hazen’s group at the Cleveland Clinic arguing that red meat causes heart disease through conversion of carnitine to TMAO:   Does Carnitine From Red Meat Contribute to Heart Disease Through Intestinal Bacterial Metabolism to TMAO? Enjoy!  

My Interview with Dr. Mercola On Cholesterol, Vitamin K, Insulin, Blood Lipids, CT Scans, Calcification, and Heart Disease

From a Christmas-celebrator to the rest of you, Merry Sixth Day of Christmas! I hope you’re all enjoying whatever you might be celebrating during the season of expanding daylight and just plain enjoying life. Dr. Mercola posted a video interview today that we had recorded a few weeks back, about cholesterol, vitamin K, insulin, blood …

Gary Taubes on Cherry-Picking and Paradigm Shifts (A Brief Thought on Science)

Warning: A Serious Blog Post Occurs Somewhere Below Some controversy recently erupted in the Twitter-sphere when a number of us including Dave Dixon and Dallas Hartwig were recently discussing Denise Minger’s angular hypothesis of atherosclerosis, in which she proposed that increased concentrations of serum bananas and increased concentrations of other plasma constituents with pointy ends or sharp edges penetrate the …