Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin: Marker of Vitamin K Deficiency, or Booster of Insulin Signaling and Testosterone?

New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin: Marker of Vitamin K Deficiency, or Booster of Insulin Signaling and Testosterone? Enjoy! Update December 17, 2016: If you enjoyed this, I encourage you to check out The Ultimate Vitamin K2 Resource. It has easy-to-read practical advice, click-to-expand technical explanations, infographics that explain the science in a fun way, …

The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 7: Placing Price’s Work in Context

I just posted the seventh and final installment in my series over at Mother Nature Obeyed laying out the most salient points from my talk about Weston Price on Sean Croxton’s Real Food Summit last September. The talk was free for a few days, but to listen to it now you have to purchase the …

My Experience With Vegetarianism — Updated With New Reflections (2013)

My Experience With Vegetarianism — Updated With New Reflections Published June 9, 2013 — Note:The old version of this account, published in 2005, can be found here. I remember vividly the moment I realized everything had changed. Working as an undergraduate in a campus dining hall, I spotted a young man lift up half a stack of …

How to Cook Liver and Make it Taste Not-Bad

Liver is an absolute nutritional powerhouse, nature’s multivitamin. Many people have bad experiences with liver because they don’t like the taste, but these negative experiences can be minimized by starting with high-quality, fresh liver, and then storing, preparing, and cooking it right. Tip 1: Grass-Fed Liver First off, start with grass-fed liver. It’s likely to …

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!