I have a new post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: New Evidence of Synergy Between Vitamins A and D: Protection Against Autoimmune Diseases Enjoy!
I’m Thankful for Wise Traditions, Past and Present
Last year around this time, I culled a few pearls of wisdom from folks much wiser than I am to provide a reflection on the holiday of Thanksgiving and the actual practice of giving thanks, for which the holiday is named. I can’t top that this year, so if you missed it or you’d like …
Highlights From Experimental Biology 2011
I arrived in Washington, DC on Friday evening to meet with 13,000 other biological scientists for the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting and just got home Wednesday night. I was there to give a 15-minute presentation on how I fed an overdose of fructose to a couple dozen rats and it didn’t do any of the …
How a Study Can Show Something to Be True When It’s Completely False — Regression to the Mean
In a previous post, “The Great Unknown: Using the Statistics to Explore the Secret Depths of Unpublished Research,” I discussed one way a study can show something to be true when it’s false, or vice versa. If some nutrient or drug has a “true” biological effect, and we repeat many studies of the phenomenon, we …
The USDA’s New Bizarre Definition of Nutrient Density
New Post over at the WAPF Blog: The 2010 USDA/HSS Dietary Guidelines — A Rather Bizarre Definition of “Nutrient Dense”
Everything We Thought We Knew About Vitamin D And Latitude Might Be Wrong!
New blog post over at WestonAPrice.Org on why everything we thought we knew about vitamin D and latitude might be wrong: Vitamin D — Problems With the Latitude Hypothesis