Many of you have already read my review of The China Study and short-lived dialogue with its author, Dr. T. Colin Campbell. Denise Minger of RawFoodsSOS.Com has now written a much more in-depth and comprehensive review of The China Study available as a series of blog posts here: The China Study: Fact or Fallacy? She’s …
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New Evidence of Vitamins A and D Synergism, Can They Cure Diabetes? Chinese Researchers Cite My “Cod Liver OIl Debate” Article
Chinese researchers provide new evidence that vitamins A and D work together in cooperative fashion, each increasing production of the other’s receptor. In pancreatic stem cells, they synergize to flip on the “neurogenin-3” switch, involved in turning stem cells into fully functional insulin-producing cells. Neither vitamin is effective alone, however. This suggests that vitamins A …
Coconut Not Only Protects Your Liver From Alcohol — But From a Diet Deficient in Meat and Eggs Too!
As I pointed out in a previous blog, saturated fats like palm oil, beef tallow, cocoa butter, and MCT oil (a derivative of coconut oil) protect against alcohol-induced fatty liver disease in animals, whereas polyunsaturated oils like corn oil and fish oil promote it. In fact, animals can consume nearly 30 percent of their calories …
Are Some People Pushing Their Vitamin D Levels Too High?
Has science proven that the minimal acceptable blood level of vitamin D, in the form of 25(OH)D, is above 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L)? No. If you’ve been trying to maintain your levels this high because you thought this was the case, I’m sorry to break the news. There is, on the contrary, good evidence that …
Experts Defend Cod Liver Oil, Citing My Work on the Fat-Soluble Vitamins for WAPF!
This January, Dr. Linda Linday, a pediatrician who researches cod liver oil, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, and several other researchers defended cod liver oil against criticism made a year earlier by Dr. Cannell of the Vitamin D Council and 16 other researchers. They cite the WAPF December 2008 “Cod Liver Oil Update” as an …
Proven: Viamin D Prevents the Flu — Throw Out Your Tamiflu
Well, technically we only “prove” things in math and logic, when we assume our premises. But the most recent study on vitamin D and the flu, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, gets as close to proving anything as we can get in nutritional and medical science. Researchers from Japan conducted a double-blind, …
More Attacks on Vitamin A
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: More Attacks on Vitamin A And an addendum: Further Questions on Vitamin A
Does Meat Really Leach Calcium From the Bones?
I have a new blog post over at Mother Nature Obeyed on the Weston A. Price Foundation site: Does Meat Really Leach Calcium From the Bones? Enjoy!
When the Brain Is Hungry For Cholesterol
Those of you who have spent much time perusing my web site know that cholesterol is the limiting factor for the formation of synapses, connections between neurons that form the basis of learning and memory. In fact, one of the reasons we learn better when we get enough sleep is because the brain ramps up …
What to Eat? Check Your Blood Sugar
Dr. William Davis is a practicing cardiologist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He publishes interesting thoughts and practical advice on his Heart Scan Blog. Recently, he suggested measuring your blood sugar one hour after meals in order to determine what foods are best for you. Meals that result in a blood sugar under 110 mg/dL one hour …