Welcome to my site! Here’s my academic background: I earned my PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in the summer of 2012. From September 2012 to August 2014, I served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Comparative Biosciences department of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From …
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 …
Update 07/7/16: The next event has been moved from Saturday, Jul 9 to Tuesday, July 12 at 5:00 PM EDT. You can join the Facebook event to receive notifications leading up to the event. Thank you so much for voting on the themes. Here is the schedule for the next four events (times are all …
This past Saturday I went on Facebook Live for the first time ever so you could ask me anything about health, fitness, and nutrition. It was incredible! Thank you to everyone who came and asked questions! Below you can watch the video or listen to the audio recording as a podcast. Listen on ITunes or …
If you are looking for my writings on glycation and AGEs, you should start with this article: Where Do Most AGEs Come From? O Glycation, How Thy Name Hast Deceived Me!For a more technical and comprehensive introduction, I recommend chapter 2 of my doctoral dissertation. For the importance of insulin and glucose to protect against …
In this episode, I wrap up glycation week by discussing why glycation may play essential physiological roles in the body. In the early days of methylglyoxal research, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who won the 1937 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of vitamin C and critical steps in energy metabolism, saw the molecule …
In response to popular demand, this week is glycation week. In this episode, I discuss the strengths and limitations of using Hba1c to measure our cumulative recent exposure to blood glucose and diabetes risk. Many people will be familiar with the fact that variation in red blood cell turnover confounds this measurement. Less well known …
I have a new guest post up at the Paleo f(x) blog: Beyond Standing Desks: Five More Ways to Work at a Computer Without Ruining Your Posture It’s the top five things I’ve found most useful to work with information without wrecking my mobility.
In this episode, I discuss some important insights from my Paleo f(x) talk and audience responses to it, including the potential dangers of treating type 1 diabetes with a low-carb diet, the importance of carbs and body fat for fertility and sex hormones, and why some people might have a great sex hormone profile on …
No, I don’t mean that ironically. A little hyperbolic? A little, but not ironic. This is my new Examine.Com Research Digest Editorial about some underappreciated benefits of glucose and insulin. The Research Digest costs money, but as a member of my audience you can read my editorial and also get a sneak peak at the …