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 …
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My New Article on Nutrient Synergy is Up on WestonAPrice.Org
My new article from the Fall, 2012 issue of Wise Traditions, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, is now up online! The article covers several examples of nutrient synergy: how methionine, B vitamins, and glycine interact to regulate methylation; how vitamins A, D and K interact to regulate growth and calcification; and …
My AHS 2012 Talk Is Now Up! Oxidative Stress and Carbohydrate Intolerance
My talk at the 2012 Ancestral Health Symposium, “Oxidative Stress and Carbohydrate Intolerance,” is now freely available online! Enjoy! Chris Masterjohn — Oxidative Stress & Carbohydrate Intolerance: An Ancestral Perspective from Ancestral Health Society on Vimeo.
Having Sex Protects Against Vitamin D Toxicity
My focus for the last six years or so on the need to balance vitamin D with vitamins A and K2 has turned out to be a rather prudish solution to the soft tissue calcification that can often be caused by vitamin D. While a concoction of A and K may hold you up on …
Egg Study Redux
New over at Mother Nature Obeyed Egg Study Redux — Correcting the Stats In this post I correct two errors I made in my last post about this study, and further explore why it likely shows nothing more than that we accumulate plaque as we get older. Enjoy!
Are Egg Yolks Almost As Bad as Cigarettes At Causing the Accumulation of Arterial Plaque?
New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Does Eating Egg Yolks Increase Arterial Plaque? Enjoy!
I’m 95% Confident This is a Good Definition of a P Value
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: I’m 95% Confident This is a Good Definition of a P Value In this post, I explain why I consider it legitimate to read “confidence” that something is not due to chance into a P value. I discuss the differences between Bayesian and frequentist approaches, the agreement between …
Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant
New post over on Mother Nature Obeyed: Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant Enjoy!
The Maasai, an Interlude: What Does All This Sociocultural and Historical Stuff Have to Do With Heart Disease?
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: The Maasai, an Interlude: What Does All This Sociocultural and Historical Stuff Have to Do With Heart Disease? Enjoy!
AJCN Publishes New PUFA Study That Should Make Us Long For the Old Days
I have a new post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: AJCN Publishes New PUFA Study That Should Make Us Long For the Old Days This is my response to the new study published in AJCN showing that replacing butter with sunflower oil decreases liver fat, PCSK9, and improves a handful of metabolic markers. I begin …