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My New Wise Traditions Article on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
I have a new article on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease appearing in the outgoing issue of Wise Traditions, and the online version just went up on the web site: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease — A Silent Epidemic of Nutritional Imbalance The article contains a lot of information that I’ve already posted on this blog, but …
What No One Is Saying About Zonulin — Is Celiac About More Than Genes and Gluten?
In my last gluten post, I discussed why the ex vivo results of Dr. Fasano’s 2006 study cannot logically be construed to show that gluten causes leaky gut in people without celiac disease, and why the available evidence suggests that people considered to have non-celiac gluten sensitivity do not have leaky gut. Nevertheless, this study …
How to Properly Interpret Ex Vivo Studies — Gluten and Leaky Gut As an Example
There seems to be some confusion about how to appropriately interpret ex vivo studies, which are studies that are not conducted in a living organism. Worse than that, there appears to be a common and rather dramatically misleading presentation of the data in Dr. Allesio Fasano’s excellent study linking gluten to zonulin production. But I’ll …
Is Gluten Making My Gut Leaky? (A Shorter Post!)
While some people really liked my last blog post, one commenter asked me to writer a shorter post next time. So here’s a shorter post. Wvar _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-22004430-1′]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘https://www’) …
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In a previous post, “The Great Unknown: Using the Statistics to Explore the Secret Depths of Unpublished Research,” I discussed one way a study can show something to be true when it’s false, or vice versa.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 …
Getting Better Sleep — Cool, Dark, And Lots of B6, Carbs, Calories, and Fat
Chris Kresser and Paul Jaminet recently posted some sleeping tips. A lot of other great bloggers write about sleep too, like Mark Sisson, Robb Wolf, and Stephan Guyenet. I think sleep is really important, and I’ve had a lot of sleeping problems in the past, some of which I still occasionally struggle with, so I’m going to …
Gluten Sensitivity — Promises And Problems
by Chris Masterjohn This year has been a great year so far for research into the possibility of non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Most exciting, Stephan Guyenet is now reporting the survey results of participants in Matt Lentzner’s Gluten-Free January (see part I and part II). I’m especially glad that of all people this survey fell into …
Anyone Doing Paleo Without Liver, Bones, Skin, and Greens?
Matt Stone is doing an interesting series on the damage to the thyroid caused by eating too much muscle meat instead of the gelatinous materials found in the other half of the animal. Muscle meats and eggs are very rich in methionine, which increases our need for homocysteine-neutralizing nutrients (vitamins B6, B12, folate, betaine, and …
Genes, LDL-Cholesterol Levels, and the Central Role of LDL Receptor Activity In Heart Disease
Are high concentrations of LDL-cholesterol a major cause of heart disease? If we are a proponent of the “lipid hypothesis,” we say yes. If we are a “cholesterol skeptic,” we say no — total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, LDL particles, triglycerides, and other blood lipids have little or nothing to do with heart disease. I believe both of these positions …