New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin: Marker of Vitamin K Deficiency, or Booster of Insulin Signaling and Testosterone? Enjoy! Update December 17, 2016: If you enjoyed this, I encourage you to check out The Ultimate Vitamin K2 Resource. It has easy-to-read practical advice, click-to-expand technical explanations, infographics that explain the science in a fun way, …
Obesity
This Just In: The Infamous Lard-Based High-Fat Rodent Diet Is Twice as High in PUFA as Previously Reported
by Chris Masterjohn Hi folks! It’s certainly been a while. Up until this past weekend I was preparing for Wise Traditions, and this week I’ve been playing catch-up after taking a few days off from work for that conference. It was a blast, and I’ll write more about it soon. One of the things I …
Wheat Belly — The Toll of Hubris on Human Health
Dr. William Davis, Milwaukee-based “preventive cardiologist” and Medical Director of the Track Your Plaque program, argues in his new book, Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health, that “somewhere along the way during wheat’s history, perhaps five thousand years ago but more likely fifty years ago, wheat …
Fat and Diabetes — Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione
New blog post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Fat and Diabetes: Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione Enjoy!
Let Us Honor Ancel Keys, Our Patron, As We Cherry Pick Studies to Bash Fructose (Revised and Extended)
My apologies to anyone who received this in their RSS feed on Thursday as a teaser. I have now revised and extended it to include several studies showing that diet-induced obesity can be achieved in rats and mice without using any sugar at all, and have included a clearer conclusion. Ancel Keys is best known …
The New Genetics — Part V: Is the Intestinal Microbiome Part of Our Genome?
Part V of The New Genetics Has the human genome project really been completed? One could argue that in fact it will not be completed until its sequel, the Human Microbiome Project, is completed. One set of authors referred to it as “another phase of the ‘human’ genome sequencing project.” The available evidence suggests that …
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 …
Is Insulin Resistance Really Making Us Fat?
Disclaimer: I love and respect many low-carbers and low-carb researchers, and think low-carb diets are very appropriate and perhaps necessary for many people. Many in the low-carb field seem to think that insulin resistance is what is making us fat and even that insulin resistance is caused by… insulin. Too much carb makes too much …