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 …
New over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Thyroid Hormone and Vitamin A Protect Against Vitamin D Toxicity in Cows Enjoy!
My new article from the Winter, 2012 issue of Wise Traditions, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, is now up online! The article gives a brief history of how the concept of synergy between the fat-soluble vitamins repeatedly eluded us through the twentieth century, with a a little peak at the rise …
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 …
In “Genes, LDL-Cholesterol Levels, and the Central Role of LDL Receptor Activity in Heart Disease,” as well as my most recent presentations at Wise Traditions and AHS, I described the overwhelming genetic evidence for the theory that LDL receptor activity centrally governs the risk of heart disease and the large amount of other evidence from …
Sarah Pope of The Healthy Home Economist alerted me to the fact that Dr. Mercola has been spreading the myth that fermentation destroys the goitrogens in soy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The isoflavones of soy, predominantly genistein and daidzein, are the estrogenic and goitrogenic toxins we are concerned about, and they exist …