In this episode, I discuss dietary management of familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). This question was asked on the Facebook Live episode from 06/16/2016, “Ask Chris Masterjohn, PhD Anything About Heart Disease,” but I was unable to get to the question within Facebook’s time limit. Please note that HeFH is a medical issue and the purpose of …
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 …
I’m excited to announce that with this post I am launching Mastering Nutrition PODCAST! Here are episodes 1, 2, and 3: I would love it if you could give me feedback by heading to ITunes, subscribing, and leaving me a rating and review. If I get a positive response, I’ll begin releasing more content …
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 …
New post over on Mother Nature Obeyed: Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant Enjoy!
New post over on Mother Nature Obeyed: Good Lard, Bad Lard: What Do You Get When You Cross a Pig and a Coconut? The post follows up on the revised fatty acid profile for Research Diets D12492, and discusses the effects of grass-guzzling and coconut-gobbling on the fatty acid profile of lard.
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 …
I’ve written a few posts about advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) in the past, which can be found here. These posts include a refutation of the common belief that the “receptor for AGEs” (RAGE) is actually a receptor for AGEs, and a refutation of the implausible and unreliable data suggesting that butter is a major source …
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 …
In a recent post, I pointed out that perhaps as many as 100 million Americans have some degree of fatty liver disease. Why? Alcohol has been blamed since the 1800s, but we currently have an epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver. Some researchers, such as Dr. Robert Lustig, are making the case against fructose. Naturally, the nutritional establishment …