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November 05, 2018 The Trouble with Flavor References: Yale Food Addiction Scale, The Dorrito Effect, Eur Eat Dis Review,   If I were to ask you a delicate question…bear with me…..why do you have sex? Is it procreate and have children? Or do you have this deep urge to seek intimacy with someone you really like and just have… Continue reading The Trouble With Flavor

October 29, 2018 References: Aging, Life Extension, Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine, Life Extension 2018, J Biol Chem, Cell Metabolism, Linnane NY Acad Sci,   All right. You know that mitochondria supply your energy in each cell. You know that they have their own DNA and can divide. You know that your mitochondria come only from your Mom. If the DNA goes… Continue reading Mitochondria Primer 6: PQQ, Stardust, and Mitochondrial Sex

October 22, 2018 References: Front Mol Med, Wikipedia, Perfect Keto, Am J Primatology, Peer J, Biochemical Journal,   When you burn fat (the stuff that’s in your belly and cellulite and second chin) you produce two ketones primarily. Ketones are what we make from fat burning as we break down stored energy and ship it around the body. The primary one is… Continue reading Mitochondrial Primer 5: Beta-hydroxybutyrate, The King of Ketones

October 15, 2018 References: Mitochondria and Future of Medicine, Mortenson JACC Heart Failure, Langsjoen Biofactors,   You should know what CoQ10 is by now. It is in every mitochondrion, in every cell in your body. Ubiquitous. It sits between Complexes 1,2 and 3 and passes on electrons, thereby playing a critical role in the electron transport chain. About 2%… Continue reading Mitochondrial Primer 4: Role of CoQ10

October 08, 2018 References: Mitochondria and Future of Medicine, Nature, Thomas Seyfried on Youtube,   We now know that mitochondria use proton pumps to store potential energy in the form of an electrochemical gradient, and then harnessing that energy as it comes across a membrane to create chemical energy. Every form of life on earth uses this process. Seriously,… Continue reading Mitochondria Primer 3: How It All Goes Terribly Wrong with Cancer

October 01, 2018 References: Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine, Youtube, ATP-Synthase on Youtube,   This is heavy science, so hang in with me here. I’ll try to give you the simplest analogy that allows you to understand what is happening in your mitochondria. It sounds arcane, but this is the nugget of how long you live, what diseases… Continue reading Mitochondria Primer 2 – The Electron Transport Chain

September 23, 2018 References: Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine,   You need to know what mitochondria are. Why, because they decide when you live or die. They are at the nexus of your brain being healthy. They provide your energy. So what are they? Energy factories. They are tiny organelles inside each and every cell that… Continue reading Mitochondria Primer 1

September 17, 2018 Statin Rage  References: QJM, Pharmacotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, Trans Neurodegen, Am J Med, ATVB, Scientific American, Graveline,   You know statins are widely advertised as being good for your heart. And the literature supports that if we look at you as a “walking heart” with little more attached on the outside. Considering that the house of medicine makes the most money off you… Continue reading Statin Rage

September 10, 2018 References: Proverbs, Diabetologica,   You have to know where I’m coming from. A childhood memorizing Bible verses had its share of Proverbs. And the term “Sloth” was never a good thing. You could argue that the foundation of our Puritanical work heritage is the avoidance of the appearance of sloth. It’s in the book of… Continue reading Being A Short Term Couch Potato is Dangerous

September 03, 2018  The Case Against Alcohol  References: The Lancet, CNN, Cell Commun Signal, Science,   This is no small study. Using 694 “data points” for alcohol consumption by populations and 592 prospective and retrospective studies on alcohol use from 195 countries, projections were made about the total and real risks of alcohol. This is an important study because it… Continue reading The Case Against Alcohol