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April 09, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 6: Implications for Coronary Artery Disease References: Whitehall Study, Science, BMJ, Public Health Nutr, Annals of Int Med, BMJ,   Heart attacks are what we die from in America. Fifty percent of us will meet our maker via heart attack, both men and women. It is the penultimate sign of aging, and the last sign for… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 6 Implications for Coronary Artery Disease

April 02, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 5: Cancer and the Magic Shield References: Cell, BMC Cancer, Cancer Cell, PLOS Biology,   Last week we learned about reversing diabetes. This might be the Holy Grail of modern medicine. The prevention and treatment of cancer might be just as important. Cancer frequency increases with age, essentially equating aging with more disease. How… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 5 Cancer and the Magic Shield

March 26, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 4, Reversing Diabetes  References: Whitehall Study, Circulation, Aging, Diabetes Care, Cell,   This is a big deal. If you read no email this year but this one, you will be well served. The reversal of diabetes is so important, it is a game changer for all of medicine. Why? Two reasons. The first is that… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 4 Reversing Diabetes

March 19, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 3 The Fast Mimicking  References: Longo: The Longevity Diet, [Science], Science Direct, Cell, Cell Metabolism,   I like to eat. I get hungry. What is it about fasting that makes me do better? Let’s review. Valter Longo found that there were two processes in yeast (very primitive organism) and mice (sophisticated mammalian organism)… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 3 The Fasting Part

March 12, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 2 The Human Method  References: Longo: The Longevity Diet, Science, Gut,  Last week we heard about yeast being used to explore what genes are needed to make the right environment for longevity. Valter Longo’s hypotheses was that those same genes exist in mammals, humans included. If he could make the same… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 2 The Human Method Simplified

March 05, 2018 Fast Mimicking Diet 1: Starting with Yeast  References: Fabrizio Science 2001, Science Translational Med, JBC, PNAS, Genetics,   You’ve heard of fasting and how it encourages the body to live longer. Well, sort of. The problem is, you like to eat. And eating is critical to keeping you alive. Let’s turn it around a little and come at… Continue reading Fast Mimicking Diet 1 Starting With Yeast

February 26, 2018 References: Steven Gundry’s Plant Paradox, Journal Nutrition, J. Internal Med, Nature,   Once upon a time our diet was very similar to gorillas. Say some 10 million years ago, and prior. We ate leaves, in Africa. Only 8 million years ago did we diverge from chimpanzees and only 2 million years ago did our brains start… Continue reading Lectin Lesson 5 Resistant Starch is a High Fat Diet – Ask the Gorillas!

February 19, 2018   References: Steven Gundry’s The Plant Paradox, Circulation, Science Direct,Front Oncol., Glycobiology,   Ok, caught your attention? Elephants having heart attacks? Yes, it’s true. Now, when elephants live in their natural habitat that has sufficient tree and brush forage, they never get a heart attack. In the last couple of hundred years they have lost habitat and… Continue reading Lectin Lesson 4 What Elephants Having Heart Attacks Teaches Us About Cancer

February 12, 2018  Reference: Gundry’s The Plant Paradox, Am Jr Physiology,   Did you know that humans lost height and braincase size in the 1000 year transition from hunter-gatherer to wheat-grower? Gundry quotes this in his book as what has been discovered at archeological sites from those time periods. Civilization had its costs? All so that we could… Continue reading Lectin Lesson 3 How Lectins Make you Fat

February 05, 2018  References: American Heart Sci Meetings,Jr, Immunology, Researchgate, Wikipedia, Athersclerosis,   Just what is going on with lectins? What’s the big deal? Do they really cause trouble? To understand those questions, you have to understand the complement system in your body. This is not about saying a nice thing to you about your hair, or your necklace, this… Continue reading Lectin Lesson 2 How Lectins Cause Damage with Inflammation