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May 29, 2022 Extra Estrogen Protects Against COVID-19 Two observational studies have now shown the same thing. The first, published this April, looked at 198,822 adults living in Italy during the first wave of COVID who filled out an online questionnaire. Positive tests and severity of illness were asked about.   6,873 participants had a known… Continue reading Extra Estrogen Protects Against COVID

May 22, 2022 LDLs are Not The Key Driving Problem in Artery Disease We are obsessed with cholesterol in our modern medical system. Don’t get me wrong! 50% of us die of vascular disease in one way or another, so this is an overwhelming epidemic. But we won’t cure the epidemic if we don’t get… Continue reading LDL’s are Not the Cause of Heart Disease

May 15, 2022 Live Longer by Reversing Thymus Aging – Part II The TRIIM (Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration and Insulin Mitigation) Trial caused a lot of excitement when it came out. The first study in humans to show a reduction in the most accurate clock of biological age, our epigenetic clock. The 9 volunteers had a 2.5-year reduction… Continue reading Reverse Thymus Aging Part II

May 08, 2022 Reverse Thymus Aging – The TRIIM Trial Your thymus gland, just behind your breast bone, is the nexus of your immune system. By age 50 it is basically all composed of fat and non-functional. Without a properly functioning thymus gland, your immune system starts drifting toward “lack of balance” with many indications… Continue reading Reverse Thymus Aging – the TRIIM Trial

May 01, 2022 Yale Can Image Your Brain and Define Your Cognitive Function The long-standing sign of Alzheimer’s is a shrunken brain. In fact, brain shrinkage is so common in all of us, that radiologists will often make offhand comments that an older person has mild shrinkage, but within normal limits. We have presumed that… Continue reading Loss of Synapses is the Engine that Drives Cognitive Decline

April 24, 2022 HDL Cholesterol Relates to Insulin Resistance, and THAT’s the Heart Disease Engine We have known since 1977 that it’s low HDLs that are the real risk of coronary artery disease. What we didn’t realize back in the 1970-90’s was the dimension of insulin resistance overlaid on HDLs. For folks with insulin sensitivity, higher LDLs… Continue reading HDL Cholesterol Relates to Insulin Resistance, and That’s the Heart Disease Engine

April 17, 2022 Where Are We Exposed to Oxalates? Last week we learned that oxalates have no role in humans except as a breakdown product of two amino acids. We make about 25 mg a day. Plants, however, use oxalates widely, mostly as poisons to keep themselves from being eaten by other creatures like insects,… Continue reading Where Do We Get Oxalates From

April 10, 2022 Oxalate, the Poison You Didn’t Know Much About Oxalic acid. Tiny little molecule we humans make as a byproduct of digesting glycine and hydroxyproline, two amino acids in protein. We have no use for it. It is an end-product of metabolism and just needs to be excreted. We get rid of about 10-30… Continue reading Oxalates The Poison You Didn’t Know Much About

April 03, 2022 Ceramides are the Missing Link to Diabetes and Insulin Resistance Who cares? I never heard of ceramides. Why would anyone waste their time worrying about something I can’t even pronounce? Ah, therein lies the truth. This is one of the metabolic keys to how we get sick. Ok, explain! First of all, what… Continue reading CERAMIDES are the Missing Link Connecting Saturated Fat to Diabetes

March 27, 2022 How Saturated Fat Wreaks Its Damage on You Saturated fat is bad. Right? Well, not so fast. Lots of nuance here. First of all, what is saturated fat? It is fat with all the carbon bonds filled with hydrogen bonds, maximizing the energy content. As a general rule, what you have in… Continue reading How Saturated Fat Wreaks Its Wrath on You