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May 11, 2015 The Best Cholesterol Predictor for Artery Disease   Reference: Gaziano Circulation 1997 Lemos de Luz Clinics Wan PLOS April 2015   You want to know how to predict your risk for heart disease, right? Half of us die from it, so having a bit of a warning is a useful thing.   You go to your doctor and… Continue reading Triglycerides HDL Ratio – the Best Measure for Heart Disease Risk

May 04, 2015 Hunger and Insulin, aka: What happens when I cheat.  References: Rodin, Health Psychology, Schloegl Diabetes Metab Res Rev    Reference: Rodin, Health Psychology, Schloegl Diabetes Metab Res Rev   What happens with appetite and insulin when I’m on a low carb diet, high fat diet, and then eat some carbs (cheat)? If I read the… Continue reading What Happens When I Cheat? With Insulin…

April 27, 2015 Diabetes Turned Upside Down   Reference: Feinman Nutrition 2015   This is it! We have been doing it backwards for 50 years and now is the time to challenge the old treatment method for diabetes and turn to what works. If you or anyone you know has diabetes, send them this article. This review is… Continue reading Diabetes Should Have It’s Guidelines Changed

April 20, 2015 What’s the Right Dose of Exercise?   AKA: The Hiking Club Has it Right   Reference:   New York Times, JAMA Internal Medicine April 2015J Am Coll Cardiogy Feb 2015Annals of Inter Med Jan 2015Harvard JAMA Internal Med   “A day without exercise is as bad as a day of smoking!”   Ever heard that?   Tim Cook called it… Continue reading What’s the Right Dose of Exercise: AKA – The Hiking Club has it Right

April 13, 2015 High HDLs and Risk of Heart Disease   Reference:   Wilkins JAHA 2014   We hear all this stuff about LDLs and statins, but no one ever talks about HDLs and how protective they are.   They are protective.   Ostensibly their duty is to scour around and pick up extra fatty acids that they can bring back… Continue reading How to Raise Your HDLs and Lower your Heart Disease Risk

April 06, 2015 Ketones: 101   Reference: Do Ketogenic Diets Really Suppress Appetite?   When you lose weight, you want to lose it from fat, right? When you are losing weight from fat the broken down pieces of the fat are called ketones.   They are typically about 4 carbons long and the most common one is called beta-hydroxybutyrate. So, why… Continue reading Ketones – Your Weight Loss Friend

March 30, 2015 Carb Back Loading – “Weight Loss Magic?”   Reference: Mol Cel Endo, Int Journal of Sports Medicine 2012,  How CBL Works John Kieffer is the training guru who worked out CBL on his own as a means of building strong muscles and losing weight. It appears to be the latest fad, which is not to say that… Continue reading Carb Back Loading (CBL) – Weight Loss Magic?

March 23, 2015 Eating Salmon Inhibits Prostate Cancer   Reference:   Liu Jr of Pharmacology   Remember hearing about how fish oil CAUSES prostate cancer (SELECT TRIAL)?   Alarmed you a bit, didn’t it? It caused an uproar in my world, with many phone calls and lots of my colleagues being frustrated by the study. It just didn’t make sense! So, a careful… Continue reading Eating Salmon Inhibits Prostate Cancer

March 16, 2015 The Trouble with Root Canals   Reference: Root Canal Coverup, Meinig   Ever had a toothache and ended up with a root canal?   Did it come back? Were you cured? Do you have a chronic, unexplained condition from which you can’t recover? An autoimmune disease? Are you losing weight, and don’t know why?   Westin Price… Continue reading The Trouble with Root Canals

March 09, 2015 The Glucose Effect of Standing   Reference: Thorpe Med Sci Sports 2014, Alter, Annals Internal Med 2015 Glucose is the problem.   There is pretty clear evidence from the Whitehall study and others that you start making vascular lesions when your fasting blood glucose is more than 86.   That’s a tall order. Most of our doctors tell us… Continue reading The Glucose Effect of Standing