Can a low-PUFA Diet Really Increase Your IQ?
Learn how your diet may be affecting your IQ. We used to think that our IQ was fixed based on our genetics. But now we know that just as our genes can change during our lives, so can our neurons.
Migraine Headache Diet Treatments that Work: Cut Your PUFA Consumption
Today's post will review two very interesting articles using very different sounding but actually similar strategies to improve migraine pain, low-fat vegan, versus targeted omega-3/omega-6 rebalancing
Is Walking Safe with Plantar Fasciitis?
When active people get sore feet, the diagnosis is often plantar fasciitis and the prescription is often rest. This post describes how, if you have plantar fasciitis and are an active person, staying active might be more therapeutic than staying entirely off your feet.
Overeating is Bad for Mitochondria: Calories Count, PUFA Calories Count More
We often overlook the fact that simply overeating puts a stress on the system (and PUFA-rich seed oils are the worst). I think we should include a fourth macronutrient: time between meals. The longer you can go without a meal or a snack or a beverage other than water, the healthier your mitochondria will be.
Birth Month and Autism Risk
An astute reader of Deep Nutrition points out the connection between holiday season indulgences in high carb and vegetable oil rich foods and increased risk of autism.
Study Shows 100% Pre-Diabetes Remission With High Protein Diet
The first ever diet trial to 100% resolution of pre-diabetes with diet is neither low fat nor low carb. It's high protein.
Statisticians Can Easily Mislead Doctors About Statin (or any) Drug Safety
Doctors don't go to medical school to become expert at interpreting statistics. Yet most of the articles that tell us how safe drugs might be rely on complex statistical analyses that go far beyond what I learned in my one credit course on Statistics for Medical Practitioners.
Are eggs healthy or not?
There's never been any credible evidence to support the idea that eating eggs is generally unhealthy. In fact, some evidence supports the opposite; that egg-eaters have lower cholesterol than non egg-eaters. I myself was surprised that it had been studied at all, because the results were not widely reported.
Cholesterol Is Good, The American Heart Association is Bad
Are you watching your cholesterol? Then you might be interested to read this story, describing the American Heart Association’s role in creating mass cholesterol-phobia, including evidence that they actively suppressed information that would have changed the course of medical history.
Study: PUFA-Rich Soy Oil Promotes Obesity and Fatty Liver
American's are now consuming 1000x more soy oil than we did 100 years ago. Soy oil promotes oxidative stress, which makes it more fattening than it's caloric content would suggest.
Natural Cure for Breast Pain
If you've had bothersome breast pain that's been diagnosed as nothing serious and are now wanting to know what to do about it, this article is for you. This article will address what you can do to alleviate the two most common causes of benign breast pain: Cyclic breast pain occurring around your period. Cyclic pain due to the natural response of the milk-making glands to hormone changes that signal you didn't conceive and so its now time to reabsorb all that specialized cellular machinery. It's a complex process and sometimes it hurts. Fortunately, the pain usually goes away after a week or…
Heart Disease Reversal Program
Reverse Atherosclerosis, Prevent Heart Attacks, Clear Your Arteries!
Have you had a heart attack?
Do you have a stent?
Do cholesterol medications make you tired or forgetful?
Heart disease is a MANUFACTURED problem. You CAN reverse it.
Paleo Diet Basics Part Two: Points of Contention
Today’s post is designed to air out some of the points of contention about Paleo, to best assure your Paleo plans result in you enjoying the success you are hoping for.
How Many Calories does Real Mayo Have?
Primal Blueprint recently started selling mayonnaise! So I've been eating a lot of mayo. And it dawned on me that my heaping teaspoons might be much bigger than the serving size that says 100 calories on the label. So I did a quick experiment to learn how many calories of mayo it takes to make canned tuna yummy.
High Cholesterol and Breast Cancer: Is there a connection?
Cholesterol is now blamed for breast cancer. Learn what the science quoted in the media actually says.
Is Bone-Building Milk also Good for Joints? Harvard Study Says “Yes!”
Compared to non milk drinkers, those who drank the most milk, had the least loss of joint space by the end of the 4 year study period. Every increase of 10 glasses per week was associated with 0.06 mm less decline in joint space width over the entire 4 years.
Statin side effects: Almost universal and often missed.
One of the most distressing things about practicing medicine these days is the blind faith that most people, doctors and patients, have in cholesterol pills like Lipitor, Crestor, Vytorin, and Zocor, just to name a few of the most popular statin drugs available today. This faith comes not from gullibility, but from carefully crafted drug company misdirection. Few realize that statins work differently than other drugs physicians prescribe for long-term use. Most drugs just block a receptor. Statins block a metabolic pathway, and this means they can alter every cell in your body in one way or another. What exactly…
BRCA testing: Are the medical options sensible?
Angelina Jolie's medical choice was a brave one, and the decision to share it even braver. However it looks as though, if my sources are accurate, it appears there is little benefit, actually no benefit, to prophylactic mastectomy (prophylactic meaning to prevent ever developing cancer) over screening in terms of mortality. Was Jolie's choice influenced by culture more than by the science? And will her decision spark of a conversation that moves us in a new direction?
