Why “lose weight to prevent covid-19” is an inappropriate and harmful message for health influencers to be sending
Let’s cut to the chase. Telling people to “lose weight” to survive COVID-19 is in...
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How I cut 20 pounds for my second jiu-jitsu tournament: a journal entry
Match in 2 hours. All I want to do today is to conquer my fears and give everything I’ve...
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“No Oil”: Ideological rigidity, science denial, and dirty dealings in the innermost circles of the plant-based diet establishment
Adapted from original Twitter threads here and here. PART 1 In an Instagram post, Jeff Nelson made...
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Debunking myths about the 1977 Dietary Goals for Americans
Things you might not have known about the Dietary Goals for Americans, published by the McGovern...
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The placebo effect changes the immune system in a Pavlovian fashion
I’ve made an infographic explaining conditioned immunosuppression. This was first...
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Height and longevity: being taller means dying younger, or, a possible way to explain the world’s longest lived populations. Part 1
I’m going to write a few things about a paper on the relationship between body size and...
Read MoreMechanisms for cancer treatment and prevention by the ketogenic diet: the Warburg-Seyfried hypothesis of glucose starvation
This blog post was part of a draft for a comprehensive review paper on the ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer. After Otto Warburg, Thomas Seyfried is the most important and influential scientist for having put...
Read MoreLow-carbohydrate diets do not uniquely treat hyperglycemia and cannot reduce risk for COVID-19 death arising from hyperglycemia.
A very non-smart tweet recently caught my eye: To get right to the point. Studies linking COVID death and hyperglycemia use HbA1c to do so. Current evidence suggests carbohydrate restriction independent of weight loss does not...
Read MoreLow-carbohydrate diets may not reduce average blood glucose absent weight loss even with good adherence, and they have fewer advantages for diabetes management than often claimed, with serious disadvantages
Part 1 Original thread here. (This thread earned me a spontaneous block by @lchfRD. Bless her soul.) For people with diabetes, low-carbohydrate diets that produce similar weight loss as high-carbohydrate diets also produce...
Read MoreWhat can we learn from a recent Chinese Covid-19 antibody study?
Originally posted here. A preprint published last month shows that among 175 recovered COVID-19 patients from Shanghai, 30% showed a low neutralizing antibody response, with 10 patients showing undetectable antibodies....
Read MoreChina’s dietary and health trends. Or, how hundreds of millions of people are being fattened by fat. And being made one of the most diabetic countries in the world.
Reposted from Twitter, December 16th, 2017.
Read MoreWhy are Americans getting fatter? A food love story in six graphs. (P.S. It’s not the carbs or the sugar.)
Reposted from Twitter, December 3, 2017. For those wondering what the source of the fat calories were, I’ve created two more graphs telling that story. Answer: vast majority of added fat calories in the American diet...
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