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CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING FOR NON-DIABETICS: A SCIENTIFICALLY CRITICAL FAQ Q. Don’t traditional clinical tests miss the glucose variability that can only be detected by CGM? A. True. However, we do not know whether or how...

Executive summary Introduction The public life of physician Peter Attia began in earnest with a 2013 TEDMED talk. In it, citing two personal anecdotes and some theoretical speculation about insulin and fat cells, Dr. Attia...

The data do not support the idea that the low-fat dietary guidelines caused the obesity epidemic. (A reply to Dr. Ludwig–Part 1 in the macronutrient trend series.)The data do not support the idea that the low-fat dietary...

This thread was originally posted here. ===== The Q to ask is what happened when obesity took off like an aeroplane: One answer = US dietary guidelines changed (max 30% cals from fat & therefore 55-60% from carbs). I found...

A notification email was sent to Dr. Chris Palmer–a psychiatrist at Harvard who investigates the use of ketogenic diets for mental health issues–for a claim that LDL is not an independent risk factor for...

Nearly the entire popular health industry—and especially its trendiest parts—is charlatanism. This includes perhaps 95% of its major figures. This is because it relies on the extrapolation from cell culture, animal,...

“And I say that if a rhetorician and a physician were to go to any city, and had there to argue in the Ecclesia or any other assembly as to which of them should be elected state-physician, the physician would have no...

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by Robert Palmer Welcome back to the fourth installment of this series! I plan to take a different approach for this article so that I can better answer the question of whether or not there’s a clinically meaningful correlation...

In part 1, we saw that the dietary guidelines, which are blamed by low-carbohydrate diet advocates for the obesity epidemic, are essentially the same around the world, despite widely varying rates of obesity. But to the original...

by Rob Palmer Welcome to the third article in this series assessing claims made in “The Carnivore Code,” by Dr. Paul Saladino. If you missed parts one and two, then you can find them here and here, respectively. Of note, the...