If you don’t have time to read this blog (it’s a bit long!) here it is, as an aphorism: “test, don’t guess!” I almost laughed out loud as I looked at the comments on the Amazon reviews page. As an author, (The Immortality Edge) I have come to know firsthand, what it is like to …
Because there is so much misinformation on the internet, I occasionally engage in Yahoo! answers. This one, by yours truly, was chosen as the best description of epigenetics. While I probably just did someone’s term paper for them, it may be useful to you as well, especially in keeping with my prior blogs on the …
Calorie restriction is quite intriguing, but in the end run, we will find a few things that make it of limited value, including the fact that we now have 68% obesity and overweight, in this country. We can’t even get to near ideal weight and now we are to tell people to restrict well below …
Several years back, there was quite a stir when a study suggested that Vitamin A, in smokers, was a bad thing. There was a small, but significant increase in lung cancer, in smokers who took vitamin A and in those with asbestos exposure. Since that time, those studies (there were actually 2 of them, dating …
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The last iteration of our genome with regards to the foods we eat seems to have taken place about 50,000 years ago. At that time we were unquestionably small bands of hunter gatherers who did not cultivate dairy animals or grains. History tells us these later “adaptations” did not take place until about 10,000 years …
Recently I was interviewed on TV about things we could all do that were simple and inexpensive to improve our health and stay young. You may be as surprised as the TV host was at what I suggested! If you caught my recent TV appearance in Washington DC, you heard me speak about the 4 pillars …
Sad to say that the next 4 months will bring about considerable weight gain by millions of Americans and others as well. Strange dichotomy, this world: half is still underfed and starving while the other half is overfed. Way overfed. It’s estimated that in the U.S. alone 600 million pounds of excess fat will be …
The other day I saw one of those counter culture tee shirts which I have to admit was pretty funny. It said, “Body by Santa Claus”. While this is humorous it did make me think, Ol’ St Nick is not exactly my physical role model. This year more than ever (perhaps it’s because we have more …
One of the things that make me different from some other internet doctors is that I will not lie to you. Now I will admit there are some pretty far out characters out there with “MD” behind their name but I have yet to meet one that doesn’t know the truth from the lies. The …
Have you ever noticed how so many words get attached to fat loss that come and go? Acai berry fat loss, cleansing fat loss, yoga fat loss, growth hormone fat loss, HCG and fat loss and so on and so forth. Most of them come and go because they don’t work, at least for fat …