Nutrition
Nutrition
Is Aging Unstoppable
Arguments continue among the best and brightest scientists concerning the question: Is aging unstoppable. If you think about it that question has already been answered in a functional way. There…
Big Pharma Strikes Back
You may have wondered why all the negative supplement stuff released in the press lately. You may have wondered why something like fish oil that has thousands of…
As I lay Dying – Omega 3 and Prostate Cancer
Surely I must be dying and this must be my last chance to write you in my physical form. Any further communications you receive from my blogs, emails,…
Doc’s Response to “Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer”
The response to the nonsense that was released as news was far greater than I anticipated. It seems that somehow this most recent “study” made it to the…
What is a healthy diet?
Actually it’s much easier to tell you what is NOT a healthy diet, but I suspect you already know that. The problem is not in knowing what to…
I wouldn’t give my dog Ethyl Ester Fish Oil – Part 2
In this part of the blog I go into even more detail debunking the arguments that seem to have gathered steam on the internet. It is irritating because…
I wouldn’t give my dog Ethyl Ester Fish oil – Part 1
So said the brilliant PhD whose talk preceeded mine at a recent public anti-aging conference. While I am not 100% sure if this was a deliberate snipe at…
Fish oil – Failure by design
A few months ago I wrote a blog/newsletter entitled “Don’t Swallow It!” It was lamenting the lack of a BS detector on the internet and how easily factoids…
Fish Oil and High Blood Pressure
You know, it’s funny. You can always tell when something has truly become popular because it begins to inspire negative comments. People are so “in need “of something…
When therapy is mistaken for normal
In the last blog I delved into some associations between the biologic time clocks we call Telomeres, sugar control and obesity. The net summary of that blog is…
Telomere Length and Metabolic Obesity in Skinny People
I read an interesting article recently. Without going into all the gory scientific details, the gist of the article was as follows: even lean diabetics may have the…
Chasing the wrong rabbit – why cholesterol levels are just a distraction
The statin industry runs to roughly 30 billion dollars a year in the United States. A meaningful portion of cardiology research budget is spent on what amount to…