Nutrition
Nutrition
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…
Is Aging Unstoppable – Baby steps come first!
The debate among aging scientists about whether aging itself can be stopped has been running for decades. In a functional sense, the question has already been answered. Multiple…
Stress Kills Right?
Since the so called Type A personality entered the medical literature roughly 50 years ago, scientists have wrestled with the connection between stress, disease, and aging. There has…
Fat from conception – stacking the deck against little Johnny!
We spend a lot of time looking for reasons why we are fat. There has to be some other answer besides too much sitting and too much eating.…
The sad failure of calorie restriction
I can’t say it’s a surprise that calorie restriction has failed to extend life in higher primates. It was at least successful in flies, worms and some lower…
When birds of a feather flock separately
Identical twin studies have been a favorite tool in the nature-versus-nurture debate for almost a century. If two people share 100 percent of their DNA but live different…
Is Spinach the New Broccoli?
I have written enough about broccoli over the years that some readers tease me about it. Broccoli is, in fact, one of the few foods that earns the…
Why not resveratrol?
Dr. Dave on resveratrol and why he does not include it in any of his formulas. What the human studies actually show and what the marketing leaves out.
Score another one for chocolate
Chocolate has been climbing the wellness-food ladder for two decades. Most of the early hype was thin. Most of the more recent data is real. A study published…