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Cellular Science

A Metabolic Interlude – The thinking behind the Ketogenic Diet

Long ago and far away a man named Otto Warburg hypothesized that cancer was a metabolic disease. In his view it was a defect in mitochondrial respiration. The…

4 min
Cellular Science

TTAGGG You’re It! Stress, Disease and Telomere Length

Dr. Dave on the research linking chronic stress to telomere shortening and disease risk. The mechanism, the biomarkers, and what reliably moves the needle.

3 min
Cellular Science

New Cancer Pathway Involves Telomeres

Drum roll and trumpets please!  A new cancer causing pathway has been found. It involves telomeres of course. I bring it to your attention though, not for what…

5 min
Nutrition

Why We Get Fat and the World’s Best Diet

Dr. Dave on weight gain and the carbohydrate-insulin model. What the research actually shows about why people put on fat and what works to reverse it.

5 min
Body

Aerobic versus Intervals – The Best kind of Exercise Revisited

For the past decade I have intermittently written about the effects of exercise on health and body composition (primarily weight loss). My own descent and resurrection from Obesity…

11 min
Nutrition

Krill better than fish oil- more chicanery

Dr. Dave on the krill-vs-fish-oil study marketers keep citing. What the paper actually says, what got left out, and why the conclusion doesn't survive a careful read.

8 min
Letters from Dr. Dave

2013 The Year in Review

First let me wish the Happiest of New Years and a phenomenal 2014. I can tell you that if 2013 is any indication, 2014 will be spectacular. And…

7 min
Cellular Science

Telomeres and Cancer: What the Science Actually Shows

The link between telomeres and cancer is real but counterintuitive. Here is how short telomeres, genomic instability, and telomerase fit together, explained clearly and honestly.

6 min
Nutrition

Still not Dead!

In mid-July a ridiculous poorly designed poorly done study was published by a “reputable journal” from the National Cancer Institute.  It associated “high Omega 3 intake” with a…

3 min
Cellular Science

Telomere Length and Life Stress – It all counts

You may have seen the recent articles linking childhood stress to shorter telomere length in adults. This finding is not new. A study of Romanian orphans published earlier…

3 min
Nutrition

Slowing Down Telomere Loss with Fish oil – Just a Little Too Convenient!

Life is kinda funny at times.  A few years back I was motoring along minding my own business on the internet doing the fish oil, telomere and anti-aging…

5 min
Nutrition

A Unified Theory of Aging Part 6

I have written several emails/blogs etc in the past dealing with health, disease and now aging. Since there were 5 prior writings dating back to 2004 and culminating…

7 min