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Artificial Sweetners and Your Health- I Might have Been Wrong about this One!
Over the past decade I have been ridiculed on several occasions for my perceived ambivalence about artificial sweeteners. My stance on them has been as follows: “If they…
More on Telomeres Telomerase Supplements and Cancer
I have written a ton on these topics before and I refer you to here for more background. I’m guessing you already know this, but I’ll repeat it…
The Ketogenic Diet Part 5 What I learned and what you should know!
The best way for me to cover all the stuff I want to tell you is in simple bullet point form and that is what I am going…
The Ketogenic Diet Part 4 The results and Why I Stopped Taking my Precious Fish Oil!!
Here are the specific numbers I obtained on the various days after the 2 day induction I described in Part 3 of this series. I will be starting…
The Ketogenic Diet Part 3 How I did it
Ok first if you have not read the first 2 blogs please do so because a lot of info is covered that you need to know: Part 1…
The Ketogenic Diet Part 2 Some Whats and Whys
Dr. Dave's plain-English deep dive on the ketogenic diet: how ketosis actually works, who benefits, who doesn't, and what to monitor while on it.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.