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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.
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…
Are You Immune to Aging
Telomeres are the end segments of every chromosome that function as a biologic time clock. Their overall length and health determines how long your cells will live. Over…
The latest TA-65 Human Study results
Science is like Molasses… it flows slowly. Ever since the 2010 human study on TA-65 was published I have been telling you about the “other half” of the…
Unhealthy Telomeres greatly increase the Risk of Cancer
Even though I recently released a blog that looks specifically at prostate cancer and the effect of telomere length on prognosis, I mentioned breast cancer in that blog…
Telomeres and Cancer- More than just Length
Telomeres are our cellular biologic time clocks. They are found at the end of every healthy chromosome. It they are short that chromosome and the cell it lives…
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