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Dr. Dave on what actually works.

Twenty years of clinical practice, distilled into honest writing on longevity, cellular health, and the protocols I use myself.

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Diet 5 min

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.

Energy 4 min

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…

Telomeres 3 min

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.

Telomeres 5 min

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…

Diet 5 min

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.

Exercise 11 min

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…

Fish oil 8 min

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.

Personal 7 min

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…

Telomeres 5 min

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…

Telomeres 4 min

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…

Telomeres 4 min

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 4 min

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…