Actually it’s much easier to tell you what is NOT a healthy diet, but I suspect you already know that. The problem is not in knowing what to avoid: processed foods, Trans and hydrogenated fats, refined sugars, etc. The real problem occurs when you consider what to include and of course the sneaky little trick […]
What is a healthy diet? Read More »
In this part of the blog I go into even more detail debunking the arguments that seem to have gathered steam on the internet. It is irritating because it represents “negative sales tactics” which try to capitalize on “bad news” that will shock you because it “challenges everything you know about –insert your favorite topic–“.
I wouldn’t give my dog Ethyl Ester Fish Oil – Part 2 Read More »
So said the brilliant PhD whose talk preceeded mine at a recent public anti-aging conference. While I am not 100% sure if this was a deliberate snipe at me I didn’t care because it played right into my hands. I destroyed the arguments that were advanced in favor of “natural triglyceride fish oil” also known
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A few months ago I wrote a blog/newsletter entitled “Don’t Swallow It!” It was lamenting the lack of a BS detector on the internet and how easily factoids can spread misinformation. Today’s little gem fits right in with that theme. The latest round of “Fish oil No Good for Heart Disease” studies was published this
Fish oil – Failure by design Read More »
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 different that what used to be exciting, positive information is no longer read or paid attention to. Instead, only the negative press gets attention. That is how
Fish Oil and High Blood Pressure Read More »
A couple of questions have been nagging at those of us who study telomeres and telomerase closely. The first is – what is the correlation, if any, between tissue types? Typically we measure telomere length in the granulocyte line of White Blood Cells. These cells are typically responsible for fighting off viral infections and the
New Study on Telomeres Answers some Huge Questions Read More »
At the end of 2010, one of my least favorite journals, JAMA, published a very important and surprisingly forward-thinking (for them) article on telomere length and cancer. The study was a large Meta-analysis of telomere length and the likelihood of getting cancer. People were divided into “quartiles” according to telomere length. Basically, this means there
Short telomeres are associated with decreased cancer survival Read More »
Scientists are by nature skeptics. Usually it takes more than one positive result and one positive study to convince them. There is no set number of studies you need to do to sway scientific opinion and quiet naysayers. More often than not, it depends as much on opinion and bias of the so-called scientific community.
Yet another study connects human lifespan with telomere length Read More »
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 that the body has only so many responses to insults like high blood sugar and obesity, and those responses can wind up looking pretty much the same
When therapy is mistaken for normal Read More »
There is a 30 billion dollar industry supporting the use of statins for both primary prevention and secondary prevention (after the fact) of heart attacks. Similarly, hundreds of millions in studies have been spent to “justify the use of statins”. The JUPITER study is the most recent. I have already commented on my expectation that
Chasing the wrong rabbit – why cholesterol levels are just a distraction Read More »