Monday, August 26, 2019

How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think

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I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ketosis, methylglyoxal, and accelerated aging: Probably more fiction than fact

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This is a follow up on this post . Just to recap, an interesting hypothesis has been around for quite some time about a possible negative ef...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Want to improve your cholesterol profile? Replace refined carbs and sugars with saturated fat and cholesterol in your diet

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An interesting study by Clifton and colleagues (1998; full reference and link at the end of this post) looked at whether LDL cholesterol par...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

What should be my HDL cholesterol?

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HDL cholesterol levels are a rough measure of HDL particle quantity in the blood. They actually tell us next to nothing about HDL particle t...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Applied evolutionary thinking: Darwin meets Washington

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Charles Darwin, perhaps one of the greatest scholars of all time, thought about his theory of mutation, inheritance, and selection of biolo...
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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Vitamin D levels: Sunlight, age, and toxicity

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Calcidiol is a pre-hormone that is produced based on vitamin D3 in the liver. Blood concentration of calcidiol is considered to be a reliabl...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Niacin and its effects on growth hormone, glucagon, cortisol, blood lipids, mental disorders, and fasting glucose levels

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Niacin is a very interesting vitamin. It is also known as vitamin B 3 , or nicotinic acid. It is an essential vitamin whose deficiency leads...
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