Monday, October 21, 2019

Lipotoxicity or tired pancreas? Abnormal fat metabolism as a possible precondition for type 2 diabetes

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The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of causes. The diseases i...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

How long does it take for a food-related trait to evolve?

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Often in discussions about Paleolithic nutrition, and books on the subject, we see speculations about how long it would take for a populatio...
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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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