Endotoxing Cancer
If you read the science, you’ll see that bacterial endotoxin (LPS) has been shown to promote the growth and spread of cancer. But only when it comes to leukemia, melanoma, lymph node metastasis, oral...
Category: Sugar Blaming
Everyone Isn’t Different.
Having a general understanding of the ways in which choices regarding nutrition, can impact upon physiology and health (including psychological state or mood), can be enlightening and empowering, as well as extremely liberating. If...
PUFAs Poison The Pancreas
The idea that sugar causes the pancreatic diseases – although popular – is unscientific and unsubstantiated. Meanwhile, experiments have shown that exposure to polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), can promote inflammation, pancreatitis, and the growth...
Fish Oil Fables
Even though people like to blame sugar for blood sugar issues, and many recommend fish oil as a miracle cure for diabetes (and a variety of other inflammatory conditions), lots of good science has...
Sugar Heals Wounds
Gather round for a story about wounds and the evil things that prevent proper healing. It’s the same old tale of woe with all the usual suspects. Stress, low thyroid, inflammation, bacterial endotoxin, serotonin...
Insulin Can Be Irresistible.
Although it’s an understatement to say many are recommending sugar restriction as a means to improving health, evidence – relating to inflammatory conditions like insulin resistance, obesity and diabetes – indicates that this approach...
Welcome To The Cancer Environment
“The organism can only be understood in its environments, and a cell can’t be understood without reference to the tissue and organism in which it lives.” Ray Peat PhD When you listen to what...
The Moderation Epidemic
One of the biggest problems with attempting to do ‘everything in moderation’ is that as soon as you’re successful, the one thing that you’ll no longer be doing in moderation is – you guessed...
Calories, Unicorns and Other Myths.
You think because you understand ‘one’ you must also understand ‘two’, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’. Rumi Weight issues tend to be viewed as a case of...
Flaming Depression!
Even though the idea that inflammation causes depression is reasonable and justifiable, things have a tendency to go off the rails when it comes to popular explanations for why it does, and what should...