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...
Category: Sugar Blaming
Wondrous Wound Wizardry
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, bacteria, serotonin and...
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 – suggests 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...
Is It Time To Start Calorioting?
‘On a feast day at the temple when I was quite young, they were giving out special sweets. Maharajji gave me a small leaf cup of these sweets that he had been keeping especially...
No More Sugar Lies
It’s time for a sugar revolution. It’s time for all people around the world today who are sick and tired of witnessing the mistreatment of sugar, to stand up once and for all and...
Blood Sugar Beliefs.
“Glucagon, cortisol, adrenalin, growth hormone and thyroid tend to increase the blood sugar, but it is common to interpret hyperglycemia as “diabetes,” without measuring any of these factors.” – Ray Peat PhD It’s perfectly...