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Can people with epilepsy benefit from the ketogenic diet?
What is the ketogenic diet? Some might consider the ketogenic diet to be a fad diet, however, it was discovered centuries ago for the dietary management of refractory epilepsy. The ketogenic diet is a...
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Does beta hydroxybutyrate have an evil twin?
The discovery of CH3CH(OH)CH2CO2H CH3CH(OH)CH2CO2H = beta hydroxybutyrate. It’s a molecule your body makes from fats. The correct spelling is β-hydroxybutyrate or 3-hydroxybutyrate and is often...
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A brief history of micronutrients
Nutrients: how much, how often, which ones? Most people can’t go more than a few minutes without air, about 3 days without water, approximately 9 to 11 days without sleep [1] and anywhere from weeks to...
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Heart disease and cholesterol: a new hope
Heart disease: the car, the driver & the crash Complex disease processes are best explained with analogies. Heart disease is no exception. To explain two competing theories of heart disease I’ll...
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Reversing brain damage & cancer: 2 case-reports
Two interesting medical case-reports caught my eye last week. I want to tell you about them because they’re different avenues to appreciating the importance of metabolism in health and disease,...
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Study review: Dietary sugars, not lipids, drive hypothalamic inflammation
Study background Today’s post briefly reviews a neat little study in mice from 2017 by Gao et al. [1]. It’s called “Dietary sugars, not lipids, drive hypothalamic inflammation”. Isn’t it nice to a have...
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Omega-6 fatty acids: the alternative hypothesis for diseases of civilization
Diseases of civilization The world is facing a health crisis of unprecedented proportions. What have become known as chronic diseases, Western Diseases, or Diseases of Civilization (DC), have become...
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Why controlling gluconeogenesis is important for reversing diabetes?
Introduction: our very own sugar factory Step into the low-carb world and soon enough you’ll hear the term GlucoNeoGenesis. GNG for short, is your body’s ability to construct glucose, a kind of sugar,...
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Can you improve your body composition by eating keto and doing resistance...
Ketosis the metabolic state We go in and out of ketosis. You’re said to be in ketosis, vaguely, when you have ≥ 0.5 mmol/L of beta-hydroxybutyrate (BhB) in your blood. If you eat a lot more food than...
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Cannabis la pharmacopeia (Part 1)
Cannabis, something for everyone There are some things in this world which, when you learn about them, you learn about much more than you bargained for. Some ‘things’ connect to so many subjects from...
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