Just Read: How to Make Irrelevant Findings Appear Relevant: Meat intake and Dementia
Image: 2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon – Ted Eytan MD-1001 1148 | Flickr This is (yet) another study, also using UK Biobank (UK_Biobank) data, that attempts to…
Category: Metabolic Health
Just Read: Lipid profile, improved with saturated fat intake on a low-carbohydrate diet, and it’s shown accurately
I re-discovered this study while reviewing the studies other that were sent to me purporting to show harm from eating meat or dairy fat (they didn’t). I needed…
Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is
I’ve recently put out a solicitation for physicians to send me evidence that low carbohydrate or animal source foods are harmful for our health. This is a breakdown…
The United States has the OECD’s highest consumption of industrial vegetable oil per capita
…I became curious, and the data validates what I’ve been told in other venues. The United States leads the world in the per capita consumption of industrial vegetable…
Just Read: When the research article about the hamburger is really an article about the bun (and the fries, and the soda…)
2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon – Ted Eytan MD-1001 1096 – (View on Flickr.com) It’s research like this that makes nutrition guidance unusable. This article, purporting to…
Just Read: Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
This recent article is from the PURE study team, which I’ve written about previously. The study adds knowledge about metabolic impacts of food on a global scale. In…
Checking in: continuous blood glucose monitoring while on a (mostly) plant free diet
As I mentioned recently (Why I’m wearing a continuous glucose monitor as a physician without diabetes or prediabetes), I decided to check in on some potential dietary changes.…
Just Read: NAFLD is now MAFLD, putting the “Metabolic” in Fatty Liver Disease (with an “astonishingly high” prevalence)
I first learned about non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) after medical school, and in that education it became obvious that this condition is mostly driven by poor metabolic…
Less storming the castle, more bringing a cornucopia, our first Low Carbohydrate Diet Forum for clinicians on Clubhouse
Clubhouse (@JoinClubhouse) is an interesting new social network that’s described elsewhere (in many other places). Yesterday we brought a group of well-regarded clinicians with a diversity of backgrounds…
Why I’m wearing a continuous glucose monitor as a physician without diabetes or prediabetes
In practice, I never check ketone levels. Why wear a continuous glucose monitor (CGM)? Too much glucose in your bloodstream is toxic, too little is fatal. Our bodies…