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Photo: The DC Center Fall Reception, 2015, Ted Eytan, MD
- amym440 on Crowdsource Request: Being a transgender ally and unconscious bias: “Years ago you requested some data from me over the use of the word Transgender. I have a word press…” Nov 26, 08:40
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate, Health(ier) Fat Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (less plants, better for the environment): “Oooo, that’s a nice trick! Annoying to hear that recipes have become like listicles in that way, but you as…” Apr 28, 09:38
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate, Health(ier) Fat Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (less plants, better for the environment): “Ha, yeah that’s a feature or most recipe sites these days, they purposely lengthen the page to run as many…” Apr 27, 04:01
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate, Health(ier) Fat Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (less plants, better for the environment): “I was completely, desperately lost on how to find the recipe at that link so I could print it. Lost…” Apr 26, 20:52
- on Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is: “Glad this is useful and may help your audience be better information consumers! Sadly this is tip of the iceberg…” Apr 7, 08:03
- on Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is: “This is brilliant! Thank you for the time you put into this post…I can’t wait to share this with some…” Apr 7, 07:29
- on Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is: “… I’ll take your non-response as agreement that the post is accurate. Agree that conflict of interest is a major…” Apr 1, 04:10
- on Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is: “Ahoy and thanks for stopping by! I quoted word for word the conflicts of interest from the article. Did you…” Mar 31, 16:06
- on Just Read: Saturated Fat in Meat is not associated with Cardiovascular Disease – How to make it look like it is: “So you cherry picked the funding of some industries but ignored funding of beef checkoff program? National dairy council? National…” Mar 31, 16:03
- on Purchasing carbon offsets as a physician without diabetes on a low-carbohydrate diet – How, What, Why – Updated for 2021: “Great Information. Thanks for sharing it” Feb 4, 04:32
- on My month on a carnivore diet – Debrief and Book Review: “The Carnivore Diet”: “I agree it’s important to work with a health professional when starting a new/different diet like this. I am no…” Jun 6, 05:08
- on My month on a carnivore diet – Debrief and Book Review: “The Carnivore Diet”: “I am currently trying keto/carnivore and without a colon. Would like to consult a physician but I have Kaiser. My…” Jun 5, 17:47
- on Just Completed: Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19 (online course): “Congratulations 🎉 it will get emailed to you. Check the course info. Thanks for your service.” May 17, 05:32
- on Just Completed: Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19 (online course): “I finished this course today, but where can I find the certificate like yours? Thank you!” May 17, 05:23
- on Just Read: Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing: “Hey Dave, Yes, before reading this piece there was confusion in my mind, too. I suppose with this model, most…” Apr 7, 09:24
- on Just Read: Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing: “Whoa! “asymptomatic, rather than pre-symptomatic, individuals” – I’ve never seen those two separated. Pre seems to connote “they later started…” Apr 6, 20:43
- on My month on a carnivore diet – Debrief and Book Review: “The Carnivore Diet”: “Janice, Glad to hear. I assume (and hope) you are doing this with a trusted health professional – for anyone…” Feb 7, 09:16
- on My month on a carnivore diet – Debrief and Book Review: “The Carnivore Diet”: “Thank you for giving me added confidence to continue to explore this way of eating. Over the lastfew years I…” Feb 6, 19:40
- on Thank you for publishing my photo, in Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death: “Thank you for using CC as well, and feel free to use any of my images this way. Thanks also…” Jan 20, 15:14
- on Thank you for publishing my photo, in Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death: “Thank you for making this image available under CC for us to use! We distribute all of our content under…” Jan 20, 14:29
- on Photo Friday: U Street, NW, Washington, DC USA: “Michael, Feel free to use in good health, Ted” Jan 11, 20:26
- on Photo Friday: U Street, NW, Washington, DC USA: “Hello Dr. Eytan. I was wondering if I might be able to use one of your wonderful photos (the one…” Jan 11, 20:23
- on Doctors know : It Gets Better: “Here we are NINE YEARS LATER and I needed to come looking for this for someone … so glad you…” Nov 20, 09:26
- on Thanks for publishing my photo and #WhatAParentLooksLike: Trans Discrimination: From Lunch Counters to Refused Hot Wings: “Patrick, Thanks for thinking of this post and for the update. I love hearing about people, Dave, in control of…” Sep 9, 17:56
- on Thanks for publishing my photo and #WhatAParentLooksLike: Trans Discrimination: From Lunch Counters to Refused Hot Wings: “Hi Ted. Hope all is well with you. I’m sitting in a airport terminal waiting on a delayed flight. I…” Sep 8, 15:04
- on Part 1: Why I decided to wear a continuous glucose monitor as a non-diabetic physician : “Kara,. I didnt mention it, and I won’t because I have a strict policy of not endorsing third party products…” Jul 9, 16:39
- on Part 1: Why I decided to wear a continuous glucose monitor as a non-diabetic physician : “Hi Ted, Love that you did this, I also experiment with wearing a CGM as a healthy person. Sorry if…” Jul 9, 16:32
- on The Transgender Pride Flag is accepted as Draft Candidate Emoji for 2020!: “Jess, agreed. Thanks for your support. It’s time. For all humans to be respected and represented, Ted” May 9, 19:10
- on The Transgender Pride Flag is accepted as Draft Candidate Emoji for 2020!: “About. F*$#ing. Time. Apparently all of the following are more important than human rights and even lives to the Unicode…” May 9, 19:05
- on Just Read: Lifestyle Management, Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2019, American Diabetes Association (behavior, a little less strange – low carbohydrate eating now included): “…and as a result you may now know more about cholesterol tests than many physicians. How’s that for #LetPatientsHelp or…” Apr 8, 07:20
- on Just Read: Lifestyle Management, Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2019, American Diabetes Association (behavior, a little less strange – low carbohydrate eating now included): “Thank you for your generosity in pasting links to other helpful content. Funny, as I think of looking up my…” Apr 8, 00:14
- on Just Read: Lifestyle Management, Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2019, American Diabetes Association (behavior, a little less strange – low carbohydrate eating now included): “Hey Dave, I don’t really want to comment on new diagnostic tests. There are other readily available measures of insulin…” Apr 5, 19:19
- on Just Read: Lifestyle Management, Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2019, American Diabetes Association (behavior, a little less strange – low carbohydrate eating now included): “Great timing! Last night I reviewed Sarah Hallberg’s TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ, and though I’d seen it years ago (probably due to…” Apr 5, 13:03
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate Banana Bread Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting: “Love it!” Mar 19, 04:12
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate Banana Bread Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting: “I went with the assumption and replaced the word Stevia with the word Swerve. LE YUM! I swear these are…” Mar 19, 00:41
- on Recipe: Low Carbohydrate Banana Bread Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting: “Okay, good example why one shouldn’t start an experiment late in the evening. We have Swerve, not Stevia. Swerve is…” Mar 18, 22:01
- on Low-Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Peanut Butter Cookies: “Enjoyment is key, and what are peanut butter cookies supposed to like? Food for thought, have fun, in metabolic health!” Mar 12, 22:19
- on Low-Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Peanut Butter Cookies: “Last night I made these AND another batch of the pumpkin muffins. So far none of these has tasted as…” Mar 12, 18:09
- on Low-Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Peanut Butter Cookies: “Dave, healthy food is a fling for a lifetime in my opinion – a cathartic way to undo what was…” Mar 10, 20:57
- on Low-Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Peanut Butter Cookies: “Worth noting that the recipe link also cites this page on how to calculate net carbs. https://blog.bulletproof.com/how-to-calculate-net-carbs-keto/ Oo, squee, am…” Mar 10, 20:03
- on Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Pumpkin Muffins With Cream Cheese Filling: “Dave, you’ll have as much fun with this as I have – never thought food could be so interesting! Keep…” Mar 10, 19:59
- on Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Pumpkin Muffins With Cream Cheese Filling: “I made them tonight. We didn’t have the exact ingredients but the kitchen SMELLS pumpkin even though the resulting muffins…” Mar 9, 22:41
- on Just Completed: RCGP e-learning Course: Type 2 diabetes and the low GI diet, comparing to my ABFM educational experience: “BOY it discourages conversation with the “leave a reply” box is way down below related content. But again I found…” Mar 7, 23:17
- on Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Pumpkin Muffins With Cream Cheese Filling: “I ate a lot of them , and my blood glucose stayed stable, 😀” Mar 7, 22:43
- on Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Pumpkin Muffins With Cream Cheese Filling: “I got tripped up by the “leave a comment” in the embedded Instagram post – almost didn’t find this! LONG…” Mar 7, 21:50
- on Photo Friday: The Best-Designed All Gender Restroom I Have Been In: “Not that I recall, Ted” Jan 18, 17:54
- on Photo Friday: The Best-Designed All Gender Restroom I Have Been In: “Hi Ted, Thank you for this post – Are there private sinks inside the stalls at Bentley Reserve?” Jan 18, 17:19
- on #TheWalkingGallery – The Film: “Absolute Beauty and Genius. Thank you. The film says it all … … worth a million words” Nov 27, 20:50
- on Just Read: Hypercholesterolemia and low carbohydrate diets – study of highly trained keto-adapted athletes: “So many great reads on this blog site. Much appreciated. I follow Dr Esselstyn,, but am always in search of…” Nov 27, 20:39
- on American Medical Association 2001, Health 2.0, and Patients 2.0: “Ha ha ha ha ha so now I stumble across the origin story – my “Good to meet you, Ted”…” Oct 16, 11:11
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Dawn, Agreed. The sensor that I use is quite easy and painless to apply, the technology is impressive. Please keep…” Oct 15, 09:53
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Thank you so much for your reply. I’m relieved to read about the disparity in other CGM brands and lower…” Oct 14, 16:45
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Dawn, Thanks for taking the time to relate your experience. I agree with you that I was never taught about…” Oct 14, 15:34
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Thank you Ted for this great information. As a healthcare worker with 21 years hospital experience who is the grandmother…” Oct 14, 10:42
- on Part 5: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: Beginning to Share My Data: “Thank you for this!” Oct 14, 04:58
- on Part 5: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: Beginning to Share My Data: “You might want to have a look at the nightscout data commons project for sharing your data: http://www.nightscoutfoundation.org/data-commons/” Oct 14, 04:01
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Thanks for reading. What’s missing for me in these studies is impact of diet in reducing insulin to begin with.…” Oct 5, 04:36
- on Part 3: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: What’s Normal?: “Looking at the pictures you use a Flash device and one presentation was about difference between Flash (aka libre )…” Oct 5, 03:15
- on Part 2: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: The Experience: “Brian, Thanks for stopping by and for the dialogue. I’ll take these one by one: Many gay men also happen…” Sep 22, 08:40
- on Part 2: Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor as a non-diabetic Physician: The Experience: “Many gay men seem obsessed about their weight vs their health. You don’t need a glucose monitor if you aren’t…” Sep 22, 02:04
- on Part 1: Why I decided to wear a continuous glucose monitor as a non-diabetic physician : “So interesting — look forward to reading and maybe trying it too……!” Sep 11, 17:04
- on Thanks for Publishing my Photo, in Troye Sivan wil meer muziek maken voor queer mensen – Be Out: “Thank you!! 🙂” Aug 30, 07:57
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “Hey Dave, I’ve reviewed. So they are looking at food frequency questionnaires from the late 80’s/early 90’s. FFQ’S have major…” Aug 19, 15:49
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “Those count as drug company ties. I will review the full study and post my thoughts.” Aug 17, 16:25
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “Thank you. Totally agreed about “not here to declare a winner,” which is why I didn’t ask “who’s right?” I…” Aug 17, 16:24
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “This will get you started https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/diet-study-low-high-carb-best-healthiest-nhs-doctor/amp/” Aug 17, 15:46
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “Hey Dave, Looking forward to others views. Walter Willett’s presence plus the drug company ties make me wary. Either way,…” Aug 17, 15:38
- on Washington, DC Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle Meetup: Food Entrepreneurship within a Desolate Industrial Food Landscape: “Dear sir, Already friends to whom I’d spoken of low-carb are asking me about this new Lancet Public Health article.…” Aug 17, 15:25
- on Just Read: Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertriglyceridemic Patients With Statin-Controlled LDL Cholesterol – Impact of Nutrition? (not discussed): “The data just keeps coming…..” Aug 15, 05:41
- on Just Read: Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertriglyceridemic Patients With Statin-Controlled LDL Cholesterol – Impact of Nutrition? (not discussed): “Thank you Ted! These “Just Read” summaries are so, so helpful!” Aug 15, 05:38
- on Thanks for Publishing my Photo of Troye Sivan at Capital Pride, Washington, DC, in film over homogenezing ‘Boy Erased’ vanaf 14 november in België – Be Out: “Welcome to the world of social media, and you’re welcome to use it, since it’s @CreativeCommons licensed. Enjoy, Ted” Jul 25, 16:15
- on More Photos from the Future: Troye Sivan at Capital Pride, Washington, DC USA: “Thank you for providing us bloggers with up to date photos of the boy Troye” Jul 25, 16:03
- on Thanks for Publishing my Photo of Troye Sivan at Capital Pride, Washington, DC, in film over homogenezing ‘Boy Erased’ vanaf 14 november in België – Be Out: “How did you find I used your photo? Timothy, www.beout.be” Jul 25, 16:01
- on Photo Friday: Cadillac Hotel and the Green Book for African American Travelers, Logan Circle, Washington, DC, USA: “Pamela is my 1st cousin who also commented on this article.” Jun 10, 18:35
- on Photo Friday: Cadillac Hotel and the Green Book for African American Travelers, Logan Circle, Washington, DC, USA: “Not only did my Aunt Myrtle Williams own the Cadillac Hotel but several other hotels in the city as well.…” Jun 10, 18:33
- on California Health And Safety Code Section 123148 – Limits on sharing test result information with patients online: “William, I obviously can’t tell exactly what your situation is – I think the law is about getting results online…” Apr 4, 20:59
- on California Health And Safety Code Section 123148 – Limits on sharing test result information with patients online: “I am just reading this post now because i am suddenly experiencing a problem with not getting my lab test…” Apr 4, 20:33
- on Voice of the Customer: Impact of patient online access (or lack thereof): “The CR post is now at https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2008/08/cover-america-denied-insurance-because-of-a-medical-coding-error/index.htm … and boy does this thread (from ten years ago) petrify me even…” Mar 20, 17:02
- on A Different Take- My Conversation With the Author: Diabetes Remission Data from Kaiser Permanente Shows that Patients are Right to Have Hope: “Robert, Thanks for reading and for relaying what you hear. It’s helpful to understand people’s mental models, the human body…” Feb 20, 16:06
- on A Different Take- My Conversation With the Author: Diabetes Remission Data from Kaiser Permanente Shows that Patients are Right to Have Hope: ““You can’t re-grow beta cells”….The response I often get when challenging the prognosis for diabetes.” Feb 20, 14:28
- on Photo Friday: Cadillac Hotel and the Green Book for African American Travelers, Logan Circle, Washington, DC, USA: “I just saw this article and your reply. My mother, Bessie Peterson, worked at the Cadillac Hotel in the early…” Feb 19, 22:19
- on Photo Friday: The future is Low Carb, Low Carbon, LGBTQ, Washington, DC USA: “Mark, thank you! I realized I forgot to put in the link to the data about bicycle commuting. I did…” Feb 3, 17:22
- on Photo Friday: The future is Low Carb, Low Carbon, LGBTQ, Washington, DC USA: “Really nice shots! Also, Judy and I are really happy to bike commute on the Cresent Trail. But, IT”S COLD!…” Feb 3, 17:09
- on Thanks for using my photo in “Illegal love”: the criminalization of homosexual acts as violation of rationality in law – The New Federalist, webzine of the Young European Federalists: “I hadn’t, how cool! Thanks, Dave 😎” Jan 29, 05:14
- on Thanks for using my photo in “Illegal love”: the criminalization of homosexual acts as violation of rationality in law – The New Federalist, webzine of the Young European Federalists: “I imagine you’ve seen this, from April. There seems to be no coverage since then – have you heard anything?…” Jan 28, 22:33
- on Thanks for using my photos in your media kit, WAMU, Washington, DC affiliate of National Public Radio – Confirmed: Washington, DC is #MostGorgeousCity: “Thank you for generously sharing your beautiful images! Keep up the amazing work!” Jan 12, 14:59
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “I put some of my initial reading/thoughts in this post – thanks again for your assistance – https://www.tedeytan.com/2018/01/06/24514” Jan 6, 06:38
- on Just Read: DIETFITS study design – Healthy Low Carbohydrate and Healthy Low Fat Diet Comparison for Weight Loss in non-diabetic humans: “Agree with @tedeytan that we should not interpret the current state of diet research as proving that it does not…” Dec 14, 22:36
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “Hello again, I reviewed the papers and blog posts – very helpful. I was impressed at the level of ad…” Dec 13, 15:07
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “Fantastic- thanks for these!” Dec 12, 16:01
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “Hi Ted, there are a few other earlier papers cited here. https://profgrant.com/2017/06/02/defending-lchf-in-the-climate-change-debate/ The WHO and FAO research seems to have…” Dec 12, 15:37
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “Thank you for this, I was having difficulty understanding the GHG contribution of low vs high carb diets. If you…” Dec 12, 13:50
- on Just Read: Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: critical review and evidence base.: “If you think about sustainability, a lot of our current recommendations involve food waste. We’re supposed to not use the…” Dec 12, 13:27
- on Thanks for Publishing My Photo, in Records show D.C. Police used an LRAD sound cannon to “direct crowd flow” during the Women’s March: “Dave, Yes, it sounds bad. The day was so calm considering how many people were there, so much kindness &…” Nov 22, 21:01
- on Thanks for removing my photo from your website, TechCrunch, and what a tyrant doesn’t look like: “It’s not just your bold, clear, and considerate stand (always teaching, you are); it’s how generously you blog it all…” Nov 22, 20:59
- on Thanks for Publishing My Photo, in Records show D.C. Police used an LRAD sound cannon to “direct crowd flow” during the Women’s March: “Holy crap. You didn’t paste in the specifics from the linked article, so I will. All [models] can produce a…” Nov 22, 20:52
- on Thanks for Publishing my Photo, and for being an amazing voice from the future, in A Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban On Transgender Troops In the Military – Affinity Magazine: “….use any of the photos anytime. You are doing great things with them and for the world, from your fan…” Nov 2, 05:05
- on Thanks for Publishing my Photo, and for being an amazing voice from the future, in A Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban On Transgender Troops In the Military – Affinity Magazine: “Thank you, for capturing a beautiful moment of unity, it only felt right to use in this article. -Affinity Writer” Nov 1, 11:43
- on Just Read: Challenging the role of LDL vs Insulin Resistance in predicting heart disease, via Kaiser Permanente data: “Helpful, thank you – I have been working to understand the TG interaction with diet – it takes some understanding!…” Oct 24, 16:19