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Oct 5, 2020
2 min

How Yo-Yo Diets Damage Metabolism and What to Do About It

It’s common knowledge among yo-yo dieters that when you lose weight and gain it back, it comes back with vengeance! What’s more, with eve...

Aug 3, 2020
2 min

Low-carb vs. Low-fat Diets & The Saturated fat Paradox!

The graphs below summarize data from a 2008 study in which people were split in two diet groups: a low-fat group and a low-carb group (al...

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

Saunas for Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease, the world’s most common neurodegenerative disease and form of dementia, is partly a disease of protein misfolding. B...

Jul 13, 2020
5 min

The Virginity Lie & How to Find REAL Extra Virgin Olive Oil

What is extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)? Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is among the world’s healthiest fat sources. It’s not only the riche...

Jul 6, 2020
3 min

Vitamin C for your Artery

A car is driving along the highway when… SMASH… car crash! It’s a 10-car pileup and the road is wrecked. Of course, the first priority is...

Jun 29, 2020
2 min

Ketones – Water on the Fire of Chronic Disease

Let’s analogize the immune system to an army. Like an army, the immune system exists to protect us from foreign invaders. On the other ha...

Jun 22, 2020
5 min

Mooooving Forward: Is Red Meat Really Bad for Your Health?

“Red meat is bad for your health.” It’s common knowledge. Then again, common knowledge is often wrong. Inspired by the obesity epidemic a...

Jun 15, 2020
4 min

Insulin Resistance Blocks the Benefits of Exercise

A stunning new paper entitled “Molecular Choreography of Acute Exercise,” published on May 28th, 2020 in the prestigious journal Cell (1)...

Jun 8, 2020
4 min

Chocolate–Food of the Gods & High-Fat Superfood #1

It may not surprise you to learn that the cacao beans used to make chocolate come from the Theobroma cacao tree, which translates to “foo...

Jun 3, 2020
3 min

Jargon You Should Know: “Oxidative Stress” and “Inflammation”

There are some really important terms that come up repeatedly and are actually important to understand. Two of these are “oxidative stres...

May 26, 2020
2 min

Ketones Promote “Network Stability” in the Brain to Possibly Protect Against Alzheimer’s

On March 3rd, a two-part study was published in the prestigious journal, PNAS, that documented two important discoveries: (1) A new way t...

May 19, 2020
2 min

What the Heck is Autophagy? – The Bakery Analogy

“Autophagy” is a hot topic in nutrition science, particularly as relates to brain health. The discovery of autophagy-related genes was aw...

May 13, 2020
6 min

The Fatome

What is the best source of fat on a ketogenic diet? The ketosphere is pretty segregated, almost in a religious manner, on this issue. Som...

May 11, 2020
3 min

Ketone bodies can Mitigate Migraines

One billion people in the world suffer from migraines. That makes it the most common neurological disease in the world. Despite its preva...

May 4, 2020
2 min

Understanding Ketones as Better Brain Fuel

It is quickly becoming common knowledge that ketone bodies are a better fuel for the brain than glucose. But it’s one thing to believe an...

Apr 27, 2020
2 min

Keto for Schizophrenia

Many brain diseases, from Alzheimer’s to migraines to schiZophrenia (the focus of this piece), have as an underlying cause “bioenergetic ...

Apr 17, 2020
3 min

If you’re Keto, your Lipids may be Misleading - New Report Suggests (April 2020)

In science and medicine, your conclusions are only as good as your tests. You don’t need to be a researcher or doctor to understand this ...

Apr 9, 2020
2 min

Could a Ketogenic Diet Alter the Microbiome to Protect Brain Health?

Each of our guts is an ecosystem of microorganisms. We shape this ecosystem by eating certain foods and, in turn, this ecosystem affects ...

Mar 27, 2020
2 min

Ketones and Coronavirus - Take 2

It’s March 27th, 2020 and many people are awash in confusion (and hand sanitizer). With the COVID pandemic progressing so quickly and the...

Mar 25, 2020
1 min

Ketones, Influenza and Corona

The world is up-side down. Not surprisingly, we’ve frequently received the question, “Is there a links between ketones and coronavirus?” ...

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