I was listening to part of a podcast between Dr. Heather Sandison from the Neurohacker collective and Dr. Valter Longo, who is probably the worlds leading expert on fasting. Dr. Longo has developed what he calls a fasting mimicking protocol that has proven effective in extending the life span and quality-of-life of mice. He’s currently…

You’ve probably seen or heard about this study already. https://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/19/heartjnl-2020-318119 Main point of concern is the claim that cannabis use reportedly increases the incidence of a heart attack in people with a premature heart condition by 2.5 times. I dug into this a bit, and discovered that like many studies of this nature, the popular…

For the past year or so, I have been eating my interpretation of a Mediterranean diet, albeit with less grains and more eggs than some might choose to eat. It is an overwhelmingly plant-based diet, with about 6 eggs per week and also about 3/4 of a pound of fish and/or chicken thighs. That’s probably…

From the European Heart Journal. Separate and combined associations of obesity and metabolic health with coronary heart disease: a pan-European case-cohort analysis https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/39/5/397/4081012 Very interesting study, given the size of the cohort (520,000). Most interesting finding is that overweight and obese people with normal metabolic indicators (eg, BP), likely as a result of good diet…

If I was an elderly person who is not an experienced cannabis user already, I would think twice about using varieties with pharmacologically active amounts of THC for any purpose other than a replacement for other drugs with more dangerous side effects, such as opiates. High CBD/low THC products might be safer in many regards,…

From apple.news/AdKAV6tt0TFGBL0x27lg-LA 1. Start slow. 2. Use herbs that aid digestion when cooking (cumin, ginger, for example). 3. Consider a good probiotic. My favorite is seed.com (no conflict of interest). I have found it to be helpful to soak most beans for 24 hours, with a refresh of the water about halfway through. Then, cook…

In this TEDxOU talk, Christina Warinner, an achaeological geneticist, here debunks the Paleo diet fads: Below, you can find the full transcript of the talk. — Read on singjupost.com/debunking-paleo-diet-christina-warinner-transcript/ Do you want to know what your ideal diet is? I recently developed a tool to help people identify the ideal diet by electronically tracking certain…

The short answer is essentially, “yes they are.” This article does an excellent job of examining some of the hype in popular media on this subject and even addresses the arguments of the very few well known-detractors with real scientific credentials. I think the most important takeaway for me is that any individual observational study…

Dr. Kris Verburgh came up with an alternative to the Harvard healthy eating plate that might be more practical for some who are attempting to alter their diet. The food hourglass is designed to visually display the types of foods one should be emphasizing and how to substitute them for less healthier foods that are…

I’ve been a bit hard on red meat recently. So, today I’ll play devil’s advocate. Here are three recent studies that indicate that red meat does not appear to be detrimental after adjusting for body mass index (BMI): Dietary Red and Processed Meat Intake and Markers of Adiposity and Inflammation: The Multiethnic Cohort Study Associations…