A good friend just pointed me to an interesting article from the New York Times that came out Christmas Eve Day. It was based on a study out of Emory University in Atlanta that showed higher all-cause mortality associated with HDL levels above 80! Below is a screen capture from the press conference where the … Read more
Catching Up I have not been good at keeping up with blogging. After returning home from the fasting retreat, life got in the way! I took my labs on November 19th (approximately 2 months after returning from the fasting clinic) and had intended on blogging right away. However, moving into our new condo, my current … Read more
Do you have high LDL or high total cholesterol? If you read my previous article about cheese, you may recall that these LDL or total cholesterol numbers alone are not reliable predictors of mortality from heart disease. An NBC News piece went further to cite American science writer Gary Taubes who reported that the LDL … Read more
The old advice to “feed a cold, starve a fever” is a controversial one. Given the controversy, I wanted to explore some of the differing opinions — the history, the conventional Western medicine view, and what the latest science suggests. The Historical View The old wives’ tale came from the belief that eating caused the … Read more