The Official COVID-19 protocol from Shanghai, China, in English
This detailed protocol, which appeared online last week on an official Chinese Govt website, includes high-dose Vitamin C within the SOC drug recommendations. So far, when this has been pointed out to...
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You can't Boost your Immunity? or, Debunking the COVID-19 Skeptics.
Kate's elderberry concoction, photograph by Hayley TheyersIs there anything as useless as the professional Skeptic community in a health crisis? Some people are paid to be roadblocks, others are...
View ArticleProbiotics for the prevention of Upper Respiratory Tract infections - a...
“With most people, disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in something else" G. C. LichtenbergThe Cochrane Collaboration found low-quality evidence that probiotics prevent UTRIs, and...
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My Letter to Cochrane on the Hooper 2020 saturated fat meta
I submitted this on the Cochrane form athttps://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011737.pub2/commentOthers will have points to add about study quality and other factors, I have stuck...
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A Reading List, and I Shill for a New Cookbook
It's been a time for reading lists; in lockdown I enjoyed discovering the books of T.H. White (The Goshawk and The Age of Scandal) and Evan S. Connell (Mrs Bridges) and reading Hillary Mantel's memoir...
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Selenium reduces COVID-19 risk - a back-of-the-envelope Bradford Hill analysis.
Bradford Hill introduced a checklist for assessing the strength of epidemiological evidence for causality, which is useful in the current pandemic when nutritional factors have been insufficiently...
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Mauritius - When the effects of saturated fat replacement failed to conform...
There may be no country in the world in which a suggested limit on saturated fat has not been followed by a relatively rapid increase in the incidence of diabetes and obesity.Of course this is a matter...
View ArticleLetter – Selenium supplementation may improve COVID-19 survival in sickle...
Further to Ulfberg and Stehlik’s letter of Sept 29th, further evidence supports the role of selenium in COVID-19 virulence.[1] In their pre-print analysis by machine learning of Medicare patients Dun...
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Zombies of the Risk Society
How the Risk Society model of “progress” explains the COVID-19 paralysis, how Zombies were enlisted in the cause, and what hope there is left of not becoming Zombies ourselves. (Note: this article was...
View ArticleThe most important post - a new Nutrition and Mental Health article and book
The Better Brain: How nutrition will help you overcome anxiety, depression, ADHD and stress is a new book (not to be mistaken with the David Perlmutter book of similar name) by Bonnie Kaplan and Julia...
View ArticleIs cannabis protective against an adverse effect of the modern diet?...
(this post originally appeared for subscribers on my Patreon blog in Dec 2020, and is now unlocked. If you want to support my blogging habit and see these posts before they happen, subscribe here!The...
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Bernard Shaw goes to Samoa
I’ve been lucky enough to have worked as an extra on the latest fantasy series, and this means I have finally had the time and the freedom from digital poisoning to read some of the books I have wanted...
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Probiotic extracts for PTSD - proof of concept for the gut-brain axis?
It is with great pleasure that I can announce results from an experiment I was actually involved with, albeit long ago.It happened like this - having noticed that probiotics were helping with my HCV...
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The Carb-Fat Food Quality Gradient - a real metabolic advantage
This post was originally published as a subscriber-only post on Patreon. You don't have encourage the speculations of the likes of me, but if you want to try, please subscribe!By now, we've all seen...
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Virta Health vs Seidelmann - of ketones and COVID-19
You would have seen this paper; senior author is Sara Seidelmann of the infamous "low carb kills" paper, the reviewers were one vegan propagandist David Jenkins (a friend of the family, so to speak)...
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The Mother of all Conspiracies; Oswald and JFK in the 21st Century.
Imagine a counterfactual America, an alternative history wherein it has always been a well-known and accepted fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone-wolf Marxist, had assassinated the President of the...
View ArticleMy review of selenium, probiotics and vitamin D for COVID-19, meat for mental...
Greetings readers!Every so often I am asked to review new or best-selling books related to diet for Newsroom and am encouraged by the Reading Room editor Steve Braunias, a very fine writer indeed, not...
View ArticleYes, but, what will you do when the Covid comes?
This post was originally published on Patreon. You don't have encourage the speculations of the likes of me, but if you want to try, please subscribe! Every day on NZ twitter people are debating what...
View ArticleVegetarianism and the Occult - A Warning from History
This post first appeared early last year as a paywalled post on my Patreon blog. If you want to support my esoteric dietary researches, become a subscriber!The following is an excerpt from a book by...
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Is Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) use making the Covid-19 pandemic worse?
I've written in an earlier post about what's wrong with recommending paracetamol to people with Covid. There are no RCTs to show it's safe, and there are undisputed findings from toxicology and...
View ArticleVegetarianism - a warning from history Pt 2 - Shelly's vegetarian experiments.
Vegan diets and the risk of deficiency diseases – the story of Shelly One of the earliest objective accounts of the effects of a vegetarian diet in English is Thomas Love Peacock’s observations of his...
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The case for Red meat - a Marxist defense of meat-eating
New Zealand schools have introduced a climate change resource that suggests children “eat less meat and dairy”, even though teachers will not know how much meat or dairy any child in their care has...
View ArticleVegetarianism, a warning from history, Pt 3 - John Hartford
John Hartford wrote one of the best songs ever written, Gentle on my Mind. For me, the best version of this is Elvis Presley's - The King turns it into an anthem of deluded masculinity, he's a loser...
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The Last Days of the Internet
Before I started writing medical papers and such I was a musician and I'm a musician again. I'm also a big lover of the Internet which has given us many fine things and a place to stay but which one...
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The Prostate and its Discontents
This post originally appeared for subscribers only on my Patreon blog (October 31). If you appreciate my occasional writing on science and stuff subscribe here - it only encourages me to read more...
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