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Are Vitamins Killing You? TV3 Inside New Zealand Review
Review, Inside New Zealand "documentary" Are Vitamins Killing You? It confirmed what I've always known, that TV cannot report responsibly on inherently complex matters of science or history. Instead of...
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How a High-fat Paleo diet Protects against HCV replication and Fibrosis of...
The Hepatitis C virus replicates and infects cells by hijacking at least two cellular mechanisms, one of which is specific to liver cells; the RNA replication apparatus, which is essential in all cells...
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Hepatitis C, Gluten and the Folly of Agriculture
Gluten and Casein as Factors responsible for the Characteristic Diseases of Chronic Hepatitis C Not everyone exposed to HCV develops a chronic infection. The rate of natural clearance is unknown,...
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Hep C Treatments in 5 Words
People are always asking me to put my Hep C findings into simple language and keep it short. It's hard to do this without cutting corners. But increasingly I find things falling into simple categories,...
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Do high-carbohydrate diets and PUFA create a Pro-viral Metabolic Gradient in...
Do high-carbohydrate diets, sugars, and “heart-healthy” oils create a pro-viral metabolic gradient in chronic hepatitis C infection? Chronic HCV infection (CHC) has become endemic across most of the...
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HCV, Fructose and Fox01
Here's a bit of corroborating evidence on the wisdom of restricting fructose in Hep C, and the possibility that HCV might create a fructose sensitivity predisposing towards insulin resistance and type...
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Is a Diet High in Saturated Fat Good for the Liver?
If we follow the advice laid out in a previous post and increase fat while restricting PUFA, will the extra saturated fat be good or bad for our liver, HCV aside?That depends, I suppose on whether you...
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Fructose, Calories, Carbohydrate and de novo lipogenesis: What does...
What does “hypercaloric” actually mean? One possible objection to the prediction that fructose (and glucose from higher carbohydrate intakes) will enhance HCV replication by inducing DAGT1 and VLDL...
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The Metabolic Push-Me-Pull-You: HCV core protein, and the even-handed...
One of the features of HCV which I will probably return to again and again in this work-in-progress is that it represents a useful model of metabolic syndrome and DM2. HCV-infected hepatocytes run...
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Why Might Statins Cause Memory Loss and Arterial Calcification? Vitamin K2,...
In a recent trial of statin use in diabetes, greater compliance was associated with coronary calcium progression.Statin doctors were quick to discount the findings. But aren't statins supposed to stop...
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The Role of Vitamin Fortification in the Obesity Epidemic
The beriberi weight loss diet; fortification for the "fattening carbohydrate" theory of obesity.The obesity epidemic is more advanced in wheat-eating countries and countries with a high intake of...
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Footnotes in Support of the Thiamine Hypothesis of Obesity
Some footnotes in support of the Thiamine Hypothesis:From The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Nutrition, by John Yudkin:"The reduction in the prevalence of beri-beri in some countries, such as Japan, has come...
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Viral Manipulation of Host Behaviour by HCV?
It's well known that some viruses and other parasites can influence host behaviour and physiology to maximize their spread.Respiratory viruses make you cough and sneeze. Rabies makes you aggressive (it...
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Recent Blood tests: HCV Genotype 3 and Cholesterol
Some results of recent blood testing from Auckland Hospital. Getting enough blood to run the tests was, as always, difficult, but at least was possible on this occasion. It’s worth mentioning this...
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The Origins of the High-Fat Hep C Diet
The other day I rediscovered one of my early posts about my concept of a high fat diet for Hep C. It was posted on the Life Extension Foundation forum on 27 Feb 2011. I started restricting carbs after...
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A Hard Day's Night - Cholesterol, Cancer and Selenium
Note: this is a long post, but stay with me; it has some surprising twists. Tell your friends, but don't spoil the ending for them!Low cholesterol is a risk factor for liver cancer in HBV infection; I...
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Preventing and Reversing Hepatic Fibrosis - Herbs and Supplements
Limitations of the paper: This was written a few years ago and does not incorporate everything I have learned since. Nor does it contain many references and live links, though I have added some, and...
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How To Come Off Methadone Without Really Trying
Over a year ago - I think it was in August - I finally came off methadone, which drug I'd been taking since the late 1980s, including every day, barring accidents, since 1990. I started reducing...
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Vitamin D3 could save your life, pretty much.
http://hepatitiscresearchandnewsupdates.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/d-livering-message-importance-of.html#.UFoZ4bJlTzwWhat we have here is the full-text of a very good review paper on vitamin D and liver...
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More Cholesterol Madness; Malcolm Kendrick on Viral Hepatitis. Plus, What...
The following is from an article by Malcolm Kendrick, author of The Great Cholesterol Myth.http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAE78.htmAnd so the latest argument is that nobody in modern...
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