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Dining In The Fourth Dimension
Dining in the Fourth Dimension Remember when your parents or grandparents warned you against snacking and told you to wait till mealtimes? It turns out they were right, and that when you eat is almost...
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My Dietary Recommendations for Liver Health
These are the notes I hand out at my inpatient liver presentations. They do not promote carbohydrate restriction because they are aimed at people with alcohol and drug issues who more often than not...
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Fish Oil, Krill Oil, and Hepatitis C
Few things in paleo-land are as endlessly debatable as whether supplementing fish oil or cod liver oil is a good idea. When considering the effects of omega-3 VLCFA (very long chain fatty acids, which...
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Eat shit and live! The hygiene hypothesis n=1
Ever since I was a teenager I've been a hay fever sufferer. For months at a time my nose is irritated by pollen, perfume, cheese, and bright sunlight, my eyes made gritty by cobwebs and house dust. I...
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HCV replication; diabetes, main roads, railways, and tanks.
Back to the raison d'etre for this blog; the supposition that HCV replication can be restricted, and the symptoms mitigated, by following a carbohydrate-restricted, low-PUFA, high SFA diet.Another way...
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Rich Van Konynenburg R.I.P. - Methylation and Glutathione.
I was saddened to learn of the death of independent researcher Rich Van Konynenburg PhD. last month. Rich was a researcher into the causes and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic...
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What would Bluebelle Eat? Feeding the Paleo Dog.
The other day a new dog owner asked for my advice about what to feed a dog. Bluebelle has been eating mainly paleo after her first year, when she seemed to be getting health problems from a diet of...
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L-Valine, Zinc supplementation, the Fructose Lipid Hypothesis, and the n=1...
There's a paper casing a big buzz in the Hep C forums, with good cause.Valine, a Branched-Chain Amino Acid, Reduced HCV Viral Load and Led to Eradication of HCV by Interferon Therapy in a Decompensated...
View ArticleFatty liver and its treatment.
Fatty liver (steatosis) is pretty much the precondition of fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer.Steatosis and hepatic IR are closely associated but it is still poorly understood whether it is...
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Pyridoxine – Toxicity and Deficiency, and the balance between B6 and protein.
You could make an argument that the pyridoxine form of vitamin B6 is the only really dangerous vitamin supplement. Overdosing on anything else is unlikely if you stick to recommendations, but...
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When “Healthy Eating” Becomes Police Business
We’ve had a wonderful summer in New Zealand, with one of the driest Januaries on record. So we Kiwis get out to the beaches as much as we can, soaking up the life-giving rays of the sun and marinating...
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Doctors Respond to the Sydney Diet Heart Study
“The results show that the omega-6 linoleic acid group had a higher risk of death from all causes, as well as from cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease, compared with the control group.”We...
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More Junk Epidemiology - Cataracts and Vitamin C
This study on supplement use hasn't come up on the paleo radar, but it's a good example of how to expose junk epidemiology. It's from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - you can subscribe here...
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Naltrexone has TLR-4 activity - is it an "Old Friends" mimic?
(Our first song for today is appropriately Junk by The Puddle, a early post on this topic from 1985.)Naltrexone is a mu-endorphin antgonist that is used as an opioid antagonist. It will reverse...
View ArticleMore lessons from Naltrexone and TLR4; Astragalus
The naltrexone story I covered in the last post has turned up other insights into its mode of action in Hepatitis C. (music: Steely Dan live from 1974)Most importantly, naltrexone is antifibrotic. TLR4...
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Spirulina and LPS; and, Maybe Trans Fats are Not the Devil?
One of the very minor controversies in Paleo-land is whether algal foods or supplements are healthful. For what it's worth, pond algae appeared in the Paleolithic menu (according to the 2008 book...
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Can Spirulina Produce a Sustained Virological Response in Chronic Hep C? More...
I was going to give the whole algae as immune stimulants theme a rest, until Silvia Hinojosa-Price sent me this paper.Spirulina Platensis versus Silymarin in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus...
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I haven't had my Diet Wars writing published before, unless you count my many letters to the editors of The Herald, Listener, and Otago Daily Times, letters which, I'm pleased to say, do often get...
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Letters to the Editor
The letter to the editor is a miniature literary form like the haiku, and one more transient than the blog post. I have written a great many over the years; no-one taught me, I believe that no...
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Does Aspirin Prevent Liver Cancer, and, Does Ginkgo Extract Cause It?
Aspirin (acetylsalicyclic acid) is one of those drugs that blurs the distinction between the natural world and the products of human ingenuity, being a barely-tweaked analogue of salicylic acid....
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