Let's start with a bit of melancholy. I do so love this piece (right click to open in new tab) by Ralph Vaughan Williams. My 10th grade band director,...
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Low Cholesterol and Suicide 2
In my last post on the link between low cholesterol and suicide, I made note of some general trends between low cholesterol, suicide (particularly violent...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Lithium and Inflammation
Lithium is an interesting sort of mineral salt. It sits on the periodic table right above sodium, and can fool our kidneys into thinking they are the...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Zinc Clarity
So far we have linked zinc deficiency to anorexia, ADHD, and depression. Meaning that patients with these conditions have a tendency to have lower serum...
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Interlude
I'll get back to zinc tomorrow. But today I heard this piano solo on XM radio (right click to open in a new tab if you want to listen and read), and...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Zinc, Depression, and Everything
Today I will review more specific and up-to-date information about the interplay between zinc and depressive disorders and inflammation. Let's summarize...
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Zinc!
When one makes a study of evolutionary medicine-type issues (that is, all chronic Western disease mediated by inflammation and diet and lifestyle so far...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
A Common Sense Defense of Animal Fat
When one looks in the books and on the internet about a "paleolithic-style" or "evolutionary-based" diet, one will likely be confused at the end of it....
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Heart and Soul
UCSF medical school is running an 8 year prospective cohort study following patients with heart disease. The goal of the study is to gain some perspective...
Saturday, July 17, 2010
A Closer Look at Tartrazine
Tartrazine, also known as Yellow #5, is a coal-tar derivative azo dye found in a lot of processed food, including Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Doritos,...
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Hyperactivity and Diet
Here's the title to a June 2009 article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter: "Diet and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Can some food additives...
Monday, July 12, 2010
D-D-Depression
I was deficient in vitamin D. Of course. I paid attention to the official word about sunshine - it's bad for you. Ultraviolet radiation chops up your...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Born to Run
Have you read this book: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen?I love that book. McDougall manages...
Friday, July 9, 2010
"Epidemiology is Bogus"
The paleoblogosphere is humming with excitement the past few days over the glorious work done by raw food blogger Denise Minger in her personal examination...
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Vegetarianism and Eating Disorders
A study from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association hit the press in April of 2009 with a rather provocative association - young adult and adolescent...
