For this post I'm reviewing a paper from Neurology, October 2010, "Homocysteine and holotranscobalamin and the risk of Alzheimer's disease" along with...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Depression, Anxiety, and Obesity 2
Quick review. The hypothalamus in our brains secretes CRH, a hormone that tells our pituitary gland to secrete ACTH, which then travels down through the...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Depression, Anxiety, and Obesity 1
It seems like a straightforward topic. How does obesity affect the brain? The associations are complicated, chicken and egg sorts of problems. Does...
Monday, October 25, 2010
End of Season CSA Soup and Blog Talk Radio
My interview with Leslie Irish Evans is at 3pm EST today (Monday Oct. 25th) on Blog Talk Radio. I have the honor of being her last guest on Blog Talk...
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Alzheimer's and the Cholesterol Condundrum
I made some pretty bold claims the other day in my post on Alzheimer's and ApoE. I want to look more closely at some of the studies cited yesterday,...
Friday, October 22, 2010
What the Heck Is an ApoE and Other Stories of How Cholesterol Is Good for You
I believe the hierarchy of medicine explains everything. Cardiologists had the EKG as soon as some poor soul was convinced to dunk his feet in (dilute)...
Blog Talk Radio Interview on Monday, October 25th
My friend Leslie Irish Evans of Peeling Mom Off the Ceiling is having me on her radio show next Monday, October 25th. You can hear it live at noon...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Fish Oil is Not Magick - But it Might Lengthen Your Pregnancy
I promise that one of these days I will get back to Alzheimer's and saturated fat and ApoE. Though y'all already know the punchline, right? ...
Monday, October 18, 2010
Did I Mention that Depression Is Inflammatory?
Brand new paper today in Nature Medicine - "A negative regulator of MAP kinase causes depressive behavior." I know that doesn't sound particularly exciting,...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Alzheimer's Disease and Saturated Fat - Is Butter Part of the Recipe for Dementia?
First, some possible bad news for Paleo/Primal diet fans. See, there's a prospective cohort study of people >65 out of New York City. 2148 elderly...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Lessons from Biosphere 2
As I mentioned in my last post, the first Biosphere 2 closure experiment in 1991-1993 was rough going. Considering the circumstances (starvation, suffocation,...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Semi-Starvation Experiment in Arizona - Biosphere 2
Do you guys know Martin Levac? I don't either. He's someone who has been active and entertaining in the comments section of Denise Minger's big China...
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Blue Velvet
A little nubbin of a post tonight, mostly to get my brain churning about a topic that I need to do a bit more reading on. The Journal of Affective Disorders...
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Zinc Revolution
Back in July, I wrote a number of posts about zinc. There was Zinc! (which remains one of my most popular posts - perhaps it was the exclamation...
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Diet and Mood Disorders
Found two more studies measuring diet pattern and mood disorders!The first one is Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age from the British...
