Author: haidut

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The future is dying: colon cancer rates rapidly rising in teens and CHILDREN

If there was ever any doubt that both medicine and the health of entire nations are not…

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Males eating a low-carb diet father children with metabolic syndrome and diabesity

A really interesting study, which covers two very controversial topics in a single experiment. First, whether environmental…

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Salt restriction promotes stress by elevating cortisol

Yet another “controversial” topic is getting some attention. After medicine reluctantly accepted the existence of the “Obesity…

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Endotoxin/LPS drives esophageal cancer

One of the few studies to directly implicate endotoxin (also known as LPS) in cancer progression. While…

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Even enormous doses of vitamin D, applied topically, do not produce toxicity

I mentioning this study mainly for two reasons. First, there has been quite a bit of bad…

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Vitamin D deficiency may drive myopia, supplementing may prevent/treat it

Vitamin D has become a bit of a controversial topic lately. While there is a lot of…

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High serotonin (5-HT) linked (again) to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

The rate of SIDS have been steadily increasing over the last 20 years to the point where…

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Endotoxin/LPS can cause anxiety/depression; COX inhibitors (e.g. aspirin) may treat both

Another study demonstrating the potent effects endotoxin/LPS has on systemic inflammation and mental health even after a…

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Lactate damages mitochondria and can cause (pulmonary) fibrosis

In the first half of the 20th century lactate had a largely negative reputation in medical circles…

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Weight-loss from low-carb/keto diets is mostly water; no lasting health benefits

Just a few minutes ago I posted about a study showing that l0w-carb diets increase risk of…