Tag: high-fat

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High-fat, low-carb diet may cause obesity, inflammation, anxiety (by raising serotonin), even suicide

Double whammy for two popular medical dogmas. One of them is that serotonin is the “happy hormone”…

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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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Another “paradox” – elevated cortisol, from high-fat diet, increases inflammation

Over the last year or so I posted about several studies demonstrating that even short-term usage of…

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Keto diet can cause lethal kidney failure

The bad news for the low-carb diets just keep piling on. This case report is about a…

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SFA / MUFA are preferentially oxidized, while PUFA are stored/accumulated

Just a quick post in response to some of the hate mail I keep getting on a…

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Endotoxin has a G.E.L.D.I.N.G effect, causes obesity and hypogonadism

A very interesting study proposing that the decline in gonadal function seen in obese/diabetic men is due…

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Vitamin D deficiency can cause heart failure

As many readers know, there is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. It is of worldwide proportions,…