Category: Science
Scientific articles and discussions, with my comments and take on the topics therein.
Synthetic progestins, but not progesterone, increase risk of a brain tumor (meningioma)
Once again, the false equivalence between bioidentical progesterone and synthetic progestins (which medicine has been promoting for…
Vitamin A deficiency causes leaky gut and inflammation, may cause Alzheimer Disease (AD)
Another study that will probably make me plenty of new enemies among the anti-retinol crowd. I am…
The endoxotin/LPS hypothesis of Alzheimer Disease (AD)
Nothing surprising here to my readers, but I try to post about such studies since they are…
Vitamin D ameliorates late-stage multiple sclerosis (MS)
The role of vitamin D in auto-immune conditions and especially MS has been studied for decades. It…
Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”
Actual title of the article, quoting the main author of the Nature op-ed. There has been a…
Activated charcoal may treat liver cirrhosis by lowering endotoxin/LPS
The role of endotoxin/LPS in chronic liver disease and failure is well-known in animal research. LPS is…
Endotoxin/LPS makes humans callous and unempathetic
It is hard to accept that something as ubiquitous as LPS may have such profound effects on…
High cortisol, cortisol/DHEA, cortisol/testosterone ratios may drive schizophrenia
The connection between chronic stress and schizophrenia is well-established but medicine continues to vehemently deny that stress…
Vitamin K is anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective, may help Alzheimer Disease (AD)
Another win for vitamin K – one of the least studied, yet most versatile vitamins. While vitamin…
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”…