"For most of human history there has been very little starch or sugar in the human diet. In fact, if you put all of human history into one year, it's only in the last day that we started eating grains or bread and it's only in the last hour that people have been eating sugar." …
Nitric Oxide – A Molecule That Diminishes As We Age
Roughly 30 years ago scientists discovered that humans an animals produce nitric oxide, over 150,000 papers have been published on this molecule and a nobel prize was awarded to the scientists who discovered its importance in heart health. Having a half-life of less than one second shows just how amazing this discovery was at the …
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Beet – The Neglected Nutrition Bomb
I thought I would re post this article from a while back as I recently spent some of my time in 'lockdown' planting a fresh batch of beets ready for a steady supply of leafy greens to see me through the possibility of my local grocer running low on fresh produce. Dr. David Perlmutter recently …
What’s With Wheat? – A Documentary
This disturbing documentary has gathered together some of the worlds top auhors on the subject and well-respected researchers to discuss how wheat has become one of the most pervasive crops on the planet. Dr David Perlmutter, researcher Dr. Terry Wahls, and many other experts look at how Coeliac’s Disease and Non-Coeliac wheat intolerance as well as obesity …
Dr Paul Mason – An Info Packed Podcast
I usually make a point of reading, watching or listening to everything from Dr Paul Mason as he has an enviable knack of explaining metabolism in a way that non - experts can understand. However, I had avoided this podcast for a while as it has been unfortunately labelled as an 'ultimate carnivore' podcast, which …
What I’ve Learned
I have been meaning to write a post about the great work from What I've Learned for a long time now as the content he provides on the subject of nutrition is extremely valuable and presented with incredible visual references and arduous research that helps to demystify a subject that has been confused for so long …
Vitamin K2 Revisited
Back in March I published a post entitled A New K On The Block covering the work of Dr. Kate Rhéaume-Bleue and her book Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox. She was inspired by the research of Weston A Price in the 1930's when he described the vitamin as Activator X. Here, published three hours …
Ramen Noodle Soup – A Variation on Bone Broth
Often it is left-over ingredients that become the inspiration for a delicious meal and this chicken ‘noodle’ soup is one such occasion. Packet noodles were once a regular meal for me and the spicy Korean Neoguri Udon seafood flavour was a favourite. Obviously these MSG and wheat-laden packets of chemicals that have probably never seen …
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A Brief History of (Body) Fat & Why We Hate It
“There’s no analogy in the natural world for what we’ve done to ourselves, we’re in unchartered territory” So much information is concisely packed into this documentary it leaves the viewer gagging for more, like a carb addict on a bowl of popcorn. Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University gives his views on positive and …
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The Real Skinny On Fat
Drawing on the knowledge of experts such as Nina Teichotz, this interview based, four part series rolled into one which, for its considerable coverage of the low carb phenomenon has, since its publication in May of this year, had surprisingly few views on YouTube. The history of the low fat diet is covered, beginning with …