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Dutch University Fires Unnamed Researcher 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
If you google “Ranjit Chandra” (a famous Canadian nutrition researcher), the second result is this page, created by me, which lists many articles about a scandal that Saul Sternberg and I did a lot to...
Organic Pollutants Associated With Diabetes 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Everyone knows that diabetes is associated with obesity, probably because obesity causes diabetes. However, thin people also become diabetic. A clue to why this happens is provided by the correlation ...
Showers and the Ecology of Knowledge 25 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
In a recent post, I said a well-functioning system will produce both optimality and complexity. I meant important systems like our bodies, economies, and formal education. If you look at the nutrition...
Wild-Fermented Wine and the Ecology of Knowledge 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
I learned about wild-fermented wine from Shana Reade, who teaches wine sellers about wine. She works for a New York wine distributor called Empire Merchants. Before the 1950s, almost all wines were m...
Stagnation in Psychiatry 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
A recent New York Times article lays it out: Fully 1 in 5 Americans take at least one psychiatric medication. Yet when it comes to mental health, we are facing a crisis in drug innovation. . . . Even...
Assorted Links 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The increasing popularity of kvas. “We ferment with ginger and, I believe, longer than other people – for seven to 10 days.” Giving up wine (and other alcohol) for a month. Before this he drank 2 gla...
First Effects of Intermittent Fasting 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Jeff Winkler described his first weeks of intermittent fasting: Annual physical July 2nd [2013], HDL 46, cholesterol 243, LDL 177. Doc pushing for statins. I’ve been taking 5000 IU D3, some zinc, eat...
Women and Body Fat (Ancestral Health Symposium 2013) 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
One of the best talks at the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium was by Will Lassek, a retired doctor. Here’s the abstract: One puzzle is why human males have such a strong preference for women with hour...
Economic Stagnation and Recent College Graduates 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
In an excellent article about the college-loan “bubble” — the government has made it easy for students to get loans that a large fraction of them will repay only with great difficulty — Matt Taibbi wr...
Unhelpful Answers (Ancestral Health Symposium 2013) 18 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
At the Ancestral Health Symposium, I went to a talk about food and the brain, a great interest of mine. The speaker said that flaxseed oil was ineffective because only a small fraction (5%) gets conve...
