Browsing articles in "PUFA"
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD When I started graduate school in biology at the University of Oregon, cell “membrane” research was a thriving business, almost as lucrative as genetics. Years earlier, I had been intrigued by Linus Pauling’s suggestion that anesthetics might act by “structuring” the water in nerve cells, and in trying to understand the [...]
Brian Caulfield, 07.24.08, 6:00 AM ET BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Is Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs sick? Apple calls his health a “private matter.” But is he losing weight? Definitely. And in an industry where so many leaders resemble talking sides of beef, Jobs’ trim figure is noticeable. What’s his secret? The skinny, so to speak, [...]
Steve Jobs had a liver transplant and died from complications due to pancreatic cancer. I don’t point this out this case to be condescending in any way, but if you don’t learn from the experience of others you are bound to repeat the same. -FPS Brian Caulfield, 07.24.08, 6:00 AM ET BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Is [...]
Posted on August 17, 2011 by DODIE3905 ARE YOU AN OMNIVORE? Of course you are. An omnivore is a creature that eats ‘all’ (or ‘omni’) of the foods available. Carnivores eat meat, which means they have to live near prey animals to survive. Herbivores eat vegetable matter, which means they usually wander and migrate to [...]
Posted on April 27, 2011 by DODIE3905 Before the Bubble Humans have spent the vast portion of their time on earth as hunter-gatherers, not as farmers and especially not as industrialists. That’s why it is important to learn about our food legacy of hunting and gathering prior to the complete transformation our food supply over [...]
-Consult a medical professional regarding all things related to your health. “When I moved from Mexico, first to Montana and then to Oregon in 1966, I became very conscious of how light affects the hormones and the health. (For example, in Montana I experienced an interesting springtime shedding of body hair.) Many people who came [...]
by Barry Groves http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/immunity2.html Polyunsaturated fats (PUFs) are greatly immunosuppressive. The first person to suggest that polyunsaturated fats suppress the immune system was Dr E A Newsholme of Oxford University, England.[i] What Newsholme wrote was that when our bodies get sufficient nutrition, our diet includes immunosuppressive PUFs which make us prone to infection by bacteria [...]
Rev Neurol. 2002 Oct 16-31;35(8):741-2. [Hypothyroidism concealed by Parkinson's disease]. [Article in Spanish] García-Moreno JM, Chacón J. Source Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, España. sinue@arrakis.es Abstract AIMS: Although it is commonly recognised that diseases of the thyroids can simulate extrapyramidal disorders, a review of the causes of Parkinsonism in the neurology literature [...]
