Low Fat Diets and Exercise for Type2 Diabetes – T2D 41
The Low Fat Era Several years back, the monumental task of recommending an optimal diet for type 2 diabetics was assigned to Dr. Richard Kahn, then the chief medical and [...]
Therapeutic Nutrition – Paradigm for 21st century Medicine
Does your doctor talk about nutrition? My guess is no. My feeling, as a physician, is that most doctors know very little about nutrition. Why not? We are in the [...]
Cancer Paradigms – Cancer 8
Cancer has been recognized as a disease since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Ancient manuscripts from the seventeenth century BC describe a "bulging mass in the breast" - believed [...]
Cancer – proximate causes – Cancer 5
If so much evidence exists that cancer is largely environmental, then why do so many researchers consider cancer a predominantly genetic condition of accumulated random mutations (Somatic Mutation Theory)? It [...]
Cancer as an endocrine disease – Cancer 3
Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. It's been close to half a century, and the war is hardly close to being won. If you simply look at how [...]
Hyperinsulinemia and cancer – Cancer 2
There is a strong relationship between cancer and obesity as discussed in our last post. Since I've spent several years arguing why hyperinsulinemia is the root cause of obesity and [...]
Obesity and Cancer – Cancer 1
We've talked extensively over the last few years about obesity, metabolic syndrome, fasting, and type 2 diabetes. These are extremely important in the development of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and [...]
Fasting and Polycystic Diseases
Much new and interesting data support the benefits of fasting in diseases other than obesity and type 2 diabetes. This often relates to the role of nutrient sensors in the [...]
The corruption of academic medicine
Many doctors are genuinely puzzled why much of the general public does not trust what they say. For example, there's the GOOP story. Gwenyth Paltrow sells lots of scientifically iffy [...]
How NOT to treat diabetes – T2D 38
By the mid 1990s, the landmark DCCT trial has established the paradigm of glucotoxicity, in type 1 but not in type 2 diabetes. Still euphoric from the trial’s success, it [...]