Hyperlipid

Back in January of this year I made a significant artimetical error which, combined with the massive confirmation bias from which I suffer,...

Flow mediated dilation (FMD) is one of the last bastions of low fat dogma. FMD is particularly interesting as you appear to be able to prov...

Just back from a pushbike/teaching tour from (my bit, Mike went much further) Orkney to Inverness. I'll try to get up to speed on emails...

Anyone who has read Martha's story and put her narrative together with the folks in Phinney's 1980 study will have immediately won...

This is a section from Table V of Heinbecker's 1928 paper: Studies on the Metabolism of Eskimos This tells us certain very...

Protons (44) has been markedly updated . Just a heads up in case the update doesn't come through as a "New Post" to anyone who...

This post has been extended and adjusted quite considerably in the light of further information. The first five comments in the comments sec...

Some time back in May this year I posted on what I considered to be gluconeogenesis from acetoacetate via acetone (You don't have to re...

This came to me via Facebook from Wally Courie: Poop Pill’s Surprise Failure Shows That the Microbiome is Still a Mystery The original f...

It seems a very long time ago that I wrote a series of posts on the mechanism of the development of the arterial tunica intima from a single...

Does everyone remember this? Most especially this bit: Control is using pyruvate at 5 mmol/...

I started with this paper: Prolonged Fasting Identifies Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Dysfunction as Consequence Rather Than Cause of Huma...

The Protons thread originated when I asked myself: What is the difference between fat oxidation and glucose oxidation? This rapidly led to t...

In response the suggestion from E-S, at top of comments to the last post, that caloric output should be measured using a calorimeter: Dire...

I've spent the last three posts making the point that fatty acid oxidation (supplemented by ketosis) increases the amount of ATP (and en...

****Edit**** There is an update on this post here ****End edit**** Now, oxidising long chain saturated fat gives you an RQ of 0.69. Lowe...

I was browsing Pubmed looking for other things when I came across this ancient publication by Stephen Phinney, from back in 1980. Those were...

Dave Asprey has a very interesting extended discussion with Dr Veech on his Bulletproof website, mostly about ketones but also about the his...

I've listened to a few youtube/podcasts videos recently. Seyfried, Veech and D'Agostino appear to besettled in to what looks like a ...