Hyperlipid

TLDR: Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. His power...

How does cell surface oxygen consumption happen? Here is the main reaction overall (it's probably not that simple!): 4e - + 4 H + + ...

Back in the comments thread to the More on insulin and the glycerophosphate shuttle post there has been some discussion as to whether Warbu...

It is perfectly possible to run a sophisticated metabolism using the energy available from an hydrogen rich geochemical proton gradient of t...

Tucker and Mike both gave me the heads-up on this paper recently. Linoleic acid causes greater weight gain than saturated fat without hypo...

It's the Winter Solstice tomorrow, greetings to all! My favourite astronomical event of the year, even though we do the major feasting o...

I've had this paper on my hard drive for a while. It's been sitting somewhere near the front of the back of my mind but was doing no...

I would guess that everyone is aware of the study by Ebbeling et al, Ludwig's group, looking at the metabolic effect of low carbohydrate...

Raphi tweeted this paper recently Nutritional Ketosis Increases NAD+/NADH Ratio in Healthy Human Brain: An in Vivo Study by 31P-MRS whic...

Over the years I've been convinced that carbon monoxide derived formaldehyde/formate are probably the initial molecular precursors of ac...

I must admit that I have not read this paper, just the abstract. My excuse is, once again, that I have no access to any ondansetron. Stati...

Just doing my bit Vegetables, nine dead of listeriosis Quick edit for when the link dies: "9 people dead following Listeria outbr...

Here is a little more from this paper: High selenium impairs hepatic insulin sensitivity through opposite regulation of ROS This is insu...

A destruction of Paleo Diet ™  as a management tool for metabolic syndrome in modern humans surfaced recently in a tweet from Miki Ben-Dor, ...

TLDR: excess selenium induces excess glutathione peroxidase which blunts physiological superoxide/H2O2 signalling within a cell. This, as yo...

This is another very abstracted study using isolated mouse islets in cell culture to assess the effect of metformin on insulin secretion. ...

This is a simplified diagram of most of the pathways around AMP-kinase (AMKP) which I found at the website of a commercial company on tinte...

Intranasal insulin does not, under any circumstances, reduce food intake or bodyweight in women. That's half the population. Hallsch...

Now it's time to look at the simple situation of men given intranasal insulin. We have a chronic study using 40iu and an acute study usi...

What causes satiety, if it's not insulin? This has to be understood if there is to be any chance of understanding the effects of intrana...