Hyperlipid

I usually start from the premise that insulin makes you fat. The most simplistic prediction from this is that eating carbohydrate raises ins...

Hunger and satiety. Can these be modelled from a very simple energy availability concept? This post is a minimally referenced ramble throu...

Preamble. The best papers are those which challenge your ideas. When they conflict with what appears to be very hard evidence which support ...

I picked up a link to this paper from an image of a table, somewhere on Tinternet. I didn't realise which paper it was. It was really i...

I'm hoping we all remember Sauer. If not there's a post here: Sauer vs Lisanti And a brief summary at the start of this one: S...

This is a pure observational study: Low total cholesterol is associated with increased major adverse cardiovascular events in men aged ≥70...

I'll just throw this one out there as I found it while looking for something else: Metformin paradoxically worsens insulin resistance ...

I think this is probably an abstract from a short communication at a conference. I picked it up from Miki Ben-Dor on twitter I think we ...

Excellent work: Scientific discourse in the era of open science: a response to Hall et al. regarding the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model Via ...

Okay, personal update time. Back in the middle of May this year Paul emailed me to let me know that Dr Kwasniewski had died at the age of ...

This is the intra-peritoneal insulin tolerance test (ITT) result from the mice in Caloric Restriction Paradoxically Increases Adiposity in...

Just a one-liner This is a quite fascinating paper from Iran. Bear in mind that none of the authors appears to be a native english speaker...

This paper is very interesting. I think I picked it up via Raphi on twitter. It comes from Jim Johnson's lab. Caloric Restriction Para...

Many people may have noticed that the blog Hyperlipid is not exactly the most user friendly of blogs. The prose clearly appears to make sens...

I mentioned in the last post that few papers ever specify the glucose concentration used for cell culture. This came up in comments from Ale...

Background: Propofol is a mainstay anaesthetic induction agent. Its use is associated with occasional pancreatitis episodes. I won't wan...

Dave Speijer has a great video up on YouTube based largely around his recent paper in BioEssays. Can All Major ROS Forming Sites of the Re...

Dave Speijer, an extremely insightful person if ever there was one, has a new paper out: Can All Major ROS Forming Sites of the Respirator...

Altavista put up an excellent link to an article describing an AI algorithm capable of mining pubmed abstracts and coming up with gold. The...

Dr Thomas "Just-take-the-statin" Dayspring writes on twitter: "Any apoB-lipoprotein less than 70 nm in diameter can pass be...