Hyperlipid

"One-liner" post. This is exciting (picked up on twitter from Mike Eades): Effects of dietary carbohydrate content on circulatin...

I notice that the COVID-19 state of emergency has been lifted in the last remaining areas of Japan as of last Monday. I think they lost...

I thought I would just take a break from trying to simplify the Protons electron transport chain as regards ultra low fat diets and talk abo...

For your enjoyment I have simplified this graph from Hyperinsulinemia Drives Diet-Induced Obesity Independently of Brain Insulin Productio...

I guess everyone knows about this pre-print A plant-based, low-fat diet decreases ad libitum energy intake compared to an animal-based, ke...

Just a one liner-ish type post. I had the privilege of listening-in to one of the weekly Royal College of Pathologist webinars on the SARS...

TLDR: A "healthy", complex carbohydrate, low glycaemic index diet appears to markedly shorten the median lifespan of mice when com...

EDIT Please ignore any ref to sucrose as the Surwit type diet used here contained none. My apologies. END  EDIT. I've been spending some...

As a counterbalance to the papers documenting the obesogenic effect of PUFA containing diets I'd like to have a brief aside about the Su...

I picked this paper up from George Henderson via twitter Effects of dietary fat on gut microbiota and faecal metabolites, and their relati...

TLDR: PUFA in a mixed diet are obesogenic. PUFA under hypoinsulinaemic conditions are not. I doubt they get a free pass long term. There...

Just a brief mention of this one: Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of...

TLDR: Increasing insulin sensitivity makes you fat. This study is a bit of a mess because there are no control groups. People either got t...

Preamble: I've had this post written for some time (there are a fair few in this category) but this tweet from the World Health Organisa...

This study from 2012 uses a model and it's based on mice. No one, ever, develops ARDS by inhaling reagent grade lipopolysaccharide follo...

This fascinating: Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial ...

This tweet https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1246240181440540672 links to this news report https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/primo...

I was a little cautious about the efficacy vs toxicity of chloroquine and its derivatives in my last post . George Henderson just retweete...

This paper is from Hughes and Gottschling An early age increase in vacuolar pH limits mitochondrial function and lifespan in yeast It go...

Adult/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is topical at the moment. In the comments to the last post I wondered whether omega six fatty acid...