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An Update on Glucose Toxicity

October 18, 2018
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 |  Brain, Cancer, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Heart Condition, Insulin, Keto, Kidney Disease, LCHF, Liver Disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Loss

Chronic exposure of glucose rich environment creates several physiological and pathophysiological changes. There are several pathways by which hyperglycemia exacerbate its toxic effect on cells, tissues and organ systems. Hyperglycemia can induce oxidative stress, upsurge polyol pathway, activate protein kinase C (PKC), enhance hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP), promote the formation of advanced glycation end-products(AGEs) and finally alters gene expressions. Prolonged hyperglycemic condition leads to severe diabetic condition by […]

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Why Butter Is Better

October 15, 2018
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 |  Brain, Diabetes, Diet, Heart Condition, Inflammation, Insomnia, Insulin, Keto, LCHF, Nutrition, Obesity, Seizures, Stress, Vitamin K2, Weight Loss

When the fabricated food folks and apologists for the corporate farm realized that they couldn’t block America’s growing interest in diet and nutrition, a movement that would ultimately put an end to America’s biggest and most monopolistic industries, they infiltrated the movement and put a few sinister twists on information going out to the public. […]

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The Critical Importance of Time Restricted Feeding in Weight Loss

October 15, 2018
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 |  Brain, Diabetes, Diet, Fasting, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Loss

There have been two main changes in dietary habits from the 1970s (before the obesity epidemic) until today. First, there was the change is what we were recommended to eat. Prior to 1970, there was no official government sanctioned dietary advice. You ate what your mother told you to eat. With the publication of the […]

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Reverse engineered approach to human longevity

October 11, 2018
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 |  Brain, Cancer, Diabetes, Diet, Fasting, Heart Condition, Inflammation, Insomnia, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, LCHF, Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Loss

Dr. Peter Attia is a health speaker, researcher, nutrition and longevity expert, and the founder of Attia Medical, PC, a medical practice focusing on the applied science of longevity and optimal performance. His practice applies nutrition science, lipidology, four-system endocrinology, sleep physiology, stress management, and exercise physiology to minimize the risk of chronic disease onset, […]

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Stress Raises Cholesterol Levels

October 7, 2018
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 |  Brain, Cholesterol, Diet, Heart Condition, Heart Disease, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, LCHF, Nutrition, Stress

It appears so for some people, according to a new study that examines how reactions to stress over a period of time can raise a person’s lipid levels. This finding is reported in the November issue of Health Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA). In a sample of 199 healthy middle-aged men and women, […]

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Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes

October 4, 2018
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 |  Brain, Depression, Diabetes, Diet, Inflammation, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, LCHF, Nutrition, Obesity

With depression being the psychiatric disorder incurring the largest societal costs in developed countries, there is a need to gather evidence on the role of nutrition in depression, to help develop recommendations and guide future psychiatric healthcare. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize the link between diet quality, measured using a range […]

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Development of the Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale

October 4, 2018
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 |  Brain, Diabetes, Diet, Fasting, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, LCHF, Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Loss

Food addiction posits that highly processed foods may be capable of triggering addictive-like symptoms in some individuals, including withdrawal. The current study developed and assessed the psychometric properties of the first self-report measure of highly processed food withdrawal. Individuals (n = 231) aged 19-68 (51.9% female) were recruited online through Amazon Mechanical Turk and reported cutting down […]

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Alzheimer’s Disease to Double by 2060

September 27, 2018
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 |  Alzheimer, Brain, Diabetes, Diet, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, LCHF, Nutrition

Nearly 14 million Americans may have Alzheimer’s disease by then. Over 3% of the population — nearly 14 million Americans — may have Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias by 2060, according to a new CDC report. The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, which was 1.6% of the U.S. population in 2014, is projected […]

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Benefits of Ketogenic Diet for Management of Type Two Diabetes: A Review

September 25, 2018
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 |  Brain, Cancer, Diabetes, Diet, Epilepsy, Heart Disease, Inflammation, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, Nutrition, Obesity

The prevalence of type two diabetes (T2D) has been increasing sharply worldwide. Many recent studies have been done to determine the effective strategies for better management of type two diabetes. One of these strategies was the Ketogenic Diet, which when performed on rats and human showed very impressive results. The benefits of having some ketone […]

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Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets

September 19, 2018
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 |  Brain, Cancer, Diabetes, Diet, Heart Condition, Insulin, Keto, Ketogenic, Kidney Disease, LCHF, Liver Disease, Obesity, Seizures, Weight Loss

Very-low-carbohydrate diets or ketogenic diets have been in use since the 1920s as a therapy for epilepsy and can, in some cases, completely remove the need for medication. From the 1960s onwards they have become widely known as one of the most common methods for obesity treatment. Recent work over the last decade or so […]

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