Loren Cordain is a professor at Colorado State University. He’s an expert on paleolithic lifestyles. His most recent book is the Paleo Answer. We... »
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Loren Cordain – Leaky Gut, Whole Grains, Potatoes & Autism
Loren Cordain is a professor at Colorado State University. He’s an expert on paleolithic lifestyles. His most recent book is the Paleo Answer. We did this interview in November, 2011. It starts with Loren giving the evolutionary reason for why grains can be irritating to the human gut. — Shelley Schlender – meandmydiabetes.com Listen to [...]
Wheat Belly – William Davis MD
“Lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health.” – William Davis, medical director of Trackyourplaque.com
Ron Rosedale – The Toast Test
LISTEN (4 minutes) Ron Rosedale A long time ago, maybe 15 years ago, when I was in Asheville, North Carolina, before leptin was discovered, I was doing a lot of research on my patients about insulin, to see what lowered it, what raised it. I remember one boy who came in, brought in by really [...]
Ron Rosedale – Healthy Bones
LISTEN – Ron Rosedale on Healthy Bones part 1 (39 Minutes) LISTEN – Ron Rosedale on Healthy Bones part 2 (32 Minutes) Here’s an in-depth conversation with Ron Rosedale about how bones evolved, and what kind of hormone signaling helps bones stay healthy. Ron Rosedale, recently, health news has featured many articles that have to [...]
Steve Phinney – Low-Carb preserves Glycogen better than High Carb
Listen (60 minutes) Dr. Steve Phinney — I can ride continuously for three hours and go 60 miles without any hunger or food cravings or drop off in performance. And I ride as well in the last 20 miles coming home as I do going out.
Michael’s Tapenade
Michael’s Tapenade was part of a low-carb pot luck conducted by the Boulder Very Low Carb Diabetes Support Group. We encouraged people to make it easy and fun, and to bring “tasting” size portions with no more than 5 grams carb in an actual serving, and smaller samples still for more tastings. INGREDIENTS 40 g [...]
Saturated Fat and Heart Disease Risk – Dariush Mozaffarian
Dariush Mozaffarian codirects Harvard’s cardiovascular epidemiology program. Mozaffairan says that saturated fat is not much of a risk factor in heart disease, and neither is naturally prepared red meat. But trans fats are a risk, and so are refined carbs. Listen Part 1 (40 minutes) Dr. Mozaffarian goes on to say that another risk factor [...]
Avandia Under Fire – with Dr. Ron Rosedale
RON ROSEDALE: My biggest beef with all this is if they did nothing, they probably would be healthier, with the higher blood sugar. I think the drugs are worse than their benefit in lowering the sugar.
Ron Rosedale – Insulin, Leptin and the Control of Aging
First, you hear a lot about paleolithic nutrition, the idea being that ancient man can tell us how to be healthy. That we need to go back to our ancient roots and eat like they did, and then we’ll be healthy. But you have to go back even further and understand what Nature is after.
Ron Rosedale – Protein: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Life is a constant battle between damage and damage control. If we could repair damage as fast as it occurs, we would live forever. Ultimately, unfortunately, we damage the damage control mechanisms, and that’s really what does us in. Excess protein actually increases damage and reduces our ability to repair it, so it’s a double whammy.