Shelley

Death by Calcium?

The more osteoporosis a person has, the greater the risk of having calcium in the arteries. They have the calcium. It’s just going in all the wrong places because the body has lost the instructions about where to put it. It’s going to go into your arteries and your kidneys and your gall bladder and cause lots of trouble.

Livin’ La Vida Interview with Ron Rosedale

Here’s a lovely interview between Jimmy at Livin’ LaVida, and Ron Rosedale.  Good introduction to this dietary approach, with thought-provoking observations about medicine, science, where they meet up, and where they don’t. Go to Jimmy’s Interview

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.

LDL Cholesterol – Ron Krauss MD

One of the world’s leading experts on cholesterol particles is Ron Krauss.  In this extended interview, he explains why he believes the very smallest LDL cholesterol particles are the most dangerous ones, and why it’s important to measure them. Listen to Interview with Ron Krauss (28 Minutes) We’ve known for a long time that cholesterol…

Steve Phinney on Pemmican and Indigenous Diets

Not just my bike racers were on low carb diets, but the roughly 3,000 patients that I used a low carbohydrate diets on during the 20 plus years of clinical practice consistently told me they had less colon problems, less concerns about constipation or diarrhea, when they were on a low carb diet, containing very little fiber, compared to a fiber rich, “optimum balanced” diet. It’s not so much the bulk. It’s the quote, happiness, of the lining cells of the colon. If the cells lining your colon are happy, it’s going to function well.

March 2010 Glucose Tolerance Test

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance Tests

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsI passed my March 2010 2-hour glucose tolerance test.  This is better than how I did in 2005, when I failed two glucose tolerance tests in a row.  However,  I did not pass as successfully in March 2010 as I did…