Category: Blog
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Ketogenic Diet and Alzheimer’s Disease
More promising news on the Ketogenic Diet and it’s potential for treating Alzheimer’s Disease. The presence of ketone bodies has a neuroprotective impact on aging brain cells. Moreover, their production may enhance mitochondrial function, reduce the expression of inflammatory and apoptotic mediators. Thus, it has gained interest as a potential therapy for neurodegenerative disorders like…
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High fat diets prevent the brain from signaling satiety?
Contrary to recent studies that say that a high fat diet helps your brain to signal that you are full a new study is saying the opposite. What to believe… what to believe. I go with how I feel. I’ve been at the intermittent fasting and keto friendly diet game for long enough to just…
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Seed oils and their effect on your body
This is something I only learned recently and the information isn’t getting any better for seed oils (vegetable oils). VEGETABLE oils are highly unstable. When they interact with oxygen, they release neurotoxic, DNA mutating chemicals which are known to cause cancer (at least). Recent improvements in measurement technology have now thrown a spotlight on the…
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A call to improve dietary research
This article is a must read. It showcases the difference between pharmaceutical research and nutritional research and how much more difficult the latter is to the former. Much of dietary research is dependent on surveys because it is next to impossible to have people captive while conducting a study. As a result it is difficult…
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Dr. Garth Davis promotes plant based diet over low-carb
Dr. Davis used to promote a low-carb keto diet. He even wrote a book about it. But something changed his tune and now he’s giving different advice and promoting a largely plant based diet. If a plant based diet works for you than more power too you. I think most of the problems on the…
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Keto Whoopie Pie Squares
I’m new to the keto dessert scene. I’m not big on desserts to begin with but I do like the occasional sweet treat every now and then. These were delicious and have less than 2 net carbs per serving. Here’s the recipe: Ingredients: • 2 tbsp butter softened• 1 large egg• 1 1/4 cup heavy…
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Is “Orthorexia” real? And if it is, does it matter?
So you’re obsessed with “clean eating”. Is this a problem? What exactly is clean eating anyway? According to a paper written by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, an associate professor at the University of the Sciences, at it’s extreme, “adherents shun all sugar, all carbs, all dairy, all meat and animal products, gluten, starch, pesticides, herbicides — anything…
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Pros and Cons of keto friendly sweeteners
I don’t like artificial sweeteners much. They just don’t taste the same as sugar. But, I have on occasion used monk fruit and if I use it sparingly it seems to be a passable solution. To me, there still is no replacement for real sugar. I think we just have to be disciplined in how…
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Is coffee the true super food you’ve been looking for?
I doubt that coffee is a super food just like I don’t believe in anything being a super food. Food is food and too much of anything probably is not good for you. But, at the same time, I like to drink coffee and I’m not afraid to have a cup or five during the…