Professor Volek has finally been picked up by the media in a proper manner; he has been referenced before, but this article in the mainstream

This issue is the tip of the iceberg when you look up recent research papers – we have a pandemic of Vitamin D Deficiency on our

Update Nov 23rd: Fascinating further paper from spittinchips this evening – same idea, Low Fat driving oxLDL and Lp(a) :  http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/24/3/498.long Update Nov 22nd: Saucy

Thanks Rakesh Patel MD for sending this very recent paper on! http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1409065 – it begins to speak to the heart of the matter; basically HDL Efflux

I posted recently on the embarrassing fact that Coronary Artery Disease people piling up in the hospitals generally have LOWER LDL values: http://www.thefatemperor.com/blog/2014/11/12/ldl-its-not-the-bad-cholesterol-thats-simplistic-foolery This speaks

My attention has been drawn of late to an Irish Charity that is blazing the way in effective identification of GENUINE at-risk people for CVD. They

Prologue:  Statins are of some use as a part of the inflammation abatement and LDLp reduction approach for secondary prevention, in people with significant Coronary Artery Disease, as

Aggghhh – new resolution: I’m exempting myself from the statin wars – I’m claiming neutrality! My opinion can be summarized thus: Statins etc are very

Insulin, Insulin, Insulin…..a billion years of faithful service, but a Rosetta Stone of modern disease….. This Study was published back in 1991, but its first line indicates

Update June 2016, nice piece from Bill Lagakos:  http://caloriesproper.com/non-sequiter-nutrition-iv-in-vino-veritas/ Recently spent a little time checking alcohol out(!), based on a suggestion by Gearoid O’Laoi re

Getting back to finishing my 25(OH)D Seminar material, after a busy week or two working, and the evenings being eaten up with a foray back into

Here is a similar analysis for our old friend HDL – the one that pleasantly goes UP with low carb – as the nasty Blood

UPDATE 9th Oct 2016: Just got this article on the debacle:  https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/137k-Patients-Low-LDL-high-CHD-Article-UCLA.pdf I had approximated that around 20% of these guys were on lipid-lowering medication,

Added Note 11th Nov: The below post may stand generally, in terms of APoB/ApoA, and HDL-C  itself being linked to ApoA1 as described – but

Okay, I’ve been banging on about Serum Ferritin and Iron toxicity w.r.t. Coronary Disease to anyone who’ll listen – and maybe the horses are finally beginning

Had great fun in past couple of days wrangling about the root causes of Atherosclerosis and Vulnerable plaques with @PauliOhukainen  and @brianedwardsmd; from-the-hip, freestyle and in-yer-face stuff

Really enjoyed this chat with Vinnie, and let’s just say we covered………rather a lot of topics! http://vinnietortorich.com/2014/10/angriest-trainer-313-ivor-1-1/   http://traffic.libsyn.com/angriesttrainer/Ivor_1on1-BM.mp3  

Is Vladimir incorrect? Surely he must be, in spite of his apparent erudition in the sphere? ALL of the masses can’t be wrong, right? Oh wait –

I’ll take a brief time out this evening to congratulate yet another person who has transformed his risk profile with the engineering-level science of Low

Instructive video on the habit-forming nature of sugar via dopamine receptors – short and……….sweet. Worth remembering that refined wheat grains (loaded with glucose) can have

What a conversation; really gets to the “heart” of the matter.  Listening to Ted’s clear pattern recognition and instinctive drive to the root cause of

Just perusing the BHF report from 2012; this is not an analysis, I don’t have the time or the energy especially as the dataset is

Just watched a recent lecture by Prof. Ken Sikaris, which brought me down memory lane to my time preparing the Cholesterol Conundrum seminar. Ken has the core of

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive” Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17 Attended a talk by Professor Peter Gotzsche last

Right, I’m only 15 minutes into this Documentary, and so far it appears to be perfect to get across the reality of the High Carbohydrate Diet Debacle

I like the way this hypothesis is put together – very logical, and there are a few other works that indicate same phenomenon;  why is

…don’t need much commentary here – a comprehensive explanation of optimized low-carb health and performance from the original of the species: Dr. Stephen Phinney.  Excellent

Just a quick post this evening on an avoidable epidemic of our times, which has reached disgraceful levels, and is proceeding towards unforgivable ones.  Type

Uffe has kindly made one of his original books available for free – engineers, scientists and indeed anyone familiar with problem solving logic will find

I generally focus on the raw science of human health, but I went through a brief period of being interested in some of the major