When a man has struggled with seemingly insurmountable challenges, impacting his health, wellbeing and expectation of a long, rewarding life – what does he do? Does he try to overcome his issues, but ultimately give in to a persuasive fatalistic instinct, and accept that “well, it’s just my genetic makeup; I can’t be expected to

Following up on the Conundrum seminar, there were requests to do a shorter video focussing on the metrics themselves and clarifying conversion factors etc, so I just put one together; again note that this is not medical advice, but rather science and engineering inference.  That said, grasping the content in this video should enable a much

Just thought I’d follow up on the last post with an experiment which maxed out on those heart-healthy poly’s and reduced the saturated fat / cholesterol right down.  Like many other trials that didn’t give the “right” answer, it was no doubt brushed under the research carpet.  Basically, a set of businessmen in Helsinki with risk factors

I’ll follow up later but here’s an interesting snippit that speaks to the Human Tissue w6 %observed in various populations, versus Coronary Heart Disease incidence.  OK, it is but a correlation, not necessarily causation.  But it’s a very strong correlation. A very, very strong correlation.  Much stronger than many other correlations that have directed the

I like data where dramatic effects are present, mainly because so much confounding exists in many trials, relative risk ratios of 1.2 or so are not really dependable – someone sneezes when they are designing or analysing and poof!  Anyway, I’ve recently come across an interesting analysis on our old friend Omega 3.  I for

  The Study Background: From the authors: “Some popular weight loss diets restricting carbohydrates (CHO) claim to be more effective, and have additional health benefits in preventing cardiovascular disease compared to balanced weight loss diets….” My take:   Another study that is highly selective of data in order to generate the desired output. In the face

A post on the Chinese Study I referred to on my last FB item; I thought this Chinese piece was a well-executed effort, that yet again illustrated the key role of ratios in determining risk, and the dangers with inference from Tot Chol and/or LDL-C.  In the absence of a particle count to determine LDL-P,