The High-fat Hep C Diet

Hepatitis C viraemia is carbohydrate-dependent because the virus piggy-backs on triglyceride assembly and VLDL exocytosis. This makes a very low carbohydrate diet an effective way to control HCV viraemia, HCV-associated autoimmune syndromes, and steatosis. HCV cell entry is via LDL-receptor complex, therefore diets intended to lower LDL via upregulation of the LDL-receptor by restricting saturated fat and increasing polyunsaturated fat will increase hepatocellular infection.

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

The Prostate and its Discontents

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This post originally appeared for subscribers only on my Patreon blog (October 31). If you appreciate my occasional writing on science and...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

The Last Days of the Internet

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Before I started writing medical papers and such I was a musician and I'm a musician again. I'm also a big lover of the Internet whi...
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Vegetarianism, a warning from history, Pt 3 - John Hartford

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John Hartford wrote one of the best songs ever written, Gentle on my Mind. For me, the best version of this is Elvis Presley's - The Ki...
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Selenium reduces COVID-19 risk - a back-of-the-envelope Bradford Hill analysis [originally posted 28/09/20, last updated 13/06/22]

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Bradford Hill introduced a checklist for assessing the strength of epidemiological evidence for causality, which is useful in the current p...
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Tuesday, 24 May 2022

The case for Red meat - a Marxist defense of meat-eating

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New Zealand schools have introduced a climate change resource that suggests children “eat less meat and dairy”, even though teachers will n...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

Vegetarianism - a warning from history Pt 2 - Shelly's vegetarian experiments.

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Vegan diets and the risk of deficiency diseases – the story of Shelly One of the earliest objective accounts of the effects of a vegetaria...
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