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, 14 March 2017

The role of silicon in health and disease - is this the whole grain deficiency syndrome?

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You can say what you like about whole grains, but their bran provides an excellent means of concentrating the element silicon from the ...
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Thursday, 23 February 2017

Dietary Cholesterol and Hepatitis C

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Dr Yu's group have produced (in 2015) a re-analysis of their diet data from the HALT-C study; the original paper, which led me to look...
Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Will a ketogenic diet increase the risk for malignant melanoma?

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It's well-known that ketogenic diets reduce the growth of some cancer types in humans. These are early days for learning which canc...
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Monday, 2 January 2017

Scientific Fraud, in the Abstract

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Someone posted this scare story from November in the Low Carb and Paleo group on Facebook. Luckily I missed it at the time as I was busy wi...
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Friday, 4 November 2016

The HDL correlations in CANHEART probably don't mean what the druglords will want them to mean

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The CANHEART study findings on HDL have made a big splash, supposedly debunking the idea that raising HDL is a good idea. Of course, rai...
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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Animal Protein vs Plant Protein - the illusion of scale in diet epidemiology.

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This graph appeared in Jason Fung's excellent Intensive Dietary Management blog here . I don't really want to disagree with Jason...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

Court of last appeal - the early history of the high-fat diet for diabetes

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It's a long story, and not a proud one. Seeing an email in my inbox from the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, which seemed like th...
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