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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Lancet - A lot of what is published is incorrect

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Offline: What is medicine's 5 sigma? by Richard Horton, Published in "The Lancet" 11 April 2015

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The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.



Saturday, July 21, 2018

Diabetes T2 reversal by diet

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From us gov link

SARAH HALLBERG: Don’t manage diabetes, reverse it


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Diabetes is reversible. That’s the exciting conclusion of a study I’m leading at Indiana University Health.
Two hundred and sixty-two patients with type-2 diabetes recently completed one year of a clinical trial examining the impact of a low-carbohydrate diet, which limits foods like grains and pasta while boosting consumption of healthy fats like avocados and butter. The diet didn’t restrict calories.
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A full 94 percent of patients on the low-carb intervention have been able to reduce or eliminate their need for insulin. For six in ten patients, average blood sugar levels fell so low that technically, they had reversed their diabetes.
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With conventional treatment regimens, according to a study in Diabetes Care, only 0.1 percent of patients achieve complete remission.


High fat low carb cures dry eye condition

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See also

Dry Eye: An Interview With Corneal Specialist Dr. Peter Polack
July 20, 2018 By Dr. William Davis



My commment:

I had "dry eye" condition for 10 years in the 1990-ties. Nothing helped, no doctor had any clue how to fix it. Until in 07/1999 I switched to a HFLC diet & stayed on - it went away after a few weeks never to reoccur ever again!

Friday, July 20, 2018

Carbohydrates are killing us

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"Carbohydrates are killing us"
By Eric Thorn - (cardiologist affiliated with the Virginia Hospital Center)- Sunday, July 8, 2018

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Consider a report published last year in The Lancet that studied nutrition among more than 135,000 people across 18 different countries — making it the largest-ever observational study of its kind. The researchers found that people who ate the least saturated fat — about the same amount currently recommended for heart patients — had the highest rates of heart disease and mortality. Meanwhile, people who consumed the most saturated fat had the lowest rate of strokes.


Identify what is bad for you ... (Wiki Bacon)


Reference study:

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study


Friday, July 13, 2018

Saturated fat reduces stroke death by 42%

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Saturated fats in yoghurt, cheese and butter do NOT increase the risk of heart disease - and may actually prevent a stroke

Referenced study:

Serial measures of circulating biomarkers of dairy fat and total and cause-specific mortality in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study,
Marcia C de Oliveira Otto, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Xiaoling Song, Irena B King, David S Siscovick, Dariush Mozaffarian, 11 July 2018



Wiki Cheese


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Lead author Dr Marcia Otto, from the University of Texas, Houston, said: 'Our findings not only support, but also significantly strengthen, the growing body of evidence which suggests that dairy fat, contrary to popular belief, does not increase risk of heart disease or overall mortality in older adults.

'In addition to not contributing to death, the results suggest that one fatty acid present in dairy may lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, particularly from stroke.'

Dietary guidelines in the US and UK recommend people people opt for low or no-fat dairy, however, the researchers warn such options are often high in sugar, which can drive heart disease.

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Ketogenic diet used to cure infections

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From 1933 paper:

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SUMMARY.
The principal factor inhibiting the growth of bacteria in the urine from patients receiving the ketogenic diet is l-𝛃-hydroxybutyric acid. The activity of this substance increases in proportion to the acidity of the urine.



The link is this: "THE NATURE OF THE BACTERICIDAL
SUBSTANCE IN THE URINE OF PATIENTS RECEIVING A KETOGENIC DIET."
BY ALBERT THOMAS FULLER, 1933


(Thanks Anonymous)