* The researchers compared eligible people with ineligible people using the latter as a control group in effect. They claimed ...

Dr Gary Fettke is a retired Tasmanian Orthopaedic Surgeon and a vocal proponent of nutrition being a major component of prevention and management of modern disease.

* Lean Mass Hyper Responder (LMHR) was the term developed by Dave Feldman to describe lean, fit, metabolically healthy people, who exhibit striking increases in cholesterol when adopting a ketogenic ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

Dr Rachel Brown is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in metabolic psychiatry, as well as being a functional medicine practitioner, nutrition network advisor and author. She qualified in medicine ...

* Another association study has been published by the Harvard factory of population papers. This one claimed that butter intake was associated with higher mortality, while consumption of plant-based ...

Nina Teicholz PhD is a science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (2014). She’s been a pioneer in ...

We’re kicking off with a review of last year. This was the year of the verdict in Harcombe/Kendrick vs Associated Newspapers and a number of posts covered the case – especially following the key ...

This week’s note features a podcast with Professor Norman Fenton. Norman is Professor Emeritus of Risk at Queen Mary University of London (retired as Full Professor December 2022) and a Director of ...

* This post introduces a technique called Mendelian Randomisation (MR). * We are very familiar with the limitations of epidemiology (population studies). MR tries to overcome the ‘association not ...

* This is the second of a two part note looking at metabolism. * Benedict is credited as the first person to study the impact of a calorie deficit in human beings (1917). * Benedict’s research took ...

For a quick recap, last week we looked at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality profiling tool. It is about preferences and not skills. It is based on three personality dimensions, which ...