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Deleterious effects of artificial light at night on health and the environment
Evidence summary on how our increasing exposure to artificial blue light is putting us at risk. And actionable steps on what you can do about it. [Patron link] It’s not blue light per se, but rather...
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The carb/insulin model of obesity was tested again, and it fared better this...
Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial (Ebbeling et al., 2018) [Patron link] This is another NuSi study designed to evaluate certain...
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The current state of affairs in nutri-Twitter
Rant. [Patron link] 1) It’s almost as if you’re either: a red meat-eating 110% keto-advocate or you think red meat and a ketogenic diet is harmful. If you don’t say the diet is magical, the zealots...
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CARBOTOXICITY [screaming face emoji]
Noxious Effects of Exaggerated Carbohydrate Intake (Kroemer et al., 2018) [Patron link] This blog post is about the above mentioned article. Disclaimer (qualm #1): it is very pro-low carb and refused...
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Ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for mood disorders
Recent findings and current developments: where do we stand today? [Patron link] Great “Tl;dr:” figure -> There is most definitely a multi-level bidirectional relationship between mood...
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Scientifically, high protein breakfast FTW
It wasn’t even *that* high in protein (30g) but relative to skipping breakfast, everything got better (Gwin and Leidy, 2018). [Patron link] At 7 days, this study was longer than some but shorter than...
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The Current Status of the Ketogenic Diet in Psychiatry
Here’s when it’s important to measure your ketones (Bostock et al., 2017). Actually, this is one of the cooler aspects of keto: you don’t need to rely on FFQ’s or diet diaries or other unreliable...
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“The Danger of Being an Owl”— sounds scary, right?
^^^ from a recent Vox article. It’s brief, and relatively in line with what I’ve slowly come to think is true about chronotypes. That is, they’re a species-level property. For example, there are...
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Artificial light at night: effects on cardiovascular disease
There is now increasing evidence that exposure to artificial light in the evening and at night increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (Moore-Ede, 2018). Because most “energy efficient” LED light...
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Artificial light at night: effects on obesity and diabetes
“There is now substantial evidence that exposure to blue-rich light in the evening and at night increases the risk of obesity and diabetes (Moore-Ede 2018)” I concur. [Patron link] The upstream...
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Study: protein & seafood. They work!
I liked this study for a couple reasons: Effect of combined use of a low(ish)-carbohydrate, high-protein diet with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on glycemic control in newly...
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Anabolic Heterogeneity Following Resistance Training: A Role for Circadian...
YES! Resistance exercise stimulates muscle growth, strength, and functionality (Camera, 2018), although the inter-individual variability in response is hyooge. People used to think there were...
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Salty blood, sweat, and tears. But do I need to supplement sodium?
This was meant to be a neutral boring non-tweet: No one with an actual education in nutrition really cares about salt intake. — Bill Lagakos (@CaloriesProper) July 12, 2018 But it was met with a...
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“The Big Breakfast Study” !
Chrono-nutrition influence on energy expenditure and body weight (Ruddick-Collins et al., 2018) HT/ Robb Wolf [Patron link] “A growing body of evidence highlights the importance of the biological clock...
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Intermittent Fasting and Goalposts
I may come across as harsh on Intermittent Fasting (IF) and I’d like to be clear about something. I’m not saying IF will make you gain body fat or die a slow and painful death. I am saying the quality...
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New study: very low carb diets don’t impair high intensity interval training...
Effects of a 4-week very low-carbohydrate diet on high-intensity interval training responses (Cipryan et al., 2018) [Patron link] Relevant study design details: 18 young, healthy, moderately-trained...
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Watch the Clock, Not the Scale
I’ve been known to say intermittent fasting is #weaksauce because most of the human studies show little or no effect and people frequently report being hungry (yes, even if LCHF). Human studies, not...
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Dopamine regulates systemic glucose metabolism in humans
In Four. EPIC. Experiments (ter Horst et al., 2018) Tl;dr: sunlight & breakfast in the morning. [Patron link] Dopamine receptors are downregulated in obese patients and are restored in long-term...
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Intermittent fasting is homeopathy-level #nothingsauce
From all of the published human studies and “n=1’s” I’ve seen on online forums, intermittent fasting is #nothingsauce. Don’t @ me. [Patron link] When people lose weight via IF, it’s because of caloric...
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“early Time-Restricted Feeding” #eTRF FTW
I feel exonerated! Early time-restricted feeding improves insulin sensitivity, blood pressure, and oxidative stress even without weight loss in men with prediabetes (Sutton et al., 2018) [Patron link]...
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