by Michael O'Neill | Jan 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The next time someone tells you that carbohydrates are essential for life, or that you’ll die if you don’t eat carbohydrates, point them to the metabolic pathways diagram and ask them to identify which metabolic needs go unmet without carbohydrate...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 28, 2012 | video
I covered Dr. Oz’s recent change of heart on cholesterol in a previous post. Linked from that post are video clips from the cholesterol segment in question. Unfortunately, there’s an obvious lacuna in the videos hosted on Dr. Oz’s website....
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
My friend John is an inspiration, and he’s starting to share his story. Snapshot February 2010: a 1 year old daughter, no insurance, overweight, blood sugar over 600, and desperate for help in a system that excluded him from health care. Facing the prospect of...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 17, 2012 | video
A fantastic talk at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center by Craig P. Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering. It starts off with a great overview of cancer in general and the associated metabolic pathways of cancer cells, including the Warburg effect...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m not a fan of Dr. Oz, usually. Mostly because of his dogmatic approach to nutrition that seemed to ignore newer research in favor of the typical orthodoxy. An example of this can be seen in the episode where he had Gary Taubes on as a guest (Segment 1,...
