by Michael O'Neill | Jan 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hillary Wright of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has a brief podcast on the connection between sugar and cancer. Play Podcast on Cancer and Sugar Transcript We now now realize that there is a lot about diet and lifestyle that can influence the chemical hormonal...
by Michael O'Neill | Jan 5, 2013 | Low Carb Books
Chances are you’ve seen his viral video on nutrition, Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Now Dr. Robert Lustig has a book out that is built on the foundations first laid out in the video. His theory is essentially that sugar is the main driver of obesity and disease....
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,...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to do a deep dive into physiological insulin resistance for quite a while now, but the universe keeps conspiring to take my time. Because I haven’t had time to read, learn more and write about it, I thought I’d share the links I...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I see lots of questions in the various communities regarding the safety of a ketogenic diet. One frequent concern is about what this diet will do to one’s cholesterol numbers. Because of these questions, I recently went through my EMR data and pulled my last few...
by Michael O'Neill | Dec 7, 2012 | Low Carb Books
I’ve heard people lament, “Gary Taubes is great and all…but he just doesn’t understand the science.” Such people typically have not read the science, much less, Good Calories, Bad Calories. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the...
