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Author, Emeritus Professor, runner, LCHF/Banting/CrossFit proponent. No longer registered medical doctor. Spreading scientific information, not medical advice.
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Jul 4, 2023 11 tweets 5 min read
1/11. Now after 60 years the true meanings of the pejorative terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” can finally be exposed. These terms were first used to distract public attention from exposing the truth behind one of the greatest political crimes in modern history.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/11. The term “conspiracy theory” was conceived by the authorities to deter independent scrutiny of the findings of the Warren Commission Report into the assassination of the US President John F. Kennedy In Dealy Plaza, Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963.
Oct 8, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
I've spent a lifetime researching observable paradoxes amazon.com/Challenging-Be….
But perhaps the most obvious paradox is the one that has taken me more than 50 years to see, even though it's been there all these years hiding in plain sight (continued) It is this. Exercise scientists are all agreed that carbohydrates are the jet fuel that humans need when they exercise at high intensity or for prolonged periods. That's why we store carbs (as muscle and liver glycogen) to fuel those epic athletic performances (continued).
Jun 20, 2022 7 tweets 5 min read
Time to follow South African science published in @SAJS_Official especially articles written by those who've been strong supporters of The Narrative. In May/June 2022 issue (available online) respected Professors Jonathan Jansen @JJ_stellies; Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh write 1/5 @SAJS_Official @JJ_Stellies @ShabirMadh "Despite the numerous lockdowns and restrictions in South Africa, the benefits thereof are questionable. The initial and current narrative from Government to justify the lockdowns and more recent ongoing regulations is to protect people from being infected by SARS- CoV-2". 2/5
May 30, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Important to appreciate that cause of medical condition is proven when removal of cause eliminates the condition. Many believe that an elevated blood cholesterol concentration is a proven cause of coronary atherosclerosis leading to coronary heart disease (continued). If this is so, then removal of the cause - in this case returning the elevated blood cholesterol concentration to the 'normal' range with the use of statin drugs - should eliminate the disease in those at risk. So what is the evidence? (continued)
May 17, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Sometimes one reads a paragraph that is so profound yet so simple, that one wonders why you’d never thought it before. This comes from page 115 of Travis Christofferson's exquisite book amazon.com/Ketones-Fourth… “In truth, what Cahill had revealed was 2 distinct forms of metabolism, one that operated under a standard American diet, heavy in carbohydrate intake, and the other that operated under conditions of fasting, extreme caloric restriction, or a very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet”
Mar 30, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Very experienced double “vaxxed” runner has consulted mr re severe breathlessness when he exercises maximally. Otherwise asymptomatic. Coronary angiography shows nearly pristine coronary arteries and no left sided heart damage. 1. According to the Central Governor Midel of exercise, one key factor limiting maximal exercise has to be protection against pulmonary hypertension leading to pulmonary oedema. Governor will simply not allow this to happen as could be fatal.2.
Nov 21, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
In every single study showing that carbohydrate ingestion during exercise improves performance, the control group that did not ingest carbohydrate during exercise, always develops a progressive hypoglycaemia during exercise. Brain has an array highly complex mechanisms to prevent development of hypoglycaemia under non-exercising conditions. But no one has yet suggested that to be successful during exercise, key part of these homeostatic mechanisms would have to be also to control exercise intensity.
Aug 5, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
After he had survived 4 years of most indescribably inhumane conditions in the Auschwitz labor (concentration) camp during WWII, Victor Frankel wrote one to the most remarkable books in the history of psychology - penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206272/m… He also wrote a second book - Yes to Life In Spite of Everything - that until 2019 amazon.com/Yes-Life-Every…, had been published only in German. This book transcribed a series of 3 lectures that Frankl gave within 9 months of his release from Auschwitz.
Jun 27, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
140 years ago. First experimental rabies vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur in Paris between 1880-1885. Pasteur believed he could not release a vaccine to the general public unless he had first tested it on himself. After 4 years developing the vaccine, Pasteur wrote: “It is only when I can tell that I can vaccinate for sure dogs who have been bitten that I would dare to experiment on man, and yet my hand would shake because what is possible on the dog may not yet be so on man”.
May 2, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Jeremiah Stamler was Ancel Keys' Right Hand Man in promoting Diet-Heart and Lipid Hypotheses @garytaubes @bigfatsurprise.
In this amazon.com/Your-Heart-Has… book he wrote in 1966, sponsored by the Corn Products Industry he exposes the ill-logic for which he was never called out... Stamler describes that T2DM increases risk for heart attack 4-fold, more than any other "risk" factor he describes. He also writes that the treatment of T2DM is insulin and a carbohydrate-restricted diet. So far so good (2).
Apr 7, 2021 12 tweets 2 min read
In World War II, the people mattered (to Churchill)
“What then is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the lands” (1) “And here I speak specifically of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord,…” (2)
Apr 5, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Once upon a time, there were real leaders. Not puppets.
When Winston Churchill became UK Prime Minister on 13th May 1940, Britain faced its greatest challenge – the reasonable certainty of invasion of the British Isles and highly probable defeat and subjugation by the Nazis (1). Had Churchill been a 21st Century politician facing uncertainty, he’d have chosen the language of fear. Instead he allayed the Nation (and the World’s) worst fears by speaking only of the coming hardships and the certainty of victory (2).
Mar 9, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
He's so right. If you have to obsess over something, obsess over insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, T2DM. Rest is pretty irrelevant. Latest study from the Women's Health Initiative reported in JAMA in January FINALLY proves this jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… Study's SO IMPORTANT because it comes from Women's Health Initiative which began in 1993 with specific goal of proving that low-fat "heart-healthy" US Dietary Guidelines will prevent T2DM, CHD, cancer, obesity etc. So authors' bias would always be to find in favour of that diet
May 18, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
I've spent the last 12 months writing this @CrossFitHealth series on the great Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. This column introduced 70 key events that happened over the past 100 years which first established the Con and then helped sustain it right to today
crossfit.com/health/ancel-k… The reason why I've spent so long on this project is because since 2012 I've been accused repeatedly of "cherry-picking" evidence. Of course that's nonsensical since in my #HPCSA trial, as reported in #RealFoodonTrial, I presented 9.5 days of testimony without "cherry picking"
Oct 1, 2019 20 tweets 8 min read
1/20 In rebuttal Drs Willett and Hu of @HarvardChanSPH continue to press Harvard’s plant-based anti-meat agenda. Was not always so at @HarvardChanSPH. May 1952 edition of Postgraduate Medicine carried an Editorial – Comments on Cholesterol – by Harvard’s Hegsted, Mann and Stare @HarvardChanSPH 2/20 ‘…it should be pointed out that when exhaustive statistical analysis is required to show the correlation between two variables, such as lipoprotein level and atherosclerosis, it usually means that there are many other variables …’
Jul 26, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Suggestion: The 1977 USDGA should be called the President Eisenhower Diet after first eminent person to be prescribed the diet (by Ancel Keys PhD and Paul Dudley White MD in 1955) following President's 1st heart attack amzn.to/2ZzyigE Over next 14 yrs, Eisenhower suffered 6 further heart attacks. His heart was defibrillated 14 times. He died in intractable heart failure. Heart transplant was not considered, amongst other reasons, because it was finally realised that he had T2DM (diagnosis originally missed)
Jun 22, 2019 10 tweets 3 min read
Thanks @J_Imagineering So here’s my argument.
1. Humans eating rapidly assimilated carbohydrates develop post-prandial hyperglycemia in proportion to the rate at which glucose is absorbed from the intestine bit.ly/1ExzbZs (primate study noted). 2. Is there any evidence that postprandial hyperglycemia is good and serves an evolutionarily valuable function? Answer: Probably not. Supporting evidence: Why do human have a total circulating blood glucose mass of only 5 grams?