When an old colleague alerted me that Dr. Alan Gaby had written an editorial (Townsend Letter, September 2018) critical of my theories regarding the use of ABO expression in the gut as a potential indicator of certain dietary relationships, I was of course quite concerned. Dr. Gaby is a well-regarded authority on nutritional science, and
Studies are increasingly indicating that almost any change you make to the diet changes your gut microbiota. Those changes might be slight, and in fact difficult to predict from person to person, but they are there. Now new research seems to indicate that eating white button mushrooms daily can act as a prebiotic by improving
‘People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.’ —Carl Jung Science Based Medicine (SBM), the self-styled parser of all that is untrue, fraudulent, and unbelievable in modern clinical medicine, has a long history of trashing medical theories and methods that don’t fit their particular standards for ‘evidence.’ It’s a breathtakingly ambitious title for a website, since
When writing the revised edition of Eat Right For Your Type, I alluded to the difficulties of doing nutritional and dietary research, and used salt as a prime example. It has been suggested that a statistically significant, well-powered study on the health effects of salt would have to enroll 28,000 patients for at least five
Trehalose is a sugar consisting of two molecules of glucose. However unlike the sugar on top of a jelly doughnut, it does not display the qualities of glucose when introduced into the body as it resists breakdown back into the simple sugars. Trehalose has high water retention capabilities, and is used in food, cosmetics, and
What does an extension cord, a trip to Disneyland, and serving of spinach have in common? Apparently, they can give you cancer. At least in California. California’s Proposition 65, also called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, was enacted in 1986. It is intended to help Californians make informed decisions about protecting themselves