Dr. Peter D’Adamo There are thousands of digestive enzyme supplements out there and available to the general public. Most are rudimentary; however, a few are formulated in a manner that is quite imaginative and inspired. Over my all-too-many years in practice, I’ve used many quite successfully in my patients, particularly in situations where the person’s
What do an extension cord, a trip to Disneyland, and a 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
By Peter D’Adamo A few years back, upon purchasing a new textbook, Protein Misfolding Diseases: Current and Emerging Principles and Therapies. I began my exploration by doing what any self-respecting academic would do when presented with a 900+ page reference work: I leafed thru the Index, hoping to recognize something that interested me. Here I
Many of you will remember the terrible catastrophe that befell the astronauts of Apollo I. On January 27, 1967, while still training for the first space expedition that would eventually lead to a manned mission to the Moon, all three crew members were killed in a fire that engulfed the cabin. There were several reasons
In another installment of Science by Agenda™, a group headed by super-vegan diet doctor Neal Barnard claims to have ‘debunked’ the blood type diet. The results? Surprise! The researchers discovered all blood types do best on vegan diets. Well, that settles that. The investigators published their objective scientific results in an ultra low-impact journal article
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. In a nutshell, ignorant people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. In other words, you have to be somewhat intelligent in order to realize just how
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
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