All About Diabetes and Health
As you know if you've been following this blog for a while, obesity risk has a strong genetic component . Genome-wide association studi...
Genetics Loads the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger Thanks to a WHS reader* for reminding me of the above quote by Dr. Francis Collins, di...
Rodents Lead the Way The study of obesity genetics dates back more than half a century. In 1949, researchers at the Jackson Laboratories id...
Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean? In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study ...
In previous posts, I reviewed some of the evidence suggesting that human evolution has accelerated rapidly since the development of agricult...
In the previous post, I explained that Otzi descended in large part from early adopters of agriculture in the Middle East or nearby. What I...
This is Otzi, or at least a reconstruction of what he might have looked like. 5,300 years ago, he laid down on a glacier near the border be...
Now that WHS readers around the globe have adopted the Eocene Diet and are losing weight at an alarming rate, it's time to explain the ...
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism just published a clinical review paper written by myself and my mentor Dr. Mike Schwart...
So far, we've explored three interlinked causes of insulin resistance: cellular energy excess, inflammation, and insulin resistance in t...
Insulin is an ancient hormone that influences many processes in the body. Its main role is to manage circulating concentrations of nutrient...
The house mouse Mus musculus is an incredible research tool in the biomedical sciences, due to its ease of care and its ability to be genet...
In this post, I'll explore whether or not the scientific evidence is consistent with the predictions of the food reward hypothesis, as o...
In this post, I'll explain my current understanding of the factors that promote obesity in humans. Heritability To a large degree, obe...
Nature Genetics just published a paper that caught my interest ( 1 ). Investigators reviewed the studies that have attempted to determine a...
In his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Dr. Weston Price documented the abnormal dental development and susceptibility to too...
Or, more precisely, disease of industrial civilization. The scientific literature contains examples of cultures that don't suffer fro...
I'm happy to say, it's time for a new installment of the "Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials" series. The latest study was...
