Although these lectures discuss cancer they are also important to the larger topics of cell differentiation and morphogenesis. The Levin Lab is accumulating evidence suggests that voltage gradients across cell membranes determine gene expression (epigenetics) and morphophology/anatomy. The definition of cancer, in the present-day US at least, tends to emphasize the hypothesis that genetic changes …
sleep and eating, birth control and brain cancer, diabetes and leptin and glucagon and insulin, placebos, bpa and bpa-free
pertussis, time-restricted feeding, cancer, intelligence, behavior, diet
Research Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: randomised screening trial (2014) “Annual mammography in women aged 40-59 does not reduce mortality from breast cancer beyond that of physical examination or usual care when adjuvant therapy for breast cancer is freely available. Overall, 22% (106/484) of …
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Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut mi… [Nature. 2014] – PubMed – NCBI “Here we show that the short-term consumption of diets composed entirely of animal or plant products alters microbial community structure and overwhelms inter-individual differences in microbial gene expression… these results demonstrate that …
Cancer Diagnosis-Do Your Homework – YouTube “The amount of difference that you could see in the human body between starting a cancer treatment the day after you’re diagnosed and starting that same treatment 2 weeks or a month after… will have no difference in the outcome.” “I think the first thing somebody should do [after …
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I am reading research studies all the time. Sometimes they are the latest and sometimes they are papers I will uncover while researching a particular topic. Rather then relegate them all to twitter I felt I should collect them and post them once a month or so. So we’ll see how this goes.
A couple of clients have asked about the media reports which have suggested a causal link between fish oil supplementation and prostate cancer. I do not want to spend a lot of time on this so here are the major problems with the reporting: No participant in this study was tracked on their use of …
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This is a 14 minute report from April 2012 that interviews Dr. Robert Lustig and other professionals about the connection between sugar and diseases including type 2 diabetes (sugar diabetes), heart disease, and cancer. It also briefly addresses the addictive nature of sugar. This piece is obviously an oversimplification of the processes involved but worth …