Author Archives: The Doctors digest
Carbohydrates and cholesterol – is bread worse for you than butter is?
The Bottom Line
- Bread might be worse for your heart than butter is.
- Carbohydrate consumption increases the proportion of small, dense LDL cholesterol (sdLDL).
My advice
- Cut down your consumption of sugar, bread, rice and pasta.
Neuroprotective role of intermittent fasting in senescence-accelerated mice
Abstract
Dietary interventions have been proposed as a way to increase lifespan and improve health. The senescence-accelerated prone 8 (SAMP8) mice have a shorter lifespan and show alterations in the central nervous system. Moreover, this mouse strain shows decreased sirtuin 1 protein expression and elevated expression of the acetylated targets NFkappaB and FoxO1, Read the full article
Two Meals a Day are Better than Six for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
This study challenges the current advice given to diabetic patients, which is to have 3 small meals with snacks in between.
Study conclusion:
Fewer larger meals are better than several smaller ones for people with recent onset type 2 diabetes.
What the study actually did
54 patients were split into two groups.
Read the full article
Vampire Therapy
Scientists at Harvard University have recently reported that blood from young mice can rejuvenate ageing mice. Blood transfusions not only reversed the memory impairment that seems to inevitably appear with age, but also improved the learning abilities of ageing mice.
everything you always wanted to know about Vitamin k2…
The Bottom Line:
Vitamin K2 deficiency is very common.
Vitamin K2 deficiency is associated with:
- Heart attacks.
- Osteoporosis.
- A shorter life span.
The best food sources of vitamin K2 are natto, organ meats, cheese and fermented foods (such as natto, sauerkraut, kim chi and fermented cheeses)
My advice:
- Start eating liver, sauerkraut, natto and kim chi.
- Natto = fermented soybeans – a slimy and smelly Japanese food – just any old soybean won’t do; it has to be the fermented variety.
