Research of the Week
To avoid diabetes, South Asians should reduce carbohydrates and increase protein.
“Uncomfortable knowledge” is important knowledge.
Is coagulation more important than LDL in heart disease?
Playing in microbial-rich soil produces an anti-inflammatory, more diverse microbiome and stronger immune system.
New Primal Kitchen Podcasts
Primal Kitchen Podcast: The Link Between Dairy Intolerance and Dairy Genes with Alexandre Family Farm Founders Blake and Stephanie
Primal Health Coach Radio: Medicine the Way it Was Intended with Dr. Ken Zweig
Media, Schmedia
Shawn Baker brings the carnivore message to the UK.
Hopefully this forces a better re-usable propane canister system.
Interesting Blog Posts
Some are starting to get it.
Social Notes
This is how you age.
Everything Else
Fear of failure and performance on Master Chef.
The more kin-based the institutions, the less economic development a country has.
After losing their access to bison, the Plains tribes went from some of the tallest in the world to some of the shortest.
Things I’m Up to and Interested In
Interesting paper: Looking beyond cholesterol.
Interesting result: Doppelgängers don’t just look alike. They also act alike.
Interesting article: They’re starting to get it.
Nice post: How non-nutritive sweeteners affect the gut and glucose tolerance.
Fascinating: Chess players play worse remote.
Question I’m Asking
What do you do to satisfy the “creative” side of you?
Recipe Corner
Time Capsule
One year ago (Aug 20 – Aug 26)
Comment of the Week
“Most of the studies on long COVID are looking at narrow slices of our body’s chemical interactions – and that’s far too limiting. I don’t have all the studies in front of me to reference, but there’s a lot of evidence (and many have accepted) that long COVID and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) are essentially the same thing. Dr. Tina Peers found that most of her long COVID patients reported symptoms of MCAS before they got COVID, suggesting that a genetic or underlying predisposition to long COVID lies in mast cell dysfunction. Anyone with long COVID also have asthma, hypothyroid, food sensitivities before you had COVID? When you shift your lens to the mast cells you have to acknowledge the complexity of the effect on the body – it’s not just about too much histamine, but a host of other chemicals. When our body is, or thinks it is, under attack, our mast cells activate, and in the process release histamine and, for the purposes of this discussion, cortisol. So, to “fight” the paper cut, infection, bee sting, or cat hair, our body goes into full fight mode – inflammation – and our cortisol levels rise. When things are functioning normally, histamine and cortisol levels drop in time, and we return to equilibrium. However, our bodies have been under attack by all sorts of toxins for decades, or maybe we have a genetic abnormality such as Mannose-binding lectin deficiency or Ehlers Danlos, so our bodies cannot find the equilibrium, and eventually we suffer from adrenal fatigue. I don’t have evidence of this, but I expect that the authors of this article are measuring this adrenal fatigue that is just a symptom of the underlying condition that presents a welcome mat for long COVID. And when COVID – a disease of the mast cells – finds that welcome mat, the sensitivities and inflammation that were already present now kick into high gear, and we’ve got long COVID. How do we treat it? As you would MCAS – with a strict low histamine diet, and analysis that identifies vitamin deficiencies (likely Bs and D, to start). Reduce emotional stress, avoid triggers like heat and exercise, pace yourself, sleep more, and accept that it’s going to take some time. Excellent source of info: https://www.youtube.com/c/RUNDMC1”
-Interesting thoughts.
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