Apr 23, 2015 | Articles, Diseases and Disorders, Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
By Joel Brind In one of my earlier posts on this blog, I discussed the largely reciprocal nature of the amino acids glycine and methionine. Specifically, too much dietary methionine depletes glycine, because your body uses up glycine in order to get rid of the excess methionine. This is a common condition these days, because the typical diet is high in methionine-rich muscle meats, but low in...
Dec 1, 2014 | Inflammation, Metabolism, Nutrition |
Good Proteins, Bad Proteins… 1. Preface: Not All Protein Is Created Equal A few months ago, an interesting Danish study was published, showing that a?”high-fat/high-sugar” diet?would cause obesity to mice consuming chicken, cod, or crab as their main protein source. However, the group of mice eating scallop protein didn’t develop these problems at all. The researchers...
Sep 29, 2014 | Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
Comment from Martin Tornberg: “One thing that gives me pause with respect to consuming too much glycine is the study on?http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6084/1040.abstract’that ?identified glycine consumption and expression of the mitochondrial glycine biosynthetic pathway as strongly correlated with rates of proliferation across cancer cells? and noted that ?Antagonizing...
Sep 20, 2014 | Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition |
By Joel Brind, Ph.D. My last post focused on the propagation of the inflammatory signal, and how nutrients such as omega-6 PUFAs and the lack of salicylic acid results in amplification of that signal, thus contributing to the overall increase in inflammation-related disease we currently experience. But what about the initiation of the inflammatory signal in the first place? That often turns out...
Jul 24, 2014 | Guest Posts, Nutrition |
There’s no shortage of info out there about inflammation’s being the root cause of most of what makes people sick and die these days–from arthritis to diabetes to cardiovascular disease to cancer?and what to eat and not eat to put your body into an “anti-inflammatory” state. But there is a shortage of real knowledge about inflammation itself: What its proper role is...
