Dr Isabella Cooper is a biochemistry medical pathology scientist, and ketogenic specialist whose research focuses on ageing biology, hyperinsulinaemia, ketogenic science, and chronic diseases ...

Executive summary * The official positions from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the US Surgeon General and the UK Deputy Chief Medical officer are ...

* As late as March 11th, 2020, the UK government and medical officers issued practical and minimally disruptive advice to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. * On March 16th, the now infamous ...

(Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review of a book written by James & Hannah Yoseph entitled How statin drugs really lower cholesterol: and kill ...

* This week's note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet used decades ago for the treatment of obesity and other health conditions. * The diet was called ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

Executive summary * This week's note is about Dr Malcolm Kendrick's new book called The Clot Thickens. * Malcolm has been trying for 30 years to understand and explain what really causes heart disease ...

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This is the final of three articles looking at the statin trials that have been conducted and the pooling together of those trials with the technique called meta-analysis. The Clinical Trial Service ...

* PCSK9s are relatively recent additions to the array of cholesterol lowering drugs. They are delivered by injection – fortnightly or monthly. One PCSK9 is called evolocumab. * A 2023 paper reported ...

A logical follow-up to last week’s note critiquing the National Food Strategy would be to set out a summary of my dietary advice. Dietary advice should achieve two goals. First, it should enable us to ...

* An article has been published, which aimed to investigate the robustness of the claim that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. * I start this note with some basic facts about food ...