As consumers of food supplements, the least we could expect are products that match label ingredients in terms of potency, as well as acceptable levels of product quality. Yet, many supplements fall short of even these minimal goals. A lot of the deception that occurs in … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Adventures in Placeboland by Jerry Brainum
At age 72, Dr.Charles E.Brown-Sequard was feeling the effects of his age. He was a celebrated French neurologist, whose many accomplishments included the founding of three medical journals and publishing of over 500 medical journal articles. His work related to the physiology of … [Read more...]
A rare editorial by Jerry Brainum
Regular readers of Applied Metabolics know that I'm not big on writing editorials. The main reason for editorials in publications such as magazines and newspapers, is to allow the editor to express his or her opinions separate from the articles in the publication. In other cases, an … [Read more...]
Low fat versus low carbs: Which is best for fat loss? by Jerry Brainum
As I noted in the August, 2015 issue of Applied Metabolics, the preponderance of published studies that have compared low fat, high carb diets to low carb, high fat diets have found that the low carb diets invariably result in far more rapid losses of body fat, along with … [Read more...]
I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts by Jerry Brainum
For a few years, ads have ubiquitously appeared on numerous Internet sites proclaiming the "The cure for Alzheimer's disease is here now!" If you click on to the ad that makes this bold claim, you are shown the story of Dr.Mary Newport and her husband, Steve. Mary, a … [Read more...]