* I analysed the nutrition content of the diet. Even using the maximum intake of animal foods allowed, the diet was severely ...

The corker of a chat was with Dr Ken Berry. The disappointment was that the podcast platform we use, Riverside, had an outage on Tuesday 26th August 2025, when we recorded this. We realised something ...

Introduction This week we have a corker of a chat and a disappointment. The corker of a chat was with ...

An excellent presentation was posted on Youtube on 12 February 2017 (try this if the first link doesn’t work). Just 22 minutes long, it is well worth a watch. The speaker, Professor Salim Yusuf, is a ...

* 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 ...

* 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 ...

* A systematic review (look at all studies) and meta-analysis (pool them together) has been published. It examined statins + ezetimibe (a drug that inhibits cholesterol absorption from the intestine) ...

(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, we're looking at two published papers about a drug called lecanemab, which is intended to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in people with early signs of the condition. * ...