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The Hazelnut Study by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Turning to diets that actually increase vascular health, I wanted to focus on the recent hazelnut study . This study increased flow-mediated dilation by 56%! There ... Read on »

The Atkins Diet and Flow-Mediated Dilation by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Time for another butter-buster. This study ( full-text ) compared a low-fat diet to an Atkins diet. It was a six-week study that looked at various markers. The ... Read on »

The Atkins Diet and FMD Part II by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here’s one more study on the Atkins diet and flow-mediated dilation. This one was for 52 weeks. The result: “FMD decreased in LC (5.7 +/- 0.7% to 3.7 +/- 0.5%” (LC ... Read on »

Why Is Butter Bad? Part II by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine To test my idea about the unsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio being important for cardiovascular health, I wanted to focus in on this study . This study, unlike other ... Read on »

More on Unsaturated versus Saturated Fat by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here’s one new study in press on the importance of the unsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio. What they did was reduce saturated fat and add macadamia nuts in order to ... Read on »

Why Is Red Meat Possibly Bad? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here’s a paper I’ve been puzzled about for a while. The paper concludes that “bison consumption results in a reduced atherogenic risk compared to beef”. In the pape ... Read on »

Paleo Fatty Acid Ratios by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was looking some more at the East African Paleo diet paper . Specifically, I was looking at the ratios of saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated f ... Read on »

Why Is Butter Bad? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’ve been thinking more about the study I previously referred to that shows how butter lowers flow-mediated dilation. I mean, it’s right there in black-and-white (an ... Read on »

Coming Events by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I am in a brief blogging blast right now while I am caught up at work. Then it will be back to hibernation. Also, I’m hoping to get a permanent page up on cardio ... Read on »

Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I thought I would point out this interesting study on a Mediterranean version of a ketogenic diet. I am not a big fan of ketogenic diets, but in this study they w ... Read on »

Butter versus Olive Oil by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine While I’m on the subject of butter, I thought I would point out a new study showing the effects of olive oil and argan oil versus butter in young men. Subjects consu ... Read on »

Less Bad Is Still Not Good by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Following up on previous posts, I wanted to point out how sometimes a food is positioned as being positive when it really is just “less bad” than other foods. For ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? Part VI by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Hopefully, I have given readers something to consider in terms of refined oils. I see no evidence that refined oils are healthy, and to the contrary, there is substa ... Read on »

Butter Is Not Magic by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is a follow-up to the series on refined oils. For some reason, its seems like saturated fat, and really butter in particular, has taken on the role of a health ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? Part IV by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Continuing from the last post, my hypothesis was that refined oils are detrimental because they are stripped of their nutrients as compared to a whole food. If this ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? Part V by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Let me now show an indirect study linking to my hypothesis. I have said that refined oils, detached from vitamins and minerals, cause oxidative stress. Now separ ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? Part III by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Continuing on, if it appears that oils have a detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system, then why is that so? There are varying explanations, but my view is th ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One of my goals for this year was to look into cardiovascular disease. Along those lines, I have been looking into how refined oils affect health. This is the first ... Read on »

Are Oils Healthy? Part II by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine First, let’s establish what can happen to flow-mediated dilation after a meal. Some people seem to think that no change is a good goal, though I don’t agree. In thi ... Read on »

Worst Article of the Year Nominee 2013 by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’m not sure what the editors over at Medium are thinking, but they somehow picked the article, “ iPad Addictions and Three Year Olds “, as an editor’s pick. The art ... Read on »

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