A closer look at adiponectin

Whether insulin or leptin or adiponectin or PPAR gamma or NF KB or a bajillion cytokines are the proximate mediators of obesity or atheroscl...

Enough is better than too much – the only dietary guidelines you’ll ever need.

Now that I’ve gotten your attention with an overly bold title I will still be so bold as to introduce the draft of my very own dietary guide...

A scientist’s dilemma

I would like to consider myself a scientist – or at the very least a man of science. I do science for a living, although admittedly I don’t ...

Exercise Zen

“ When I'm in this state everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. And if I can put myself into that coco...

High fat diets and endurance exercise performance

" When first thrown wholly upon a diet of reindeer meat, it seems inadequate to properly nourish the system, and there is an apparent w...

Energy in, energy out and the fairies in the back of my garden

Science philosopher Karl Popper proposed that science is easily performed. A theory must be falsifiable and the role of science is to prove ...

A tribute to the bloggers

During my student years I read the standard scientific method curriculum book, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S. Kuhn. ...

The death of a theory

" If I haven't seen further than others it's because giants were standing on my shoulders " - Richard Feinman quoting  Ha...