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proteinpower.com is a personal blog at proteinpower.com about health and science. Since 2008, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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30mentions?
24HN people?
2008–2024first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dr Michael Eades' low-carb blog for critiques of saturated-fat, statin and China Study claims, and for posts on ketosis and carbohydrate-restricted diets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /drmike/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-01-11
- /drmike/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bray-review-of-gcbc.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-09
- /drmike/cancer/the-china-study-vs-the-china-study/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-03
What Hacker News says?
This situation has been highly debated among the keto science community. I call it a situation and not a study because they're publishing preliminary results for a pilot study. Hardly conclusive. https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2016/05/06/contradictions-an...
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on “Machine Learning and Ketosis”Submitted Low carbers: critical thinkers and a bulwark against illiteracy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDr Michael Eades is a good gateway toif you're interested. He wrote a book a while ago now titled Protein Power [1], I think he is working on an update/sequel as well. At the high level, my basic claim is that the idea that dietary saturated fat directly leads to heart attack is incorrect. The history of this claim dates back to President Eisenhower. After having a heart attack while in office he wanted to tell the…
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on “Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests”Submitted Wheat Belly as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Ketones (what your body burns for energy when there are no sugars available) don't penetrate to the brain [0] says that this is false. Ketones do go into the brain and the brain does use them for fuel. [0] http://proteinpower.com/drmike/2007/05/22/metabolism-and-ket...
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on “Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging”Submitted Changing perceptions of obesity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionResearch? Sort of. Experience? Yes. Owsley "The Bear" Stanley, the famous LSD manufacturer and Grateful Dead sound engineer, lived very healthily on an all-meat diet for over 50 years. (Note: he did have cancer, though likely due to HPV and years of secondhand cigarette smoke and firsthand marijuana smoke, and his diet probably helped him survive it, and he had a heart attack, but that was likely due to complication…
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on “Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?”I would be very skeptical of statins. An actual MD who disagrees with you: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/statins-everyone-...
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on “Avoiding Heart Disease”At some point -- and I'm not saying you've reached that point -- if enough people misread you, maybe you need to communicate more clearly. (Not trying to be rude.) Anyway, here are some fun refutations of Mr. Taubes body of dietary advice: http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/wp-content/uploads/2008/0... I guess the big issue I have with his advice is that obesity is…
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on “Is Sugar Toxic?”I thought Good Calories, Bad Calories was very good. It's about the bad science behind the high-carb, low-fat diet advice. From there you can get into things like paleo diet etc. I'm not recommending any particular diet - there are plenty of people who think Taubes is full of it ( http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/wp-content/uploads/2008/0... ), and I'm not a docto…
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on “The Insanity Virus”It really is an eye opener. I was blown away when I started reading about it all. Some good resources if you're interested. I totally agree to that. Those sources changed the way I was thinking about human health and nutrition completely. To be quite honest, I was not thinking about these topics very much before. I would also add a source that kind of got me started: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/ Stephan ap…
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on “Breakfast is Overrated”The China study's results are a massive dataset of statistical correlations, useful as input for hypothesis generation. On the other hand, "The China Study", Dr. Campbell's best-selling popular book wherein he attempts to interpret the data causatively, has been absolutely demolished and debunked as egregiously bad science for some time now. Evgeny already linked to Denise Minger's notorious initial critique that go…
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on “High protein diet not as bad for you as smoking”http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statistics/observational-... "Researchers doing observational studies have much the same problem. They try to think of all the differences between two large populations of subjects so that they can statistically negate them so that only the observation in question – the vitamin C level in the example above – is different between the groups. Problem is they can never possibly think…
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on “High protein diet not as bad for you as smoking”Or, don't: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/peta-cspi-and-other-menac...
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on “Ask HN: How do you stay (somewhat) healthy?”By the way, I went and read the George Bray review that you posted. It seemed a little odd. For one thing, Bray places great emphasis on a first-law-of-thermodynamics argument which as far as I can tell is just a big red herring. (Obviously nobody is questioning the first law of thermodynamics; equally obviously, thermodynamics doesn't ipso facto explain obesity; so what's the point? It's not clear.) So I dug around…
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on “UCSF Endocrinologist debunks "Calories In / Calories Out" Model”Here's a review of Taubes' book by George Bray: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/wp-content/uploads/2008/0... in case you do want someone dissing it for you. Also I don't think we should "make up [our] own mind" the biology on this is way beyond the layman. Hacker News has a pervasive conceit that somehow as programmers we can see the obvious truth that people with decades of experience are apparently (or delibera…
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on “UCSF Endocrinologist debunks "Calories In / Calories Out" Model”The topic is very important but the article was really bad. A few no-nonsense links for the interested: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/ http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ http://www.paleonu.com/ http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ http://nephropal.blogspot.com/ I very much like Dr Harris (PaNu blog) position: is not about blindly replicating cavemen lifestile, but studing their metabolism (which is ours)…
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on “The New Cavemen Lifestyle”Food for thought, Dr Eades on the issue. http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/obesity/another-china-stu... I also read somewhere (probably Eades) that the China Study (the book/Campbell one) was a survey, iow, not an intervention study. Lastly, when I read the China Study book about 3-4 years ago, it started off with an impressive anecdote about feeding extra protein (peanut butter) to filipino children to improve the…
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on “The New Cavemen Lifestyle”As for #2, imho, the article is deliberately written to caricaturize, which may well be appropriate for a mainstream lifestyle section of a newspaper. IIRC, an earlier article in the same paper on the crossfit exercise plan was quite alarmist (implied neophytes would by dying like flies) and dismissive. Vegan and yoga are the accepted modes of the NYC healthy lifestyle :-) > we aren't cavemen anymore In behavior and…
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on “The New Cavemen Lifestyle”This [1] may be of interest, and has scientific references (well, Nature) too. I believe there's an associated TED talk. [1] https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2017/07/02/low-carbohydrate-...
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on “Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Longevity”If you believe Dr. Colin Campbell you might want to take a look at these articles: http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/16/the-china-study-my-response... http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cancer/the-china-study-vs... They're both very well written and put some serious doubt into the validity of Campbell's conclusions.
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on “Meat based diets made us smarter”ΔWeight = Energy in (food) - Energy out (exercise plus metabolism) The flaw in the understanding of this equation as written in "The Hackers Diet" and many other sources is that the components on the right side of the equal sign are not independent variables. They are dependent variables. If one eats less, the rate of metabolism falls to compensate. If one exercises more, the appetite increases, and one eats more to…
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on “The Hacker's Diet”I don't think it forgot to mention them. I think it's arguing against them. I think the presenter who has an MD and a PhD from the WashU School of Medicine and a BA in Biology from Princeton (Of course I don’t think that having a diploma (or three) from a University makes what you say any more or any less true[0]) is arguing against the lipid hypothesis[1] and for the sugar hypothesis[2]: that sugar is actually the…
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on “Effects of a Year in Ketosis [video]”Sorry I don't have time to find all my links as I am at work on my lunchbreak but here are a few. Weight Loss As the Paleo diet is by nature pretty low-carbohydrate: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708681 Longevity: Cancer Patterns in Inuits - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760245 This William Lands paper - http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/83/6/S1483.pdf Medical Establishment: Good Calories, Bad Cal…
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on “ How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days) ”My mom, a retired scientist, has been going off the importance of Vitamin D for three years now. To the point, that I have been taking 2000 mg/d for over a year now. It's easy to take and it gets my mom off my back (well, at least, for Vitamin D :) ). She's pushing me to do 4,000 mg/d. Costco sells gel tablets the cheapest. Seriously, she believes it shouldn't even be called a vitamin. She was a well-respected resea…
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on “Vitamin D deficiency increasingly common”Given that cancer cells are fueled by glucose (i.e., sugar metabolism), you might read up a bit on carb-restricted diets: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/carbo... "Since cancers can't really get nourishment from anything but glucose, it stands to reason that cutting off this supply would, at the very least, slow down tumor growth, especially in aggressive, fast-growing cancers requiring a lot…
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on “Ask HN: My 19 year old friend has cancer. How can I help him? ”I read GCBC about two months ago; although I've been interested in health & nutrition for several years now, it's amazing that I never understood how badly science has been mistreated by nutritionists & health experts. Moreover, because this advice runs so contrary to conventional dietary wisdom, many in the community are fascinated by reviewing studies for strengths & flaws (in the similar spirit of code-reviews);…
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on “I Hacked My Diet with Science”http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/wp-content/uploads/2007/0...
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on “Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?”It's true that obesity is a growing problem, and it is likely also true that nearly all cases of type II diabetes can be prevented with dietary changes. But, the article repeats the 'reduce saturated fat' meme, which lately has been called into question. Gary Taubes http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba... Robert Lustig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Cynthia Kenyon http://donmatesz…
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on “At Least Half of Americans Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic by 2020”
