Category: Research

Rhonda Patrick PhD tweeted a link to this abstract for a study that examined the effects of curcumin on tendon healing in rats.  Since I was just working on a post that touched upon this subject, my curiosity was piqued, so I found the full paper.  The full title is:

Curcumin Improves Tendon Healing in Rats: a Histological, Biochemical, and Functional Evaluation.

It’s hot off the presses and was just published in the “International Journal of Connective Tissue Research” in November 2015.

They took a group of 64 rats and cut out a piece of their patellar tendon from their right knee.  … Read More

I was first turned on to this latest study by Dr. Volek after listening to one of Ben Greenfield’s podcasts where he talked about his participation in a groundbreaking study that required him to run 3 hrs straight on a treadmill while undergoing intermittent blood tests, metabolic tests, and muscle biopsies!

It sounded like an experimenters dream to me in terms of the data that could be collected (although it probably wasn’t that fun for those being experimented on).

The paper was finally published a few weeks ago in Metabolism.… Read More

I came across this article via Bill Lagakos’ twitter feed titled, “Ketogenic low-carbohydrate diets have no metabolic advantage over nonketogenic low-carbohydrate diets,” published out of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2006.

In this study 20 overweight subjects were randomly placed on ketogenic or non ketogenic low carb diets for 6 weeks and had various biomarkers tested.

The macros of the ketogenic diets consisted of 60% fat, 30% protein, and 5% carbs as percentages of total energy requirement.  They started these guys off eating less than 20 gm carbs per day, something Kiefer would’ve been proud of.… Read More