Browsing articles from "April, 2012"
Also see - Arachidonic Acid’s Role in Stress and Shock Anti-Inflammatory Omega -9 Mead Acid (Eicosatrienoic acid) In adults, prostaglandins are known to be involved in many of the harmful effects of inflammation. They are formed from the polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and arachidonic acid, which we are unable to synthesize ourselves, so the adult’s [...]
Also see Exercise and Effect on Thyroid Hormone Metabolism, Brain Size, and Lifespan in Mammals Ray Peat, PhD: Quotes Relating to Exercise How strong is your resting metabolism? The resting metabolic rate (RMR) is responsible for 60 to 75% of daily energy expenditure (Poehlman, 1989). Energy expenditure from exercise is thus small relative to the [...]
Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Apr;89(4):1031-6. Epub 2009 Feb 25. Increased television viewing is associated with elevated body fatness but not with lower total energy expenditure in children. Jackson DM, Djafarian K, Stewart J, Speakman JR. BACKGROUND: Television (TV) viewing in children is associated with a higher body mass index, but it is unknown whether [...]
Also see: Unsaturated Fats and Longevity “Curing” a High Metabolic Rate with Unsaturated Fats A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi The brain has a high rate of oxidative metabolism, and so it forms a very large proportion of the carbon [...]
Also see – The Truth about Low Cholesterol Anything that increases lactic acid production, thus lowering energy production, is fundamentally unhealthy. -Byron Richards Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1996 Sep;42(3):333-7. Lipid-lowering drugs and mitochondrial function: effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors on serum ubiquinone and blood lactate/pyruvate ratio. De Pinieux G, Chariot P, Ammi-Saïd M, Louarn F, [...]
By Martha Rosenberg Want to increase your chances of getting node-positive breast cancer and dying from it? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy [...]
J Anim Sci. 2004 May;82(5):1401-9. Preslaughter stress and muscle energy largely determine pork quality at two commercial processing plants. Hambrecht E, Eissen JJ, Nooijent RI, Ducro BJ, Smits CH, den Hartog LA, Verstegen MW. The objective of the present experiment was to study physiological changes elicited in response to stress in the immediate preslaughter period [...]
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2012 Mar 29. [Epub ahead of print] Progressive hip rehabilitation: The effects of resistance band placement on gluteal activation during two common exercises. Cambridge ED, Sidorkewicz N, Ikeda DM, McGill SM. A critical issue for constructing a progressive rehabilitation program is the knowledge of muscle activation levels across exercises and within [...]
Lancet. 2001 Aug 4;358(9279):351-5. Cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart Program: a cohort study. Schatz IJ, Masaki K, Yano K, Chen R, Rodriguez BL, Curb JD. BACKGROUND: A generally held belief is that cholesterol concentrations should be kept low to lessen the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, studies of the [...]
Vitamin E and vitamin A also protect against lipid peroxidation, and vitamin A is specifically involved in progesterone synthesis. Vitamin A also has a variety of anti-estrogen functions, that are often considered to be relevant to protection against cancer. -Ray Peat, PhD American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 5, 666-673 Relation of Vitamin A Deficiency [...]
