Dr Gary Fettke is a retired Tasmanian Orthopaedic Surgeon and a vocal proponent of nutrition being a major component of prevention and management of modern disease.

* Lean Mass Hyper Responder (LMHR) was the term developed by Dave Feldman to describe lean, fit, metabolically healthy people, who exhibit striking increases in cholesterol when adopting a ketogenic ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

* A population study involving over 100,000 people from south Korea has been published. It aimed to examine the association between LDL-Cholesterol (LDL-C) and the risk of dementia and to assess the ...

* Another association study has been published by the Harvard factory of population papers. This one claimed that butter intake was associated with higher mortality, while consumption of plant-based ...

* On March 5th, 2025, headlines in the mainstream media reported “NHS ‘should give all over-50s statins’” and “NHS should offer ‘polypill’ to cut heart disease, experts urge.” * The headlines came ...

Nina Teicholz PhD is a science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (2014). She’s been a pioneer in ...

This week’s note features a podcast with Professor Norman Fenton. Norman is Professor Emeritus of Risk at Queen Mary University of London (retired as Full Professor December 2022) and a Director of ...

* This is the second of a two part note looking at metabolism. * Benedict is credited as the first person to study the impact of a calorie deficit in human beings (1917). * Benedict’s research took ...

For a quick recap, last week we looked at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality profiling tool. It is about preferences and not skills. It is based on three personality dimensions, which ...

* An Australian study aimed to assess the association of a low-carbohydrate diet score (LCD) with the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) using data from a study of Melbourne residents. * The study ...