Christopher Masterjohn

Cure for Cancer: Activator X is misschien de ontbrekende schakel

8 Jan. 2010 DOOR CHRISTOPHER MASTERJOHN. Oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd op 30 april 2009. Nederlandse vertaling Rob Hundscheidt Original English Version In het voorjaar van 2007 bracht Wise Traditions mijn […]

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Op het spoor van de ongrijpbare X-factor: een tweeënzestig jaar oud mysterie eindelijk opgelost

Original English Version Inhoud Samenvatting van het artikel Op het spoor van de ongrijpbare X-factor (hoofdartikel) Een mysterie van zestig jaar Vitamine K: drie ontdekkingen komen samen Perfecte […]

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La búsqueda de la felicidad

Por Christopher Masterjohn Traducido por Verónica Belli Original English Version Cómo las grasas animales densas en nutrientes promueven la salud emocional y mental Junto con el desarrollo completo […]

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Weston Price suchte nach Veganern, fand aber nur Kannibalen

12· Mai 2011 von Christopher Masterjohn Während ich mich auf mein Gespräch bei der NYC dieses Wochenende vorbereite, muſs ich das Bloggen etwas abschwächen. Somit werde ich nächste […]

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Vegetarianismo y deficiencias de nutrientes

Christopher Masterjohn, 23 de mayo de 2018 Traducción de Verónica Belli Original English Version Decidí hacerme vegetariano cuando tenía 18 años, y vegano poco después, creyendo que así […]

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Más allá del Colesterol

Vitaminas solubles en grasas en la prevención de enfermedades cardíacas Original English Version En la segunda edición de Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston Price publicó información sugiriendo que […]

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La enfermedad del hígado graso no alcohólico

Una epidemia silenciosa de desequilibrio nutricional Alrededor de setenta millones de estadounidenses podrían tener la enfermedad del hígado graso no alcohólico (EHGNA)1. La enfermedad inicia con la acumulación […]

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La enfermedad del hígado graso no alcohólico

Read this in: English Una epidemia silenciosa de desequilibrio nutricional Alrededor de setenta millones de estadounidenses podrían tener la enfermedad del hígado graso no alcohólico (EHGNA)1. La enfermedad […]

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How to Know if Your Genetics Contribute to Blue Light Sensitivity and Poor Sleep — and What to Do About It

In a previous post, I discussed the role that vitamin A plays in generating our circadian rhythm and ensuring good sleep and alertness during the day by interacting […]

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Vitamin A Plays an Essential Role in Setting the Circadian Rhythm and Allowing Good Sleep

Although I have long been aware of vitamin A’s essential role in creating vision, I only recently discovered that vitamin A plays an analogous role in setting our […]

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When SAMe Helps, Consider Magnesium and Your Metabolic Rate

I have written quite a bit recently about the methylation cycle and its relation to nutrient balance. At Wise Traditions this November in Anaheim, one of my three […]

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Are Kombucha and Other Fermented Foods Toxic Because of Their Aldehyde Content?

By Chris Masterjohn, PhD

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Should We Avoid Animal Protein to Optimize Methylation?

A reader asked me to respond to a newsletter recently distributed through email by a representative of a company called Biotics Research Canada that cited two older articles […]

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Did Cod Liver Oil Contribute to the Historical Decline in Measles Mortality and Mortality From Other Infectious Diseases?

Measles has been in the news a lot lately. It therefore seems timely to fulfill my now more than two-year-old promise to write a blog on the possibility […]

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An Ancestral Perspective on Vitamin D Status, Part 2: Why Low 25(OH)D Could Indicate a Deficiency of Calcium Instead of Vitamin D

In the first post in this series, I critiqued the “naked ape hypothesis of optimal serum 25(OH)D,” which I believe influences many researchers to interpret uncertainties in the […]

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An Ancestral Perspective on Vitamin D Status, Part 1: Problems With the “Naked Ape” Hypothesis of Optimal Serum 25(OH)D

It has become increasingly common for health enthusiasts and now even typical patients in the doctor’s office to have a lab estimate their vitamin D status by measuring […]

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Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin: Marker of Vitamin K Deficiency, or Booster of Insulin Signaling and Testosterone?

Osteocalcin is a vitamin K-dependent protein that our bones produce. The job of vitamin K is to activate this protein by adding carbon dioxide to it, which in […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 7: Placing Price’s Work in Context

This is the seventh and final installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit […]

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Does Carnitine From Red Meat Contribute to Heart Disease Through Intestinal Bacterial Metabolism to TMAO?

In April of 2011, I posted a rebuttal of a Nature paper from Stanley Hazen’s group at the Cleveland Clinic arguing that choline from animal foods causes heart […]

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Thyroid Hormone and Vitamin A Protect Against Vitamin D Toxicity in Cows

I recently came across several papers published in The Veterinary Record in the 1960s documenting the efficacy and risks of injecting cows with a mega-dose of vitamin D […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 6: Conclusions — Real Food, and the Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom

This is the sixth installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, “Weston […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 5: Conclusions — Wheat and Other Cereal Grains

This is the fifth installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, “Weston […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 4: Was Price’s Approach an “Evolutionary Approach”?

This is the fourth installment in a series of posts in which I am laying out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, “Weston […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 3: The Scope of Price’s Work

This is the third installment in a series of posts in which I will lay out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, “Weston […]

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Could MGP Eventually Be Used as a Non-Invasive Marker for Cardiovascular Microcalcifications?

In my recent interview with Dr. Mercola, we discussed measuring vascular calcification with coronary CT scans. This technique offers valuable information, but also a large dose of radiation, […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 2: Problems With Comparing Different “Racial Stocks,” With Inuit Adaptations in Vitamin D Metabolism As an Example

This is the second installment in a series of posts in which I will lay out the most salient points from my 2012 Real Food Summit talk, “Weston […]

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An Upcoming Plasma Marker of Blood Vessel Vitamin K Status

As I first wrote about back in 2007 in my article, “On the Trail of the Elusive X Factor,” matrix Gla protein (MGP) is a vitamin K-dependent protein […]

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The Scientific Approach of Weston Price, Part 1: Nature’s Closest Thing to an RCT

Translations: Spanish Last September I gave a two-part talk for Sean Croxton’s Real Food Summit over at Underground Wellness called “Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom,” which covered Price’s […]

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Did Family Planning Contribute to the Modern Decline in Infectious Disease Mortality?

In 1976, Thomas McKeown published The Modern Rise of Population, wherein he argued that the increase in population that occurred in industrialized nations over the nineteenth and twentieth […]

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Egg Study Redux: Correcting the Stats

In my last post, I criticized the recent study purporting to show that egg yolks increase atherosclerosis. After corresponding with the lead author, Dr. J. David Spence, I […]

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Does Eating Egg Yolks Increase Arterial Plaque?

Please also see Egg Study Redux: Correcting the Stats Dr. J. David Spence of Ontario’s Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Center and two of his colleagues have just […]

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Why Animal Fats Are Good for You — My Low-Carb Cruise 2012 Lecture

The video of my 2012 Low-Carb Cruise Lecture, “Why Animal Fats Are Good for You,” is now up on YouTube! And that, of course, is thanks to Terry […]

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I’m 95% Confident This is a Good Definition of a P Value

In my last post, “Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant,” I explained why I took the following result seriously, even though with a P value of […]

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Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant

I just wanted to make that clear in case any of you fellas were afraid your P value might be <0.05. Actually I have a more serious reason […]

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The Maasai, An Interlude — What Does All This Sociocultural and Historical Stuff Have to Do With Heart Disease?

In parts one and two of this series, I presented a “glimpse” of the Maasai, first of their way of life as it existed in a particular village […]

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AJCN Publishes A New PUFA Study That Should Make Us Long For the Old Days

I just got back from the 2012 Low-Carb Cruise, where I gave a very well received 45-minute talk called “Why Animal Fats Are Good For You,” in which […]

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Glutathione 101, Part 1: Cysteine Misbehaves, But Glutathione Saves

I’ve written a lot about our good friend glutathione on this blog (here and here), and I’ll be writing about him quite a bit more in the future. […]

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With the Wave of a Wand, Raw Milk Wipes Away the Wheeze: How Our Good Friend Glutathione Protects Against Asthma

Our valiant, cape-wearing, free radical-wrestling, toxicant-thwarting Raw Milk is back in town with his courageous army of raw food volunteers, and this time their mission is to get […]

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New Evidence of Synergy Between Vitamins A and D: Protection Against Autoimmune Diseases

One of the perennial topics of this blog is the synergy between vitamins A and D. A new Japanese study published last July in the journal Immunology Letters […]

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Good Lard, Bad Lard: What Do You Get When You Cross a Pig and a Coconut?

An estimated 50,000 mice worldwide are charting new territories of chubbiness as they chow down on the infamous, lard-based, high-fat rodent diet, “D12492.” As I reported a few […]

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Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane, Fishing for Our Good Friend Glutathione in the Waters of the Memory Hole: How T. Colin Campbell Helped Prove That Protein Protects Us

This past Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of The Curious Case of Campbell’s Rats, wherein we took a wild ride through over two decades of animal research in […]

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