Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The quest to determine whether plant-based diets surpass omnivorous diets in their heart healthfulness has been ongoing for decades, yielding inconclusive results despite dedicated research endeavors. Both observational and clinical studies have suggested potential advantages associated with plant-based diets.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 23, 2024

Their diets are often poor. They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. But let’s look at WHEN centenarians get these diseases.

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DAIC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Using this information, his team will then investigate ways to use these compounds to create diets that specifically protect against heart disease and lay the groundwork for developing new drugs that can be used for heart disease treatment. “One One might ask what makes this project exciting and worth funding?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. It kills almost twice as many people globally when compared to all cancers combined. Over 80% of early heart disease is preventable. Diet When I discuss the Tsimane population, one of the first questions I get is, “What kind of diet do they eat?”

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Wellnest

AUGUST 24, 2023

Introduction One of the biggest causes of death worldwide continues to be cardiovascular disease. In this blog, we will unravel some of the most common myths about cardiac health and heart diseases while providing accurate and evidence-based information to promote a healthy lifestyle. Myth #3: Heart diseases only affect men.

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Physiologically Speaking

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You’ll learn: What the Scarcity Loop is and how it guides our behaviors How ultraprocessed foods hack the Scarcity Loop About a small Amazonian tribe with virtually no incidence of cardiovascular disease How to structure your diet to achieve success in our modern food environment And more! Selecting the optimal diet.

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Physiologically Speaking

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In my opinion, it’s even more important than diet and sleep, to an extent. While an energy deficit can negatively impact hormone and reproductive function, a surplus of energy can cause an overabundance of growth-promoting hormones which predispose to certain types of diseases and cancers. Source: Pinckard et al.

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Physiologically Speaking

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Many people carefully adjust their diets, follow specific exercise routines, and track their sleep with wearable devices, all in the pursuit of becoming the healthiest version of themselves. Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 26, 2024

It’s also likely that most people aren’t getting all of the nutrients they need from their diet even if they think they are. COSMOS tested a cocoa extract supplement and a multivitamin-mineral supplement against one another and a placebo for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

JANUARY 12, 2023

This is the man who, along with Bradford Hill, proved that smoking causes lung cancer. This was for a review which cleared vinyl chloride of causing cancer – of any kind. This review was then used to defend the use of this chemical – now well recognised to be a cancer-causing agent – for over a decade.

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Physiologically Speaking

MARCH 8, 2024

Poor sleep quantity and quality are widespread modifiable risk factors for several diseases, namely, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. When consumed via the diet (or used as a supplement), creatine increases our body’s phosphocreatine (PCr) stores. Acute sleep loss is also insidious.

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DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Share Why you die earlier is likely down to the earlier onset of the two major diseases that are the leading causes of death worldwide: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer. A diagnosis of diabetes in your 30s is associated with about a FOUR TIMES higher risk of both cardiovascular and cancer mortality.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The hypothesis that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease [atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)] is possibly the single most powerful idea in medicine. Which remains the single most influential study on cardiovascular disease, ever. At least some of it. It was simply a matter of time.

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