Animal Pharm – Sunny Tales SunloungerIf you know me (and this blog) you know I love racks and b**bies (incl mine).So it is exxxtremely disheartening when I hear of individuals choosing to go through the agony of cortisol-spiking surgeries to remove their respective rack and b**bies. Now that Jolie’ preventive bilateral mastectomay has hit the big news, I see chopped off b**bies and ovaries everywhere. [Cue: Sixth Sense movie music]SayonaraLOL. The horse and I will miss the real thang Breasts and B**bies: Chock Full of Bo… Read more

Animal Pharm – Sorry for the delay…. Old scathing editorial in QJM (hat tip: Peter D’Adamo), by D.D. Adams ‘The great cholesterol myth; unfortunate consequences of Brown and Goldstein’s mistake.’The Mistaken Implication of FHC and Elevated Blood CholesterolAbstract  Following their Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the defective gene causing familial hypercholesterolaemia, Brown and Goldstein misunderstood the mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of the associated arterial disease. They ascribed this to an effec… Read more

Animal Pharm – I think this is cool (…naught really). This is a (user-friendly) compilation of the data collected in individual and large studies by the Environmental Working Group’s Human Toxome Project. You can click on the right side on the study or an individual to review the toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, PCBs, POPs, and other chemicals found and at what level (low, mod, high).The data below is from the EWG/Commonweal Study #1. In each of these 9 adult participants over 150 chemicals, pesticides, solvents and… Read more

Animal Pharm – MiracleOceanLab Above and BeyondI have a talk in Shanghai coming up FYI…You are invited!Topic: Balancing Hormones To Improve Mood, Energy, Body Fat and Breast Cancer PreventionFunctional integrative medicine resources:http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/04/28/ultrawellness-lesson-5-detoxification/http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/05/21/breast-cancer-how-to-reduce-your-risk-now-2/http://www.imjournal.com/resources/web_pdfs/popular/1008_evans.pdf… Read more

Animal Pharm – The NCEP/ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines Bogus: ‘Cholesterol Limits Lose Their Lustre’Conventional medicine at this time uses Big Pharma-funded assessment and treatment guidelines which promote the use of statins as first line in order to ‘treat’ the LDL (goal less than 70, 100, or 130 mg/dl) to’targets based on risk stratification, e.g. age, prior family history coronary events, low HDL, smoking and presence of hypertension.What are the true root causes of these ‘risk factors’ … Read more

Animal Pharm – Conjure One’Endless Dream’ [click to listen]Courtesy Youtube.com”When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.” ~From Antoine de Saint-ExuperySex: The Birds and The BeesSometimes one has to talk about the euphemistic ‘birds and the bee’s to young adults in one’s hormonally peaked household… but really upon contemplation of evolutionary sexual biology, do we want to talk about t… Read more

Animal Pharm – Credit: Youtube. comFuel and Fluxxx…Why do we store fat? Why do we eat?  A scientist who wrote about reproduction, fuel, photoperiods and fecundity wrote the below abstract…[1]“While there is a relatively direct connection between circulating levels of metabolic fuels and the GnRH [gonadotropin releasing hormone] pulse generator [in SCN behind the retina], this might not be the only energy-related pathway influencing the secretion of this neuropeptide. The overall control of energy balance is an im… Read more

Animal Pharm – Adipose is AliveIn ancestral times, adipose stores may have determined longevity and survival past harsh cold winters. My ancestors moved from northern China 8-10+ generations ago to the mountainous areas of Taiwan (according to my dad several hundred years ago). I suppose those who didn’t live past the impoverished seasons where food resources were scarce would not have made it, nor would their genes. I can thank them for my persistent fat stores *haa*. Adipose tissue is an endocrine gland which is know to… Read more

Animal Pharm – ‘…Like all things come from the sun’referencing all the food at the table,daughter NatalieATB Sunset GirlCourtesy: Youtube.comFood, Sunlight and Nuclear ReceptorsI’ve discussed RXR (carotenoids/ vitamin A receptor), VDR (vitamin D receptor) and PPAR-α (saturated fat/omega-3 receptor). These are a constellation of receptors found in the nucleus of all cells which control growth, maturation, reproduction, proliferation, apoptosis (cell suicide), autophagy (cell re-cycling) and inflammation.  Bioactive… Read more