How Far Will They Go?

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

To The End!

Fighting for what science shows can harm your reputation, make you lose your job, and… who know how far they will go!  This the story of Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., an investigative science journalists:

“I became the subject of attacks by those with vested interests. Secret documents revealed food industry giants initiated ‘active defence’ against me (and others) for challenging their marketing messages.

It manifested in social media attacks, industry-sponsored propaganda by so-called ‘experts’ paid to undermine my credibility, critics’ calls for my sacking, and vexatious complaints about my scientific integrity.

Eventually, our entire team was axed from the ABC. The TV executives who promised to support us, the same people who approved and applauded our programs, were now the ones walking us all out the door.”

As always, things must be understood in context. The context here is revealing that statins Continue reading →

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Can Potassium Harm You? One More Time!

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

PRESS RELEASE

Hot off the press! My latest article published on HormonesMatter with a ton of extremely important details on potassium.

This article is based on an email discussion I had with an emergency hospital cardiologist friend. It is written in a Q and A style with additional thoughts after each of the doctor’s responses. This article is a bit more medically challenging and revealing than what I wrote before on potassium.

Potassium is an essential but very dangerous mineral!

Comments are welcome, as always, and are moderated for appropriateness

Angela

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Hypertensive 90-year Old Recovers on the LCHF Diet

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

An Unusual Testimonial

I receive lots of testimonials in my FB migraine groups. I usually post them on my migraine testimonials page, which, by now, sports several hundred (if not over a thousand) testimonials. However, I sometimes receive testimonials that are not about migraineurs successfully recovering and preventing their migraines, but about family members who are not migraineurs, but use my protocol anyway.

Here is what I received from one of my migraineurs, who placed her 90 years young mother on the Stanton Migraine Protocol® way of eating.

My mom’s 90. In April, when I joined protocol, she went off all grains and sugars; increased her salt, water, protein and animal fat; and now, three months later, she consumes only very small amounts of protocol-friendly fruits and vegetables.

She’s taken maximum doses of 2 hypertension meds for about 30 years. BP has been normal every time we’ve measured since 3 weeks into this WOE [way of eating]. We were able to cut one [medicine] in half and will hopefully be able to dc it soon. Really astonishing, yet logical.

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Ketosis for Migraine?

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

PRESS RELEASE

My first article published on Medium yesterday. I have been quite skeptical about posting articles on Medium. Many of the articles I so far read are OK but most I read are provocative and not necessarily in a positive way.

Out to Make Money or to Challenge?

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Silence on the US Front–News Flash of US Research from the UK!

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

The Missing News Flash

Wouldn’t you know it?! If you had wanted to learn about research done anywhere in the world, including in the US, about the potential harms associated with the low carbohydrate diet, the consumption of saturated fats, the cholesterol that will kill you if you eat eggs, or that you will up and die on the spot from increased dietary salt, look no further: news flash will hit you in the face everywhere you look.

However, if you want to read about research done anywhere in the world, including in the US, about the potential benefits associated with the low carbohydrate diet, the consumption of saturated fat, eating those amazing eggs, or the potential of increased longevity and heart health from increased dietary sodium, look everywhere but in the US for news flash. Continue reading →

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Carbohydrate Teaser

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

PRESS RELEASE

So you thought you knew it all about carbohydrates? Maybe not.

Carbohydrates

In an article published here earlier today, I help you learn a lot more about carbohydrates than what most people know about them. I discuss what carbs are, if we need any and if do do then why, and if we don;t then why not. I also explain fiber, few of the many types of antinutrients in carbs. More importantly, I discuss the differences of macronutrients in terms of fuel versus nutrition and what that means to those wanting to eat right. I also discuss some of the things that are not in carbohydrates, such as omega 3 fatty acids in the form humans can metabolize, and the role of the much glucose we eat on insulin.

I hope it helps you see what carbohydrates really are as opposed what we think they are.

Comments are welcome, as always, and are monitored for appropriateness

Angela

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Migraine: What’s Diet Got to Do with It

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

PRESS RELEASE

A month ago I was interviewed by Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter for the Human Performance Outliers podcast. We discussed migraine, how I see migraine, what it is, what causes it, how to prevent all migraines, and abort some that may sneak through.

Here is the YouTube link in case you prefer to watch it on YouTube.

If you prefer just voice, the original sound recording is here.

If you are a migraineur or know some, please share this video and also my Facebook migraine group with them.

Comments are welcome, as always, and are moderated for appropriateness.

Angela

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Carbs, Fat, Sugar, & All That Jazz: A Willett Lecture

Posted on May 4, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

I Could Not Believe It

A friend posted a short YouTube clip on Facebook of an answer in response to someone in the audience that one may think was taken out of context. So I asked for the link to the full video, which you find here, only be warned that it took me two days to actually be able to watch this video. I suppose after the short clip the whole world went to watch the video and the NIH website went down as a result. Because of this, I uploaded the video here and added a few comics and emojis starting at about 49-minutes where the question/answer period is:

I watched the video now at least 3 times because I still can’t believe what I am watching and hearing.

So let’s back up: Who is Dr. Walter Willett? And why do we care? Continue reading →

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Newsflash & The fallacy Of Percentages

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

The BBC Announced!

The BBC announced–and continue to announce all over the world–that red meat increases bowel cancer by 20%. Now lets look at the statistics they refer to:

  • “For every 10,000 people in the study who ate 21g a day of red and processed meat, 40 were diagnosed with bowel cancer
  • The comparable figure for those who ate 76g a day, was 48″

And they have a bunch of bacon on the cover… this one:

bacon

Image from the article. In case you are not aware, bacon’s first classification is that of processed meat.

To summarize: 40 people eating less red meat out of 10,000 get bowel cancer and 48 increased red-meat-eating people out of 10,000 get bowel cancer. The suggestion is that this is a 20% increased rate in bowel cancer rate as a result of eating more red meat; so the suggestion is that red meat causes cancer. Continue reading →

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War Against Red Meat

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Dirty Hands, Fake Gardens, & Bad Science

Dirty Hands

When we dig up the soil and get dirty hands, that is a fun thing. Digging and planting seeds to grow new plants that can later be harvested, measured, quantified, and analyzed, makes a lot of great sense; it is satisfying and can be controlled, like a clinical trial of sorts. You know what I mean.

Mining metadata is like digging the soil in many gardens at once, so it doesn’t tell us anything about any one garden and it certainly doesn’t tell us much about what plants grow there and what was harvested. Meta analyses are dataset combinations—meaning the combinations of many people digging in many gardens over many years and then recalling what they saw in those gardens is somewhat pointless, isn’t it?!  Yet that is precisely what metadata analyses are and which are always used by the gardeners in this particular garden I am about to write about.

The Garden

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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