Ancient Wisdom: Butter is Brain Food
In Ayurvedic medicine (Indian traditional medicine), ghee, a type of clarified butter, is believed to improve brain function. For example, “Vedic medicine extols the virtues of ghee and dairy for the...
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Top uses of natto I found Three Cups of Tea (about establishing schools in Pakistan) unreadable. Whereas I want to learn more about Pratham schools. Stagnation in claims about climate-change skeptics...
View ArticleScience in Action: Why Energetic?
Last night I slept unusually well, waking up more rested and with more energy than usual. I slept longer than usual: 7.0 hours versus my usual 5.1 hours (median of the previous 20 days). My rating of...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Lactose Tolerance and My Butter Discoveries
From a BBC documentary called Are We Still Evolving? I learned that after the development of farming there was intense selection in Europe for “lactose tolerance” — meaning the ability to digest...
View ArticleA Happy Reader Writes: Yogurt, Butter, Flaxseed Oil
A reader of this blog started taking flaxseed oil, half a stick of butter daily, and yogurt. “This works wonders,” he wrote me. “It feels like lubricant to the mind.”
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Benefits of fermented wheat germ extract Why Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is unlikely. A list of AGW-associated “miracles”. Some of my favorites: “Unique among all sciences, climatology develops...
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Seth Roberts Interview With Pictures
This sidebar appeared in an article about self-tracking (only for subscribers) by James Kennedy, who works at The Future Laboratory in London. The top photo is at a market near my apartment. Below that...
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Doctoring to the test. Megan McArdle describes the medical equivalent of “teaching to the test”. Although she had the usual symptoms of too-little thyroid hormone, her doctor would not give her more...
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Butter and Arithmetic: How Much Butter?
I measure my arithmetic speed (how fast I do simple arithmetic problems, such as 3+ 4) daily. I assume it reflects overall brain function. I assume something that improves brain function will make me...
View ArticleButter and Eggs: What They Share
To many dieticians and much of the general public, the similarity between butter and eggs is that both are bad for you. Butter: Fattening! Clogs arteries! Eggs: High in cholesterol! To me, it’s the...
View ArticleWorldwide Butter Shortage?
The first sentence of this article is: The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis. Except it’s not a fad diet....
View ArticleTucker Max on How to Eat an Egg
A few months ago I blogged that a rat had persuaded me to eat more eggs. This particular rat liked scrambled eggs. Rats are omnivores, like humans. Unlike humans, they ignore advertising, nutrition...
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Does Kerrygold Butter Improve HDL and LDL?
More: Greg used Kerrygold butter in the results given below. I now see that he omitted data from other butters that did not agree with his conclusions. This makes his results considerably more doubtful...
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Science in Action: Unexplained Changes in Brain Speed
This is me a few days ago. I did a choice reaction time task many times. Each dot is a session with enough trials to supply 32 correct answers.The y axis is in “percentile” units, meaning speed...
View ArticleSurprising Predictions From Self-Measurement
Patrick Tucker, an editor at The Futurist, posted a request on the Quantified Self Forums for “astounding” predictions based on self-quantification. He is writing a book about using data to make...
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interview with Sandor Katz about his new book The Art of Fermentation How well do climate models predict? Bryan Caplan reviews a book about twins separated at birth. UC Davis professor harassed after...
View ArticleMore Dairy Fat, Less Heart Disease
I found that butter made me faster at arithmetic. This contradicted the usual view that butter is unhealthy. However, there is plenty of evidence that the usual view is wrong. The latest issue of the...
View ArticleSecrets of a Long Life: Butter, Pork Belly, No Medicine
The New York Times recently ran a story about a 107-year-old woman named Juliana Koo, who lives in New York City. Her longevity secrets are remarkably close to what I say on this blog: “Somebody asked...
View ArticleShort-Term Effects of Fat, Protein and Carbohydrate on Cognition: Fat Best
A German study published in 2001 measured the effect of starkly different breakfasts (all fat, all protein, or all carbohydrate) on cognition during the next hours. Participants (17 men in their 20s)...
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more black tea, less diabetes (cross-national comparison).Earlier research supports the idea that black tea reduces diabetes. Nassim Taleb praises an obscure French novel (translated into English)...
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