Category Archives: The Science

At last the sugar debate is going mainstream

Posted on February 18, 2012 by robpatrob

Here is an excellent interview that explores the history of sugar consumption and its effect on us. Puts the public health hazard on the table. In particular Fructose is highlighted. The discussion is based on the new article in Nature … Continue reading →

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Get your child outside!

Posted on February 4, 2012 by robpatrob

We are designed to spend a lot of time outside. I am 61. When I was a kid, I was inside only for class or sleeping. Today few kids spend almost any time outside. Why most don’t have enough Vitamin … Continue reading →

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Brilliant new interview with Michael Rose on Aging and Health

Posted on November 16, 2011 by robpatrob

Please follow the link here.

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“Cancering” – It’s all about systems not one thing

Posted on November 4, 2011 by robpatrob

An exceptional piece that sheds light on the systemic issues related to Cancer. As Michael points out in the 55 is the flaw in how we approach science – reductionism – this video shows how different medicine will be. Dr … Continue reading →

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Michael Rose’s New Scientist Article – Aging can stop

Posted on September 7, 2011 by robpatrob

Aging isn’t cumulative process of progressive chemical damage — it can stop By Michael R. Rose, Published: September 6 In 1939, British statisticians Major Greenwood and J.O. Irwin published a little-noticed article in the journal Human Biology that contained a profoundly unexpected … Continue reading →

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The Full Lindeberg!

Posted on August 15, 2011 by robpatrob

“Food and Western Disease” by Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD from Ancestry on Vimeo. Here are his slides – here is the link to his website. AHS Slides_Staffan Lindeberg View more presentations from Ancestry

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Lierre Keith – Michael Rose from the Other side

Posted on August 3, 2011 by robpatrob

When you hear a great idea told by very different people – it hits home even harder. Here Lierre Keith demolishes the Vegetarian myth – she was once a Vegan and adds power to Michael’s position.

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So when will you lose your health – Part 4 – How to get it back – Not from medicine

Posted on July 27, 2011 by robpatrob

You are reading this post because you believe in a new understanding of how our health works. You know that you can take charge of your health. So why, if you know this to be true, is it so hard … Continue reading →

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Why are we so fat in rural settings? – Part 3 – Our Ancestry!

Posted on June 30, 2011 by robpatrob

Prince Edward Island, where I live, has a very high obesity rate. So do many rural parts of America and of cource the rest of Atlantic Canada. We have looked at why there is an physical environmental difference between cities and … Continue reading →

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Your Mind and your Health – Part 2 – The Power of Neuroplasticity

Posted on June 21, 2011 by robpatrob

This is the conventional picture of the brain – a thing with discrete compartments – a thinking machine. This idea of the brain – which is also how most of us “see” the body and so organize medicine is wrong. … Continue reading →

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How do you get control and power – Riot or take it for yourself?

Posted on June 19, 2011 by robpatrob

Lack of power and control and low social status is a major factor in making us ill. So if we cannot change the system, how can we get more power, control and social status? This week we will look at how we might do … Continue reading →

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Diet – What you need to know based on your heritage

Posted on June 17, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis 50 reminds us that if you are a person with a heritage that is adapted to the agricultural diet – say from Western Europe – then you can do quite well on the Agricultural diet for a while. 30 … Continue reading →

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Diet – Where your ancestral heritage is important

Posted on June 16, 2011 by robpatrob

Surely we must have adapted to agriculture by now? The answer is no and sort of yes to that question. It depends on what your ancestral heritage is or how long you have been exposed to agriculture. Let’s take dairy. … Continue reading →

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Aging – What is it and why you can avoid it’s ravages

Posted on June 14, 2011 by robpatrob

What is aging? Is the deterioration we see inevitable? Are the diseases that come with age all part of the process? Is it inevitable that we get sick and decrepit as we get older? On the surface it looks as … Continue reading →

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The PaleoGraphic – The Story in Pictures

Posted on June 10, 2011 by robpatrob

Learn more about the Paleo Diet. From Paleolithicdiet.com

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Michael’s Recent Interview

Posted on June 10, 2011 by robpatrob

Michael is interviewed by Jimmie Moore on how Evolution plays such a role and also on how diet is so important. Here MR summarizes the key factors of the 55 in a few minutes.  

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Michael’s Rose’s “Twin Sister?” – Dr Mary Vernon – The practical aspect of the 55 Theses

Posted on June 5, 2011 by robpatrob

No one I have found so far explains how our metabolism works better than Dr Vernon – a GP who could not help any of her diabetic patients get well by following the “rules”. Who then became an expert in … Continue reading →

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Thesis # 3

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #3. Health and adaptation thus reflect the action of natural selection on a population in its previous environments, not its present environment, when these differ. For the purpose of re-founding medicine scientifically, theses 2 and 3 direct us to … Continue reading →

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Thesis 36

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #36 – Experimental populations which have evolved different time-points for the cessation of aging can be used to uncover the biological foundations that determine the timing of the cessation of aging. During the 1980s and 1990s, my laboratory devoted … Continue reading →

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Thesis 37

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #37 – Patterns of aging, including the rates of decline of functional characters and the timing of any cessation in such decline, depend on the environments in which cohorts are raised and live as adults. (Picture of Einstein talking … Continue reading →

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Thesis 38

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #38 – Some environmentally-induced variation in patterns of aging reflects the impact of selectively-favored patterns of life-history plasticity, but some environmental variation in aging does not reflect adaptive plasticity, such as that due to novel environments. An important distinction … Continue reading →

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Thesis 40

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #40 – Experimental strategies for the study of aging that involve the introduction of novel mutations or increased levels of inbreeding will systematically impair the scientific study of aging, as they degrade and disrupt adaptation generally. At this point, … Continue reading →

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Thesis 41

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #41 – Experimental strategies for the study of aging that involve the use of environments that are evolutionarily novel will systematically impair the scientific study of aging, as natural selection will not have previously fostered adaptation to such novel … Continue reading →

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Thesis 42

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #42 – As a pattern of age-dependent adaptation, aging and the post-aging period are best studied using the range of methods used to study adaptation by evolutionary biologists, such as the comparative method, experimental evolution, and genomics. By this … Continue reading →

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Thesis 44

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #44 – Most of our ancestral hominin populations of the last million years benefited from increased forces of natural selection at early adult ages under conditions of relatively abundant nutrition derived from hunting, gathering, and cooking and an increased … Continue reading →

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Thesis 45

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #45 – Our ancestral hunter-gatherer populations had generally low population densities, and thus low effective population sizes, which produced relatively early cessation of aging at relatively high function due to genetic drift. With very low population densities among our … Continue reading →

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Thesis 46

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #46 – In the last ten to twenty thousand years, some human populations adopted extensive agricultural cultivation of grass species and the use of milk from other mammals for nutrition, a novel environment which changed the action of natural … Continue reading →

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Thesis 47

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #47 – This novel agricultural lifestyle initially depressed adaptation and health, leading to intense natural selection for adaptations to the digestion of foods derived from grasses and milk, which has since produced adaptation to agricultural conditions at early ages. … Continue reading →

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Thesis 48

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #48 – Agricultural populations have also undergone substantial increases in population size compared to those of their ancestral hunter-gatherer populations, which increased the effectiveness of natural selection at later adult ages, resulting in the evolution of a delay in … Continue reading →

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Thesis 49

Posted on March 18, 2011 by robpatrob

Thesis #49 – In agricultural populations over the last ten thousand years, the longer-sustained effectiveness of natural selection has resulted in an age-dependent pattern of falling adaptation to agricultural conditions in which functional decline is sustained over a longer period … Continue reading →

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