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Evan Allen🌱

@EAllen0417

Physician board certified in Family Medicine, Obesity Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

 Las Vegas
Joined October 2011
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Low-carbohydrate diet and risk of cardiovascular disease, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Low-carbohydrate diet and risk of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a...

Low-carbohydrate diet and risk of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a...

Background: Evidence for the long-term health effect of low-carbohydrate diets (LCDs) is inconsistent. Herein, we aimed to examine the associations of LCDs

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Thomas Dayspring
@Drlipid1 Jul 2023
Replying to @Chooi @NutritionMadeS3
Once again (amazing that I have to keep repeating this), endless observational, clinical RCT, and Mendelian studies, have shown that elevated LDL-C and apoB are causal for ASCVD.
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Why are trans fats so dangerous? They elevate LDL, increase cardiovascular risk, and drive other negative metabolic processes like insulin resistance. For this reason, cis fats are much less dangerous, as they do not have nearly as harmful a profile. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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In addition, we see frequent references to the argumentum ad corporem, that suggests that anyone who ever gets anabolic treatments is inherently more knowledgeable about health than someone who doesn't.
Gil Carvalho MD PhD🌈🇵🇸 (@NutritionMadeS3) profile pictureGil Carvalho MD PhD🌈🇵🇸@NutritionMadeS318 Jun 2023
I don't know if Hotez v Kennedy would be a net positive or net negative but I have a feeling that the notion that we settle scientific issues by having a leading scientist go up against a politician refereed by a comedian is a spotlight on the root of our societal woes
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Yes. I agree.
Viva Longevity! (@VivaLongevity) profile pictureViva Longevity!
@VivaLongevity9 Jun 2023
Pretty reasonable story about saturated fat in The Washington Post this a.m. by @TamarHaspel , seems to me. I predict major head explosions in the comments. washingtonpost.com/food/2023…
Column | Don’t believe the backlash. Saturated fat actually is bad for you.

Column | Don’t believe the backlash. Saturated fat actually is bad for you.

The nutritional science around saturated fat seemed settled, until critics started questioning it. Another look should settle the issue again.

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High saturated fat levels in the diet contribute to ceramide accumulation that leads to increased visceral adiposity indices. link.springer.com/article/10…
Relation of plasma ceramides to visceral adiposity, insulin resistance and the development of type...

Relation of plasma ceramides to visceral adiposity, insulin resistance and the development of type...

Diabetologia - Ceramides are sphingolipids that contribute to insulin resistance in preclinical studies. We hypothesised that plasma ceramides would be associated with body fat distribution,...

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Nick Krontiris (@nick_krontiris) profile pictureNick Krontiris
@nick_krontiris30 May 2023
In this one, both an elevated lipid accumulation product (LAP) and an visceral adiposity index (VAI), were associated with an increased risk for early-onset type 2 diabetes among young Chinese adults.
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Anyone telling you to eat a high SFA, #keto diet is probably ignorant of these findings. If they aren't, they're a grifter. academic.oup.com/jcem/articl…
Overeating Saturated Fat Promotes Fatty Liver and Ceramides Compared With Polyunsaturated Fat: A...

Overeating Saturated Fat Promotes Fatty Liver and Ceramides Compared With Polyunsaturated Fat: A...

We show the importance of dietary fat type on liver fat accumulation and ceramides during overfeeding-induced weight gain in 61 overweight men and women.

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Nick Krontiris (@nick_krontiris) profile pictureNick Krontiris
@nick_krontiris19 May 2023
Replying to @nick_krontiris
- Elevated ceramide concentrations are associated with a range of age-related metabolic and proteotoxic diseases in different tissues, such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, liver steatosis, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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So why does #priorauth exist?! To “contain costs” by insurers… Doesn’t sound terribly cost effective, does it? 😑 $58 million in labor cost alone of initial submission, not including the labor cost of denials/appeals and not including the cost of ED/hospital stays that results from delays/denials… Sounds like it’s time to get rid of #priorauth, no?
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Dagfinn Aune@AuneDagfinn17 May 2023
Replying to @KevinH_PhD
I think we need more studies on types of UPFs and disease risk like this one diabetesjournals.org/care/ar… seems like it’s driven by a lot of known offenders - processed meat, soft drinks, French fries, refined grains, but reduced risk for UP whole grains, snacks, fruit-based products
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Replying to @AuneDagfinn @KevinH_PhD
Exactly. It is likely that negative effects of UPF are mostly explained by usual suspects; refined carbs, sugar, sat fat, high salt and etc. ,and by diet low in everything we know being healthy. This has been called western dietary pattern, long before UPF concept was developed
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humanOS.me@humanOS_me16 May 2023
In the Blue Mountains Eye Study (n=2600), higher cereal fiber intake was associated with a 50% reduction in the incidence of chronic kidney disease after five years of followup. academic.oup.com/jn/article/…
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5-2!!! FIVE GOALS FROM MISFITS
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Yep.
Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) profile pictureCourtney Theriault
@cspotweet7 May 2023
“When you want to fuck around, sometimes you gotta find out.” Evander Kane a uh candid take on Kolesar and the Knights general rowdiness towards the #Oilers
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The beef industry has built the most powerful propaganda machine in America. And they've modeled it after the fossil fuels industry. Here's how they did it. 🧵
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What's the net effect of a diet high in saturated fat on total energy expenditure? The evidence from enzymatic pathways, metabolic ward studies in humans and animal research into mechanism suggests that saturated fat reduces total energy expenditure. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3406…
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This study suggests that dietary SFA rises and falls with a 10-20 year lag time in the incidence of CVD deaths. Drops in egg consumption, change to low fat dairy and reduced butter intake preceded significant drops in CVD deaths. academic.oup.com/ajcn/articl…
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Even if we accept the theoretical possibility that SFA has a positive effect on energy balance (a theory that we have no evidence for), advice to increase dietary SFA would still be a very bad idea for overall CVD mortality, which is the most common cause of death on earth.
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spencer 🦈@Unpop_Science19 Apr 2023
The Colorado River crisis is driven by ranching. There are thousands of articles on the internet about it and almost none of them state this glaring fact. Media need to be held accountable to tell the truth. It looks like this:
Where the Colorado River's water flows Thermoelectric power (67,099 million gallons) Commercial and industrial (84,270 million gallons) Domestic, public supply (225,338 million gallons) Other (24,567 million gallons) Crop irrigation (1,497,327 million gallons) Estimates for the Colorado River basin include only uses within the basin and do not include water exports from basin, reservoir evaporation or natural losses. Chart: Kenny Torrella/Vox • Source: Nature Sustainability

ALT Where the Colorado River's water flows Thermoelectric power (67,099 million gallons) Commercial and industrial (84,270 million gallons) Domestic, public supply (225,338 million gallons) Other (24,567 million gallons) Crop irrigation (1,497,327 million gallons) Estimates for the Colorado River basin include only uses within the basin and do not include water exports from basin, reservoir evaporation or natural losses. Chart: Kenny Torrella/Vox • Source: Nature Sustainability

The Colorado River is being drained to produce beef and dairy 79 percent* of the river's water goes to crop irrigation. Here's how much each crop receives: Corn grain (42,532 million gallons) Wheat (47,551 million gallons) Other crops (soy, rice, almonds, potatoes) (125,218 million gallons) Cotton (204,469 million gallons) Barley (28,002 million gallons) Alfalfa, grasses, and corn silage for livestock feed (1,049,555 million gallons) Estimates for the Colorado River basin include only uses within the basin and do not include water exports from basin, reservoir evaporation or natural losses. Chart: Kenny Torrella/Vox • Source: Nature Sustainability

ALT The Colorado River is being drained to produce beef and dairy 79 percent* of the river's water goes to crop irrigation. Here's how much each crop receives: Corn grain (42,532 million gallons) Wheat (47,551 million gallons) Other crops (soy, rice, almonds, potatoes) (125,218 million gallons) Cotton (204,469 million gallons) Barley (28,002 million gallons) Alfalfa, grasses, and corn silage for livestock feed (1,049,555 million gallons) Estimates for the Colorado River basin include only uses within the basin and do not include water exports from basin, reservoir evaporation or natural losses. Chart: Kenny Torrella/Vox • Source: Nature Sustainability

Kenny Torrella (@KennyTorrella) profile pictureKenny Torrella@KennyTorrella19 Apr 2023
The Colorado River, which provides water for 1 in 8 Americans, is running dry partly due to climate change. But at least half of the water goes to meat & dairy production (a driver of climate change). My thoughts on dietary adaptation on a warming planet: vox.com/the-highlight/236556…
The Colorado River is going dry to give us milk, steak, and hamburgers

The Colorado River is going dry to give us milk, steak, and hamburgers

Let’s talk about the biggest cause of the West’s water crisis.

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