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Leading scientist in the field of nutrition
Dr. Paul Clayton
Egg and sperm race
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Q. Are we not men? A. We are Devo! Over the last few decades, a growing number of scientific papers have documented a widespread and consistent decline in male sperm count and quality. A recent meta-analysis that pooled data from over 40,000 males from North America, Europe, Australia...
The microbiome and the brain
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Like beta software, humans are full of bugs. And like beta software too, something that you first thought of as a bug often turns out to be a feature – and maybe, even, the future. Evolution itself is an accumulation of bugs (genetic mutations), which under the right...
Breakfast in America
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I apologise for the pap reference. I loathe the music of the middle of the road musicians who produced the 1979 album of that name. But it is a tolerable way, I suppose, to introduce the over-heated topic of Bacon. In America, bacon is a sacrament. According to...
Sugar Sugar
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We just ate Christmas. For many it is a time to let dietary inhibitions fall away and over-indulge, with cake, chocolates, desserts and sweet liqueurs on the menu. So every year, at this time of year, people ask me if sweetness is a sin … Most higher animals...
Happy genes, smiling vegetables
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An old friend who held a senior position at Disney told me that every Christmas, theme park staff have the unenviable task of locating and then concealing the bodies of suicides before reporting them to the police and escorting them off the premises. I imagine the deceased being...
Green in tooth and claw
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Is vegetarianism healthier? A meaningless question. Healthier than what? A junk food diet? Yes, but any sensible diet is healthier than a diet of ultra-processed junk food. Healthier than a sensible mixed diet? It is at this point that the crystal ball clouds over … A recent cross-sectional...
Topic of Cancer (part 2)
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Cancer centres and clinics cover the contemporary medical scene like a – well, like a cancer. It is a fantastic business, if you’re in the business. In the USA, 1200 cancer centres and a handful of pharma companies make over $140 billion per year from selling cancer treatments...
In 2018, why would anyone take fish oil?
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The global market for this stuff is reckoned to be closing in on $13 billion per year (1), and in some parts of the world fish oil is almost a religion. Scandawegians, for example, drink Møllers Tran from birth to the grave, and regard it as a sacrament....
Crash (Love, health, politics. And the kids.)
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Love may be a many-splendored thing, but today’s world reeks of lead-free symphorophilia. (Symphorophilia is a sub-species of paraphilia, where protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in car-crashes. First explained by the great and prescient writer J G Ballard, in his novel Crash). Our Keresian love...