Gary Taubes

Nov 9, 2024 | unsettledscience.substack.com | Gary Taubes

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Aug 18, 2024 | unsettledscience.substack.com | Gary Taubes

As ketogenic diets move into mainstream medicine, they continue to raise questions that require clinical trials to answer. Are they safe and effective treatments for chronic diseases, as they certainly seem to be for type 2 diabetes? Will they extend the lives of those who follow them, or will they end them prematurely? Can we learn anything meaningful about why people lose weight on a diet that allows them to eat to satiety? And could this, in turn, shed light on why we get fat in the first place?

Jul 8, 2024 | medshadow.org | Emma Yasinski |Gary Taubes

There are many reasons you might feel pelvic pain, experience powerful urges to urinate, or have an overactive bladder, including infections, nerve damage, an enlarged prostate, pelvic organ prolapse or side effects of other medications you’ve been prescribed. Seth Cohen, MD, a urologist at City of Hope in California, says the idea that there are very few options to treat bladder symptoms without surgery is a common misconception.

Apr 16, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Gary Taubes

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump is among the most famous and most polarizing people alive. The task of selecting 12 impartial jurors who can render a fair verdict in the criminal trial of a former president is a first for America’s court system.

Apr 15, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Gary Taubes

In December 1921, Leonard Thompson was admitted to Toronto General Hospital so weak and emaciated that his father had to carry him inside. Thompson was barely a teenager, weighing all of 65 pounds, dying of diabetes. With so little to lose, he was an ideal candidate to be patient No. 1 for a trial of the pancreatic extract that would come to be called insulin. The insulin did what today we know it can.