Nick Jikomes

RT @trikomes: My basic thinking on this stuff right now is that a high omega-6 PUFA load from a seed oil-rich diet favors chronic, low-grad…

RT @trikomes: Dietary fatty acid (PUFA) metabolism varies widely among human populations, based on ancestry. The specific FADS (fatty acid…

RT @AllehLindquist: @trikomes recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Pamela Maher, whose groundbreaking research explores how lipid…

If you consider the funding sources of these "non-profits" and then examine their employee charts and job listings (many positions are essentially sales roles), everything starts to make more sense. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd

Want to support the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association? Then eat a high carbohydrate diet that they promote in order to drive the diseases that fund their sponsors. https://t.co/0h3011Fbdu

This is true, and there are blue light glasses available that work well, look good, and aren't overly expensive. As these products become increasingly popular (which is a good thing), it appears that many of the heavily promoted ones can be overpriced. You can of course pay

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab

Not surprisingly, blocking blue and green light at night with @rokasports Wind Down glasses (which I helped design; these are not conventional blue blockers) can improve sleep. @outsidemagazine says: “recorded my best sleep efficiency score of the week after wearing them”…

The problems with this are unfortunately not obvious to everyone. Not only do we have many examples in the history of modern science where expert consensus" was artificially built and maintained (e.g. the entire Ancel Keys diet-heart hypothesis saga), but top experts in specific

David Sinclair @davidasinclair

We live in an age of misinformation: Trust research, trust science, trust experts 🙏

My basic thinking on this stuff right now is that a high omega-6 PUFA load from a seed oil-rich diet favors chronic, low-grade inflammation (probably more in some people than others). This may generally make it harder for wounds to heal, as healing requires inflammation to turn

Nick Jikomes @trikomes

New article on my page: "Seed Oils, Early-Onset Cancer & Human Metabolic Variability" https://t.co/EpvqDClJJL

New work from Dr. Maher's lab shows that cannabinol (CBN), a non-intoxicating plant cannabinoid, can alleviate age-related cognitive decline (in rodents) by improving synaptic and mitochondrial function. Her work has previously shown that CBN can inhibit ferroptosis, a form of https://t.co/IbYl6WOBHi

Nick Jikomes @trikomes

Full video version of my podcast with Dr. Pamela Maher, where we dig into ferroptosis, oxidative stress, and lipid peroxidation: "Cell Death, Oxidative Stress, PUFAs & Antioxidants" https://t.co/N40SBpTsHE

Dietary fatty acid (PUFA) metabolism varies widely among human populations, based on ancestry. The specific FADS (fatty acid desaturase) gene variants you have affect PUFA synthesis from dietary fats, with implications for health and the interpretation of clinical trial results https://t.co/XGEy1OUlhi

RT @trikomes: Why are there so many vape shops? Sure, lots of people use nicotine products, but it turns out that's just one small piece o…

Why are there so many vape shops? Sure, lots of people use nicotine products, but it turns out that's just one small piece of the economic puzzle. A multi-billion-dollar industry is booming, driven by consumer demand for kratom, concentrated opioid extracts, psychedelic https://t.co/pM0TAOSHL6

RT @trikomes: Full video version of my conversation with Dr. Michael Wheeler: "Psilocybin & MDMA: Inflammation, Stress & Brain-Body Commu…

RT @trikomes: This is more or what the field evolved into: a never-ending supply of associations, enabling people to support whatever healt…

Full video version of my conversation with Dr. Michael Wheeler: "Psilocybin & MDMA: Inflammation, Stress & Brain-Body Communication" Key Conversation Points: The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is not as impermeable as once thought, allowing immune signals like cytokines to https://t.co/HQbhZ28Rgb

This is more or what the field evolved into: a never-ending supply of associations, enabling people to support whatever health narrative suits their interests with “scientific evidence.”

Meat Head @markeatsmeat

Everyone loves epidemiology when it supports their bias

Cool thread and interesting new book about shamanism:

manvir singh @mnvrsngh

Today is publication day for my book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion. To celebrate, here are some of my striking clips of shamanic rituals that I came across while working on the book: https://t.co/IvZPKDGLvG