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My New Newsleter - Just Another Kick at the Can or Something Different?

I’ve been publishing newsletters for almost 50 years, not long after I graduated from Medical School. My newsletters covered the gamut from drug use in sports, nutrition, nutritional supplements, health, lifestyle, medical, anti-aging and even some philosophy.

Although there wasn’t much of a gap up to 2011, I haven’t put out a regular newsletter since then. Family health issues, and other personal and business matters took up all my time and energy and while I kept up with research on almost everything, I had no time to do the writing.

But things have changed since I first started writing. Back then there was a lack of access to information. Now there is too much information and misinformation for people to process. There’s also been an exponential increase in the cloning of information as people mine for anything that may increase their exposure and ultimately their bottom line, which is almost universally mired in their personal economics.

I have no interest in doing what most sites do, acting like lemmings – if one site reports on a new study, thousands do exactly the same either word for word or with just some minor variations so that they’re not accused of plagiarism.

Science being the new religion for many, they grab at anything that they can mimic to their readers without realizing that there are consequences to their actions.

The results of one study usually means very little in comparison to the whole picture. So the reports you see, called trending but really just plain old repetition, by themselves mean very little.

As we all have seen conclusions by a widely publicized study can be contradicted by another study sometimes published simultaneously. What’s lacking in all of the almost identical reporting sensationaled new studies is perspective. It’s like picking up the first piece of a 5000 piece jig saw puzzle that you know nothing about and saying that you’ve already figured it all out.

And perspective that gives that one piece of the giant puzzle some real meaning or not, is what’s lacking with all the media reports but that’s exactly what I try to give in the topics I cover in my newsletter.

As an example, there’s been a lot of news about nutritional supplements and how they can be counter productive to your health, body composition and sports performance. On the other hand there have also been many more studies, several published this year, showing their many benefits.

So what do most people do? When one study floods the news, TV, internet, newspapers, magazines, etc. then many people make the changes they feel they need to make according to that study. Then the next study comes along and says almost the opposite and they make changes again, sometimes back to what they were doing before the first study, sometimes not but in almost all cases they’re confused.

Take eating breakfast. Some say it’s the most important meal of the day, including those who are trying to lose weight. Others think that avoiding breakfast altogether is best, for both health and weight loss, perhaps as a form of intermittent fasting. And related to that, is intermittent fasting good for you or not. Does it help improve body composition and performance or hinder them?

Then there’s the confusion of what fats are best for health, longevity, body composition, and performance. Almost everyone agrees that the essential fatty acids are important, especially the omega-6, and the longer chain omega-6 fats found in fish and fish oil and krill oil supplements. Every one seems to agree that trans fats are bad but that’s not the case for all trans fats.

There’s a lot of confusion about saturated fats. Many people believe that saturated fats are bad for you because they raise cholesterol levels, especially LDL. Others believe that saturated fats are good for you. For example recent studies have shown that saturated fat from dairy food increase health and decrease heart disease.

Take artificial sweeteners. Some studies say that they are counter productive for those wanting to lose weight. Others say they’re effective. Some say they’re totally safe, others that they are harmful. (see abstracts below).

There are a plethora of controversies including types of diets, low vs high fat, low vs high carbohydrates, low versus high protein, ketogenic diets, and combinations of these diets. Should you eat like the people do in the Meditteranean, eat like a caveman, a vegetarian, raw only, high animal protein, low protein, etc. ad nauseum.

Controversies about the use of artificial and low calorie sweeteners – do they help or hinder people who are trying to lose weight. Again there are studies that show that they help and others show that they hinder weight and fat loss. The latest published in mid 2017 found that they likely don't help you lose weight and may be counter productive but more studies need to be done specifically to address both issues.

Even something as simple as taking calcium supplements for postmenopausal women is controversial. Is increasing calcium intake good or bad? Or is it only good if you also take vitamin D, or best if you take calcium, vitamin D, magnesium and vitamin b12?

While I'll cover a broad range of topics, most of what I will write about is on the many aspects of nutrition and how diets and nutritional supplements impact on health, body composition, and exercise/sports performance, hoping to shed some light on some of the more confusing and controversial issues surrounding exercise and sports nutrition. What's the best diet to follow for maximum results whatever your goals? What nutritional supplements should you use, the best protein, best amino acid mix, the best for strenght gains, the best for endurance, health, etc.

I'll also be discussing genetics, epigenetics and other -etics and -omes that impact on our lives and how to tell, and also if we can tell at this time, what's best for each individual, again depending on their goals. 

It's an exciting time for me. Since I've been involved in researching so many aspects of life and also had decades of experience in the trenches, I'm anxious to put in my 2 cents worth on almost any topic.