tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post5626340747806566656..comments2023-06-05T11:51:38.383-04:00Comments on Evolutionary Psychiatry: Vegetable Oils and our Brave New WorldAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-40243835053373538972013-05-14T06:08:27.727-04:002013-05-14T06:08:27.727-04:00COX-1 & 2 aren't inflammatory signalling m...COX-1 & 2 aren't inflammatory signalling molecules -- they are enzymes involved in the synthesis of inflammatory signalling molecules. I think your blogs are great and I often refer my friends here and I'm guessing you said this to avoid the confusion that often accompanies using the terms 'enzyme' and 'enzyme-catalysed reactions'.<br />fusion809https://www.blogger.com/profile/14316408440182908236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-69514025779137889212010-07-08T00:30:33.063-04:002010-07-08T00:30:33.063-04:00I hear you. My own personal journey into evolution...I hear you. My own personal journey into evolutionary medicine, ancestral health, primal blueprint, etc. only started a couple of years ago and I feel like I've been playing catch-up ever since. I hope you'll be able to attend the Ancestral Health Symposium next year, but if not, not to worry; we're planning this to be an annual event. We're getting close to having the Ancestral Health Society officially formed (tax exempt status and everything), so we'll be able to open it up to membership soon, hopefully by the end of the summer. Medicine has been practiced and researched for too long in a theoretical vacuum for too long. It's time to bring theory--evolutionary theory from the perspective of human evolution--to the table. Yup, Cordain got the ball rolling, along with Boyd Eaton. The internet has allowed for a groundswell. And now it's time to form a society so we can challenge conventional wisdom and provide an official, professional forum to allow medical and anthropological science to converge to bring a voice to our needs. We hope to become a countervailing voice to that offered by the AMA, AHA, and yes, even the APA. Time to throw away the old pyramids (food, fitness, etc.). They've been falsified enough. Mark Sisson has got some nice replacements. Dr. T knows the storm is coming. It's going to be a very exciting time!Aaron Blaisdellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17204484453346358921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-10268214687735963032010-07-05T16:13:47.732-04:002010-07-05T16:13:47.732-04:00Thanks, Aaron! Maybe I'll be able to make it ...Thanks, Aaron! Maybe I'll be able to make it to the ancestral health symposium. Maybe the grass fed beef industry will pay for the plane ticket? ;). I would love for more physicians to be interested in nutrition and lifestyle. I can see why they aren't, though - I've been reading a bunch of nutrition and mood popular press books, and there is a lot of garbage out there! I don't know that we really had the paleo paradigm until Cordain, and it's taken a few years to really hone it. I read Good Calories, Bad Calories when it came out in 2007, but it wasn't until reading The Primal Blueprint that I knew what do do with it. Michael Pollan helped put it in perspective too. We have such a gift in the Internet so that we can all have a "journal club" of sorts to critically review these questions. I'm looking forward to a long collaboration with other Evolutionary Medicine clinicians and Ancestral Health researchers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-4921055363999445152010-07-03T13:01:16.867-04:002010-07-03T13:01:16.867-04:00Emily, you have the gift of writing about complex ...Emily, you have the gift of writing about complex ideas in a simple, straightforward, and approachable manner. I'm starting to link to your essays in my Facebook and Twitter accounts. The ancestral health (and evolutionary medicine/paleo/primal/WAP) community needs more input from psychologists and psychiatrists. There are some incredibly prominent research psychiatrists in my department at UCLA (e.g., Ty Cannon) who study the biological basis of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, but who to my knowledge have no inkling about the role of nutrition, and more specifically triggers in our modern food supply such as gluten, skewed omega6-omega3 FA ratios, HFCS, etc., to the many mental disorders that overburden our modern society. I'm trying to get the message out on both the local level and through the Ancestral Health Society and its annual symposium (first to meet at UCLA next year). I hope to bring top research scientists who have a lot of street cred with "conventional wisdom" outlets (like NIH) into the fold. Dr. T is also trying to do the same through the founding of the American Society for Evolutionary Medicine. Hopefully our multi-pronged approaches will finally turn the tide. Keep up the great blogging!Aaron Blaisdellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17204484453346358921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-21771447128482423752010-06-21T18:03:46.564-04:002010-06-21T18:03:46.564-04:00Thanks!Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-59355086200212763992010-06-21T16:31:33.127-04:002010-06-21T16:31:33.127-04:00We now have you now on our blogroll. Welcome. Dr. ...We now have you now on our blogroll. Welcome. Dr. T - Nephropal.Dr. Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00843280918685270406noreply@blogger.com