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According to the lead author of a recent study, the keto diet’s effectiveness derives from its ability to trick the body into burning fat. Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD, the Waldemar Von Zedwitz Professor of Comparative Medicine and professor of immunology, evaluated the mechanisms by which the..
In the messy world of the gastrointestinal tract, good and evil can, at least temporarily, coexist. The gut is home to trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites.
“Consider the gut microbiome as the center of the world,” says Li Wen, MD, PhD, FW ’97, associate professor of medicine (endocrinology). At the center of a lined notepad, Wen draws a circle: this is the gut microbiome.
Living as we do in the “low-carb nation”—where, despite the gospel according to Atkins, obesity rates are escalating—it’s easy to forget that as recently as the 1930s many Americans worried about eating too little, not too much. Yale medical historian Susan E.