Author: Per Bylund

New section added. On the benefits of alive over dead sinews. It’s an exploration of the workings of tendinopathy, and how measures of metabolic health…

New section added.  How excessive prosperity alienates friends and attract enemies. It’s an attempt at putting the mechanisms driving metabolic disease into ecological context, and…

Section update. Is serum nutrient-overflow and obesity really whats driving metabolic disease? A couple of very recent studies shows rather paradoxical findings from the conventional…

Section update. The anti-hyperglycaemic drug metformin actually increase intestinal glucose-absorption from the diet and elevate the glycolytic rate of enterocytes. This is originally a tactic…

Section update. The body actively tries to enhance rather than limit nutrient-absorption in metabolic disease. Strangely this is also something that occurs as a response…

New section added. Ingested nutrients are not passively absorbed, but actively and consciously imported through tightly regulated processes that also use stored energy and nitrogen.…

New chapter added. How can nutrient make us ill? This is commonly explained by applying a principle of toxicology which states that “the dose makes…

New section added. Four out of every five species of animals seams to have figured out how to avoid premature ageing of their joints, so…

I’ve started to create graphic material to accompany the mechanistic explanations in the Histopathology-chapter. As with everything els in the book, they are a continual…

New section added. Its a short follow-up on the idea of gout being a side-effect of microbial nitrogen acquisition, and how this might be related…