Dr. Randy Wysong

Solving Struvite, Bladder Stones, Canine and Feline Urolithiasis by Dr. Randy Wysong

Struvite Crystals, FLUTD, Canine Struvite Urolithiasis, Bladder Stones, understanding the causes. Struvite crystals, bladder stones and urinary disease syndromes are examples of nutritionally influenced disease conditions. As is the case with many dome... Read >

The Need To Change Lipid Nutriture

THE ESKIMO EVIDENCE There is a variety of persuading evidence that the fatty acid content of modern human and domesticated animal diets should be altered. The ability of fish oils to affect cardiovascular disease has recently become widely known. However... Read >

Broad Health Effects

Alteration of the fatty acid content of the diet has much potential beyond just cardiovascular and inflammatory effects. The scientific literature is unveiling new diseases that may be altered, cured, or prevented with fatty acid therapy. The list include... Read >

Atherogenesis

The putative ability of fish oils to affect cardiovascular health has focused considerable attention on lipid nutriture. Investigations of societies consuming high levels of omega-3 and -9 oils as well as both prospective and retrospective scientific stud... Read >

Lipid Transport

LIPOPROTEINS Once lipids are disassembled in the intestinal lumen and mucosal cell (enterocyte) they are reassembled in the mucosal cell as chylomicrons (CM's) and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL's). These vehicles contain primarily nonpolar choleste... Read >

Lipids In Inflammation

Inflammation is a broad term describing the body's reaction to injury. It is a necessary process enabling defense against toxins and pathogens, protection against further damage, and repair of tissue. However, if the inflammatory process proceeds beyond t... Read >

Fatty Acid Pathways

Fatty acids exist in the body primarily as triglycerides and phospholipids. Phospholipids make up the bilipid membrane of cells and the membranes of organelles within the cytoplasm. Fatty acids are split from the triglyceride glycerol backbone and broken ... Read >

Essential Fatty Acids

For the most part, organisms can satisfy their own fatty acid needs. In mammals, however, those enzymes which insert double bonds into the chains of fatty acids cannot insert them into the omega-3 and omega-6 positions. Linoleic and linolenic acid contain... Read >

Lipid Digestion

Most natural whole foods have inherent enzymes capable of completely or partially digesting lipids if the enzymes are not destroyed through heat and processing. This widely underestimated value of whole, raw, fresh foods has been by and large ignored. ... Read >

Lipid Biochemistry

FATTY ACIDS Fatty acids are long-chain "carboxylic" acids, that is, hydrocarbon (alkyl) chains containing the terminal -COOH chemical group. (Fig. 2) [ Fatty Acid Structure Image ] http://www.wysong.net/articles/lipid/figures/figure2.jpg Fatty aci... Read >

Lipid Functions

It can be argued that lipids may be the most important of all dietary constituents since they are required in the highest levels, aside from water, in every living cell. Lipids are a concentrated source of energy providing more than double the amount on a... Read >

Rationale for Whole Protein Shake™

Over eons of time, long before modern food fractionating and synthetic food capabilities, people ate foods exactly as they were found in nature. That is the model we should aspire to if we understand the obvious truth that health is best served by living ... Read >

Germs Don’t Cause Disease, You Do

We once had an in-office day care. It was complete with a classroom, an area sectioned off for indoor play, kitchen and outside playground equipment. There was a full-time monitor/teacher and lots of little munchkins around the office interrupting us du... Read >

What Does The Eye Tell Us About Evolution

I previously cited the eye as an example of an organ that demonstrates irreducible complexity. It's an old argument in the creation-evolution debate but has never been properly defeated. That is not to say materialists don't give it a shot. They will s... Read >

Dollars Don’t Make Health

Americans now spend over $1.5 trillion annually on medical care. There is no end in sight to rising costs. From the medical community's standpoint, why should there be? If you have a cash cow you milk it for all it is worth. The public's and the g... Read >