Dr Gary Fettke is a retired Tasmanian Orthopaedic Surgeon and a vocal proponent of nutrition being a major component of prevention and management of modern disease.

* This week we look at the results from the KETO-CTA trial and five critiques that have been made in a rapid response pre-print paper. These five themes reflected much debate on social media. * The ...

Executive summary * Last week’s note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as “Taking statins could ...

* This week's note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet used decades ago for the treatment of obesity and other health conditions. * The diet was called ...

* This note summarises what carbohydrates are, from fructose to fibre. * It briefly looks at the role carbohydrates have played historically – feeding and growing the population and freeing people up ...

* Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) team. They tend to present benefits of statins in relative risk terms – with claims ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

* Lean Mass Hyper Responder (LMHR) was the term developed by Dave Feldman to describe lean, fit, metabolically healthy people, who exhibit striking increases in cholesterol when adopting a ketogenic ...

* This note was prompted by a query from a friend about the cholesterol test. * It covers how vital cholesterol is; the difference between lipoproteins and cholesterol; and why there’s no such thing ...

Gareth Wyn Jones is a heritage hill farmer and a modern social media communicator. He was born in the beautiful Carneddau mountains in North Wales, where he still lives and works. His family have been ...