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Chris Kresser
Personal blog · chriskresser.comhealthscience
Chris Kresser is a personal blog at chriskresser.com about health and science. Since 2011, 54 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Learn how you can reinvent healthcare using Functional Medicine, health coaching, and ancestral nutrition, with Chris Kresser.
Most-linked posts?
- /how-to-cure-gerd-without-medication/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-12
- Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
- /does-red-meat-cause-inflammation/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-26
- /what-is-nutrient-density-and-why-is-it-important/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-24
- /can-some-trans-fats-be-healthy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-05
What Hacker News says?
He does have a popular blog, but take a look - https://chriskresser.com/about/ Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac. - "M.S. L.Ac." means Master of Science, Licensed Acupuncturist. This is his formal training, all I'm saying is that he shouldn't be presented as an expert to Joe Rogan's audience in the topic he was interviewed on.
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on “Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]”Submitted Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick (2019) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIf this is the Chris Kresser you are referring to - https://chriskresser.com/ - he is a lot more than just an acupuncturist.
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on “Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]”Submitted How to walk 10,000 steps a day if you’re a desk jockey as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI wouldn't bring up chemicals in the brain, because that is a nonsense marketing term. https://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth/ http://www.brown.uk.com/diagnosis/france.pdf You can't claim that sleeping, eating, and exercising are "fixing" chemicals in the bain any more than people can claim chemical imbalance causes mental illness. There is no baseline for what normal chemical levels are.
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on “The Depression Thing”Submitted RHR: How to Rewire Your Brain Using DNRS, with Annie Hopper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://chriskresser.com/when-your-normal-blood-sugar-isnt-n... In this study, people with FBG levels above 95 had more than 3x the risk of developing future diabetes than people with FBG levels below 90: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(08)00231-3/fulltex... This study showed progressively increasing risk of heart disease in men with FBG levels above 85 mg/dL, as compared to those with FBG levels of 81 mg/…
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on “Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease”Submitted (2013) The Diet-Heart Myth: Why Everyone Should Know Their LDL Particle Number as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's worth noting, that despite being blocked out in the diet list in the research, the state of red meat is still not firm [0]. There seems to be a body of evidence that naturally fed ruminants are very good sources of nutrition for people. It's worth noting said nutrition profile does change DRAMATICALLY when they're fed unnatural sources (grain/feed) over natural sources. If you don't eat meat because you don't w…
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on “Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease”Submitted How plastic food containers could be making you fat, infertile and sick as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Margarine without trans fats is readily available and can be a healthier fat than butter though No. > high trans-fat margarines were bad There's no such thing as "high trans-fats". Industrial trans fats, like from margarine or other ultra-processed products, is unsafe in any quantity, low or high. There is indeed a principle of toxicology that " the dose makes the poison ", however in case of trans fats that dose…
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on “Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’”Submitted Alzheimers can be prevented and even cured as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a good overview of evidence on salt in this series of articles: http://chriskresser.com/shaking-up-the-salt-myth-the-dangers... Gary Taubes (author of this article) goes over the evidence on salt restriction in more detail in Good Calorires, Bad Calories, but it is missing some recent studies indicating negative outcomes for salt restriction. I believe Taubes is often wrong (as most people are) when proposi…
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on “Salt, We Misjudged You”Submitted Industrial seed oils are making us sick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think it's safe to say that there's some sort of correlation, although of course obesity is a complex issue. Higher caloric intake is just part of equation. Sedentary life style, increased stress, reduced sleep, "western" diet (highly inflammatory, with poor nutrient density), craving-inducing food, and messed up intestinal flora are just some of the things that likely contribute to obesity. As someone who travels…
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on “Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system”Submitted Natural childbirth V: epidural side effects and risks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> A commonly cited statistic is that cows produce more greenhouse gases than all the world’s transportation combined, or 18% of all greenhouse gases. ... [snip] ... A more accurate analysis of the data resulted in a much more respectable estimate: that cattle contribute less than 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. http://chriskresser.com/the-real-environmental-impact-of-red...
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on “Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef”I wonder if eating gelatin would work similarly; it's basically collagen. https://chriskresser.com/you-need-to-eat-gelatin-here-are-th... -- or conversely I wonder if your supplements would work better for me. (I was starting to suspect arthritis until I added this into my diet.)
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on “Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints”The reason that health care costs rise in almost all countries is that we are doing something wrong. The question is what? Can it be that doctors who do not try to find the root causes of diseases have no solutions ? Can it be that doctors who prescribe drugs to suppress symtoms cause problems in the long run ? Cancer is a disease with high costs where a lot can be gained. Watch a documentary about Dr Burzynski who…
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on “The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care”Just curious, has any of you tried, or would you consider trying, fasting for a few days every month? https://chriskresser.com/could-type-1-diabetes-be-reversible...
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on “Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last”I eat quite a lot of hard cheese, high in Vit.K2 and Vit.D, apparently; though it has a reputation for being an unhealthy luxury item. Seems the other Vit.K2 rich foods, like Salami, have similarly unhealthy images. Natto, https://chriskresser.com/vitamin-k2-the-missing-nutrient/ , apparently is a good source that I'd never heard of before AFAIR.
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on “High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness”https://chriskresser.com/natures-most-potent-superfood/
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”Some articles to consider: Myths and Truths about Fiber https://chriskresser.com/myths-and-truths-about-fiber/ The hot air and cold facts of dietary fibre https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659900/
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”"Plant foods are vastly more nutritious than animal sources." Well, the question I responded to was about inexpensive nutrient-dense foods. Based on this organ meats, eggs and fish/shellfish beats plant foods all to hell. "Where is the fiber..." Fiber is nutrient-dense? Nope, it's not. It's not even digestible by the body. Why start out a criticism by leading with your worst card? Let's move on to the rest of your h…
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”I'd much rather see a breakdown of cheap foods with a high nutrient density [1], not just garbage food that's cheap. https://chriskresser.com/what-is-nutrient-density-and-why-is...
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on “Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week”https://chriskresser.com/ and Mark's Daily Apple
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on “Ask HN: Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?”The China Study is famously biased and scientifically dodgy [0, 1]. It was great for opening the topic and provoking discussion though, which is much needed. [0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/ [1] https://chriskresser.com/rest-in-peace-china-study/
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on “Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings”I personally consider all animal fats to be safe. https://chriskresser.com/can-some-trans-fats-be-healthy/
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on “The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]”Canola is super cheap which is one way they can keep prices low. Most seed oils in the Western diet come from fast food and the fryer which increases the chance of lipid oxidation. We need both omega 3 and omega 6 but the Western diet is so heavily skewed towards omega 6 that it's killing us. https://chriskresser.com/an-update-on-omega-6-pufas/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808858/
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on “We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production”This paper rehashes 2 studies. In the original Wisconsin one that showed a great benefit to CR ... were fed a semi-purified, nutritionally fortified, low-fat diet containing 15% protein and 10% fat. The monkeys without CR ended up getting diabetes and they were giving them insulin. This study made a big splash, but as others point out it probably really only helps prove that eating less crap is good for you. This pa…
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on “Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys”
