Aileen Burford-Mason PhD

Nutritionist/immunologist/author. Most recent book: The War Against Viruses: How the science of optimal nutrition can help you win

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@KenToerner @NutritionMadeS3 Honest researchers would compare lifestyle interventions + vegan diet with same lifestyle interventions and omnivorous rich in vegetables. Is it avoiding animal products or increasing vegetables that is protective? This research doe not prove a vegan diet is best.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@sguyenet The intervention would be even more powerful if magnesium was included. The Sodium potassium pump which uses up 20% of resting energy is magnesium dependent. Salts with both potassium and magnesium have been shown to be amazingly effective

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@sguyenet Cheap and easy yes, but no substitute for getting your potassium naturally - i.e. optimal vegetable and fruit intake.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@NutritionMadeS3 Sudden cardiac arrest = magnesium deficiency. Body body language of Mg deficiency? Constipation, cramping, palpitations, afib, anxiety, depression, insomnia, etc [Nutrients 2015; 7(9): 8199–8226]

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@ElieJarrougeMD Raised BP is magnesium deficiency. Mg is 'natures calcium channel blocker.' Prevents increased BP from excessive dietary calcium intake. The sodium-potassium pump also depends on Mg to function. Low Mg = higher intracellular Ca and low intracellular potassium = high BP.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@fperrywilson Pity so many commentators on nutritional research are ill-educated in the fundamentals of nutrition. RCTs can test standalone interventions but nutrients are not drugs, but interactive and interdependent on 40 or so other nutrients. RCTs cannot control for so many variables.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

Its ultra-processed food that kills us prematurely, not animal protein. Still believe in plant based burgers? No food could be more heavily processed
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[🔥Sugar vs 🔥FAT @drandyphung]

Sometimes, one has to wonder why do we even push it?

It must be our oath of Do No Harm.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

..poor old butter. No matter how hard we work to get the science out and rehabilitate it, this sort of misinformation persists

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@ElieJarrougeMD ...hard but true

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@PigpenMailman ...wait till you are 84 and on no medication; then you can boast!

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@DFisman ...as they say: the cobbler should stick to his last

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@drjasonfung ...only remaining and rarely addressed problem with fasting that I see is that none of the studies address what people eat in the periods they do eat!

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

VIDEO - "Social Explanations for Chimpanzee Hunting" - David Watts https://t.co/mC5dlHH6zt via @CARTAUCSD

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

"I find every patient I see, everywhere, vividly alive, interesting and rewarding: I have never seen a patient who didn't teach me something new, or stir in me new feelings and new trains of thought."
-Oliver Sacks

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@ifixhearts ....the healthcare system is broken, and so badly now that its hard to know where to start to fix it. All we can do is encourage individual responsibility to pursue a healthy lifestyle - nutritious food, regular exercise.

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@sophielouisecc ...duh! What was the alternative?

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@Mangan150 ....that's because they have been led to believe that they don't need to put any personal effort into maintaining their health. Drugs or surgery will cure whatever ails they.ow do we reverse that misconception?

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@DietHeartNews ...could we get them to expand a little on what they mean by "health goals"?

[Aileen Burford-Mason PhD @AburfordMason]

@FructoseNo ...its a painfully slow process but maybe they are learning