Prof. Dr. Michael Müller (born 1956), Professor and chair; scientific director of the Netherlands Nutrigenomics Centre works in the fields of acute phase response, gene regulation by nutrients, molecular nutrition, nutrigenomics, transporter proteins. He has recently published on how fish-oil supplementation induces anti-inflammatory gene expression in human blood cells. Knowing what you know now, what [...]

For more than three decades the main focus of my intellectual life has been nutritional controversies regarding what constitutes healthy eating. Both governments and citizenry trust that scientists are working diligently to identify health hazards introduced through technological innovation. Unfortunately, where food technology is concerned, the development of the scientific tools needed to link cause [...]

A post over on Sciencebase about alcohol, drugs, and genetics prompted a comment from David Brown, which we reproduce in full here: I’ve studied alcohol issues to some extent as they relate to genetic predisposition and nutritional modulators. It appears that primates share configurations of genetically determined metabolism that affect drinking behavior. Check out this [...]

The phrase “artery clogging saturated fats” has been in common usage for many years. In fact the notion that saturated fats cause heart disease had it’s genesis in research conducted by Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota Physiologist. I’ll have Henry Blackburn, MD, Mayo Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, begin [...]