The Who

My name is Siobhan Huggins. You can usually find me at ketogenic conferences, as a guest on certain podcasts, on twitter, or skulking around various facebook groups. I have a fondness for learning about the immune system, nutrition, metabolism, and disease, and all the mechanisms and pathways involved in integrating them all together. I also like to knit.

I’ve been following a ketogenic diet since August of 2016, and a carnivorous diet since October of 2017. I follow these primarily for health reasons – physical and mental. I don’t think everyone needs to, or should do, what I do. I experiment with diet quite frequently, either to see how it impacts how I feel, or how it impacts certain blood markers. Sometimes just for fun.

The What

I study cholesterol metabolism and the immune system for my job (informally, I’m not a doctor nor do I work at a lab, so don’t take this to mean I have any sort of authority), so anything that doesn’t belong on the website I usually write for will probably go here. This will include things like book reviews (usually related to health or nutrition in some capacity), thoughts on studies I see floating around, speculation on disease, and anything else I need to put down somewhere. I may also write about conferences I attend, and anything else that catches my fancy.

The Why

Why not?

A longer answer would be: I occasionally find myself repeating my thoughts multiple times over and my general motto is:

if you write a script multiple times, write a function; if you write the same thought multiple times, write a blogpost.

– some person on the internet probably

So I decided to actually follow it.