You're all probably right. I've known about Mercola for at least 20 years and have always had some misgivings about him and what he says. I was also put off by his commercialism with his very expensive vitamins etc.

I got a used library book of Mercola's called "Fat for Fuel", from 2017 I think. It actually has some very good technical yet understandable information about mitochondria as well as other basic information that I know to be on target from other things I've read over the years. I haven't finished the book yet, so I don't know if he comes up with anything wacky in the stuff I haven't read. But since I was reading this particular book, I was kind of surprised to see that article come from him.

Well, over 20+ years I've done a lot of reasonable diets and I ALWAYS go back to Atkins '72 to lose weight effortless,ly easily, painlessly, and relatively fast. I wouldn't live on that diet forever, but it has its uses short term.