Type 2 diabetes is curable in the majority of patients for whom the disease is less than six years old. This is no longer fringe science. It is published, replicated, mechanistically explained — and almost never discussed at your doctor’s appointment. If you’ve been told that type 2 diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease thatContinue reading “The Cure…”
Category Archives: Active Lifestyle
If lowering blood glucose…
If lowering blood glucose were the cure for type 2 diabetes, the patients in the trial that lowered it the most would have lived the longest. The trial was stopped because the opposite happened. In 2008, a research team published the results of one of the largest, most carefully designed, and most expensive randomized controlledContinue reading “If lowering blood glucose…”
Calorie Deep Dive…
2,500 Calories Is Not 2,500 Calories: Why Food Quality Beats Calorie Counting A practical look at the energy balance model — what it gets right, what it leaves out, and why what you eat matters as much as how much. The Theory Everyone Knows “Energy in, energy out” is the foundation of how weight works,Continue reading “Calorie Deep Dive…”
Cholesterol for Longevity?!
The people who live the longest have cholesterol levels your guidelines would call “high.” Here’s what the largest mortality studies in the world actually show — and why you won’t hear about it in your annual physical. In the last post, I showed you my own lipid panel and walked through why the “high cholesterol”Continue reading “Cholesterol for Longevity?!”
The Truth about Cholesterol
Three flagged numbers on my lipid panel — and the four numbers on the same panel that prove I’m in excellent metabolic health. This is my actual lipid panel, drawn at age 54. Total cholesterol: 240 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 200 cutoff. LDL cholesterol: 149 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 100 target. Non-HDL cholesterol: 167 mg/dL.Continue reading “The Truth about Cholesterol”
What to do…
If you’ve read Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you know two things: This post is about what to do about it. And I’m going to give you something almost no other nutrition content will: a framework that treats your current metabolic state as the deciding factor, not a one-size-fits-all rule. Because here isContinue reading “What to do…”
Sugar isn’t “Empty Calories”
Sugar Isn’t “Empty Calories.” It’s a Multi-Organ Stress Test Your Body Was Never Designed to Pass. For the last forty years, the official position on sugar has been some version of “it’s just empty calories — eat it in moderation.” That sentence is one of the most expensive lies in the history of public health.Continue reading “Sugar isn’t “Empty Calories””
The Real Cause…
The Real Cause of Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Half of Modern Chronic Illness — And Your Doctor Probably Isn’t Even Testing for It Here is one of the most under-publicized facts in modern medicine. The single biggest cause of heart attacks today is not high cholesterol. It is not saturated fat. It is not evenContinue reading “The Real Cause…”
Heart Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction
Heart disease isn’t a disease. It’s a symptom. Treat the cause.
We are not truly winning the war… heart disease
Open any cardiology textbook from the last decade and you’ll find some version of this: “The age-adjusted death rate from heart disease has dropped by approximately two-thirds since 1970. We are winning.” That sentence is true. It’s also one of the most misleading things in modern medicine. What actually happened Let’s start with the numbers,Continue reading “We are not truly winning the war… heart disease”
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