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GLP-1s: The Honest Accounting

GLP-1s: The Honest Accounting

Diabetes: Beyond Metformin Part 2

Part 2 of the SGLT2 inhibitor breakdown. The emerging liver fat evidence. The safety profile of Jardiance, Farxiga, and Invokana. And the single most important medication-coaching conversation in the entire drug series for patients combining these drugs with low-carbohydrate or ketogenic dietary approaches. Part 1 of this SGLT2 conversation covered the underrated cardiovascular and kidneyContinue reading “Diabetes: Beyond Metformin Part 2”

Drugs and Diabetes: Beyond Metformin

Empagliflozin, dapagliflozin, canagliflozin — the diabetes drugs that quietly do more than metformin. The honest accounting of mechanism, cardiovascular protection, kidney benefits, and how to think about them within a coaching framework where lifestyle remains the primary intervention. If Post 1 made the case that metformin’s reputation has been mythologized in places, this post isContinue reading “Drugs and Diabetes: Beyond Metformin”

Drugs and Type 2 Diabetes- Metformin

The most-prescribed diabetes drug in the world has been mythologized for two decades. The actual evidence base is weaker than your doctor probably knows. Here’s what metformin actually does — and what it doesn’t. Metformin is the most-prescribed first-line diabetes drug in the world. It’s been in clinical use for over 60 years. It’s cheap,Continue reading “Drugs and Type 2 Diabetes- Metformin”

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”

The Truth about Veggies

The Vegetable Truth: What to Eat, What to Limit, What Elite Health Demands You Avoid The “eat your vegetables” mantra is one of the most oversimplified messages in modern nutrition. It assumes every plant is created equal, that more is always better, and that kale belongs on a pedestal. The truth is more nuanced —Continue reading “The Truth about Veggies”

You have to eat to lose…

If you train with me you have heard me say again and again you have to eat to lose, eat to fuel, and eat to gain. 90% of reaching our ideal body weight is nutrition. What we do in the gym with weights sculpts the physique we would like reflecting back in the mirror. WhatContinue reading “You have to eat to lose…”

Calories, don’t count them but make them count

I have written several blogs over the last few years on Nutrition including Strategic Eating, Why Diets Don’t Work, Eat Fat to Lose Fat, You have to eat to lose… just to name a few. These blogs are available at OneBadAssBITCH.com/blog. My own #fitnessjourney and #healthjourney has been so rewarding and ever evolving for betteringContinue reading “Calories, don’t count them but make them count”

WTF America ?!?!

Only 10% of Adult Americans ARE NOT clinally fat, obese, or teetering the line of increasing the current stat of 75% already there in poor #health and #fitness. 75% already there #fat and #obese 15% teetering meaning over fat, just not clinically a stat yet. Sadly, probably being told they are in good health andContinue reading “WTF America ?!?!”