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…”
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For decades, type 2 diabetes was framed as a complex multifactorial disease with heterogeneous causes. Then a British researcher actually scanned the organs. The mechanism turned out to be simple — and the implications change everything.
In the last post, I showed you that type 2 diabetes is not a disease that starts when your fasting glucose crosses 100. It’s a disease that’s been running silently in your body for somewhere between fifteen and twenty-four years before that moment, and the standard screening tests have been missing the entire upstream phase.Continue reading “For decades, type 2 diabetes was framed as a complex multifactorial disease with heterogeneous causes. Then a British researcher actually scanned the organs. The mechanism turned out to be simple — and the implications change everything.”
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”
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…”
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 on Fruit
The carnivore camp has one argument that deserves a real answer: modern fruit is not the fruit your ancestors ate. It’s been bred sweeter, bigger, and shipped year-round in a form evolution never prepared you for. On that specific point, they’re largely right. Where they overreach is the blanket dismissal — “fruit is toxic, fruitContinue reading “The Truth on Fruit”
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”
The 80/20 Myth:Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
The 80/20 Myth: Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
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 ?!?!”
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