GLP-1s: The Honest Accounting
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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”
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?!”
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”
Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger
You’ve probably been told heart disease is something to worry about later. After 60. After 50, if you’re being safe. Definitely not in your 20s, 30s, or early 40s. That story is outdated, and the data is loud about it. According to the American College of Cardiology, the heart attack rate in adults under 40Continue reading “Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger”
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
Preventative versus Reactive
There is preventative care and there is reactive care! #Nutrition #Food #Supplements is preventative and maintenance holistic and natural medicine when we make the right choices. The wrong nutritional choices- which BTW makes up 80% to 90% of foods available for purchase in the grocery- create fatigue, illness, chonic disease, ailments from chronic disease, andContinue reading “Preventative versus Reactive”
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