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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Pre-Diabetes and Type 2
By the time your doctor diagnoses you, the damage has been accumulating for two decades. Here’s what they should have been testing for the entire time. I want to tell you something that no doctor ever told me before I started reading the research. Pre-diabetes is not the early stage of type 2 diabetes. ItContinue reading “Pre-Diabetes and Type 2”
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”
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 That story is outdated, and the data is loud about it.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”
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