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Metabolic Psychiatry

I am reading a book right now about using nutrients to balance out brain chemistry.  The amount of research is impressive with over 30,000 patients treated and over a million lab tests performed to assess these patients.  This kind of research volume only happens when we are either dealing with somebody’s life work or when […]

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Safer Starch

Starches are problematic for the majority of people, but they are still the major food source for those same people.  This planet could not sustain its current population if we were to all turn Paleo and eat a diet based primarily on meat.  While this may be a good health choice for some people, it […]

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Starch – friend or foe?

Is starch good for you, or bad for you?  The question is not really about starch, but about you.  Look around, everyone you see and know all look different.  Check out who is wandering around the grocery store and notice the huge diversity of body shapes and sizes.  We are all different on the inside […]

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Diabesity

Diabesity – what’s that?  Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.  Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity.  Does this matter to you?  Half of […]

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Testasterone

I was researching the impact of sugar on the body when I came across an article that blew me away.  It was a study published in the Endocrine Society journal on the impact of sugar on male testosterone levels.  Currently testosterone levels are typically tested in the morning when levels are the highest with a […]

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Sugar Genes

50,000 years ago humans lived in a state of dietary insecurity.  Agriculture had not been developed yet so food supply was determined by whatever was available with each season.  For humans living in Europe and north Asia winter was a time of almost no food at all.  To survive you had to live off of […]

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Fasting for Health

A couple weeks ago my brother Daniel suggested I watch a Youtube video by a Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist from Canada.  He had been treating diabetic patients for 20 years for kidney disease caused by diabetes when it dawned on him that none of his patients ever got better.  He actually asked himself […]

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Jekyll and Hyde Sugar

  Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it – one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body.  When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness.  But when you look at the chemical structure of […]

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Spices

Hi , I love spices.  They make the bland and ordinary into something great.  What most people don’t know is that spices were and are the essential natural medicines that can help us stay healthy in this crazy world.  Herbs and spices have been used for thousands of years for every sort of ailment we […]

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Why it is vital to be gentle with yourself

Daylight savings is here.  It is nice to have evenings in the light again.  This makes it easier for me to generate the motivation to get to the gym in the evenings to work out.  There is something about getting home when it is dark and raining that just doesn’t excite me to go right […]