If you are reading this on Sunday, I will be finishing the third week of a detoxification fast. That sounds like it would be hard, but as I will show you in this newsletter, it is not difficult at all. But first, we have to understand the different kinds of fasting, what they are […]
I have had several patients come in recently concerned about their cholesterol levels being high. The cholesterol bogeyman has raised its head again in these Covid virus times since the biggest co-factor that contributes to poor outcomes with a bout of Covid is metabolic syndrome, and high cholesterol is often part of the metabolic […]
Well the science is finally pouring in and the myth that saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease is broken. The Seven Countries’ study started by Ancel Keys way back in 1958 to promote his belief that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol caused heart disease has been disproven as simply bad science created by cherry picking […]
While I was on vacation visiting my family in San Diego, I came across a fascinating article on increasing lifespan by restricting AGEs – Advanced Glycation End Products. (Yes, its true, even on vacation I am doing research.) Why should you care? Because AGEs are what you get when you eat BBQ and bacon and […]
A very modern phenomenon that has become oh so popular is snacking. Until the late 1800’s consuming any food that did not require proper utensils was considered uncouth and unhygienic. Snack foods did not establish themselves until the development of modern packaging. Logos and labels that folks trusted carried the image of respectability and cleanliness. […]
What do… Heart disease Strokes Obesity Diabetes Alzheimer’s Clogged arteries Migraines Fatty Liver Metabolic Syndrome Polycystic ovary syndrome and Cancerall have in common? Insulin resistance. I have been doing a lot of studying lately on the latest info on insulin resistance. It looks like insulin resistance is one of the key causes of most […]
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 […]
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 […]
Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy? When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease. We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one. Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]
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 […]