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 […]
When you end up in a hospital, do you stop to wonder how much sleep your attending physician got last night? Your life is in their hands and you would like them to have their wits about them. I mean, if they were obviously drunk, would you let them make life and death decisions for […]
Hi , The brain is pretty important, and keeping it fed is a high priority. As anyone who has ever experienced low blood sugar can tell you, not having the energy you need for your brain is disastrous. It can seem like you are having a stroke. You can lose your balance, become unfocused, your […]
Hi , This last weekend I read the book “The Paleo Solution” by Robb Wolf. I have been a fan of the concepts of eating the way our ancestors did before we developed agriculture, but somehow I had never gotten around to reading this basic primer in eating the Paleo way. I want to tell […]
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 […]
What hormone regulates your immune system and protects you from cancer, type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis? This same hormone is critical to over 2000 pathways in your body. And yet this hormone level is low in most Americans because of our lifestyle. What hormone is this – Vitamin D. We have always thought of Vitamin […]