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Fruit? Sugar?

  For the last several weeks, I have been trying to understand the complexities of how our bodies process sugar and fat. For many years I have been predominately living a low-carb lifestyle thus avoiding any form of sugar and starches. Then a couple of years ago the concept of higher health being achieved through […]

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Insulin Resistance

  What is the most likely thing that will kill you? For Americans that would be heart disease followed by cancer. Once you take out accidents, acute infections, and suicide, the remaining seven of the top ten causes of death in the US account for 90% of deaths. The important point here is that the […]

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Reset

  2023 is upon us. We have had a week to recover from the holiday season. Clearly, winter is in full swing. We have not had this much winter weather in quite a while. It feels like Mother Nature is washing away the last several years of accumulated grime from our streets and psyches. Winter […]

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Aging

I have been reading the new book just released by Jason Fung, The Longevity Solution.  Jason is the kidney specialist from Toronto I have mentioned to many of you that have blood sugar problems because he has been reversing diabetes through fasting.  Now he has written a book with Dr. DiNicolantonio expanding the amazing results on […]

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Fat Burning

Few topics are as near and dear to everyone’s heart as how to lose weight.  More magazine covers are spent on this topic in the checkout line at your local grocery store than any other subject.  The amazing thing is how many weight loss diets there are out there.  How can there possibly be so […]

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Excess weight is caused by GAS

I know the title statement sounds silly, but I am being tricky.  GAS stands for General Adaptation Syndrome – part of the theory of stress proposed by Hans Selye many years ago.  This newsletter is going to be a synthesis of my knowledge and experience to date regarding weight gain/obesity, so I may make connections […]

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Belly Fat

There is fat and there is belly fat.  Most people think that the two are one and the same, but they are not.  Fat on your hips and tush and fat on your chest and arms are energy storage depots for times when you do not have a regular food supply.  In a healthy person […]

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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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Vegetable Stew

Last newsletter I wrote about taking out the trash.  The trash I was talking about was the metabolic toxic waste our body is constantly producing just by being alive.  Some of these wastes are so toxic that if our release of them is delayed even a few minutes, we will die.  In this case I […]