December 05, 2019

Type 2 Diabetes and The Carnivore Diet

The carnivore diet helps type 2 diabetes by removing carbohydrates, which gives tighter blood sugar control, drives weight loss and...

December 03, 2019

Does Sugar Consumption Cause Obesity?

Yes. Added sugar drives weight gain and obesity: it is high in empty calories, it raises blood sugar until insulin...

November 28, 2019

Does Gut Microbiota Fuel Metabolic Inflammation and Dysregulation?

Yes. Gut bacteria influence the chronic low-grade inflammation that culminates in insulin resistance, fat deposits and weight gain, and both...

November 26, 2019

The Messy Facts about Diet and Inflammation

Can certain foods really help you fight heart disease, arthritis, and dementia? No single food has been proven anti-inflammatory in...

November 21, 2019

Achieving Success With Diabetes Remission

Type 2 diabetes remission means keeping normal blood sugar for at least a year without any diabetes medication. You get...

November 19, 2019

Diabesity and Inflammation: A Case Of Chicken And Egg?

The answer is both. Inflammation drives diabesity, type 2 diabetes in the setting of obesity, by causing insulin resistance and...

November 14, 2019

What The Heck Is Cotton-Mouth and Why Does It Come About?

Cotton-mouth is the dry, sticky mouth and bad breath that follow cannabis use. It comes about because THC acts on...

November 12, 2019

Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Is It Good For You?

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) from food is good for you: this natural trans fat in the meat and milk of...

November 07, 2019

The Conventional Wisdom: Energy Balance???????

“…from a thermodynamic perspective, it is clear that obesity is generally the consequence of small cumulative imbalances of energy intake and expenditure.”...

November 05, 2019

Sugar and Cancer: Is There A Link?

The link is indirect. Sugar does not directly cause cancer, but eating too much of it drives weight gain, and...

October 31, 2019

Can The Liquid Diet Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?

Yes, in many patients. In the DiRECT trial, a liquid diet of shakes and soups at about 800 calories a...

October 29, 2019

Beta Cells; What You Should Know About Them

Beta cells are the insulin-making cells of the pancreas, clustered in the islets of Langerhans. In type 1 diabetes the...

October 24, 2019

The Carnivore Diet: What is it?

The carnivore diet is an all-animal-food diet: meat, fish, eggs and small amounts of low-lactose dairy such as butter and...

October 22, 2019

Alternatives to The Carnivore Diet

The main alternatives to the carnivore diet are a low-carb paleo diet, a fasting-mimicking diet, periodic prolonged fasting, a ketogenic...

August 26, 2019

95.5 R&B For The Lou with Dr. Padda

Stephen Edward: Good morning and welcome to today on 95.5 R&B For The Lou. I’m your host Stephen Edward and...

July 30, 2019

Complex System Failure: Why There Is No Magic Bullet

The failure to develop a magic-bullet drug that safely promotes weight loss is itself evidence: a reductionist, single-biologic-mechanism explanation is...

July 13, 2019

Metainflammation: The Driver Behind Chronic Disease

Metainflammation is chronic, low-grade inflammation caused by overnutrition: when fat tissue can no longer expand to absorb a constant nutrient...

July 06, 2019

Protein Quality, Vegan Diets and Stroke Risk

The dark side of protein is that food labels overstate how much of it a human can actually absorb and...

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