November 28, 2019

Does Gut Microbiota Fuel Metabolic Inflammation and Dysregulation?

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

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, which is type 2 diabetes in the setting of obesity. It does this...

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 comes from the meat and milk...

November 07, 2019

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

Is obesity just calories in versus calories out? No. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation driven by insulin....

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. Being...

October 31, 2019

Can The Liquid Diet Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?

Yes, in many patients. The DiRECT trial used 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. It includes meat, fish, eggs and small amounts of low-lactose dairy such as...

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

Addiction treatment fails when it treats only the chemistry. Drugs flood the brain’s reward center with dopamine, but loneliness 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. It says one thing. A...

July 13, 2019

Metainflammation: The Driver Behind Chronic Disease

Metainflammation is chronic, low-grade inflammation caused by overnutrition (eating more than the body can store safely). Fat tissue can only...

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...

June 28, 2019

Metabolic Syndrome: The Early Warning Most People Miss

Metabolic syndrome is the cluster of obesity, raised fasting glucose, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Insulin resistance drives it,...

June 20, 2019

Fructose, Glucose and Why the Difference Matters

Glucose is used by nearly every cell in the body, and its arrival triggers insulin. Fructose is handled mainly in...

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