What Is The Relationship Between Metabolic Inflammation And Type 2 Diabetes?
A growing body of data shows that type 2 diabetes is at least in part rooted in inflammation. The higher a person’s body mass index, the more pro-inflammatory macrophages they have in their adipose tissue, and the higher their chances of developing T2D. In this article, we will highlight the emerging role of inflammation in […]
Metabolic Inflammation: What Is It?
The modern diet contains a large number of simple sugars. From bread to donuts, to carbonated drinks to chocolate, cookies, and candy, everywhere you look, temptation abounds. The potential impact on the health of diets rich in free sugars, and particularly fructose, is of major concern. Does the sugar we take have an impact on […]
KETOGENIC DIET SHOW WITH MARY BEAUCHAMP, RN Interview With Dr. Gurpreet Padda, MD
Dr. Padda untangles the roots of our current opiate epidemic, obesity epidemic and diabetes epidemic, which are currently in the process of crippling our economy. He discusses hopeful solutions for the future, including how to prevent the eminent devastation of our physical, emotional and financial health as a nation. This is an inspiring and powerful […]
Listen to Hyperinsulinemia Causing Chronic Pain – Gurpreet Padda from LowCarbUSA Podcast on our website
Dr Gurpreet Padda is an interventional pain physician who treats with patients with profound, chronic, severe pain that is unrelenting. Over time he worked out that there was more to these people’s pain than just the physical source of it and that it was also a systemic or metabolic inflammatory issue and that hyperinsulinemia was […]
How Much Sugar Can My Body Handle?
We have extremely limited glucose storage as glycogen, or as circulating glucose. Glycogen: Glycogen is a large branched polymer of glucose, stored mainly in the liver and the skeletal muscle. Stored glycogen can be mobilized to circulating glucose during fasting periods and to the muscle cells during muscle contraction, a process called glycogenolysis. The total […]
Easy- Peasy Fast Food and Your Immune System
Bad habits are easy to pick up but very difficult to do away with. This could be anything such as binge eating, drinking too much booze, over or undersleeping, and too much junking as well. It is now emerging that fast foods will not just make you overweight and obese but also have the potential […]
Type 2 Diabetes and The Carnivore Diet
The carnivore diet for diabetes management presents both promise and controversy. Just like most popular diets, many embark on it expecting radical change without putting in much effort. Unfortunately, the carnivore diet obeys the law of the jungle as aptly put by Rudyard Kipling; “and the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the […]
Does Sugar Consumption Cause Obesity?
Sugar has been vilified over the years with claims of its disastrous effects on our health. Are these claims true? Does taken a soda a day guarantee one ill health? What of the effects of excess sugar on obesity? In this article, we will explore these claims and determine whether indeed excessive sugar intake leads […]
Does Gut Microbiota Fuel Metabolic Inflammation and Dysregulation?
Given that obesity and associated disorder type II diabetes mellitus have reached epidemic proportions worldwide, the development of efficient prevention and therapeutic interventions is a global public health interest. There is now a large body of evidence suggesting that the micro-organisms colonizing the human gut, known as gut microbiota, play a central role in human physiology and […]
Achieving Success With Diabetes Remission
Many people living with diabetes often wonder if diabetes remission is a possibility for them. Well, for most people, this is an achievable goal. If you are lucky enough you can go for years without taking any diabetes medication but still maintain normal sugar levels if you are willing to put in the hard work. […]