Providers Archives - Reversing Diabetes

There are some misconceptions about food and what to eat and not eat. The truth is that food is medicine and information for your body. Food is for real hunger, not boredom. Each patient is unique and any advice will need to be medically tailored. Hara hachi bu (腹八分目) is a Japanese phrase that translates

Counting calories often fails.  Instead, focus on eating real food. What is a calorie? A calorie in physics is the energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 °C.  The calorie you see on a food package, however, is actually a kilocalorie, or 1,000 calories, the amount of energy needed to

Time-restricted feeding. Time-restricted feeding can help people move into a healthier lifestyle and reverse insulin resistance as well as maintain a healthy weight. Most people eat from the time they wake up until the time they go to bed; typically, they eat three main meals, multiple snacks, and often soda in between.  This pattern leads

Using an addiction model for obesity may be a more accurate way to view it. Obesity is more complicated than the simple calories in and calories out model.  Obesity is more than eat less, move more. Obesity is affected by an underlying neuropsychological and neuroendocrine response system, which hijacks the endorphin system, resulting in a

It's important to treat obesity and prediabetes before diabetes can develop because obesity is the leading indicator in developing diabetes. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals that only 12.2 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy.  Eighty-six million adults in the U.S. have prediabetes (HbA1c ranging from 5.7–6.4%), and up to

Excess processed foods and carbohydrates can also lead to increased liver damage. GGT isn't something that people consider when considering health risks, but it could be referred to as the "oracle of death" or "the final common pathway" because of how it predicts liver damage and subsequent disease. Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) is an enzyme found

It's time to take a more detailed look at the root causes of obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes because of the implication for future public health. Reversing the obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes epidemic is today's most important public health challenge.  Nearly 70% of population is insulin resistant, prediabetic, or frankly diabetic. Kraft,