Weight Loss Archives - Reversing Diabetes

August 08, 2019

Inflammation and Its Outcomes

Despite it being an essential response to infection and tissue injury, inflammation has also been associated with several pathological processes. Excessive acute inflammation causes tissue damage and non- resolving inflammation leads to chronic tissue malfunction, suggesting a delicate balance between the rapid and effective response to distresses in tissue homeostasis and the collateral damage on

August 06, 2019

Atherosclerosis or Atheroscleritis

Heart disease is currently one of the major causes of morbidity and correlates closely with global incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recently, there is an increasing focus on metainflammation as the primary pathophysiology. Recent studies implicate early metabolic abnormalities (weight gain, insulin resistance, and prehypertension and irregular blood lipid levels). A basic description

August 05, 2019

Chronic Inflammation Metabolic Overfeed Hyperinsulinemia

August 04, 2019

Obesity: Low Grade Chronic State of Inflammation Proinflammatory Cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6 and CRP)

Obesity is characterized by a low grade chronic state of inflammation in which the level of pro inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α, IL-6 and CRP are increased. It is a state in which there is an over-accumulation of subcutaneous and/or abdominal adipose tissue. This adipose tissue is no longer considered inert and mainly devoted to

July 30, 2019

About Complex System Failure

The failure of the to develop a “magic bullet” drug that safely promotes weight loss is evidence that a reductionist single biologic mechanism is unlikely to account for the obesity epidemic. We have conquered most of the communicable diseases, the next phase of medicine needs a systems approach. About complex system failure: Complex systems are

July 26, 2019

Is Your Healthcare Provider (Physician, Dietitian, Practitioner) Overweight??

Overweight or obese physicians were less likely to discuss weight loss with heavy patients: only 18% of these doctors discussed losing weight with their patients while 30% of normal weight physicians did. More interestingly, 93% of doctors diagnosed obesity in their patients only if they believed their own weight was equal to or less than

July 22, 2019

Sugar vs. Fat

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists to publish a review of research on sugar vs. fat and their effects on heart disease. The Sugar Association paid the scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 today, cherry picked the research included in the review; resulting in a biased article published in the New

July 19, 2019

Weight Watchers Eyes A New Clientele: Children

So this is where we are headed... while I applaud the attention we must all place on this urgent issue, as a species we have gone from food scarcity and malnutrition to food excess and the malnutrition of overconsumption, in less than 30 years out of a 2-3 million year history. Maybe it’s not an

July 15, 2019

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Breaking News?

According to a “NEW” study published in Obesity, “lifestyle interventions focused on altering dietary and physical activity habits using behavioral strategies can produce sustained weight loss among African Americans and Hispanics who have type 2 diabetes (T2D)” Which ivory tower have they been living in or is this new information to their sources of funding?

July 13, 2019

About Metainflammation

My clinic started as an interventional pain clinic, but I quickly realized that chronic pain was more than an isolated pathology of excessive pain. I have amazing tools that can relieve a patient’s symptoms, but I can’t reverse the course of disease unless I treat the underlying cause, the metainflammation. Pain simply doesn’t become chronic