Welcome to mind and body education and mastery!
Want to learn about why you may be at risk for diabetes, why you store extra weight, why you crave certain foods, or why you overeat or over drink? Learn about your mind and body in an entertaining, practical and easily-understandable format by browsing the collections below.
What are insulin resistance and diabetes, and how do you reverse them?
How and why do you store body fat, and how do you decrease how much fat you store?
What are urges, cravings and habits and how do you stop them?
What is emotional eating, and how do you stop doing it?
How does sugar and alcohol addiction happen, and how do you get over it?
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We Need a New Approach To This Pandemic!
No, not THAT one. The one that is far more dangerous and prevalent, and which we are failing to get a handle on.
Why is it important to know what your blood sugar is doing if you are not someone with diabetes?
1 our of 3 people in the US right now has pre-diabetes, and 90% don’t know it. You cannot look at someone and suspect prediabetes, and yet the idea that you can is still prevalent, even among health care providers. That bias drives a lack of both testing and discussion.
YOU might be metabolically unhealthy - how would you know?
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Seed Oils!
What’s the problem with seed oils?
Well, it turns out quite a heck of a LOT, and I think after reading about it, you’ll be rather shocked that they are still a major player in our food supply!
Just One Teaspoon!
That’s all the glucose you should have circulating in your bloodstream! How does your body keep it from going lower? How does it keep it from going higher? What happens if it DOES go higher? I think learning about your body’s physiology can help you make more mindful choices.
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The Sugar Cancer Connection
Sugar and cancer are intimately connected.
Learning the physiology of how this happens, and what to do about it, can be a cancer treatment game changer!
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Can You Measure Your Insulin Resistance?
Measuring blood sugar is easy. But how about measuring your Insulin? Or using those measurements to determine if you are insulin resistant? And how bad it might be? Yup, you can test for that!
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Is Sugar Addictive?
It has not been classified as an addiction in the DSM manual, but I don’t think that matters. I know, and you may know as well, that it sure does feel addictive.
Contrary Action!
This sounds like something a two-year-old would be good at!
But it’s actually an incredibly useful strategy when you are trying to change habits that fail to serve your best metabolic health.
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Resistant Starch
Another tool in the toolbox to decrease insulin resistance: Resistant Starch
What is “resistant starch” and why should you know about it? It is another tool in the toolbox to decrease insulin resistance and lower the risk of developing diabetes!
Read all about it in this article!
Chocolate!
Chocolate can be a highly valuable addition to your dietary plan for best metabolic health!
Does chocolate fit into a metabolically healthy diet?
It sure can! But not just ANY chocolate….
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Detoxes and Cleanses
Detoxes and Cleanses - do they do what they say they will do? Do they improve health?
Should you do a detox protocol? Or a cleanse? What do they do? Are they useful? Are they dangerous?
These questions and more are answered for you in the attached article!
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Measuring Metabolic Health
What tests have you had that would assess your metabolic health? What should those tests be? How do you interpret them once you get them?
What are the ways to test for optimal (or dangerous!) metabolic health?
Have you had those tests done? Do you know your numbers? It’s REALLY important!
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What is Metabolic Health?
What is metabolic health? Can you improve it? What makes it worse? Is there a point of no return?
Metabolic health is not a “state,” it is a continuum, and the lifestyle choices you make every day influence where you are on that scale.
How is it defined? Can you improve it? What makes it worse? What makes it better? Is there a point where you cannot become healthier? These questions and more are all answered in this article!
Glycemic Variability
Glycemic Variability! It’s important. It’s terrible!
What causes glycemic variability? And why should you care about it?
You should care because it makes you feel TERRIBLE! And it’s wreaking havoc with your body.
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What’s all this about the Mediterranean Diet?
What is the Mediterranean Diet? And is it the best way to eat to prevent type 2 diabetes?
The Mediterranean Diet is cited as being the best choice for preventing type 2 Diabetes.
And it sure is! But maybe not for the reasons you think. And what exactly IS the “Mediterranean Diet” anyway?
Find out the answers, and a whole lot more, in the article!
Are You TOFI?
Could you be TOFI? And at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes?
No, not TOFU, TOFI!
Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside.
30% of US Adults are TOFI, and they are at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
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100% of nothing
When you try to follow a “diet plan,” ANY plan, aiming for perfection, you will experience 97% failure.
Want to know why? And how to have 100% success instead?
AI Knows The Dirty Truth!
AI knows the truth about processed foods!
I asked ChatGPT to write an article about processed foods and the results were interesting!
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Hemp Seeds!
Hemp seeds can help blood sugar control? Yes!
Hemp seeds pack a wallop of a nutritional punch! Plus, they can help you regulate your blood sugar control
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How Does Fiber Influence Your Blood Sugar?
Fiber is one of the “tools in the toolbox” to control blood sugar! But not just ANY fiber will do the trick.
