Have you ever heard this phrase: “You’re healthy, look how slim you are”? Or these: “I can’t believe he had a heart attack, he was so thin.” “Isn’t type 2 diabetes for fat people?” This is a glaring example of how we have been so undereducated on a crucial topic. Let me remove any confusion
Produced and directed by Charles Mattocks, the series stars Dr. Philip Ovadia and many other names fans of the carnivore diet will recognize, including Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Robert Kiltz, Maria Emmerich, Bronson Dant, Kelly Hogan, Dr. Tony Hampton, Dr. Sarah Zaldivar, Dr. Donald Vega, and more.
80 to 90% of the medical bills in the United States have mistakes, and it’s definitely not in favor of the patient. It wasn’t until Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington, an internal medicine physician, and a health insurance executive, witnessed how her hospital roommate was taken advantage of financially that she knew, more than helping insurance companies, it is the patients that need her help the most.
I get asked this question a lot: “What is metabolic health?” It’s not a commonly used phrase in daily life, and most doctors rarely mention it. We’re familiar with cardiovascular health, mental health, and “general” physical health, but not metabolic health. Today, we believe – and are indeed led to believe – that we are
A heart attack can feel like a world-ending emergency. Although 805,000 people experience one every year, it can still be an incredibly isolating medical event — and perhaps not something you thought would happen to you. There are countless articles online explaining how you can avoid heart attacks. But now that you’ve experienced one and
The concept of intuitive eating just makes sense, especially in a world of deprivation diets that leave us hungry, tired, and irritable. But intuitive eating isn’t a silver bullet in every circumstance. Success or failure depends on what you’re fueling your body with — and with more than 73% of the US food supply inundated
Is obesity genetic or environmental? If you ask a lot of conventional doctors, genetics may be their first response. After all, some ‘skinny’ people can eat fried food all day and look perfectly healthy. So you sign up to test your family genetics for contributing factors of obesity. You know it’s expensive — potentially several
The conversion of food into energy is a wonderfully complicated thing. It’s an undertaking so complicated, in fact, that our muscles and organs can’t do it alone. There needs to be a middleman between ingestion and digestion — and it requires billions of living organisms housed inside your gut. Experts suggest up to 10 trillion
You’ve been told eating fatty foods will lead to an early death. So you made the switch to a low fat diet to protect yourself from heart disease. But after years of following doctor recommendations and buying fat free yogurt, your lab work clearly shows that your risk factors have gone up, not down. What
Health isn’t produced by accident. It requires intentionality and dedication — and good data can give you a huge boost. If understanding the driving factors was easier, we wouldn’t have a modern health crisis involving 93.2% of US adults. But new technology has made our metabolic health both accessible and understandable. Tools like continuous glucose
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