5 ways to improve your metabolic health (besides diet and exercise)

I’m a big advocate of eating whole, real food to improve your metabolic health. I also encourage resistance training to grow metabolically active tissue.  But apart from these building blocks of metabolic health, I encourage patients to seek a balanced lifestyle that encompasses all aspects of holistic health. This includes getting better sleep, managing workplace

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Be healthy, not thin

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

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Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington: Can You Tell if Your Medical Bill is a Fraud?

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.

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What is metabolic health, anyway?

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

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