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Low cholesterol is associated with higher risk of death in women

October 18, 2011 in Podcasts | 50 comments

In this episode we discuss the following topics: A recent study demonstrating that low cholesterol is associated with higher risk of death in women What truly normal blood sugar levels during pregnancy are, and cut-offs for pre-diabetic and diabetic women during pregnancy Whether there's any science behind breaking weight loss plateaus by adding carbs back in the diet Best practices for people with Hashimoto's Why there has been such an explosion in food sensitivities, celiac disease and leaky gut The connection between ...
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Why hemoglobin A1c is not a reliable marker

March 1, 2011 in Lab testing | 23 comments

Over the last few years doctors are increasingly relying on a test called hemoglobin A1c to screen for insulin resistance and diabetes. It's more practical (and significantly cheaper) than post-meal glucose testing, and it's less likely to be skewed by day-to-day changes than fasting blood glucose. What is hemoglobin A1c? Sugar has a tendency to stick to stuff. Anyone that has cooked with sugar can tell you that. In our bodies, sugar also sticks - ...
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9 Steps To Perfect Health – #1: Don’t Eat Toxins

January 28, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Perfect Health | 141 comments

Imagine a world where: diabetes, heart diseases, autoimmunity and other modern diseases are rare or don't exist at all we are naturally lean and fit we are fertile throughout our childbearing years we sleep peacefully and deeply we age gracefully without degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and osteoporosis While this might sound like pure fantasy today, anthropological evidence suggests that this is exactly how human beings lived for the vast majority of our evolutionary history. Today, most people accept diseases like obesity, diabetes, infertility ...
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Grass-fed vs. conventional meat: it’s not black or white

January 4, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Paleo Diet, Stress | 21 comments

I hope you all had happy holidays and are off to a great start this year. I thought I'd share a few thoughts that have been bouncing around my head lately, stimulated most recently by two articles written by fellow health bloggers. Don Matesz over at Primal Wisdom wrote a thought-provoking piece on the hormone composition of grass-fed and factory-farmed meat. In it he argues (convincingly, I might add) that meat from ...
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