The Dietary Shifts that are Leading to Diabesity
The #1 dietary shift that leads to diabesity is sugar in all its forms. The average American today eats 150-180 pounds of sugar per year. That’s over half a pound of sugar a day! We evolved eating 22 teaspoons of sugar per year.(1) So we are no longer eating in harmony with our genes. In […]
The Functional Medicine Approach to Diabesity
In the last 20 years an emerging body of scientific knowledge points to a number of factors that are the true drivers of diabesity and most chronic disease. While genetic predisposition may play a role in diabesity, what we now know is that it is the ways in which your diet, lifestyle and environment interact […]
Diabetes Medication Can Actually Increase Your Risk of Death
If you are diabetic, overweight, or suffer from insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, or any of the other conditions conventional medicine associates with “elevated blood sugar,” I want to share a startling new discovery with you: Lowering your blood sugar may increase your risk of death. These are the findings from an extraordinary new study that […]
The Problem with Diabesity Treatment–Symptoms, Not Causes
The main reason our current approach to treating diabesity fails is because it focuses on treating the symptoms or risk factors of the disease rather than the causes. All of our attention is focused on treatments that: Lower blood sugar (diabetes drugs and insulin) Lower high blood pressure (anti-hypertensive drugs) Lower cholesterol (statins) Thin the […]
Common Symptoms and Lab Markers of Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance and diabesity are often accompanied by: Belly fat Fatigue after meals Sugar cravings (which may not be relieved by eating sweets) High triglycerides Low HDL High blood pressure Problems with blood clotting Increased inflammation These clues can often be picked up long before you ever get diabetes and may help you prevent the […]
Thyroid-Brain Crosstalk-Part 2: Serotonin and Thyroid Interactions
One of the things that is common in hypothyroid patients is that many of them are on antidepressants. However, none of the antidepressant medications actually raise the quantity of the neurotransmitter that the medication is targeting. They only allow the neurotransmitter to remain in the synaptic cleft for a longer period of time. They may […]
Autoimmune Disease in the U.S.- Part 1 in 6-Part Series
Introduction to autoimmune disease: What is it? How common is it? How is it diagnosed? How is it managed? Main points of this issue: Rates of autoimmune (AI) diseases are increasing every year in the U.S. The diagnosis of AI disease is only made after there is degeneration of tissue Most AI cases remain undiagnosed […]
Thyroid-Brain Crosstalk-Part 1: The Microglia, Neuron and Thyroid Connection
The evidence clearly demonstrates that there is functional crosstalk between the brain and the thyroid. Thyroid hormones have very powerful influence on microglia cells of the brain and neuronal neurotransmitter pathways. Cytokine surges (which initiate inflammatory processes) turn on microglia cells causing neural inflammation. Patients with thyroid disorders develop a vast list of neurological, mood, […]
Thyroid-Immune Crosstalk—Part 2: Thyroid Influence on Immunology
Thyroid Influence on Immunology Thyroid hormones play critical roles in the differentiation, growth, and metabolism of immune system regulation. Every single immune cell has receptor sites for thyroid hormone, including immune cells. If a person is in a thyroid-deficient state, there has to be an effect on their immune response because thyroid hormones help influence […]