What is metabolic health? Your plain language definition.
Do you want to know if you are metabolically healthy? It’s an easy question to answer, even without a visit to your doctor’s office. 1. Do you have a lot of belly fat? If...
Category: Metabolic Factors & Interventions
Metabolic health involves diet, exercise, sleep & other lifestyle habits to optimize blood glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, blood pressure & waist circumference without medications.
When patients reducing carbohydrates ask what to eat
Clinician-approved, carb-appropriate guides for patient education Here are some overviews of low carbohydrate eating plans for you to use in your patient education. These are all variations on carbohydrate reduction. Choose the guide that...
Low carbohydrate nutrition references curate research for 40+ metabolic conditions
We’re celebrating our Organizing Research team launching a big project with Metabolic Multipliers Sarah Rice & Nutrition Network Curated research by metabolic condition Can you name 40+ medical conditions with a metabolic component? Would...
Clever Eats: Progressive Steps towards Metabolic Health
Clever eats. Patient Education. Progressive steps. Nutrients. Good, bad & ugly. Satiety. Hunger. Intermittent fasting. Ultra-processed foods.
Supporting Metabolic Health in Communities of Color
Future Wish List Food 4 Health Alliance, another lobbying group, has been active. They might be interested in a focus group with Metabolic Health influencers within communities of color. When Metabolic Multiplier published Leaders...
Is love a conversation that heals? Doctor Vyvyane Loh
Doctor Vyvyane Loh, “Dr. Mom”, Internal and Obesity Medicine board-certified Founder and Leader of Transform Alliance for Health.
Nick Norwitz: an athletic diet?
Nick Norwitz started as a carb-fuled marathon runner. After his lifestyle destroyed his health, he turned to a ketogenic diet to heal.
From the palliative care ward to an MD-PhD
Nicholas Norwitz grew up eating a “healthy” diet. Developed Osteoporosis & Ulcerative Colitis that he resolved with a ketogenic diet.
Mani’s “keto boot camp” by Cassey Hauser
My son’s friend, Cassandra Hauser, and I had planned a trip driving through South America in the summer of 2019. But, when my brother’s long-term caregiver became very ill with lung cancer I brought...
Food from my local farm regenerates soil and bodies
What does an “organic” label mean on a food package? What about “grass-fed” or “product of the USA” stamps? Do assurances come with a package of “cage-free” eggs? There are other troubling questions. If...
Overview schematics help us think about metabolic health
Metabolic health schematics: Interventions. Disorders. Metabolism. Resources. Lifestyle. Definitions. Services. Products. Audiences. Groups.
Who does diabetes hit hardest?
U.S. Diabetes statistics | hardest hit ethnic groups | Education level | Ethnic group hi’s and low’s | High risk youth groups | Insightful Infographics In the National Diabetes Statistics Report 2020, the Center...
Mani’s metabolic musings
Garlic, sugar & COVID19 11-13.7.2020| Sugar & infection | Aged garlic | Tight Glucose control | Sugars & protein function | Sugars & nerve sheaths | Virality or vitality? |Glycan shield or glucose sword...
Leaders in metabolic health, keto, and Black culture
Black doctors and executives addressing metabolic health || Cecily Anne Clark-Ganheart, MD | Tony Hampton, MD | Tracey Brown, CEO|| Keto and Black culture Podcasts || Keto & Black culture success stories ||Black Keto...
Layperson terms for ketone body metabolism?
Hypoglycemia & hyperglycemia, low or high blood sugar levels, interact with ketone levels to produce either symptomatic or asymptomatic conditions. Layperson definitions & leading-thinker discussion.
Ketosis versus ketoacidosis, metabolic flexibility or pancreatic disability?
Ketosis is the natural production of ketone bodies in the fasted state by the liver and kidney from fatty acids. Ketoacidosis results from dysregulated pancreatic beta-cell insulin production.
What is metabolic health? A biochemist’s definition
It depends on who you ask, but there are some generally agreed upon parameters for measuring metabolic health. It can be measured in our blood or bodies. These medical, physiological and laboratory test markers...
Diabetes for Dummies, aka Diabetes Dirge
Metabolic health – normal versus insulin resistant muscles affect basal metabolism.
Lifestyle Medicine, the key to metabolic healing
What is lifestyle medicine? Lifestyle medicine can be the central vehicle for metabolic intervention and metabolic optimization. Generally speaking, metabolisms are improved with behaviors rather than with the stuff of conventional health care, i.e.,...
Pain started my ketogenic journey (Part 1)
Pain relief, diabetes reversal, lowering inflammation and mental clarity were the directions of my ketogenic journey.
Best resources for an overview of keto
Best keto resources for families and patients: | Keto diet overviews | Keto support groups | Best keto books | Keto for Psych | Low-carb & keto success stories || Best keto resources for...
How to build my ketogenic therapy treatment team
Building a team to treat any illness with a ketogenic diet is often a difficult, multi-step process. Ketogenic dietary intervention is in its early stages in healthcare. Yet research has demonstrated its potential effectiveness...
Combat stress with these constructive COVID-19 information resources
A barrage of COVID-19 information can be difficult to assimilate or prioritize when it is most needed to help manage uncertainty and reduce stress. Here is a curated list of resources.
A Lifetime In Submarines And Isolation for Self-improvement during Quarantine
“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties—and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”—VADM James Stockdale, USN
Raj’s journey: obese & diabetic to healthy
Raj Seth’s notes for his recent podcast on LowCarbMD with Doctors Brian Lenzkes and Jason Fung. Fat as a kid I had always been fat as far back as I can remember. I developed...
Ketogenic diet helps young Ecuadorian twins improve their schizophrenic symptoms
Chris Palmer, MD was a co-author of this 2018 case study which showed an improvement in schizophrenic symptoms in young Ecuadorian twins on a ketogenic diet. They were a male and a female, diagnosed with...
Why write medical case reports about unique cases?
Publishing unique case reports in the medical literature helps move mental-health care forward. “I would push you to write up some case reports…. Writing a case report might seem like a waste of time,...
Summary – The ketogenic diet may help stop seizures an Advancing Psychiatry article by Chris Palmer, MD
This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. The ketogenic diet controversy The keto diet is one of today’s most controversial diets, so...
Might the ketogenic diet help fight Alzheimer’s Disease?
Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies show that major risk factors for Alzheimer’s include metabolic, lifestyle and genetic factors: Diabetes (1, 4, 7) Obesity (1) Cardiovascular disease (1,4) Lack of exercise (1, 7)...
Why evaluate dietary interventions? They’re just food.
Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...
