Category: Exercise

Muscle to fat ratio impacts basal metabolism and insulin resistance. Walking, lifting weights and high intensity exercise shape body & mind.

40+ Potential Targets of Reduced Carbohydrate Therapies: Neurology, Reproductive Health, Gastrointestinal, Mental Health, Oncology, Pulmonary, & more

April 5, 2021

Save time with these metabolic health research portals

We’re celebrating our Organizing Research team launching a big project with Metabolic Multipliers Sarah Rice & Nutrition Network. References Resource – Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction Each curated by 40+ conditions with a metabolic component as...

September 29, 2020

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.

September 28, 2020

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.

September 3, 2020

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...

May 21, 2020

Making ketosis & ketoacidosis easy to understand

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 vs ketoacidosis (Ketoacidosis (acetonenia, acetonuria, ketoaciduria, ketonemia, ketonuria)

May 16, 2020

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.

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May 14, 2020

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...

May 9, 2020

Diabetes for Dummies, aka Diabetes Dirge

Metabolic health – normal versus insulin resistant muscles affect basal metabolism.

April 29, 2020

Lifestyle Medicine, the key to metabolic healing

What is lifestyle medicine? Is it metabolic healing? Lifestyle medicine can be the central vehicle for metabolic normalization. Generally speaking, with lifestyle medicine, metabolism is improved with behaviors rather than with the stuff of conventional...

Keto diet can reduce pain & inflammation; reverse diabetes & increase mental clarity

April 20, 2020

Pain started my ketogenic journey (Part 1)

Pain relief, diabetes reversal, lowering inflammation and mental clarity were the directions of my ketogenic journey.

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April 1, 2020

A Lifetime In Submarines And Isolation for Self-improvement

“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

March 12, 2020

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...