Mani’s metabolic musings
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Category: Stress
Our stress response, evolved to help us respond with fight-or-flight, to an acute stressor. In contrast, our modern world often has chronic stress. For some chronic can impair their health and contribute to metabolic disorders.
In his book, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping, Robert M. Sapolsky explores how our physiological stress response impairs our metabolic health.
What is metabolic health anyway?
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...
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.
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
