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Metabolic & Physical Health

Building Strength from Within

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Your body is designed to heal when given the right support. This section explores how metabolic balance and lifestyle shifts can nurture recovery from cancer, autoimmune conditions, and chronic inflammation — helping you rebuild strength from the inside out.

Metabolic Health - achieving

Metabolic health affects everything from energy and mood to how your body stores fat and fights inflammation. These resources help you understand how to boost vitality and support long-term wellness.

Articles

A Heart Surgeon’s Perspective On Animal Fat

The synergy between omega-6 acid oxidation and poor metabolic health

The effect of fake fats on metabolic function

How Bad Science Twists the Truth About Low-Carb Diets

How do we exercise for Metabolic Health?

Why you never feel hungry and how to fix it.

I give you permission to stop counting calories.

What they haven’t told you about skin and your metabolic health

The real impact of salt on metabolic health

On Aging Well: Restoring Metabolic Health After 50

9 Habits of Metabolically Healthy People

Metabolic Health Starts in the Mouth

It’s time to schedule your preventative CAC Scan

Don’t have time to exercise?

Metabolic Health and Supplements: what you need to know

Why I Hate Cold Water ...But Might Start Cold Plunging

How to build your own fasting routine

Is fake meat safe for metabolic health?

Debunking the myth of a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ metabolism

Why you need to be aware of microvascular disease

Responding to bad metabolic health advice on social media

Untangling the Seed Oil Debate - WARNING: Don’t Read if You Like Your Echo-Chamber (technical article)

Seed Oils: A Sketch of How I See the Debate (Nuance Nibble)

Stress Makes Sugar (Literally!): How to Hack The Brain–Liver Axis

How Bad Science Twists the Truth About Low-Carb Diets

The Great Gut Reset: A 4-Phase Framework to Rebuild a Resilient Microbiome

How Metabolic Disease Feeds Emotional Eating (technical)

The First 30 Days of Keto

Garlic Has No Business Being This Interesting (A Longevity Story)

Gratitude: The Most Underrated Longevity Practice

Weight Loss

Any extra tips on weight loss!

Articles

  1. Should Everyone Take GLP-1s? (What Changed My Mind) 7-19-26

  2. Shrink Visceral Fat by Feeding Your Microbiome (technical) 3-7-26

  3. Poop Calories & Burn Fat: A Guide for the Metabolically Curious (technical) 12-23-25

  4. How Sardines Accidentally Supercharged my Metabolism (technical article) 12-11-25

  5. A Breakthrough in Obesity Biology: The Brain Signal We Finally Understand (technical) 11-18-25

  6. Sardine Fasting. The Ultimate Health Hack (technical) 11-13-25

  7. This Study Single Handedly Changed the Way I Think about Fiber 10-2-25

  8. How Visceral Fat Talks to Your Brain — and What It Might Be Saying 9-6-25

  9. The Hunger Signal Hidden in a Bacterial Tail (technical article) 8-21-25

  10. The Sugar Diet's Longevity Secret: How Restricting One Nutrient Unlocks a Metabolic Holy Grail 7-22-25

  11. The effects of GLP-1 drugs on your heart July 2025

Metabolic Health - Diseases

Metabolic health affects everything from energy and mood to how your body stores fat and fights inflammation. These resources help you understand how to heal from various metabolic diseases.

Cholesterol & Heart Health

So much of what we've been taught about cholesterol and eating to optimize heart health has been wrong! Below are articles and podcasts that discuss where we've been misled as well as the impacts Statins may be having on our health.

Articles

Should I worry about my numbers?
Risk markers, scans, and what they actually mean.

  1. The Lipid Marker Linked to Longevity    (It’s Not LDL) 2-14-26

  2. The Biomarker That Ate Cardiology        (technical) 12-28-25

  3. High Lp(a)? New Research Says This Could Cancel Out the Risk 10-16-25

  4. High ApoB might matter less than you think -        Sept 2025

  5. The advanced lipid metrics your doctor doesn’t know about - Aug 2025

  6. Next steps after your CAC scan - Aug 2025

  7. The most accurate measures of heart disease risk - July 2025

  8. It’s time to schedule your preventative CAC Scan​ - Dec 2024

Should I be on a statin?
The case for questioning the standard prescription.

  1. Why Women on Statins Should Be Prescribed Sardines (technical) 3-14-26

  2. Statins Without Dogma: Everything You Need to Know to Decide Thoughtfully 2-21-26

  3. The Headline-Grabbing Statin Study Everyone Is Oversimplifying (technical) 2-7-26

  4. Lowering Cholesterol Killed: A Study Buried for 40 Years (technical) 1-20-26

  5. A Doctor Texted Me: “I’m Stopping My Statin”—Here’s Why (technical)​ 12-13-25

  6. "That's Terrible" - What Statin Trials Really Show (technical) 12-6-25

  7. The Real Reason This Harvard Doctor Crushed his Cholesterol with Cookies 11-3-25

  8. You’re Not Crazy to Question Statins     (technical) 10-21-25

  9. I Tried Statins - and Stopped. Here's Why I'm Concerned. 9-30-25

  10. This Statin Study Should Have Changed Medicine—No One’s Talking About It 8-23-25

  11. What they don’t tell you about statins Apr 2024

  12. Are statin side effects worth the risk? What cholesterol meds are doing to your brain.

  1. Can You Build a Healthy Heart on Broken Sleep? (technical) 3-28-26

  2. The Metabolic Trap: Targeting Five Cancer Pathways at Once (website, with video summary) 3-24-26

  3. How TUDCA Shifts the Inflammatory Landscape of Heart Disease - 1-8-26

  4. The unusual connection between autophagy and heart health - Sept 2025

  5. The effects of GLP-1 drugs on your heart​ - July 2025

  6. The easiest way to boost (and destroy) your heart - June 2025

  7. 5 Heart Health Myth’s Debunked By A Heart Surgeon - June 2025

  8. A Heart Surgeon’s Perspective On Animal Fat -      June 2025

  9. What it takes to reverse heart plaque - May 2025

  10. New Study: Aspartame Causes Heart Disease - Bad News for Diet Coke 2-21-25

  11. Does high protein hurt the heart? - Oct 2025

  12. My LDL Cholesterol is 574. (Confessions of an MD PhD) 10-11-25

  13. The Oldest Woman (117) Had “High” Cholesterol — Here’s What That Really Means 9-28-25

  14. BIG NEWS: The Lean Mass Hyper-Responder 1 Year Data Just Dropped (story about keto diets and high LDL cholesterol) 4-7-25

  15. The link between low cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease - Feb 2025

  16. It’s time to talk about saturated fat - Aug 2024

  17. Cholesterol and the Carnivore Diet - 6-13-2019

What's the deeper mechanism?
Understanding the biology behind the numbers.

Autoimmune Support: Understanding the Body’s Signals

Autoimmune conditions don’t happen overnight — they develop when the body’s stress and inflammation stay switched on for too long. Learn how to calm the immune response, identify hidden triggers, and support lasting balance from the inside out.

Nurture Recovery from Cancer

Healing from cancer requires more than treatment — it’s about restoring the body’s natural balance and resilience. Discover tools and strategies that support recovery, reduce inflammation, and promote overall well-being.

Physical Fitness

Having a healthy body is more than just eating right. We have to move more too!  Here are articles and podcasts that address movement science. 

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