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Hunger is your best friend: It makes natural foods taste delicious and promotes optimal nutrient partitioning

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One of the biggest problems with modern diets rich in industrial foods is that they promote unnatural hunger patterns. For example, hunger c...

Protein powders before fasted weight training? Here is a more natural and cheaper alternative

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The idea that protein powders should be consumed prior to weight training has been around for a while, and is very popular among bodybuilder...

There is no doubt that abnormally elevated insulin is associated with body fat accumulation

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For as long as diets existed there have been influential proponents, or believers, who at some point had what they thought were epiphanies. ...

What is a good low carbohydrate diet? It is a low calorie one

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My interview with Jimmy Moore should be up on the day that this post becomes available. (I usually write my posts on weekends and schedule ...

Strength training plus fasting regularly, and becoming diabetic!? No, it is just compensatory adaptation at work

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One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

Alcohol consumption, gender, and type 2 diabetes: Strange … but true

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Let me start this post with a warning about spirits (hard liquor). Taken on an empty stomach, they cause an acute suppression of liver glyco...

The China Study II: Carbohydrates, fat, calories, insulin, and obesity

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The “great blogosphere debate” rages on regarding the effects of carbohydrates and insulin on health. A lot of action has been happening rec...

Lipotoxicity or tired pancreas? Abnormal fat metabolism as a possible precondition for type 2 diabetes

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The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of causes. The diseases i...

Growth hormone, insulin resistance, body fat accumulation, and glycogen depletion: Making sense of a mysterious hormone replacement therapy outcome

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Hormone replacement therapies are prescribed in some cases, for medical reasons. They usually carry some risks. The risks come in part from ...

Our body’s priority is preventing hypoglycemia, not hyperglycemia

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An adult human has about 5 l of blood in circulation. Considering a blood glucose concentration of 100 mg/dl, this translates into a total a...

Exercise and blood glucose levels: Insulin and glucose responses to exercise

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The notion that exercise reduces blood glucose levels is widespread. That notion is largely incorrect. Exercise appears to have a positive e...

Insulin responses to foods rich in carbohydrates and protein

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Insulin is often presented as a hormone that is at the core of the diseases of civilization, particularly because of the insulin response el...