Let’s talk about why vitamin D3 should always be paired with vitamin K2. This is really important information as more people are starting to understand the importance of supplementing with vitamin D3. Especially if you are not getting enough exposure to the sun, like [...]
What is the connection between grains and insulin resistance? Insulin resistance means that the hormone insulin, when it is in the insulin receptor sites on the cell membranes, that they cannot easily allow the glucose or sugar to move into the cells to make [...]
What is the connection between consuming “vegetable” oils and cell membranes? We call them “vegetable” oils, which makes many people think that they are these healthy fats that we should be consuming. Vegetable oils are actually industrial oils, that have been manipulated and changed [...]
What is the difference between casein A1 and casein A2? A question I often get asked by my patients or at my public talks is the whether it is okay to consume casein A2 dairy or what are my thoughts on A1 vs A2 [...]
Cow’s dairy has an addictive component to it. Cow’s dairy is a food that I typically have my patients avoid. Often when I’m telling patients to avoid cow’s dairy, they have a difficult time with this. I will tell you the science behind cow’s [...]
I want to talk about the addictive component of gluten and why you may be addicted to gluten. When patients come into my clinic, one of my first recommendations is that they avoid gluten. There are a number of different problems with gluten, but [...]
How does insulin resistance happen within the body? The common belief is that insulin resistance only occurs due to consuming high amounts of sugar. And that can definitely be a contributing factor, as we as a society have increased our consumption of sugar over [...]
Seven thousand years ago in ancient Egypt there were northern Egyptians and southern Egyptians who were essentially genetically similar. The northerners began farming and agriculture and lived off a diet mainly consisted of grain. The southerners were hunter-gatherers, having a traditional diet living off [...]
Let’s start with what insulin is. Insulin is a hormone that is released from the pancreas due to the presence of glucose or sugar in the blood. On our cell membranes are insulin receptors. So insulin will go into these insulin receptors, like a [...]
DEFINITION OF HEALTH is the ability of the body to be able to adapt to its our environment. Every system of the body should be able to express this healthy adaptation or self-healing mechanism to stressors in its environment either internally or externally in [...]
