What is metabolic health? Your plain language definition.
Do you want to know if you are metabolically healthy? It’s an easy question to answer, even without a visit to your doctor’s office. 1. Do you have a lot of belly fat? If...
Tagged: obesity
Obesity is known as being excessively overweight. This depends on Body Mass Index (BMI) which is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
Being obese can lead to serious health complications, including high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes. The risk factors and causes behind obesity are family history, exercise and diet habits, certain medications that may be taken, socio-economic issues, smoking, stress, age, and many others.
Source:
Mayo Clinic. (2020, February 15). Obesity – Symptoms and causes.
Leaders in metabolic health, keto, and Black culture
Black doctors and executives addressing metabolic health || Cecily Anne Clark-Ganheart, MD | Tony Hampton, MD | Tracey Brown, CEO|| Keto and Black culture Podcasts || Keto & Black culture success stories ||Black Keto...
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...
Diabetes for Dummies, aka Diabetes Dirge
Metabolic health – normal versus insulin resistant muscles affect basal metabolism.
Best resources for an overview of keto diet therapies
Best keto resources for families and patients: | Keto diet overviews | Keto support groups | Best keto books | Keto for Psych | Low-carb & keto success stories || Best keto resources for...
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...
Ketogenic diet helps young Ecuadorian twins improve their schizophrenic symptoms
Chris Palmer, MD was a co-author of this 2018 case study which showed an improvement in schizophrenic symptoms in young Ecuadorian twins on a ketogenic diet. They were a male and a female, diagnosed with...
Fact check – Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines
“Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.” More than 50 doctors, researchers, and clinicians signed an open letter that was published in the New York Times...
Relieving depression with the ketogenic diet?
Perhaps those suffering from treatment-resistant depression could find some relief with the ketogenic diet? Any attempt to try this MUST be medically supervised because there are both psychiatric and metabolic dangers in this dietary...
Doris’s chronic schizophrenia put into remission bringing hope to many
Starting at the end, Doris is ok. She is living happily ever after. But it wasn’t always so. She gave us permission to share her story of schizophrenia in remission. Why? Doris wants to...
My mother’s suffering spurred me to find keto
Christie Barnett’s keto journey: Sitting in a nursing home with my dying mother is where it all began for me, Christie Barnett. There she was, a 71-year-old formerly dignified college instructor, stuck in a...
