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to question my diet. Why would I? I was in the “1 percent” of grain consumers, eating them nearly exclusi ...

was particularly limited. Nonetheless, Keys’s observations became the basis of the “grain-based” Mediterrane ...

don your skeptic’s hat (like any good scientist) and consider that the Mediterranean diet is healthy not bec ...

the surface. While tolerance in everyday life is a virtue, tolerance to insulin is anything but. ...

DOCTOR’S NOTE: THE LONG ROAD TO DIABETES To provide a sense of baseline: the average healthy ...

chronically elevated insulin is common among people that are thin. This often goes undetected because mo ...

(AMD), suggesting that AMD may in fact be a form of diabetes of the eye! In light of insulin’ ...

own biochemical liposuction.” You Age at the Rate You Produce Insulin Almost any dieter will benefit from a ...

One such longevity pathway is FOX03, which, among other things, helps to maintain stem cell pools i ...

soon after a high-carbohydrate meal. This happens because the pancreas, the organ that secretes ins ...

that amyloid plaque may be more a consequence of an underlying dysfunction than the smoking ...

even after it runs, you understand the importance of a basic chemical concept: solubility. Amyloid is like ...

around to gum up the works. Diabetes of the Brain Before my mother’s diagnosis, dementia seemed to me a dist ...

themselves by reducing the availability of receptors to hear them. In the brain, a reduced ability to “hear” ...

Fasting Glucose (Mg/Dl) x Fasting Insulin / 405 While reference values generally state that any figure under 2 ...

A BLOOD TEST TO PREDICT ALZHEIMER’S? One protein involved in insulin signaling is IRS-1, or insulin receptor ...

The Glycemic Lie If minimizing frequent and extended insulin spikes throughout the day is our ...

be as problematic, albeit for different reasons, as chronically elevated insulin. The occasional higher- ...

load essentially takes into account how much sugar a typical serving size of a given food will rel ...

examining the differences between a “healthy” high-starch diet and a toxic Western diet, we find a few key ...