It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

temperature reaches the normal range again, your furnace then turns off. When you eat and digest food, various ...

others) form a complex, elegant—but not indestructible—web of feedback loops that influence all body systems ...

burning one fuel source (carbohydrate) to the other (fat). Chronically elevated insulin levels are correlated with ...

To be optimally healthy, our blood glucose levels must be kept within a normal range—not too low, not too ...

have a healthy metabolism, when you eat a healthy meal, your blood sugar levels rise moderately—not to ...

Insulin’s management of blood sugar serves a very important function, as chronically elevated blood glucose ...

emptied back into the bloodstream—it stays there, to provide fuel for your muscles. (Which is good, because y ...

meaningful way while you’re sitting at your desk at work, watching television, or puttering around th ...

energy in many metabolic processes, and stored fat doesn’t get burned for energy. If less fat is being burned ...

These two processes combined—the preferential burning of carbohydrate over fat for fuel and the creation of ...

resistance and an increase in fat storage, accompanied by greater insulin resistance. Leptin is sometimes referred ...

But our bodies are pessimists. Our DNA always expects, despite the surplus of readily available energy right now, ...

continues to send biologically appropriate messages to ensure your survival, despite the fact that you are ...

have enough body fat!” Your brain then tells you to eat more and move less, which serves to change ...

starts, though, when the foods you’re eating promote an unhealthy psychological response, leading to chronic overcar ...

likely that you’re leptin resistant —but you don’t have to appear overweight to fall into this ca ...

energy stored, so you should eat less and move more.” But when receptors in the brain and other tissues become ...

NIGHT MUNCHIES Leptin’s message (or lack thereof) is stronger than your willpower. You may se ...

brain is clueless, so it turns your metabolism down to conserve fuel, and tells you to eat more. And i ...

In contrast to insulin sensitivity, there is also a condition called insulin resistance. And ... Leptin resis ...