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

blood glucose and store it as glycogen. Because you exercise regularly, there’s some room in your glycogen “ ...

have only 30 minutes for lunch, you relax and enjoy your meal. The digestive and hormonal response to lun ...

hungry, but not cranky, light-headed, or lethargic. You dig into the stew (grass-fed beef with chunks of carrot ...

appropriately low cortisol and stable blood sugar levels. _________________ Does this experience sound like ...

Your alarm goes off at 7 a.m., and again at 7:09, and 7:18, at which point you head straight to the ...

stressful blood sugar crash prompts a cortisol response, which uses glucagon to get your blood sugar ba ...

response, both of which serve to give you a short burst of energy. Even though there is some protein ...

get you through the rest of the day. The caffeine in the coffee provokes another cortisol response, which ...

caffeine intake (all provoking a stress response), as well as your poor sleep habits, your cortisol ...

dinner, and make it hard for you to go to sleep (and stay asleep). But even though the day we just des ...

You’ve gained fifteen (OK, twenty) pounds in the last three years. Your doctor says that your blood pres ...

margarine, and more artificially-sweetened coffee. You head to work, stopping on the way for a “skinny” caram ...

you’re eating high-carb foods every few hours, your insulin levels stay elevated, so glucagon rarely has t ...

Later in the evening, the serious cravings start. You prowl through the pantry and freezer on autopilot, looking for ...

center. Those additional twenty pounds of body fat are immunologically active—and secreting a lot of leptin. Since ...

BUT I EAT SO HEALTHY! This hormonal dysregulation is really powerful, making it very difficult to overcome ...

So maybe now you’re thinking, “Then I must need to eat less.” Wrong again. You’ve already tried that, too, ...

Given all this, I wonder if you’re thinking what we’re thinking? The “healthy” diet you’ve been eating i ...

single night? Why do I get so cranky if I don’t eat every two hours? Where did this spare tire come from ...

You can stop overconsuming, dial all the way back to insulin and leptin sensitivity, retrain your body to bur ...