Insulin Resistance Prevents Healthy Weight Loss articles metabolic health

Weight loss is often portrayed as a simple equation of calories in versus calories out. However, for many individuals, particularly those with insulin resistance, this oversimplification fails to capture the complex hormonal and metabolic reality that governs fat storage and energy use. Insulin resi...

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What Is Resistant Starch articles diets heart health news

Have you heard about resistant starch? It seems to be popping up on social media a lot so I thought it worth talking about!

What is it? What are the benefits? Is it something you should know about? Because obviously, everyone's talking about gut health at the minute, everyone's talking about carboh...

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The Diet Mind Shift articles diets news thoughts

It seems to me that we never are able to shake the whole notion of diets and dieting. It’s crystal clear that there is a problem in the Western World in terms of our struggle with obesity in the population. Looking around at the combination of obesogenic environment (ie access to healthy options, th...

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Dietary Strategies to Lower Cholesterol articles cholesterol heart health news

Cholesterol is one of the number one targets that people look at to determine the state of our metabolic health, and in some ways this can be true. It is one of the most common markers that your doctor will test for once you go past the age of 30. There is a multibillion industry around drugs that l...

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Short Chain Fatty Acids - Digestive By Products With a Powerful Punch articles gut health microbiome news

In recent times the gut and our microbiome have become huge focal points for nutritional science, research, and indeed discussions of health within popular culture. The discoveries being made are staggering. We are seeing that there are direct and specific controls of immunological responses. We k

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Amino Acids in Mental Wellness articles mental health news

If you are like me, you will always be searching for new ways to give yourself an extra edge and make continued improvements to your health. I have tried a million and one hacks for more energy, to perform better in the gym, to maintain my waistline (an ever more challenging escapade at almost 44), ...

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