Fasting and Growth Hormone
Growth hormone decreases with age Growth hormone maintains lean mass including muscles and bones Injecting artificial growth hormone causes side effec…
Tag: hormones
Fructose causes insulin resistance – Hormonal Obesity XXXII
The metabolism of excessive amounts of fructose leads to fatty liver, which is a key step in the development of insulin resistance, as we saw in our l…
The Citric Acid Cycle – The biochemistry of insulin resistance
I've talked about insulin resistance many times previously (and in The Diabetes Code) and how a fundamental mis-understanding of it using the 'lock an…
#TFMsuccess Story: Jean overcomes significant insulin resistance to regain control of her health.
December 1, 2017 the day I started my latest journey to get healthy. I was scared, desperate and skeptical that I was embarking on yet another journey…
What is Insulin Resistance?
This week's video log covers the question of what Insulin Resistance really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMymMf3-LSc
Fibre reduces Insulin – How To Lose Weight X
When we consider the nutritional benefits of food, we think about the vitamins, minerals and nutrients they contain. Â We think about components in the food…
Insulin toxicity – T2D 37
Insulin Toxicity The rosiglitazone debacle and the shocking 22% increased risk of death found in the ACCORD study focused researchers on the potential…
Fasting and Ghrelin – Fasting 29
Ghrelin is the so-called hunger hormone. It was purified from rat stomach in 1999 and subsequently cloned. It binds to growth hormone (GH) secretagogu…
Fructose, Fatty Liver, and Insulin Resistance – T2D 28
Fructose and fatty liver Fructose is even more strongly linked to obesity and diabetes than glucose. From a nutritional standpoint, neither fructose n…
Insulin resistance protects against…insulin! T2D 26
Virtually all doctors agree that elevated insulin resistance is very bad for human health, being the root cause of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndr…
