Health

Did you know that a hundred years ago, the low-carb keto diet was used to treat diabetes? When doctors didn’t have any medications for type 2 diabetes, they understood that by changing the diet, you could actually treat and fix diabetes. Keto addresses the core problem of diabetes There was

“Is keto bad for the heart?” ie. can Keto cause heart disease – another study in the headlines. What do you think? Another paper is out, or I should say an abstract, because an abstract doesn’t really give you the whole paper to be able to comment on. It was

Do people eat fewer calories on a low-carb keto diet? Do calories matter? There’s a lot of confusion about calories and carbs and if you count carbs, do you have to count calories and if you count calories, do you have to count carbs?! It becomes pretty overwhelmingly complex when

Do you need to focus on macro and micronutrients? The easy answer is if you’ve been taught how to keto by me, then, no. You don’t need to focus on macro or micronutrients. But if you’ve been taught by someone else or using apps or someone with a mistaken notion

I am an author of a recent paper that came out, called The carbohydrate-insulin model: A physiological perspective on the obesity pandemic. The authors include Will Yancey and myself here at Duke, David Ludwig at Harvard, and others. It is a paper that brings together two paradigms – the old

You often hear folks advocate for things like ‘organic’, ‘grass-fed’, or ‘pasture-raised’ food. What are your thoughts on all of this? I think there’s a phenomenon where the idea of having humane ways to raise animals and even ways to help with climate change gets mixed up with health. I

Most people believe that the only way our bodies have access to nutrition is through the food we eat. This is not entirely true. Our bodies have access to our own body fat under certain conditions, right?. Yes. It’s important to remember that our body fat really is just a

What is keto cycling or cyclical keto? Cycling is the idea of going in and out or up and down on something. Keto means fat burning and not being keto means you’re eating carbohydrates, so you’re burning carbohydrates. You can actually choose what sort of fuel your body uses by

Once a doctor prescribes type 2 medications, will these fix the problem? Actually, no! The language even in commercials for diabetes medicine tells you that this is the way to “manage” your type 2 diabetes, but it doesn’t fix it or reverse it. Most people with type 2 diabetes can

What is visceral fat and how is it different from subcutaneous fat? I don’t have a whole lot of people coming to me asking what visceral fat is, but it’s important to understand the difference between visceral fat and other kinds of fat, especially as these more unusual sorts of