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Wilhelm Ebstein was a German doctor born in 1836, and most people only know his name from a rare heart defect called Ebstein's anomaly. What he wrote about food is the part I find really interesting.

In 1882 he published a book on obesity and how to treat it, and his advice was to cut back on bread, potatoes and sugar and eat more fat with moderate protein. A couple of years later he used that same low-carb, high-fat approach for people dealing with gout.

He didn't know anything about ketosis or insulin resistance back then. He just paid attention to what happened to his patients when the carbs came down, and modern research keeps landing in the same spot.

It makes you wonder why it took us so long to come back around to it. Have you ever cut carbs for gout or joint pain? I'd love to hear how it went.

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Tags: Wilhelm Ebstein, low carb history, high fat diet, gout, obesity

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A cholesterol panel can come back looking great while your insulin has been running high for years, and most routine checkups never look at it.

In a 1996 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers followed a large group of men without diabetes for five years. 114 of them had a first heart event, which meant chest pain, a heart attack or death. They compared those men to matched men who stayed healthy, with the same age, weight, smoking and drinking, and high fasting insulin stood out as its own risk factor for heart disease.

That's why I think fasting insulin belongs in the conversation with your doctor, right next to the cholesterol numbers you already get. It's a simple blood test, and it can show you a problem long before your blood sugar does.

Study: Despres JP et al., N Engl J Med 1996, PMID 8596596.

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#Health #Nutrition #Science #Heart #Diabetes

Someone at work asks: "Could AI handle this for us?" You've seen the demo where it writes a perfect answer in seconds, and the threads where engineers say they were let down. And you can't tell what AI can actually do reliably, or how much of it is hype.

I think "how good is AI?" hides three smaller questions:

In this video, I use one example (an imagined pilot where AI drafts customer support replies in five seconds, yet a ticket still takes about as long as before) to show how to judge AI on your own task, end to end, and end with five checks to try on one task your team actually does.

Full post and transcript: https://aiforthecurious.ai/videos/judge-ai-on-your-own-workflow

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Next time someone shows you how fast an AI step got, what will you ask about the rest of the work? Tell me in the comments.

Everybody is talking about GLP-1 right now because of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. They work for a lot of people, but they can come with side effects, especially stomach trouble.

Chlorogenic acid is a compound you already get from plants. Green coffee beans have the most of it, and the yerba mate plant has plenty too. A recent study found it can raise GLP-1 levels naturally.

Dr. Ben Bikman, who runs a metabolism lab at Brigham Young University, shared early results on a podcast. In his experiment with a yerba mate drink, GLP-1 levels went up about 70% in the fasted state. That's still early work, but it's a big number.

Have you tried yerba mate? Let me know what you noticed.

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Tags: chlorogenic acid, yerba mate, GLP-1, natural GLP-1, metabolic health

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Mouth taping went viral as a sleep hack, but the research behind it is still small. A recent review of ten studies found a clear benefit in only two.

Loud snoring can be a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, where breathing stops or goes shallow again and again overnight. In the Sleep Heart Health Study of 2,656 adults, people with 15 or more breathing pauses an hour had about 1.5 times the odds of high fasting blood sugar, even after accounting for weight. That is an association, not proof that apnea causes high sugar, but repeated stress jolts at night are one likely link to insulin resistance.

Tape may make snoring quieter without changing what is happening underneath. If you snore loudly, wake up tired, or someone has heard you stop breathing, a sleep test with your doctor is the place to start. A CGM can also show how your morning numbers change after a rough night versus a good one.

Have you tried mouth taping, or had a sleep study?

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Tags: mouth taping, sleep apnea, insulin resistance, fasting blood sugar, snoring and blood sugar

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Coffee is one of the most heavily sprayed crops in the world, and those chemicals don't always stay on the farm.

Researchers in the Dominican Republic compared coffee farm workers who were exposed to pesticides with workers on organic farms. The exposed group showed significant cellular damage that the organic workers didn't.

That study looked at the people growing the beans, not the people drinking the coffee. It still raises a fair question about what ends up in your cup every morning.

If coffee is part of your day, it's worth knowing where your beans come from and how they were grown. Your coffee should give you energy, not add to your toxic load.

Do you pay attention to how your coffee is grown? Let me know.

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Pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia) is usually blamed on genes alone. Two studies out of Finland suggest blood sugar hormones may be part of the picture too.

Men who started balding before age 35 were more likely to have high insulin, belly fat, high blood pressure and poor cholesterol than men the same age with full hair. In 324 Finnish women, high fasting insulin went with about 65% higher odds of significant hair loss.

This is a link, not proof that insulin causes hair loss. It does make thinning hair a good reason to ask your doctor for a fasting insulin test, since insulin can run high for years before glucose looks off.

Have you noticed this pattern in people you know?

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Tags: pattern hair loss, insulin resistance, fasting insulin, androgenetic alopecia, metabolic health

#Health #Nutrition #Science #Hair #Diabetes

Are skin tags a sign of diabetes? In 92 seconds you'll learn:

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A tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar with a meal has been studied for years, and the results keep pointing the same direction. In several small trials, people who took vinegar with a carb-heavy meal had a smaller blood sugar spike afterward than when they skipped it.

Researchers think the acetic acid slows how fast your stomach empties and helps your muscles pull glucose out of the blood. Some studies also found modest drops in fasting blood sugar and cholesterol over a few months.

It isn't magic, and it won't undo a plate of pasta. It's a cheap, simple tool that works best alongside cutting the sugar and the carbs.

Dilute it in water and don't sip it straight, because it's hard on your teeth and throat. If you wear a glucose monitor, try it with a meal and see what your own numbers do.

Have you tried it? Let me know.

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#Health #Nutrition #Science #Diabetes #Food