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Clean water and modern sanitation added years to our lives. Our plates may be taking some of them back.

Refined carbs and sugar keep insulin pushed up all day long. Over time your cells stop listening, and that insulin resistance sits underneath heart disease and type 2 diabetes. So a lot of us are living longer, but spending more of those years sick.

I lived that. My A1c was 12.2% and I had type 2. Cutting the sugar and refined carbs and eating real food like meat, eggs and green vegetables is a big part of how I reversed it.

Let's get healthy together.

This episode sketches the history of Guatemala and Central America, by following the changes to their national flag.

No source list for this episode. Spanish-language Wikipedia provided the flag images and I did the rest!

Poor sleep does more than make you tired. Research shows it can lower your insulin sensitivity, and that raises your risk of type 2 diabetes.

When your cells stop listening to insulin, your blood sugar has a harder time coming back down. A few short nights in a row can make that worse.

I used to treat sleep like the thing I could skip. Now it's part of the plan, right next to real food and a walk after meals. My A1c was 12.2%, and I reversed my type 2. Today it's in the normal range.

Let's get healthy together.

This just came out in JAMA Network Open. Researchers at McMaster in Canada put almost 9,000 healthy, middle-aged adults in an MRI. Nobody had symptoms. But the people eating the most ultra-processed food were about 40 percent more likely to show tiny areas of brain damage. Silent spots you'd never notice.

So what counts as ultra-processed? Snack packs. Soda. Sugary cereal. Instant noodles. Frozen ready meals. Stuff that's built in a factory to keep you eating.

Those same people carried more deep belly fat, the kind wrapped around your organs. That fat is tied to inflammation, blood vessel damage and insulin resistance. So this isn't just a brain problem. It's a metabolic problem.

When my A1c was 12.2 percent, I had a fat belly and type 2 diabetes. Changing what I ate was a big part of reversing it. Shop the outside of the store. Meat, eggs, vegetables. Real food you recognize.

Let's get healthy together.

Science, not medical advice.

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Psoriasis usually gets treated as just a skin problem. The research keeps finding it shows up right alongside insulin resistance, and people with psoriasis have higher rates of type 2 diabetes.

That makes sense to me. What's going on inside often shows up on the outside. This clip walks through the link between metabolic health and skin health.

My A1c was 12.2%, and I reversed my type 2 by changing what was on my plate. Today it's in the normal range.

Let's get healthy together.

Most people quit their GLP-1 medications in the first year. A JAMA Network Open study followed about 125,000 adults on a GLP-1 shot. Within a year, more than half had stopped. For people without diabetes, it was almost two out of three.

I'm not a fan of those medications, but that isn't what this video is about. If you've looked at the risks (blindness, gastroparesis, thyroid cancer and more) and you're still good with them, that's between you and your doctor.

Here's the thing. GLP-1 isn't something a drug company invented. Your gut already makes it. It's one of the hormones that tells your brain you're full.

A 2025 study compared a 30-gram protein meal, like eggs and salmon, to a carb meal like most people eat on the standard American diet. The protein meal raised GLP-1 and another fullness hormone more. Small study, simple point: what's on your plate talks to your hormones.

Let's get healthy together.

Science, not medical advice.

Sixty-seven years ago, the American Medical Association put out a diet that was high in protein, high in fat and low in carbs. People have eaten close to that way for thousands of years.

Then the advice flipped to low fat, and sugar and starch filled the gap. Now the research is circling back to what worked in the first place.

That's the way of eating that helped me reverse my type 2. My A1c was 12.2%, and today it's in the normal range. Real meat, real fat and way fewer carbs.

Let's get healthy together.

Do you crash hard after a big lunch? Heavy eyes, brain fog, ready for the couch before the afternoon even starts.

A study published in Diabetes found a simple rule. A BMI over about 28.9 flagged insulin resistance in most of the people they tested with the gold standard clamp test.

So that crash may not be a character flaw. After a carb-heavy meal, insulin spikes hard and then your energy falls off a cliff.

I lived that when my A1C was 12.2%. Today it's in the normal range because I went after insulin resistance instead of another quick energy fix.

If you crash after lunch, start learning about insulin resistance. My other videos here are a good place to start.

Study: Stern SE et al., Diabetes, 2005. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15677489/

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