Is love a conversation that heals? Doctor Vyvyane Loh
Doctor Vyvyane Loh, “Dr. Mom”, Internal and Obesity Medicine board-certified Founder and Leader of Transform Alliance for Health.
Category: Metabolic Interventions
Metabolic health involves diet, exercise, sleep & other lifestyle habits to optimize blood glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, blood pressure & waist circumference without medications.
Nick Norwitz: an athletic diet?
Nick Norwitz started as a carb-fuled marathon runner. After his lifestyle destroyed his health, he turned to a ketogenic diet to heal.
From the palliative care ward to an MD-PhD
Nicholas Norwitz grew up eating a “healthy” diet. Developed Osteoporosis & Ulcerative Colitis that he resolved with a ketogenic diet.
Mani’s “keto boot camp” by Cassey Hauser
My son’s friend, Cassandra Hauser, and I had planned a trip driving through South America in the summer of 2019. But, when my brother’s long-term caregiver became very ill with lung cancer I brought...
Food from my local farm regenerates soil and bodies
What does an “organic” label mean on a food package? What about “grass-fed” or “product of the USA” stamps? Do assurances come with a package of “cage-free” eggs? There are other troubling questions. If...
Overview schematics help us think about metabolic health
Metabolic health schematics: Interventions. Disorders. Metabolism. Resources. Lifestyle. Definitions. Services. Products. Audiences. Groups.
Who does diabetes hit hardest?
U.S. Diabetes statistics | hardest hit ethnic groups | Education level | Ethnic group hi’s and low’s | High risk youth groups | Insightful Infographics In the National Diabetes Statistics Report 2020, the Center...
Mani’s metabolic musings
Garlic, sugar & COVID19 11-13.7.2020| Sugar & infection | Aged garlic | Tight Glucose control | Sugars & protein function | Sugars & nerve sheaths | Virality or vitality? |Glycan shield or glucose sword...
Layperson terms for ketone body metabolism?
Hypoglycemia & hyperglycemia, low or high blood sugar levels, interact with ketone levels to produce either symptomatic or asymptomatic conditions. Layperson definitions & leading-thinker discussion.
Ketosis versus ketoacidosis, metabolic flexibility or pancreatic disability?
Ketosis is the natural production of ketone bodies in the fasted state by the liver and kidney from fatty acids. Ketoacidosis results from dysregulated pancreatic beta-cell insulin production.
What is metabolic health anyway?
It depends on who you ask, but there are some generally agreed upon parameters for measuring metabolic health. It can be measured in our blood or bodies. These medical, physiological and laboratory test markers...
Diabetes Dirge, aka Diabetes for Dummies
Metabolic health – normal versus insulin resistant muscles affect basal metabolism.
Lifestyle Medicine, the key to metabolic healing
What is lifestyle medicine? Lifestyle medicine can be the central vehicle for metabolic intervention and metabolic optimization. Generally speaking, metabolisms are improved with behaviors rather than with the stuff of conventional health care, i.e.,...
Keto doctors near me
Over 20 directories of Keto Providers near me: Doctors| Dietitians & Nutritionists | Other coaches & Fitness Experts | Building my keto treatment team. Here is an iterative provider list of clinicians who represent...
Pain started my ketogenic journey (Part 1)
Pain relief, diabetes reversal, lowering inflammation and mental clarity were the directions of my ketogenic journey.
Best resources for an overview of keto
Best keto resources for families and patients: | Keto diet overviews | Keto support groups | Best keto books | Keto for Psych | Low-carb & keto success stories || Best keto resources for...
How to build my ketogenic therapy treatment team
Building a team to treat any illness with a ketogenic diet is often a difficult, multi-step process. Ketogenic dietary intervention is in its early stages in healthcare. Yet research has demonstrated its potential effectiveness...
Combat stress with these constructive COVID-19 information resources
A barrage of COVID-19 information can be difficult to assimilate or prioritize when it is most needed to help manage uncertainty and reduce stress. Here is a curated list of resources.
A Lifetime In Submarines And Isolation for Self-improvement during Quarantine
“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties—and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”—VADM James Stockdale, USN
Raj’s journey: obese & diabetic to healthy
Raj Seth’s notes for his recent podcast on LowCarbMD with Doctors Brian Lenzkes and Jason Fung. Fat as a kid I had always been fat as far back as I can remember. I developed...
Why write medical case reports about unique cases?
Publishing unique case reports in the medical literature helps move mental-health care forward. “I would push you to write up some case reports…. Writing a case report might seem like a waste of time,...
Summary – The ketogenic diet may help stop seizures an Advancing Psychiatry article by Chris Palmer, MD
This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. The ketogenic diet controversy The keto diet is one of today’s most controversial diets, so...
Might the ketogenic diet help fight Alzheimer’s Disease?
Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies show that major risk factors for Alzheimer’s include metabolic, lifestyle and genetic factors: Diabetes (1, 4, 7) Obesity (1) Cardiovascular disease (1,4) Lack of exercise (1, 7)...
Why evaluate dietary interventions? They’re just food.
Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...
Fact check – Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines
“Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.” More than 50 doctors, researchers, and clinicians signed an open letter that was published in the New York Times...
Relieving depression with the ketogenic diet?
Perhaps those suffering from treatment-resistant depression could find some relief with the ketogenic diet? Any attempt to try this MUST be medically supervised because there are both psychiatric and metabolic dangers in this dietary...
Doris’s chronic schizophrenia put into remission bringing hope to many
Starting at the end, Doris is ok. She is living happily ever after. But it wasn’t always so. She gave us permission to share her story of schizophrenia in remission. Why? Doris wants to...
My mother’s suffering spurred me to find keto
Christie Barnett’s keto journey: Sitting in a nursing home with my dying mother is where it all began for me, Christie Barnett. There she was, a 71-year-old formerly dignified college instructor, stuck in a...
