Insulin Resistance

Blood Sugar, Insulin and What to Eat for Each Phase of Your Monthly Menstrual Cycle

The fluctuations in hormones, cravings, and appetite that occur throughout a woman’s monthly cycle are fascinating and mysterious – not just for guys, but for most women as well! In the days leading up to menstruation, women often experience an increase in cravings, appetite, blood glucose, and insulin levels. This is sometimes accompanied by water …

What Is the Ideal Blood Sugar Level for Weight Loss and Fat Burning?

by Marty Kendall

Your blood glucose can give you powerful insights into when and what to eat to guide your weight loss journey, but not in the way that most people think. If you’re trying to lose weight and improve your metabolic health, your blood glucose before you eat (i.e., pre-meal blood sugars) is more important to measure …

Reactive Hypoglycemia: Symptoms, Causes & Dietary Solutions

by Marty Kendall

Despite apparently doing everything ‘right’, some people experience a rapid blood glucose crash not long after they eat. This leaves them tired, hangry, and ready to eat everything and anything in their pantry! This condition—or symptom, I should say—is known as reactive hypoglycemia. We’ve had a LOT of questions over the years in our programs …

How to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease

by Marty Kendall

If you’re living with Type-2 Diabetes, pre-diabetes, insulin resistance or another form of metabolic syndrome, you may already know that these conditions don’t often appear alone. A diagnosis of Type-2 Diabetes or metabolic syndrome further increases your chances of also having: Yes. That’s a long list! And those conditions have their own risk factors. While …

Glucagon vs Insulin: The Accelerator and Brake Pedal for Your Metabolism

by Marty Kendall

I’ve been banging on for years about insulin and how it’s not the bad guy in hopes of getting the keto community to listen. People often think they’re fat because their insulin levels are high. However, the reverse is true; your insulin levels are high because your body has more energy to hold in storage …

Insulin is NOT Making You Fat (and Here’s Why)

by Marty Kendall

It’s no wonder that so many people believe: I recently attended and spoke at a low-carb conference with my son. After listening to many speakers over the two days, my 16-year-old son Mike asked, ‘why does everyone here believe insulin is evil?’ In December 2021, Mike was diagnosed with type 1. If he did not …

Menopausal Weight Gain: The Problem and Solution Explained

by Marty Kendall

Menopause—the cessation of monthly hormone cycles, bleeding (menses), and egg releases (ovulation) that often occurs in a woman’s forties and fifties—is often met with dread. The hormone changes during a woman’s transition into menopause (i.e., perimenopause) cause mood swings, changes in body temperature, unpredictable bleeding, energy fluctuations, and ever-feared weight gain. Understanding and addressing menopausal …

How to Optimise Type-1 Diabetes Management (Without Losing Your Mind)

by Marty Kendall

When it comes to optimising metabolic health and blood sugar management, there are many similarities between how to approach Type-1 Diabetes, Type-2 Diabetes, or other conditions related to poor metabolic health. Because people with Type-1 Diabetes must constantly measure and actively manage their blood glucose and insulin, we can learn a lot from how their …

What Is Insulin Resistance (and How to Reverse It)?

by Marty Kendall

Insulin resistance is ‘an impaired response of the body to insulin resulting in elevated levels of glucose in the blood’. Sadly, while this definition tells us what insulin resistance is, it does little to help us understand the root cause and how to reverse it. This article dives deeper into the root cause of insulin …

Your Metabolism Explained: In 2 Infographics

by Marty Kendall

With 82,000 followers on Twitter, I know there’s a long line… but I think I must be Dr Ted Naiman’s #1 fan! Many of my articles, like this one on the Personal Fat Threshold Model of Insulin Resistance, Diabetes, and Obesity vs the Carbohydrate Insulin Model, are just extended captions to his pithy memes about …