It was a thrill to see people learn as they put the theory into practice in our first Data-Driven Fasting 30-day Challenge. It’s fun to see the process through the eyes of people taking the journey, with all their “ah-ha” moments. Many of the observations reinforced our previous analysis. But there were also surprises. Check …
Oxidative priority… it’s critical to understanding how fat loss works! In this article, you will learn how your body uses various fuels (with some cool diagrams and examples). These “secrets” are central to our systems that have helped so many people optimise their diet and achieve their fat loss goals. This info will help you …
Read moreOxidative Priority: The key to unlocking your body fat stores
There are so many misconceptions about insulin, it’s role your body and how to optimise it. Many believe in the low carb and keto community believe the best way is to avoid carbohydrates and even protein (which tend to raise insulin levels the most over the short term). While your insulin levels will increase over …
This article looks at the mechanisms of type 2 diabetes and gives you a road map to help you to maximise your chance of achieving optimal blood glucose control, fat loss and long-term metabolic health.
A popular adage suggests we should “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] We interrogated more than half a million days of food diaries to see whether it is actually helpful to eat like a king for breakfast. Eat dinner like a pauper …
I recently shared Dr Ted Naiman’s latest “insulinographic” that attempts to explain the adipose centric theory of diabesity. It created some great discussion as well as some confusion, so I thought it would be worth an article to unpack the critical insights about how insulin really works in our body and what we can do …
Read morePersonal Fat Threshold model of insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity
A comparison of the keto diet and vegan diet vs the for diabetes (e.g. Mangoman, Dr Greger and What the Health).
There is a lot of controversy and confusion over gluconeogenesis and the impact of protein on blood sugar and ketosis. I want to shed some light on protein, insulin, and how high protein meals impact your blood sugar. Some common questions around the interwebs include: If you are managing diabetes, should you avoid protein because …
An article in Business Insider, “A Nutritionist Shares Pictures of Everything She Eats in a Day“, caught my eye recently. I thought it would be interesting to run the numbers to see how the food diary logged by this nutritionist compared to the four hundred or so meals that I’ve analysed. Check out the original …
Read moreAnalysis of what a nutritionist eats and hospital food
There’s a lot of talk about nutrient dense diet and “superfoods”, but what do these terms really mean? Which foods actually give the most nutritional bang for your calorie buck? That is, which foods provide the most nutrients for the least number of calories? Some approaches to quantifying nutrient density (e.g. Joel Fuhrman’s Aggregate Nutrient …
Read moreHow to engineer your nutrient dense diet – Definitive Guide