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October 10 - October 15, 2025
Type 2 diabetes is reversible, based on both studies and my personal experience with patients.
The medications are there to treat the symptoms. That means the meds will never make you better, they just prevent you from getting worse as fast as you would without them.
Myth #12: “Health problems come with age.”
Eating sweet, processed carbohydrates in this quantity after a heart bypass is like smoking a pack a day after lung cancer surgery.
most medical professionals are not properly educated about your nutritional needs.30
many hospitals and clinics are forced to follow government guidelines in order to get paid.
Compensation itself is built around disease treatment, not prevention.
Much of the science that led to the current nutritional guidelines was poorly done.
Doctors who do become aware of the nutritional guideline deficiencies don’t really have time to discuss them with their patients.
all twelve myths in the previous chapter are taught to doctors as truth
When I learned the truth and witnessed the changes in my own life, I realized these “facts” were wrong.
while cholesterol does play a part in the disease process, dietary cholesterol consumption is not an inciting event.
High cholesterol with metabolic wellness is not the problem we’ve been told it is.
hospitals serve the same foods that put you there in the first place.
Metabolic health is indicated by five specific markers. We all fail the metabolic health test if three or more of these markers are off.
88 percent of Americans are currently failing at least one of the metabolic health markers,
weight is a poor indicator for health.
We need to measure your waist instead.
fasting blood glucose level above 100 is the second marker for metabolic syndrome.
Blood pressure is the third. For good metabolic health, your top number should be less than 130 and your bottom number less than 85 without medication.”
essential hypertension, and this is an indicator of poor metabolic health.
“Salt has very little if anything to do with high blood pressure.
high-saline IV actually lowers blood pressure.
fourth marker of metabolic health. That’s going to be your HDL cholesterol. For
The function of all cholesterol is to transport fats around your body as an energy source.
With triglycerides, the fifth marker, you do want less than 150.
Research shows if you have a high HDL and low triglycerides, you can expect a longer lifetime.
A lot of people have normal blood glucose but very high insulin.
insulin levels can be too high for up to ten years before that’s reflected in glucose levels.
Most healthcare professionals tell you that insulin of less than 20 is the target, but I tell people less than 10 is ideal.
at the peak of their game, sumo wrestlers are healthier than most Americans.
Weight doesn’t matter. Metabolic health matters.
do recommend getting your fasting insulin level checked if possible.
You’re usually going to have to ask your doctor specifically to check this, and many doctors won’t order the test because they honestly don’t know what to do with it.
This is one reminder to start looking for a physician who is knowledgeable ...
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Sites like ownyourlabs.com make it cheap and easy to check your own blood work without worrying about your doctor refusing specific tests.
Ideally, you’re looking for blood glucose under 100, insulin under 10, HDL above 40 for men or 50 for women, and triglycerides under 150.
A surrogate marker for insulin resistance, if you are unable to get your insulin level directly, is the ratio between triglycerides and your HDL level. If this ratio is less than 2, there is a good chance that you are not insulin resistant.
The current system is designed to keep you overweight and on several medications as the sugar industry keeps shoving poison down your throat,
you want to get metabolically healthy, the very first step is to get out of the diet and weight-loss mindset.
Instead of many goals to chase all at once, you need one sustainable system you can stick to that improves your health every day. Without thinking twice.
“Eat in such a way that you are hungry less often, which naturally results in a transition to a sixteen-hour fasting window without thinking about it.”
Trying to improve your eating is a single-ingredient recipe for failure. Decide you’ll do what it takes to improve. Once you’ve decided, take swift, decisive, consistent action.
Principle 2: Eat Real Whole Food
“What is real whole food?” The answer is simple: real whole food comes from the earth, or it eats things that come from the earth.
your food should not have an ingredients list or label because the food itself is the only ingredient.
If it wasn’t something your great-grandparents were eating one hundred years ago, it’s not something we should be eating now.
we have not improved our health, and in fact we’ve worsened it because of the food we’re eating.
Our food robs us of decades of living while we’re still alive.
fueling your body to live your life—not eating as a hobby, social event, boredom cure, or “treat.”
