You've tried everything. Eaten less, exercised more, counted calories. But the weight won't budge. What if the problem was never your lack of willpower — but a fuel switch that got stuck?
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Metabolic Syndrome
The Pre-Diabetes Cluster of Risk Factors
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that often occur together: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, high triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol. Having three or more of these significantly increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. It's essentially pre-pre-diabetes or early-stage insulin resistance—your body is struggling to manage blood sugar and insulin, but not quite badly enough yet to be diagnosed as diabetic. The root cause is typically chronic insulin resistance from years of high-carbohydrate intake. The good news? Metabolic syndrome is highly reversible through dietary changes, particularly low-carb approaches that directly address insulin resistance. An estimated 25-35% of adults in Western countries have metabolic syndrome, with some degree of insulin resistance affecting even more—making this one of our biggest public health challenges.
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The Case for Keto
The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating
'The Case for Keto' challenges what we've been told about healthy eating and presents evidence for why a ketogenic lifestyle might be the key to reversing obesity and metabolic disease.
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This paper argues that restricting carbs should be the first-line diet for diabetes because it quickly lowers blood sugar, improves key health markers, and often reduces medications—without proven long‑term harms comparable to drugs.
Small, dense LDL exposes hidden heart risk: it predicts events even when LDL looks “normal.”