So let's talk about weight loss - the current gold standard to improve health. Losing even 5% of your weight (7.5 lbs for a 150 lb person) can help lower cholesterol or blood sugar levels.1 In fact, weight loss alone can help improve lab values2 which is always a smart move for your health. But, what you eat on your weight loss diet affects your health. Say you choose a keto or carnivore diet for rapid weight loss. You lose weight and feel great but a high fat, low carb diet causes inflammati

This is going to seem like a blog about heart disease but it’s not. It’s actually about how a common, seemingly innocent condition like high blood pressure (BP) can turn into something much worse. High BP is a chronic disease that affects one in two people in the US.1 Most people are under the impression that if they take their BP medications, that will take care of the problem. So, if you’re taking your medications, why do you need to do more? How high blood pressure starts out You're

The covid pandemic felt a little bit like Russian roulette. Some people got desperately sick, others had a mild case or no symptoms at all. The real scare was not knowing how Covid would affect you if you DID get it. While isolation was the prevailing strategy, it just felt like worrying with a mask on. And now, new viruses and infections seem to be popping up in the news every day. Maybe that's why new research shows that 77% of consumers want to do more to improve their health now and for th

Researchers asked a group of people to rate how healthy their diet was and then had them record what they actually ate. Surprisingly, almost all of the people who thought their diet was healthy, were wrong.1 Their diets were actually low in good foods and high in inflammatory fats and salt. So, they think their healthy diet is a win when it's actually the opposite. Even more importantly, the foods they're eating could be setting them up for chronic diseases in the future. 75% of Americans say

It used to be that diets were just for weight loss.  Health was judged by the numbers on your bathroom scale.  If you were slim, you were healthy. The main goal back then was rapid weight loss and no one was particularly concerned about how you got there. If all you ate in a day was popcorn and diet soda, you were applauded for dropping those pounds.   But diets are making the headlines more and more these days - and not just for weight loss. Diet plays a critical role in health and preventi

One thing Covid did was shift our focus to better health. Since then, everyone has been upping their wellness game with GLP-1s like Ozempic, weight loss meds, diets, surgery, workouts, clean eating. Over half of all adults are on weight loss diets and 3 out of 4 people take supplements.