

INSULIN: The hormone behind cravings, weight and fertility.
When I do a search on my website, insulin comes up in a dozen blogs, and a hundred other times in different pages and resources. My recent blog posts "Don't feed the insulin beast" and "Everything sucks when insulin is high" highlight how insulin has become part of my daily language. I talk about insulin like it were my best friend, and at times, my archenemy. I'm very familiar with the hormone and how involved it is in our metabolic functions from head to toe, not just in bl


Everything SUCKS when insulin is high
I'm know within our program thefastingmethod.com and our community for making repetitive and sometimes funny statements. One of my all-time favourite sayings is "don't feed the insulin beast" and I wrote a blog post about this here. Lately I've been adding to that and saying "Everything SUCKS when insulin is high". I love seeing all the heads bob up and down in our community meetings when I say this. Our members know what I mean. "Your work sucks, your spouse sucks, having to


5 passos para um ano novo com mais saúde
Feliz Ano Novo. Desejo a todos um novo ano com mais saúde (que é o que mais importa)! Não me esqueci de si por isso escrevi este blog dos...


Post-Vacation Recovery Plan
I was feeling pretty good here, on the first day of our family vacation to an all-inclusive, super fun beach, pool and water-slide...


Holding Pattern
Do you have a strong Holding Pattern!?! You need one! It will likely determine if you reach your health goal AND if you are successful...


Fruit on a Real Food Diet
If you’re following a real food lower carb diet you may have already realized that “an apple a day” doesn’t necessarily keep the doctor...


Metabolic Age and Insulin Resistance
What do you think of my “Messy Mom Bun”?!? Youthful and fun or scraggly and old?!? Regardless of your biological age, or what you might...


Plant-based vs. Animal-based diet: My thoughts
Plant-based vs. Animal-based diet: My thoughts Lately, I’m sure you’ve read a lot about people going “vegan”, and people going...


Fasting Aids: Yay or Nay?
Fasting Aids: Yay or Nay? What are “Fasting Aids”? Fasting aids – aka “training wheels” or “crutches” – are things that can be ingested...


Benefits of an Extended Fast
Last month I wrote a blog post about "Why I've decided to do OMAD" . You can read about it and all the benefits I've enjoyed from eating...



















