by Dr. David Minkoff January 08, 2024 6 min read
You've probably heard of calorie counting. It's something you're told you must do on any diet to lose body fat.
And this is true.
But there's much more to it than that.
Because if you only did calorie restriction, and addressed nothing else, you'd most likely fail at the diet, or, if you made it through, you'd almost certainly gain it all right back again.
So, while we'll start this article with calorie counting, make sure you read all the way through, because it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Let's begin.
by Dr. David Minkoff January 08, 2024 3 min read
Welcome to the Guide to Sustainable Fat Loss & 30-Day Challenge!
If you’ve ever had trouble losing weight, or keeping it off afterwards, this guide and challenge are for you.
This isn’t some quick fix to help you lose weight fast only to gain it all back again, or some miracle product that helps you lose weight but also harms you in some other way.
No, this is a very exact protocol that addresses the reasons you gained the weight in the first place, why it’s so hard to lose it, and why it’s so easy to gain it back again once you have lost it.
Even more, once you’ve lost the weight on this challenge, you will be in a position to easily keep it off, because you will know exactly what caused it in the first place.
by Dr. David Minkoff December 31, 2023 3 min read
If you’ve ever had trouble with diets, losing fat, or simply keeping the weight off, let’s start by saying…
It’s not you.
Let me say that one more time in case you didn't get it.
It’s. Not. You.
Period.
Every year, over a hundred million Americans make New Year’s Resolutions.
And, there’s one resolution made more often than any of the others: the goal to lose weight.
It’s also the one that’s given up on the fastest.
Why is that the case?
by Dr. David Minkoff December 04, 2023 7 min read
There is something called Metabolic Syndrome. And while you may or may not have heard of it, about one third of the US population has it.
And almost 90% of us are somewhere on our way to it.
It's a group of symptoms occurring together that show a lowered functioning in the overall processes within our body that keep us alive, healthy and doing well.
And it can lead to:
As only about 12% of the population of the US are metabolically healthy as of ten years ago… it’s something that is important for us to understand so we know both what is happening, and also what to do about it.
by Dr. David Minkoff November 07, 2023 5 min read
There is an idea that saturated fats raise cholesterol and so blood pressure, and this isn’t the case.
Your body needs saturated fats. About 25% of each of your cells are made from saturated fat. And they wouldn’t function without it.
Even more, it’s necessary if we want soft, healthy skin.
But there is another type of fat which has been confused with saturated fats, and which is very destructive: Trans Fats.
We aren’t hearing as much about them today, but they exist in many processed foods and we need to check for them as they cause inflammation in the blood vessels that does lead to high blood pressure.
So let’s see what these are and what they do.
by Dr. David Minkoff October 24, 2023 5 min read
Testosterone levels have been dropping for decades, while estrogen levels have risen sharply. And thyroid is a huge problem.
Hormonal imbalances are no longer just being deficient in one or another hormone.
There are exact chemicals in the environment, in our food, air, and water, which didn’t exist before, chemicals that block hormones from being created, block them from being able to communicate their instructions to a cell, disrupt their normal actions, or impersonate them entirely.
by Dr. David Minkoff October 12, 2023 4 min read
This is the end of the Gut Health 30-Day Challenge. Now it’s time to take a step back and see where we are, and where we go next!
The goals for this program were:
by Dr. David Minkoff October 08, 2023 5 min read
While we’ve all heard of Candida, most of us don’t actually know what it is and how it works.
But it’s something we do need to know, as almost all of us have it.
And when it gets out of control, as it often does with today’s diets, it can cause all sorts of trouble, affecting our mood, our sleep, our ability to recover both from illness and exercise and our overall health.
And it can create some pretty uncomfortable physical conditions.
by Dr. David Minkoff October 03, 2023 7 min read
We’ve covered how toxins affect our digestive tract and microbiome.
But now we’re going to cover how the weed killer Glyphosate affects us, because this is one of the most toxic substances there is and, due to its widespread use, it’s in almost all processed foods and non-organic meats.
And it plays a very large roll in the destruction of our digestive tract, microbiome and overall health, leading to some of the worst physical conditions there are, as well as premature aging.
by Dr. David Minkoff October 01, 2023 4 min read
In the last article we covered what the microbiome is, a colony of trillions of bacteria in our colon, and how it affects every aspect of our health, our hormones, our longevity and the ability to build muscle and stay fit.
These bacteria also produce or help to produce neurotransmitters in our body, such as Serotonin and GABA, which calm and relax us, de-stress us and allow us to fall asleep.
In this article we’re going to cover how the number of toxins coming into our body, which increases every year, affects these bacteria.
by Dr. David Minkoff September 27, 2023 6 min read
We’ve spoken a lot on our stomach and small intestine, and the issues we face there.
Now we’re going to our lower intestine, our colon, where a colony of some hundred trillion bacteria live. And they have more to do with our overall health, calmness of mind, nerve function, ability to sleep, ability to burn fat and build muscle, and even our hormones than you might think.
by Dr. David Minkoff September 26, 2023 6 min read
Aging is a natural process.
Over time, as the stem cells we're born with become used up, our body is less and less able to regenerate itself.
But then there is premature aging, where this process happens years or decades before it should. And while this is definitely not natural, unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more common.
In this article we're going to cover exactly what is happening to our cells, what is doing this, how this affects aging and what we can do to prevent it.
There is something that accelerates aging by destroying our cells so that our stem cells are needed to produce new cells more often than they should, thus accelerating our biological aging process and making us “old” before our time.
It’s a word you’ve probably heard, but never gotten a real explanation for: Free Radicals.
by Dr. David Minkoff
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