Diabetes and Obesity

Metabolism Is How Your Body Gets Energy Metabolism is the process of converting energy from things outside of the body into energy that can be used inside the body. Sadly, in the modern world, the sources we choose to provide ... Read More

What Is Metabolic Psychiatry? Metabolic psychiatry is an emerging field that explores the connection between blood-sugar dysregulation and mood disorders, behavioral challenges, mental health challenges and neurodevelopmental challenges. Research shows (see Sources & References, below) that correcting blood-sugar imbalances can ... Read More

What Is Circadian Rhythm? Any bodily process that occurs regularly on a 24-hour cycle is known as a circadian rhythm. The most common circadian rhythm is the sleep-wake cycle, and that’s what this article discusses. For simplicity, the sleep-wake cycle ... Read More

Effects of Unbalanced Blood Sugar Unbalanced blood sugar places a real strain on the adrenal glands and the body's resources because, unless one is in a state of ketosis, the body runs on sugar - glucose - that's circulating in ... Read More

In this post, Carla Atherton, Director of the Healthy Family Formula, relates how she discovered that functional medicine has better answers for why her daughter developed type 1 diabetes. What Are We Missing in Conventional Care for Type 1 Diabetes? ... Read More

In this blog post, nutritionist Kelly Dorfman tells us why breakfast is important and how to choose what's for breakfast. Manage Glucose Levels Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! We’ve all heard that maxim. What is a ... Read More

What Is Low Blood Sugar? The body typically uses glucose - a simple carbohydrate - for its immediate energy needs; the amount circulating in the body is known as blood sugar. Blood sugar levels below 70 milligrams per deciliter are ... Read More

What Are Obesity and Diabetes? Michelle Obama, in her capacity as First Lady, launched her “Let’s Move” campaign in 2010 in hopes of bringing awareness as well as solutions to the American silent epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes. The ... Read More

John Had No Control John was always a really spirited child. I guess I really started to notice it when he started preschool, maybe like around the age of four. He was just really loud. He went from like zero ... Read More

Johnny and Nate's autism-recovery is excerpted from A Compromised Generation:  The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America's Children. Johnny was born in 1997, a year when the word autism was just beginning to make its way into the mainstream media ... Read More