Nutrition and lifestyle are the keys to longevity
A blog by Michael Butler
Articles and opinions for my family & friends about how I am living a healthier life informed by scientific research undertaken since being diagnosed with heart disease. Starting with the principle that each of us is biologically unique, everyone can use nutrition and lifestyle to achieve their greatest potential.
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New York Times: We Still Don’t Really Understand the Human Microbiome
A recent New York Times article contributed to the public debate around the human gut microbiome. Put bluntly, we still don’t understand it very well because our research material does not represent the human population.
The article introduces us the the Global Microbiome Consortium, a recent attempt to fill the gaps in our knowledge and foster a more honest discussion of the science.
Healthtruth: A New Way To Investigate Human Health Root-Cause
Interested in finding out more for yourself? healthTruth is an AI-driven search and publication platform that is worth looking at.
It is run by a group of well-respected scientists with a track-record of challenging the status quo and trying to find out what is driving today’s unprecedented increase in chronic disease.
Bread is Sugar
Starches in bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes are rapidly converted by your body into sugar. Very quickly that sugar exceeds our metabolic need, is converted and stored as fat, and contributes to what we call chronic disease.
The good news is that this can be reversed. Cutting down on starchy foods is a way forward. This has been shown to result in drug-free T2D remission.
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: Lessons from Dr. David Unwin
Want a feel-good story about health and longevity from a mainstream newspaper? Look no further. The Telegraph ran a great piece on how Dr. David Unwin is reversing Type 2 diabetes in his patients.
He lays out a simple and effective 6-point plan to get his patients off medication.