An interview with Vanessa Spina on why we get fat and what we can do about it. A deep dive into what we have in common with hibernating animals, on the switch that animals use to gain weight, how we …
Article: The Taste for Uric Acid
While there are four tastes on the tongue that are well known (sweet, salty, sour and bitter), there is a fifth taste known as umami. Umami is sometimes called the savory taste, and it is one reason we like beer, …
Article: The Sweet Pain of Gout
While not well know, sugar, and especially the component of sugar known as fructose , makes uric acid when it is metabolized. One soft drink can raise your uric acid significantly. Here we talk about the relationship of sugar, sweet …
Podcast: With Jesse Chappus – How to TURN OFF Your Fat Storage Switch to STOP GAINING WEIGHT
Why does Nature want us to be Fat? How obesity is occurring not only in humans but in pets and zoos. How climate change can increase our risk for obesity. Are umami foods healthy or do they carry some risk …
Podcast – A discussion with Travis Brown and Stephen Davis on uric acid and gout.
While most people think of uric acid as the substances that crystallizes in joints to cause a severe arthritis known as gout, more recent studies suggest uric acid may have also have a role in obesity, diabetes, kidney disease and …
Podcast – The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast
The episode is airing on iTunes, iHeart Radio, Spotify, and all other podcast platforms. iTunes link: https://apple.co/2P0zp8C Melanie’s Instagram/Twitter: @MelanieAvalon Shownotes, including full transcript: http://www.melanieavalon.com/fructose
Podcast – With Dr. Mark Hyman on The Doctor’s Farmacy
A discussion with Mark Hyman on what is the underlying cause of obesity and diabetes. The discussion of the role of both ingested fructose and the fructose our body makes in causing obesity and diabetes. How to block this switch …
Podcast – Everyday Wellness With Cynthia Thurlow on The Driver Behind Metabolic Disease
I’m delighted to share a podcast episode I recorded alongside Cynthia Thurlow – a nurse practitioner, intermittent fasting expert and author of Intermittent Fasting Transformation: IF45. Cynthia is a 2x TEDx speaker with her Intermittent Fasting talk having 11 million …
Video – Part one of my three part Master Series on Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
This is part I of the my three part Master Series on Nature Wants Us to Be Fat. Part I is on the existence of a biological switch to become fat, that it can be triggered by intake of added …