Articles in: Blood Sugar

With one third of the American adult population already pre-diabetic, and experts predicting 100% of adult Americans to be pre-diabetic in the next ten years, blood sugar is an urgent and insidious issue. In short, blood sugar issues are the underlying cause of cardiovascular imbalance, determined to be the number one cause of death in America. Today, even health-conscious diets are loaded with hidden sugars, high glycemic loads and processed foods, and folks are not aware of the cumulative impact that such difficult-to-digest foods have on our ability to balance blood sugar. Blood sugar issues, which almost always start in childhood, are linked to most of the chronic and inflammatory disease we see wreaking havoc on the adult population today. Unfortunately, according to the latest research, even the slightest elevations in blood sugar are dangerous, and most blood labs don’t flag people early enough to catch early risk. Learn how to easily screen for blood sugar issues at home and how to eat and live for optimal blood sugar health.

Protein Deficiency: The Hidden Signs

by John Douillard on July 14, 2016 | 119 Comments

Average Reading Time: 7 minutes and 49 seconds All year long, and especially each winter, I find myself treating an inordinate number of patients for protein deficiency. Most of them are quite health-aware and have made conscious decisions as to what they include – and don’t include – in their diets. But somehow, despite their […]

Full-Fat Trumps Low-Fat Dairy

by John Douillard on May 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

Average Reading Time: 1 minute and 27 seconds Logic would tell you that when you start breaking up whole foods into components that we deem “healthier,” it always seems to backfire. Low-fat milk takes away the fat and leaves the milk with a higher concentration of sugar (lactose) and casein — the hard-to-digest dairy protein. […]

Gallbladder Removed? 10 Tips To Digest Fat

by John Douillard on May 12, 2016 | 59 Comments

Average Reading Time: 6 minutes and 23 seconds According to a study in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA), out of the 700,000 gallbladder-removal surgeries each year, more than 10% are still left with pain in the area that once was the gallbladder. (1) The current treatment involves inspecting the common bile and pancreatic ducts […]

Dangers of Frequent Eating

by John Douillard on April 28, 2016 | 123 Comments

Contrary to what you may have been told, our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not have the luxury of eating 6 meals a day. For them, it was feast or famine. Our very presence as a species is due to the fact that humans were able to endure long periods of time without food. What happened? With […]

New Research May Completely Change How We Look At Blood Sugar

by John Douillard on March 8, 2016 | 13 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 49 seconds A recent article from the BBC described some current research that will potentially change all the rules regarding blood sugar. With pre-diabetes affecting more than one-third of the adult population, millions of people have been put on strict no-sugar, low-carb diets to lower their blood sugar levels. […]

Top 10 Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar

by John Douillard on February 16, 2016 | 25 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 59 seconds Vinegar has a long history of therapeutic use, dating back some 5000 years BC in Babylonia. Hippocrates and Hannibal of Carthage and Cleopatra were fans and, today, science backs the numerous health benefits of this fermented beverage. (1) Therapeutic cider vinegar or “sour wine” can be made […]

What You Don’t Know About Cholesterol

by John Douillard on January 21, 2016 | 11 Comments

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 12 seconds Cholesterol has been under much media scrutiny of late as the medical establishment continues to argue over this issue. The still unresolved issue is whether or not saturated fat – which is high in cholesterol – is evil or not. To answer this, it might help to […]

Be Fit, Thin & Calm in 12 Minutes a Day

by John Douillard on January 14, 2016 | 27 Comments

Average Reading Time: 8 minutes and 44 seconds I am often asked, “What is the best exercise? Why don’t I lose weight when I exercise? Can I exercise, balance blood sugar and stabilize my mood? How do I avoid over exercising?” To balance blood sugar, we must re-educate the body to burn fat. Fat burns […]

Why Your Uric Acid Levels Matter

by John Douillard on November 19, 2015 | 7 Comments

Average Reading Time: 5 minutes and 41 seconds Once upon a time, about 16 million years ago, a few brave apes left East Africa and wandered north across land bridges into Eurasia – Turkey, to be exact. Life was so good that some eight species of apes flourished in Turkey, as did elephants, giraffes and […]

Reset Digestive Agni (Fire) Protocol

by John Douillard on November 17, 2015 | 12 Comments

The stomach produces an acid called hydrochloric acid (HCl) that is responsible for breaking down many of the hard-to-digest proteins we consume such as wheat, dairy, corn, soy, certain nuts and meats. While excess stomach acid is seemingly becoming an increasingly prevalent issue these days, sometimes it is necessary to boost the production of the […]

Discover Your Personal Weight Loss Plan

by John Douillard on November 5, 2015 | 4 Comments

Average Reading Time: 7 minutes and 55 seconds Autumn is in full-swing and just around the corner are the holidays. And with the holidays and the cooler weather moving in, many of us find ourselves gaining some weight during the fall and winter months. This is, of course, nature’s plan to insulate both humans and […]

The Gymnema Effect: The Sugar Craving Solution

by John Douillard on October 24, 2015 | 6 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 23 seconds For 10,000 years, humans have been infatuated with the sweet taste of sugar. Since the first sweet taste of mother’s milk some 2 million years ago, our early human ancestors established a very strong brain-gut neural pathway establishing that the sweet taste was safe and made them […]