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.

High Protein Diet (Paleo) Fails to Balance Blood Sugar

by John Douillard on December 24, 2016 | 5 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes The Paleo Diet has many great merits, such as encouraging whole, seasonal, non-processed foods, and healthy fats and pasture-raised and grass-fed meats. However, it seems that within the Paleo community there is much discrepancy and continued refinements that are being made. Eating a high-protein diet, like Paleo, has become a […]

Lower Inflammation & Blood Sugar with Whole Grains

by John Douillard on December 17, 2016 | 14 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 24 seconds Some gluten-free experts assert that belly fat and cognitive decline is directly linked to whole wheat and whole grain. The assertion is that these grains dangerously increase both inflammation and blood sugar levels, which are causative factors in a host of degenerative concerns. The main premise of […]

How to Avoid High Blood Sugar Spikes After Meals

by John Douillard on November 21, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Highly processed and refined foods quickly raise blood sugar levels after they are eaten. This means fast food, most packaged foods, foods made with white flour and white rice, white bread, foods with artificial sweeteners, foods with high fructose corn syrup and preservatives, sugar-heavy drinks – you get the idea. When blood sugar levels spike […]

The Link Between Blood Sugar and Memory

by John Douillard on August 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

Average Reading Time: 5 minutes and 14 seconds One in nine individuals over age 65 are estimated to be living with cognitive-related concerns, (1), adding up to 5.2 million Americans that are currently suffering. One in eight adults 60 years or older self-reported concerns of increased confusion or memory loss over their previous years – […]

Insulin: The Two-Faced Hormone

by John Douillard on August 9, 2016 | 8 Comments

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 25 seconds With a diabetes epidemic on the rise, most folks are more concerned about having too little insulin rather than too much – as diabetes is marked by a lack of insulin production. For most Americans, it is the chronic over-production of insulin that, over time, burns out […]

Whey Protein: The Best Breakfast to Balance Weight & Blood Sugar

by John Douillard on July 16, 2016 | 13 Comments

A new study reported in the 2016 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society found that eating a high protein breakfast that included whey protein had a powerful effect on weight loss, satiety and post-meal blood sugar spikes. (1) The study evaluated 48 overweight and obese individuals with blood sugar spikes. They were asked to consume […]

Protein Deficiency: The Hidden Signs

by John Douillard on July 14, 2016 | 128 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 | 60 Comments

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 for a small stone, or a surgical procedure […]

The Dangers of Frequent Eating

by John Douillard on April 28, 2016 | 131 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 […]