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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.

What You Don’t Know about Cholesterol

by John Douillard on January 14, 2020 | 17 Comments

Is Cholesterol Good or Bad? Is cholesterol good or bad? The medical establishment continues to argue over it. The unresolved issue is whether saturated fat (high in cholesterol) is evil. To answer this, it might help to understand cholesterol’s role in health, and how it can turn bad. Cholesterol is essential for life and is […]

Famine over Feast: High Uric Acid Foods to Avoid + Why

by John Douillard on December 24, 2019 | 21 Comments

Our Ancestors: Fruit + Famine Once upon a time, about 26 million years ago, apes in Africa lived in a flourishing tropical garden, where their next meal, likely some ancient version of a banana, was just a few feet away. They were mostly fruitarians, and they had a special enzyme that helped metabolize fruit as […]

Reduce Glycation: Maintain Healthy Blood Sugar + Brain Function with this B Vitamin

by John Douillard on December 21, 2019 | 13 Comments

Blood Sugar, Glycation + AGEs The insidious rise of blood sugar levels has become an epidemic plaguing more than 100 million (or one in three) Americans. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), 90% of the population with rising blood sugars are not aware that they even have an issue!12 The result of rising […]

Why Do I Crash Every Afternoon? It’s More Serious than You Think

by John Douillard on December 19, 2019 | 3 Comments

Sleepy? According to Ayurveda, when your lifestyle is in sync with natural circadian rhythms, life can be but a dream, gently down the stream! When your lifestyle is out of sync with biological clocks, life can feel like a struggle—as if you are paddling upstream all day! When I teach at Ayurvedic colleges, I always […]

Stop Sugar Cravings with Gymnema

by John Douillard on November 30, 2019 | 10 Comments

Wired for Sweet For 10,000 years, humans have been infatuated with sugar. Since the first sweet taste of mother’s milk some two million years ago, our early ancestors established a strong brain-gut neural pathway that the sweet taste was safe and happy. It also gave them energy, and the more of it they could forage, […]

How to Balance Blood Sugar: Become a Blood Sugar Detective

by John Douillard on September 3, 2019 | 11 Comments

What is blood sugar? How do I balance my blood sugar naturally? In this article, we dive into the history of rising blood sugar levels and what you can do about it. Healthy Fat, Replaced by Sugar We all have two sources of fuel: fat and sugar (carbs). Fat is stable, long-lasting fuel, while sugar […]

Death by Sugar

by John Douillard on August 17, 2019 | 8 Comments

You’ve probably heard sugar is bad for you. But, how bad is it, really? Let’s start with the addictive nature of sugar . . . it’s more addictive than cocaine! In one study, animals were offered a choice between two feeding levers: one loaded with sugar or saccharin and the other with cocaine. 94% of […]

Master Your Metabolism, Cravings + Weight

by John Douillard on July 18, 2019 | 5 Comments

Do you crave a sweet, chip, or caffeinated beverage at least once a day? Do you eat snacks between meals to prevent a blood sugar crash? Do you carry extra weight around your belly, hips, or thighs? Do you experience more and more “senior moments” with uncharacteristic brain fog? All of the above are early […]

Biohacking with Ben Greenfield

by John Douillard on July 2, 2019 | 3 Comments

What should we eat? In my search to answer what should be a very simple question, I have interviewed best-selling diet authors David Perlmutter, MD, author of Grain Brain, John McDougall, MD, author of The Starch Solution, Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones, and this week’s podcast is with fitness and longevity expert Ben […]

Benefits of Beets

by John Douillard on June 25, 2019 | 12 Comments

Beets may seem a humble little food, but they pack a huge health punch! I have been a big fan of beets and their health benefits for some time. I use beets as a major part of our Colorado Cleanse and as a bile-thinning agent for congested bile and pancreatic ducts. But the power of […]

Boost Lymph for Healthy Blood Sugar

by John Douillard on May 28, 2019 | 4 Comments

A slew of health concerns can be caused by blood sugar levels. Educating yourself about the ways in which blood sugar affects you is crucial to balancing these levels. Conditions associated with chronically high blood sugar levels include weight gain, cardiovascular and cognitive health, as well as a host of degenerative conditions. Even blood sugars […]

The Dark Truth behind Sugar

by John Douillard on May 11, 2019 | 19 Comments

Could you be prediabetic? According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one-third of America is prediabetic and 90% of them, some 100 million Americans, do not know it.6-8 When researches compared blood sugar of 249 healthy adults in their 60s, there was a significant increase in brain atrophy and shrinkage […]