- 'October 10 is the International Metabolic Health Day. Celebrate by assessing your metabolic health and cleaning up your diet'
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Most chronic diseases affecting us today, including heart disease, dementia, obesity, diabetes and cancer are rooted in metabolic dysfunction
- One of the best ways to identify metabolic flexibility and health is a fasting insulin test. Ideally, you want it to be below 3
- If you’re already eating a healthy diet, exercising, and all of your metabolic parameters look good, yet you have an insulin level of 7 or 8, stress may be the culprit, because cortisol raises insulin. Cortisol release is actually a rescue mechanism to ensure you don’t die from low blood sugar
- The Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health will be a truly integrated residential oncology hospital and metabolic research institute. Once funding has been secured, they expect to be up and running within 18 months'