Here are “How To” videos about the American Gut Project is, and how to sample your poop, tongue or hands if you sign up.
Category: Tests
BMI? (Body Mass Index) Bunk! Interview with Dr. Ron Rosedale
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•LISTEN (1 HOUR) (Note from Shelley) Body Mass Index is a calculation based on your height and your weight. It’s supposed to be a way to determine whether you’re thin or fat. A bigger BMI, has not been considered healthy. Earlier this year, that got challenged, when the Journal of the American Medical Association published…
Julian Bakery Whistleblower Starts New Website
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•This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Net Carb or Net Farce?For those of you who wonder how much you can trust the labeling on Low Carb foods, here’s a cautionary tale from Deborah Krueger, who became so suspicious of the “low-carb” breads from Julian Bakery, she started testing them on herself…
July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test – Passed!
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•This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsHere are the numbers from my July 2012 Glucose Tolerance Test. In this test, I passed and have, according to medical measurements, normal blood sugars throughout the test. In 2005, I failed two glucose tolerance tests. That earned me the diagnosis…
Ron Krauss – Saturated Fat? Red Meat? It Depends . . .
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•EDITOR’S NOTE – This conversation with Ron Krauss took place in late March 2012. It focuses on the health questions involving saturated fat and red meat that have been in the news of late. Ron is a Senior Scientist and Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department…
High-fiber foods and blood sugar – Quest Protein Bar Interview
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•LISTEN TO INTERVIEW (30 MINUTES) Editor’s note – “High-fiber, low-net carb” products are often marketed as helpful for keeping blood sugars low. The idea that a consumer can subtract the “fiber” carbs from the “total carbs,” to figure out “net carbs,” seems logical on first glance. But like a growing number of health experts and…
Net Carb vs Blood Sugars – The Quest Protein Bar Test
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•This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Net Carb or Net Farce? PART 1 on YOUTUBE: PART 2 on YOUTUBE: If you can’t view YouTube or if you want to download these videos, then . . . SEE PART 1 – Net Carb Test — Part 1 (3 1/2 Minutes) SEE…
Net Carbs vs Fiber Carbs – Jeff vs 1 net Carb Bread
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•This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Net Carb or Net Farce? Listen to Jeff (3 minutes) Transcript of Jeff’s Account of How his Blood Sugars Reacted to a 1 Net Carb Bread. “My name is Jeff Roaderick. I’m 46 years old, and I have Type 1 diabetes, diagnosed in 1993, so…
Ron Rosedale – The Toast Test
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•LISTEN (4 minutes) Ron Rosedale A long time ago, maybe 15 years ago, when I was in Asheville, North Carolina, before leptin was discovered, I was doing a lot of research on my patients about insulin, to see what lowered it, what raised it. I remember one boy who came in, brought in by really…
Steve Phinney and Richard Johnson: Ketones, Uric Acid, High Fat and Health
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•STEVE PHINNEY – “When I’m asked how long ketoadaptation takes, I generally respond that some aspects of it take 6 weeks or more.” RICK JOHNSON “Low carb diets (might be improving) insulin resistance in part because of reduction of dietary glucose that reduces endogenous (body-manufactured) fructose.