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How To Reverse Diabetes.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

As the line goes: “You can’t outrun a bad diet, and you can’t out diet not exercising.” The greatest risk for a shortened life expectancy and early onset of diseases arises when you move from pre-diabetes to diabetes. All of these patients had a BMI >27. ” Diabetes.

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Expert Perspective: The Obesity Paradox with Salvatore Carbone, PhD

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

There are significant data that show that if you have obesity, you have a high risk of developing coronary heart disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. [1] These individuals tend to have a better prognosis when compared to both individuals with normal weight (BMI of 18.5

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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Their diets are often poor. They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. But let’s look at WHEN centenarians get these diseases.

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Physiology Friday #202: Should You be Taking a Multivitamin for Cognitive Health? A New Study Suggests Yes.

Physiologically Speaking

It’s also likely that most people aren’t getting all of the nutrients they need from their diet even if they think they are. COSMOS tested a cocoa extract supplement and a multivitamin-mineral supplement against one another and a placebo for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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Physiology Friday #196: Resistance Training and Heart Health

Physiologically Speaking

But resistance training hasn’t been the focus when it comes to improving cardiovascular health and preventing/reversing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) — that honor goes to aerobic exercise training, for which the cardiovascular benefits are well-established and vast. The answer is yes.

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Physiology Friday #196: Resistance Training and Heart Health

Physiologically Speaking

But resistance training hasn’t been the focus when it comes to improving cardiovascular health and preventing/reversing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) — that honor goes to aerobic exercise training, for which the cardiovascular benefits are well-established and vast. The answer is yes.

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Physiology Friday #206: Is Too Much Protein Damaging to Your Arteries?

Physiologically Speaking

High-protein diets are often advocated for building muscle, losing weight, and optimizing body composition. However, a series of recent studies in mice and in humans reveals that protein may promote a cascade of events in the body that lead to cardiovascular disease. grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day.