The Medical Advisor

The keto diet and intermittent fasting are both extremely hot topics right now in the natural health community. 'Intermittent fasting' exceeds the 'keto diet' in popularity with being the top Google searched and tested method in 2019. Keto and intermittent fasting aren’t so different, from a metabolic perspective. Essentially, both programs help you transition toward burning fat for energy, rather than a store-full of glycogen. This is a good place to be in for weight loss, body recomposition, and several other health benefits. Update: Keto Diet Can Put Your Heart Health at Risk Intermittent Fasting Intermittent fasting is currently one of the most popular nutrition programs around. Unlike diets that tell you what to eat, intermittent fasting focuses on when to eat. Limiting the hours you eat each day may help you consume fewer calories. It may also provide health benefits, including weight loss and improved...

What’s the best diet for longevity – and for losing weight? What’s the best diet to stay younger and live longer ? There are countless diets. Which one should you choose?    For example, some of the more popular diets are the ones that advise to substantially reduce carbs, like the paleo diet, keto diet or Atkins diet. There are diets that shun fats, like the Ornish diet, and you have high-fat diets that advise you to eat lots of fats. Then there are the strange diets, like the ones that tell you to mainly eat fruits or drink smoothies. How do you see the forest from the trees with all these diets, which oftentimes contradict each other? The problem with most diets The problem is that most diets don’t look at the big picture, nor do they look at the long-term effects. Rather, they mainly focus on short-term results such as weight loss. Most diets have “great” short-term results, such as weight loss and improved metabolic biomarkers (like lower triglycerides), but are unhealt...

There are over 34,000 scientific investigations to date on how vitamin D works in your body, yet it continues to be ignored by large segments of the population and even many physicians. The early 1900s was a golden age of scientific discovery. Researchers determined that many health problems were caused by a lack of specific nutrients in people’s diets, and soon the race was on to identify each nutrient. The first vitamin to be discovered was vitamin A, in 1913, followed by the other 12 vitamins over the next 35 years, including vitamin D in 1932. One of the things scientists discovered is that vitamin D can also be classified as a hormone. How can it be both? Because your body can produce it from the UVB rays in sunlight, it’s a hormone. But because you must get it in your diet if you don’t get enough sun, it’s a vitamin. Generally, the closer you live to the equator, the better your vitamin D status tends to be. But here’s an interesting fact… People in Scandinavia typically ha...