Mashed potatoes have long been a comfort food favorite, a creamy, nostalgic staple worth looking forward to every year. But if you’re working on blood sugar balance, simply skipping the potatoes isn’t the only option. The trick is timing. Potatoes that are cooked, cooled, and reheated develop resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that resists […]
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If you’ve ever felt a burst of energy followed by a crash after a meal, you’ve likely experienced a glucose spike. This happens when the carbohydrates in your food quickly break down into sugar, flooding your bloodstream with glucose. In response, your pancreas releases insulin to shuttle that sugar into your cells. Ideally, your glucose
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When we think about organs that keep us alive and functioning, the heart and brain usually steal the spotlight. But the liver? It’s a powerhouse in its own right, showing up for you every single day, and rarely getting the recognition it deserves. The liver is your body’s ultimate multitasker, processing what you eat, clearing
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If you’ve frequented recent articles, it’ll come as no surprise that balanced blood sugar is key to good health. That’s true, but it’s only part of the story. Behind the scenes is a hormone that quietly controls far more than we give it credit for. Released nearly every time you eat, insulin may be one
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One of my early childhood memories is sitting at the dinner table while my mom poured me a glass of water. She’d fill it slowly, locking eyes with me as it rose higher and higher, just flirting with the brim. I’d wait too long to say “when–woah” (I know, a quirky family phrase), and the
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By now, we’ve established that symptoms, signs, and diagnoses are merely the branches of a tree whose roots grow deep in the terrain of your body’s internal environment. In Functional Nutrition, to truly impact what we see in the branches, we focus on supporting that terrain—clearing the debris or “muddy waters” that obstruct the body’s
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From brain health to inflammation control: why these essential fats matter more than you think Last week, we discussed how fat has had a bad rap and that when most people think about it, they think about how to avoid it. But essential fat is called essential for a reason: our bodies can’t make it, and
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Does Dietary Cholesterol Cause High Blood Cholesterol? We like to think of science as a fail-proof compass pointing us toward better health outcomes. And in many ways, it does. The scientific method (hypothesize, test, observe, refine) has given us life-saving medicines, surgical advances, and countless insights into how the body works. But science is also
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Known as the silent killer, the Center for Disease Control estimates that nearly one half of adults have high blood pressure (HBP), and in 2023 it was a primary contributing cause of more than 664,000 deaths in the United States alone. Of those with a hypertension diagnosis, only one in four have their pressure “under
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Digestion and Its Health Connection Digestive health is often talked about in terms of bloating, gas, or constipation, but the truth is much bigger: the gut is involved in every system of the body. From hormones and mood to skin and immune function, your digestion plays a foundational role in how you feel each day.
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