Dr. Jason Fung is widely known as an advocate for the technique of intermittent fasting in patients hoping to reverse or…
Obesity
Insulin Treatment is Associated with Increased Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes and Covid-19
A new study in Cell Metabolism has suggested that patients with COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes that received insulin treat…
What is Leptin? And How it May Impact Covid-19 Risk Factors
You May Be Leptin-Resistant. Here’s Why It’s Important.
In the diabetes world, leptin doesn’t get nearly the attention t…
Boris Johnson on Obesity and Covid-19: “I was too fat”
It took Covid-19—and a brush with death—to turn Boris Johnson into one of the world’s foremost anti-obesity advocates.
J…
Does BMI Really Matter?
Body Mass Index, the one number that nearly everyone uses to categorize overweight and obesity, is pretty much garbage.
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How Metabolic Syndrome Snuck Up on America
One of the unforeseen lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how vulnerable our poor metabolic health makes us. Even fro…
What the New York Times Neglected to Say About Covid-19
On June 1, the New York Times published two articles, exploring what we do know and what we don’t know about the coronav…
In the Age of COVID-19, Metabolic Health is More Important than Ever
As an endocrinologist, I am very familiar with the type of people who are most at risk from COVID-19. They’re usually ol…
Why I Gave Up on Weight Loss and Accepted My Body
I know there are plenty of folks out there who will say it’s crazy and lazy to give up on weight loss. (Probably the sam…
Assess Your Prediabetes Risk in Under One Minute
86 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes, but 90% of them don’t know they have it. 30% of these individuals will t…
