Educational Resources
GLP-1 Medications v. Diet and Lifestyle Alternatives
You’ve heard the brand names: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Saxenda, Trulicity, Victoza and more. These GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) agonists are prescribed medications used to treat type 2 diabetes. By mimicking the [...]
What Affects Your Blood Glucose? Part 4 of 4: Sleep
Ahhhh, sleep. The time of night we dreaded as a child, always afraid of missing out on all the fun the grown ups were having while we were asleep. Well, [...]
What Affects Your Blood Glucose? Part 3 of 4: Stress
The dreaded S-Word. There is so much to unpack here. Stress has been a part of our human existence since, well, since we’ve been human. For millennia, it was mostly [...]
What Affects Your Blood Glucose? Part 2 of 4: Exercise
As we discussed in a previous article, 4 major influential factors that affect your blood sugar that are more or less within your control are food choices, movement, sleep and [...]
What Affects Your Blood Glucose? Part 1 of 4: Food
The health journey you are on that landed you here and lead to you finding this article has likely taught you that too much blood glucose is bad. You’ve likely [...]
What About Alcohol?
The topic of alcohol is a complicated one because its impact on any one individual is personal and multifaceted. Alcohol affects people not just metabolically but also neurologically, socially and [...]
The Skinny On Sweeteners
By now you likely got the message that processed food and in particular, processed sugar is a big issue in terms of lowering insulin. Even “natural sugar” without the fiber [...]
The Magic of Muscle
Building and maintaining muscle tissues is important for the over all health of all humans for many reasons. Loss of or inadequate muscle tissue leads to poor health outcomes including, [...]
In Defense Of Fat
For all of human existence, we ate an omnivorous diet that was as nutrient dense as possible of fresh whole foods that were local to us and in season. That [...]
Carbohydrate Pairing: Can you game the system?
First of all, what is carbohydrate or food pairing/food combining? It involves combining foods in a way that helps moderate the overall glycemic impact (how quickly and steeply your blood [...]
Eating Out Doesn’t Doesn’t Have To Stress You Out
As Simplex patients and clients navigate changing their eating habits, one concern that comes up repeatedly is how to do this while eating out when you are on the go. [...]
Eat, stop, eat.
As you progress through your health journey and focus on eating adequate protein, fiber rich foods and healthy fats, we commonly hear patients indicate they are less hungry. You may [...]
What are mitochondria and why are they important for metabolic function?
You may vaguely remember the term mitochondria from your high school biology class. As it turns out, these guys are pretty crucial to our health and well-being. In short, mitochondria [...]
