Metabolic Health

A ten-minute walk after dinner can noticeably flatten a post-meal blood sugar spike, sometimes by up to about 30%. No medication. No equipment. No gym membership. Just ten minutes of easy movement at the right time.

If you've started a GLP-1 and the scale isn't moving the way you expected, you are not imagining it, and you're not doing anything wrong. This is one of the most common questions I get from patients in my practice, and the honest answer is more interesting — and more useful — than "just give it more time."

f you've spent any time in the metabolic health corner of the internet, you've heard the claim: "Intermittent fasting is bad for women's hormones." Or the opposite: "Fasting works exactly the same no matter who you are." Neither is quite right — and as with most things in hormone and metabolic health, the real answer is more interesting than either headline.

Berberine has been shown to lower blood glucose

If you've been focused on metabolic health, muscle preservation, or healthy aging, you've probably heard creatine come up — usually in the context of strength training. A new study adds another angle worth knowing about: a possible link between dietary creatine intake and lower cancer risk. I recently came across an influencer that is relying on this very study to draw this conclusion. We will explore exactly what this study says and does not say.

If your sex drive has quietly disappeared somewhere in perimenopause or menopause — and it bothers you — you're not imagining it, and you're not alone. This is one of the most common, least discussed symptoms women bring up in midlife care, usually after they've already tried "just relax more" advice that didn't work. The goal for most women asking about this: get their desire, arousal, and satisfaction back to something that feels like them again — not chase a lab number.

Many of my patients in their 40s and 50s describe the same pattern. They go to bed at a reasonable hour, stay in bed for 7 or 8 hours, and still wake up exhausted. Hot flashes, night sweats, and 2 a.m. anxiety spikes are breaking up their sleep without them fully registering it — they're getting time in bed, but not quality sleep. What most people don't realize is that this pattern isn't just draining. It appears to have a measurable effect on how the body handles blood suga

On July 23 and 24, 2026, the FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee met at the agency's White Oak campus to review seven peptides for possible inclusion on the Section 503A Bulk Drug Substances List. The committee recommended six of the seven: BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, Epitalon, and Semax. A seventh, emideltide (also called delta sleep-inducing peptide, or DSIP), was voted down.

If you want to feel strong, sharp, and independent for as long as possible, the honest answer is refreshingly unglamorous: the habits with the most evidence behind them are the ones you've already heard of. This guide walks through what actually moves the needle on healthy aging, what's promising but still unproven, and what's probably not worth your money.

ou don't need a perfect diet, a $400 supplement stack, or two hours a day at the gym to move the needle on your metabolic health. What you need is a small set of consistent daily habits, applied honestly, for long enough to matter. This is the framework I walk my patients through — the same one behind our 12-Week Metabolic Reset program.

Mitochondria — the energy-producing structures inside nearly every cell in your body — have become a popular topic in longevity conversations, and for good reason. They're central to how energized, resilient, and metabolically healthy you feel.