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  The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is for the most part silent. It it not just about blood sugar levels, it is about insulin resistance. The interaction between blood sugar levels and insulin are reviewed as are its consequences. Fat buildup in the abdomen accumulates and leads to the vascular complications of diabetes. The value of a low carb diet is...

Paying attention to what you eat and how much you exercise are critical factors that have to do with your weight. However, there are many other factors as well. How your body deals with sugar is reviewed.        

Diabetes is a disease of relationships between blood sugar and blood insulin levels. What insulin does and how it functions in type 2 diabetes. Sugar consumption, especially high fructose corn syrup and lack of exercise has a lot to do with causing the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.      

An individual's intestinal bacteria flora falls into certain patterns that are independent of nationality, gender, and age according to a 2011 article in the journal, Nature. They believe that the composition of the GI microflora is a new biological fingerprint, just as our blood type or tissue type.  We depend on our GI microflora to metabolize...

  IBS is very common but poorly understood. Symptoms are described. Drugs control symptoms but never deal with the underlying cause. The nature of the microbial ecosystem is very important because their metabolic products affect our physiology. The role of the microbial ecosystem and of intestinal permeability are reviewed.

Milk fats can initiate immune dysfunction that can lead to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Concentrated milk fat caused mice to develop IBD at three times the rate (60%) that mice fed a low fat diet or a diet with polyunsaturated fats. IBD correlated with the emergence of a bacteria called Bilophila wadsworthia from nearly undetectable levels to about 6% of...