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August Auguries 2021: COVID news roundup
Protecting our children: “More kids are getting COVID!” (USA Today); “Children’s hospitals fill up as virus cases soar” (The Hill) shout the headlines. The NY Times recently ran a story on a 15-year-old honor student with “long COVID” who now can…read more
Categories:COVID-19
Ask Leyla: Do paleo/keto diets cause gluconeogenesis (“new glucose”)
Q: Do ketogenic and Paleo diets cause any muscle breakdown to produce glucose via gluconeogenesis? A: Gluconeogenesis (“new glucose”) is made in the liver from amino acids—the building blocks of protein—to support blood sugar metabolism known as…read more
Categories:Ketogenic Diet Paleo Diet
You’re only as good as your recovery
I just completed the Smith Point Triathlon, which consisted of a 1/3 mile open water swim (around 20 laps in a standard 25-yard pool), a ten-mile bike sprint, followed by a 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) run. I was…read more
Categories:Exercise
Leyla Weighs In: Essential Detox: The importance of a healthy liver
Your liver is an organ essential to life. As the body’s filter, everything you swallow or absorb passes through it. The liver is the major organ of elimination and the manager of detoxification processes in the body….read more
Categories:Liver disease
How to improve your child’s longterm health—while they’re in utero!
It makes common sense that diet can affect pregnancy outcomes and impact the health of offspring. Paradoxically, starvation and under-nutrition during pregnancy can lead to childhood and adult obesity; it’s as if the baby, anxious to play…read more
Categories:Pediatric Health Women’s Health
Ask Leyla: A Healthier Nation
Q: If there was just one change you could make to the typical American diet to make us a healthier nation, what would it be? A: What a great question! With the twin epidemics of obesity and…read more
Categories:Diabetes General Nutrition Obesity
My performance-enhancing “drugs”
With the Olympics underway, PEDs (performing-enhancing drugs) are once again in the spotlight. In an unprecedented move, Russian athletes have been banned from the Tokyo Olympics due to widespread, systemic and state-condoned doping. (They may compete individually,…read more
Categories:Exercise Supplements
Ask Leyla: How can I lower my HgbA1c?
Q: Six months ago, my HgbA1c was 5.9 which was very concerning but now my most recent bloodwork indicates it’s up to 6.5. I’m on a low carb diet, and the only remaining sugars in my diet…read more
Categories:Diabetes
Government urges crackdown on “health misinformation”—who decides?
The pandemic is subsiding, due to a combination of vaccination, the high percentage of Americans who have acquired natural immunity after exposure to COVID, as well as better therapies. But there’s a worrisome uptick in cases, and…read more
Categories:COVID-19
Ask Leyla: Should I avoid certain foods during a shingles outbreak?
Q: What foods must I avoid when I have shingles and what do I have to do to hasten the resolution of this condition? A: The herpes virus, in this case herpes zoster – a reactivation of…read more
Categories:General Medicine General Nutrition Supplements
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
Lifestyle matters! Around one in nine women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during her…
Q: Glucose and fructose are both called sugar and combine to form sucrose, common table…
I’ve long been a fan of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), available as an over-the-counter supplement. It’s a…
Q&A with Leyla, Part 1: President Biden’s Health Report
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