Does Skipping Meals Slow Your Metabolism? The Hormonal Reality
Extending intervals between meals lowers circulating insulin, unlocking hormone-sensitive lipase and counter-regulatory hormones to mobilize energy.
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The High-Glycemic Foods Nobody Suspects
Rice cakes raise blood glucose faster than table sugar. So does a baked potato, and so does the wholemeal bread you bought because it was the healthy one. A list of the ordinary supermarket items that spike glucose hardest — and what the number does and does not tell you.
Cancer: The Metabolic Question Alongside the Genetic One
The genetic model has driven cancer research for fifty years. A parallel line of work asks why tumour cells metabolise fuel so strangely — and what follows if that is a cause rather than a consequence.
Keto Is a Metabolic Intervention, Not a Diet Trend
Restricting carbohydrate far enough to run on ketones changes insulin, appetite and, in some conditions, symptoms that food is not supposed to touch.
Intermittent Fasting: What the Window Actually Does
Most of the benefit attributed to the eating window comes from what falls out of the diet when it closes, not from the clock itself.