For most of my career, the cholesterol panel was the heart-health conversation. LDL high? Statin. LDL fine? You’re good to go. But I kept seeing people with “perfect” cholesterol who were anything but healthy, and people with higher LDL who never developed disease. I saw a version of this firsthand as the primary author of
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The Quick Answer Tofu can be a healthy food for many people, but the details matter. Newer research shows tofu protein is about 95% digestible, and clinical trials don’t show hormone disruption at normal food amounts. The real issues are how the soy is grown (conventional soy is heavily sprayed with glyphosate), iodine and thyroid
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Almost every article comparing these two supplements reaches the same verdict: pterostilbene absorbs better, so pterostilbene wins. The absorption part is true. The verdict skips over the gut, the human evidence, and one cholesterol finding you should know about before you buy. Resveratrol and pterostilbene are close chemical cousins. Pterostilbene is essentially resveratrol with two
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Resveratrol has a strange reputation problem. Take it by mouth and almost none of it shows up in your blood unchanged. Yet trial after trial keeps finding effects on blood sugar, blood vessels, and inflammation. The missing piece of that puzzle turns out to live in your colon. Your gut bacteria don’t just react to
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I have spent more than 25 years watching food sensitivities show up in places nobody expects: migraines, joint pain, eczema, bloating, brain fog. Blood sugar belongs on that list too. Other practitioners who use MRT have reported glucose improvements in their clients, and people with diabetes have described the same thing after LEAP. So when
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Butyrate is the fuel your colon cells run on. When your gut doesn’t make enough of it, the lining weakens, inflammation creeps up, and digestion gets cranky. A good butyrate supplement can help fill that gap, and the research behind it has grown a lot since I first wrote this guide. Written and reviewed by
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