Richard Maurer, ND “I’m taking a supplement for adrenal support.” “My doctor told me my adrenals are shot.” “I wrecked my adrenal gland over the past years.” When the Narrative is Wrong Too often I hear doctors spin, and individuals believe, story-lines that are frankly wrong. These cliché narratives attempt to offer a simple “reason” […]
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND I am especially attentive to the results of this study, both professionally and personally. In my professional life, I know that a good diagnostician must avoid the hasty mistake of profiling—it is too easy to neglect the consideration of prediabetes and heart disease risk for the lean patient compared to the
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND “I used to always equate carbs with energy, and that just doesn’t seem to be the case.” —Patricia M., seventy-nine years-old, reversed type 2 diabetes 20-years earlier with a Low-Carb Diet and Metabolic Recovery Exercise. If your blood sugar is drifting up or body fat is accumulating around your middle, you might blame
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmauer Every client I see, I explain about why I am strapping electronics to their chest, “This is a heart rate monitor. I’ll be able to calculate a number called heart rate variability while you breathe deeply for a couple minutes.” It must sound simple enough because everyone agrees. And why
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmaurer Blood Code Fitness Principle #1 We are mistakenly given the message that what we eat provides energy for the next few hours or for some upcoming activity. But in the evolution of our human body, we had to do some activity on an empty stomach to procure the thing we
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmaurer Anaerobic versus aerobic? It’s like meat versus vegetables—it’s not an either-or, I know. Anaerobic and aerobic are on the same team and work together for 99.9 percent of our natural activities. What I am referring to when I say anaerobic and aerobic are these two systems1. Short-term / Lactic acid
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmaurer I’m a guy and I appreciate the somber tone of my article title, but I am optimistically pessimistic toward men’s health. Let me explain. The researchers sober finding was this—men with infertility have more “hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, renal disease, pulmonary disease, liver disease, depression, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, heart
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmaurer I just heard another story about a fine athlete going down for the count with stress fractures. I appreciate that my area has great orthopedic care and fine physical therapy. But what about prehab rather than rehab. Can we figure out who is at risk and not wait for the
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @drrichardmaurer The title, “When too much insulin sensitivity backfires,” makes me remember a favorite quote from Mark Twain— “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” I love going to the PaleoFx conferences and recently chatted with Robb Wolf on his podcast where we continued a
Dr. Richard Maurer, ND @DrRichardMaurer Short Intense Workouts Reverse Diabetes And Standard Care Makes It Worse I come from a family of long distance runners—I am also from a family prone to type 2 diabetes. About ten years ago, I was shocked to find that sustained endurance exercise was not correcting my high blood sugar
