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Kay Polt's 5 Day Water Fast Experience

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Happy New Year everyone. Today I am posting Kay Polt's Experience through her 5 Day water fast. I asked Kay to write up her experience during the fast so that our readers can see how Kay felt. Now let me tell you Kay is a BEAST. She has been doing Keto for some time now and she is always ready to experiment on her self before helping others. You can find her page on Facebook called Kay's Way and she will post some of her recipes. Please read her Experience and Thank you Kay for sharing.  Five Day Water Fast...

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What are Resistant Starches?

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What are Resistant Starches?

This is something that I have been wondering myself lately. I have heard of resistant starches for some time now. I first heard about them in 2016 when I was first starting my weight loss journey. I remember hearing of people cooking potatoes and then chilling them for at least 2 hours to recrystallize the starches and making them resistant. This was amazing to see a resistant starch in a food that I love and miss called potatoes.  What types of resistant starches are there? There are 4 types of resistant starches that are out there. There maybe more but...

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My Experience with Prolon - 5 Day Fasting Mimicking Diet

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My Experience with Prolon - 5 Day Fasting Mimicking Diet

MY EXPERIENCE WITH PROLON - DR. MICHAEL MUNIZ, PHARMD Day 1: It is 10:34am and I am starting to write about my start of Prolon, the 5 day fasting mimicking diet. I want to document my journey using this system and see if I can lose body fat and gain muscle. I did Prolon about 10 months ago and felt amazing. I lost 14 lbs in those few days and I was at my lightest weight. I did not feel super tires as some might expect but it has to do with the intake of some food. Yes it isn't...

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How is your Gut Health?

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How is your Gut Health?

Is your gut as healthy as you think? Do you ever experience any of the following symptoms: eczema, sinusitis, bloating, asthma, poor sleep, depression, anxiety, fatigue or chronic antibiotic use for reoccurring infections? One of the first things I do during a patient consultation is review all their symptoms which are specific to each individual.  Then I ask them to describe their nutrition and diet. I believe that nutrition and diet go hand in hand and both can be altered with lifestyle modifications. Finding the underlying cause of symptoms is what I love to do with my patients. I do...

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Frontier Direct Care - Dr. Peter Lazzopina

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Frontier Direct Care - Dr. Peter Lazzopina

https://www.frontierdirectcare.com/frontiermedblog/2018/11/8/how-can-i-lose-weight A Post from Frontier Direct Primary Care Provider Dr. Peter Lazzopina. How can I lose weight? One of the best changes about practicing family medicine in a direct care model is the time it affords us to engage with our patients and get to the root cause of health problems.  For example, today I met a new friend who has insulin resistance or prediabetes. We sat down in the exam room and reviewed her lab results for a few minutes. After that, in 99% of the primary care clinics in the country she would leave with an admonishment to...

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