How a small sensor on my arm replaced 50 years of conventional dietary wisdom — and why everything I thought I knew about eating was wrong.   I want to tell you about the morning I ate oatmeal and watched my blood glucose hit 187 mg/dL. Oatmeal. The breakfast that every physician, dietitian, and health magazine has recommended for decades. Heart healthy. High fiber. Complex carbohydrates. I had eaten it for years believing I was doing something good for myself. The continuous glucose monitor...

What fasting actually does to your body, why it is the most powerful metabolic intervention available, and how I used it to reverse insulin-dependent diabetes at 71.   Most people think fasting is about not eating. That framing is technically accurate and completely misses the point. Fasting is not a dietary restriction. It is a biological signal — one of the most powerful signals you can send to your body — that triggers a cascade of metabolic, cellular, and hormonal adaptations that...

What happened on my 71st birthday that changed everything — and why I'm telling you about it now.   It was July 11, 2025. My 71st birthday. I was sitting alone with the kind of clarity that only arrives when you stop running from the truth. I was 265 pounds. I was injecting insulin every day. My doctors had told me — more than once, in more than one way — that my condition was permanent. That this was simply what 71 looked like for a man who had survived acute pancreatitis, a pulmonary...