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The Health Pulse
🎙️ The Health Pulse – Your quick guide to better health!
In under 20 minutes, get expert insights on health and nutrition. Stay informed, and take charge of your wellness with actionable tips. Whether optimizing your health or exploring diagnostics, we keep it simple and insightful.
Listen, learn, and take control—one pulse at a time! 🔬✨
Episodes
145 episodes
Episode 145 | What ApoB Alone Can't Tell You
ApoB has transformed how we think about cardiovascular risk because it measures something LDL cholesterol cannot: the number of atherogenic lipoprotein particles circulating in your blood. But once you know the particle count, another qu...
Episode 144 | Cortisol Rhythms and Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance isn't necessarily an all-or-nothing condition. Skeletal muscle can become insulin resistant while other tissues continue responding differently—and the pancreas may compensate by producing enough insulin to keep fasting gluco...
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Episode 143 | IL-6 and the Hidden Risk of Heart Failure
Your hsCRP comes back in the “normal” range. Does that mean inflammation isn't contributing to your cardiovascular risk?For people with type 2 diabetes, the answer may be more complicated. In this episode of The Health Pulse, we...
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Episode 142 | The Normal Blood Sugar Trap
What does it actually mean to reverse type 2 diabetes? If medications bring your HbA1c back into the normal range, has the disease improved—or has the glucose simply been controlled?In this episode of The Health Pulse, we examin...
Episode 141 | Beyond The Diet Wars
Is keto better because of carbohydrate restriction—or simply because people lose weight? Does a Mediterranean diet have unique metabolic advantages? And if calories and weight loss are identical, does the type of food you eat still matter?<...
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Episode 140 | Where Does Morning Glucose Come From on Keto?
Here are the episode description and companion blog embed intro. I’d keep the distinction between physiological glucose sparing and pathological insulin resistance central to this one.🎙️ The Health Pulse – Episode Title:<...
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Episode 139 | Insulin Resistance Under The Hood
Your fasting glucose and HbA1c can look normal while your pancreas is working overtime to keep them that way. In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore intermittent fasting as a strategy for insulin resistance, starting wi...
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Episode 138 | The Insulin Blind Spot
A normal fasting glucose or HbA1c doesn't necessarily mean your metabolism is healthy. For years, the pancreas may compensate for declining insulin sensitivity by producing increasingly larger amounts of insulin—keeping glucose looking reassuri...
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Episode 137 | GKI and Cancer: Can Metabolic Therapy Really Starve a Tumor?
Stop eating sugar and you'll starve cancer” sounds convincing—but cancer metabolism is far more complicated. In this episode of The Health Pulse, we examine the science behind ketogenic metabolic therapy, the Glucose Ketone Index (G...
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Episode 136 | FIB-4 and Metabolic Liver Disease
Your AST and ALT can be completely normal while liver fibrosis is quietly developing. In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore one of the biggest blind spots in routine liver testing and explain why FIB-4 can provide impo...
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Episode 135 | The Heart Risk Your Cholesterol Test Misses
A “perfect” cholesterol test can still hide a dangerous cardiovascular trajectory. The 2026 ACC/AHA multisociety dyslipidemia guideline reflects a more complete way of evaluating risk—one that looks beyond LDL cholestero...
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Episode 134 | Mitochondrial Biogenesis
Your mitochondria aren't static batteries that simply wear out with age. They're part of a dynamic network that is constantly being broken down, repaired, recycled, and rebuilt according to the demands you place on your body. In this epi...
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Episode 133 | Mitophagy And Real Energy
What if improving cellular energy isn't just about making more mitochondria—but getting rid of the damaged ones first? In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore mitophagy, the highly selective quality-control process cells...
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Episode 132 | Humanin
Mitochondria are famous for producing energy, but that description barely scratches the surface. These organelles also communicate with the rest of the cell, responding to stress and influencing decisions about repair, adaptation, inflammati...
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Episode 131 | The Peptide Made by Your Mitochondria
Mitochondria do far more than produce ATP—they also communicate with the rest of the cell. In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore MOTS-c, a small mitochondrial-derived peptide that has generated intense interest in long...
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Episode 130 | Why High Triglycerides Signal Insulin Resistance Early
“Bad cholesterol is normal” can feel like a free pass, but it may be the most misleading sigh of relief you take all year. We dig into the lab number most people ignore, triglycerides, and show why it can be a loud early warning sign for insuli...
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Episode 129 | Your Liver Can Be Sick Long Before Diabetes Shows Up
One in three adults may be living with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)—formerly known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—and most have no idea it's happening. In this episode of The Health P...
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Episode 128 | Insulin Resistance And Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is often treated as a disease of the arteries alone—but what if it's actually one of the earliest signs of metabolic dysfunction? In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore the growing evidence connecting in...
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Episode 127 | The Invisible Decade Before Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes rarely begins the day you're diagnosed. In reality, the disease often develops silently over the course of a decade or more while your body works overtime to keep blood sugar within the normal range. In this episode of The H...
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Episode 126 | Muscle Is Your Metabolic Engine
Most people think of skeletal muscle as something that helps us move, lift, or improve our appearance. But in reality, muscle is one of the most important organs for metabolic health. It serves as the body's largest destination for gluco...
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Episode 125 | Why Insulin Resistance Slows Healing
Why do two people with the same injury often heal at completely different speeds? While age, injury severity, and rehabilitation all matter, one of the biggest differences may lie beneath the surface—in the health of the blood vessels responsib...
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Episode 124 | BPC-157
Why do some injuries heal quickly while others linger for months? The answer may have less to do with the injured tissue itself and more to do with something you can't see—the endothelium, the microscopic lining of your blood vessels res...
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Episode 123 | ATP: The Molecule That Powers Everything
Your body performs an astonishing feat every day: it recycles roughly your entire body weight in ATP, the molecule that powers every heartbeat, every thought, every muscle contraction, and every immune response. In this episode of The Health Pu...
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Episode 122 | The Randle Cycle
What if your metabolism isn't broken—but simply following the rules it was designed to obey? In this episode of The Health Pulse, we unpack one of the most overlooked concepts in metabolism: the Randle Cycle, also known as the <...
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Episode 121 | Heart Failure Is An Energy Problem
What if heart failure isn't simply a failing pump—but a failing energy system? In this episode of The Health Pulse, we explore the growing scientific view that heart failure is fundamentally a metabolic disease, where impaired c...
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