by Samia McCully | May 8, 2023 | energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, Lifespan, stress, weight loss
Your body weight is a very rudimentary metric of your health and well-being. Even worse is BMI. BMI means body mass index. It’s a measure of your height to weight ratio. And the WHO has long declared it as the determinant of weight standards. It will tell you if you...
by Samia McCully | Apr 24, 2023 | Aging, allergies, energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, inflammation, Lifespan, stress
Breathing! When I was 12, after I had had a respiratory illness, I was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma. It was very limiting as an athlete. Especially for endurance. Although I still excelled, I often felt like I couldn’t get a deep breath. My lungs burned when...
by Samia McCully | Apr 17, 2023 | Aging, energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, inflammation, stress, weight loss
Three factors that can stop weight loss in its tracks (and it has nothing to do with sitting on the couch!). InflammationInfectionsInsulin Once you identify and start treating infections, inflammation and high insulin – weight just starts to fall off...
by Samia McCully | Apr 4, 2023 | Aging, energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, inflammation, Lifespan, stress
It is interesting how when I see things from the outside, I am very good at identifying them. And on the inside, I often forget what is so obvious to me when I am the doctor! Thankfully, two weekends ago, I attended a functional medicine conference and had a huge aha...
by Samia McCully | Aug 15, 2022 | Blog, energy, Fatigue, Fertility, Thyroid, weight loss
Last March one of my patients introduced me to a company that made a CGM – continuous glucose monitor. Traditionally used for diabetics, these are now being used by health fanatics to as another way to hack their health. I have used a CGM for a total of 4...
by Samia McCully | Jun 28, 2022 | allergies, energy, Fatigue, Thyroid, weight loss
Toxins and underlying infections. Think these things are not affecting you? Think again – we are all living in an increasingly toxic world. Sorry to depress you, but it’s true. I often tell my patients you need a PhD to navigate it. And a once yearly cleanse is...
