by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 12, 2024 | Healthspan, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition
Emotional eating can take hold of us like no other kind of appetite. And there are some things to know about it. It’s like a fish in a pond. Does he ever know that he is in a pond and there is a whole big world out there? Unless he’s had the misfortune of being caught...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 6, 2024 | Fatigue, Fitness, gluten-free, Health, Healthspan, Immunity, inflammation, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, weight loss
Variety hunger. Variety hunger actually stems from nutritional hunger, the one that drives us tosatisfy our physiological need for essential nutrients. Variety hunger comes in the form of color, texture, flavor and smell. And I’m not talking about Frosted Lucky...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 1, 2024 | Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, inflammation, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition, Recipes
Essential nutrients. The only true human hunger satisfies the requirements of the body to function. You’ve heard of essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, vitamin C, vitamin D. The list goes on. Essential means that without it, we cannot have thriving...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Jan 30, 2024 | Aging, detox, energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition, stress, weight loss
Today I’m going to talk about the third kind of hunger. It is blood sugar hunger. It’s the reason I have most of my patients on CGMs (continuous glucose monitors). If your blood sugar is not balanced, it can make you ravenous, grouchy, hyper-emotional, angry, anxious...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Jan 26, 2024 | Fitness, inflammation, Lifespan, nutrition, weight loss
Empty stomachThirst I’ll tell you about the first one – empty stomach. I’m tempted to call it “empty stomach hunger” but it’s not actually a hunger sign. It’s just that we’ve associated it with hunger. I can remember someone telling me that I might have the...
