Why GLP-1 Made Me Love Food More—Not Less From beetroot pasta to backyard salsa, this wasn’t about eating less. It was about finally tasting more. I want to tell you about two people on a GLP-1. First, there’s me. I’ve been on a maintenance dose—7.5 mg of Zepbound—for a while now. And recently, I went…
Read MoreWhen Beef Becomes Belief: The Carnivore Priesthood Nutrition debates rarely begin with money. Yet money almost always explains how they spread. That fact explains much of the modern carnivore movement. At first glance, the carnivore diet appears to be a radical nutritional idea: eat beef, organs, and animal fat while avoiding vegetables, grains, legumes, and…
Read MoreThe Minnesota Starvation Experiment: What Hunger Does to the Human Mind Every few years, someone announces the solution to weight loss. Eat less.Fast longer.Cut carbs.Cut fat.Cut something. Naturally, the advice usually comes with a tone of moral certainty. If you are hungry, the implication goes, you simply lack discipline. However, long before social media, diet influencers,…
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From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution In 1991, I left Seattle and moved to Phoenix to begin my career as a surgeon. In Seattle, hiking meant pine trees, damp trails, and reliable rain. In Phoenix, hiking meant bottled water and survival. The temperature could sit at 113 degrees at six in the evening. Sometimes the…
Read MoreProtein Panic: How Much Do You Really Need? Everywhere you look, protein has become a competition. Scroll long enough and you will believe muscle disappears if you eat less than 150 grams a day. Meanwhile, influencers debate leucine thresholds like they’re trading baseball cards. As a result, ordinary meals now feel like math problems. However,…
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Fat Shaming and GLP-1 – It’s Biology
Fat shaming happens from Hollywood to the Gym Bros and often from that little voice within.
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