Dr Simpson Reviews

Dr Simpson reviews. Reviews of medicine, health care, and food.

Soup: The Mediterranean Diet in a Bowl

Soup may be the Mediterranean diet in a bowl. Discover why every civilization invented it, how it improves food safety, reduces waste, and tastes even better tomorrow.

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How Cooking Made Us Human

Fire didn’t just change dinner. It changed us. If I asked you what made us human, you might say language. Or tools. Maybe agriculture. All of those changed our species, but I think one discovery came even earlier—and it may have been the most important of all. Fire. Not because it kept us warm. Not…

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The Scientists Who Built the Modern Snack

How We Eat Most of us think we know what we eat. However, nutrition researchers have learned a frustrating lesson over the years: asking people what they ate yesterday is often less accurate than anyone would like. Although food diaries and surveys can provide useful information, memories are imperfect, snacks are easily forgotten, and portion…

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Taste Buds Everywhere: Your Body’s Hidden Food Sensors

Taste Isn’t What You Think It Is Most people believe taste happens on the tongue. That idea seems obvious because food enters the mouth, the tongue recognizes flavors, and the brain decides whether something tastes good or bad. However, modern science has revealed a much more fascinating story. Taste receptors are scattered throughout the body,…

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Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure

Why bariatric surgery, fasting, and GLP-1 drugs can put type 2 diabetes into remission—and why the story is far more complex than sugar.

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What I Eat on a GLP-1 And Why It Changes

Let’s Start With What Nobody Tells You When people start a GLP-1, they are told what to avoid. What side effects to expect, and sometimes how much protein they should be eating. While that information has its place, it misses the part that actually changes your day-to-day life. Because what really shifts is not just…

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Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity

Henry VIII’s weight gain wasn’t just excess—it may have been brain injury. What history and GLP-1 drugs reveal about obesity today.

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The Carnivore Priesthood

When 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…

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From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution

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…

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