Tag Archives: metabolic health UK

70 DAYS / 14 ST 2 → 13 ST 4

You get the same number two mornings running, and you start doing the sums in [...]

174 DAYS FLAT IN 2024 / 16 ST 1 → 15 ST 8

You notice it about ten days in. The number stops, and you start doubting yourself. [...]

THEY SAID DOWNHILL AFTER 50. NHS BLOOD TESTS SAY NO.

Somewhere around fifty I quietly decided this was just what my body did now. Not [...]

Low Iron and Fasting Over 50: What My Blood Tests Showed

You’ve had a letter back from the surgery. Most of it looked fine. One line [...]

I BLAMED WILLPOWER. WRONG SKILL.

Portion Control Isn’t Willpower. It’s a Skill Nobody Taught You. You finish the plate. Every [...]

PILLS SAID FINE. HDL SAID NO.

My GP told me my cholesterol was fine. Every year, the same letter, the same [...]

THEY SAID MUSCLE LOSS. WRONG.

You’ve heard the warning before, probably more than once. Fast for any real length of [...]

EXPECTED MISERY. GOT STABILITY.

I braced myself for hangry. Genuinely thought skipping meals would turn me into someone nobody [...]

SMALL WINDOW, GUT UNBOTHERED

You’ve spent months feeding your gut the way you’ve been told to: little and often, [...]

Autophagy Fasting Timeline : What Day 17 Ketones Actually Showed

Day 11 of a 21-day fast, my ketone meter read 6.0. Deep, I thought. About [...]

LIVER ENZYMES : 69 → 10 / NHS CONFIRMED

For years, a number sat on my blood test printout that nobody quite explained. Not [...]

YOUR PLATEAU ISN’T FAILURE / Why Your Body Fights Back (And What Actually Shifts It)

I fasted for four days straight and ended up the same weight as when I [...]

Off Gout Meds: 18 Months After Stopping “Lifelong” Medication

Twenty-four years on gout medication. Allopurinol, 300 milligrams daily since the year 2000. Then I [...]

Q & A – Are UPFs Dangerous If I’m Not Overweight?

Someone asked me a question that sounds perfectly reasonable: “If ultra-processed foods haven’t made me [...]

Gout & Allergies Vanishing? Day 3 Refeed Reflection

The Wins You Don’t See Coming Day 3 of my refeed. I lost a pound [...]