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Fat Shaming and GLP-1 – It’s Biology

Dr. Terry Simpson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:05:23 +0000

Fat shaming happens from Hollywood to the Gym Bros and often from that little voice within.

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Menopause: Estrogen Effects Satiety

Dr. Terry Simpson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:52:41 +0000

Menopause, Hunger, and the Brain: Why It Feels Different Menopause changes more than temperature control. It reshapes how the brain handles hunger, fullness, and the quiet signals that guide eating. As a result, many women notice something unsettling. The same meals no longer satisfy. Hunger arrives sooner. Food feels louder. For years, we blamed metabolism....

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Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity

Dr. Terry Simpson — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:33:29 +0000

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

Dr. Terry Simpson — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:06:08 +0000

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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Minnesota Starvation Experiment: Food Noise, Science

Dr. Terry Simpson — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:45:21 +0000

The 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

Dr. Terry Simpson — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:40:28 +0000

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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Protein Panic: How Much Do You Really Need?

Dr. Terry Simpson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:39:38 +0000

Protein 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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Mexican Food Is Healthy. The Taco Took the Blame.

Dr. Terry Simpson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:24:21 +0000

Mexican food isn’t unhealthy — American processing is. Real tacos deliver fiber, gut health, and Mediterranean biology in a corn tortilla.

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Keep Your Poop in a Group

Dr. Terry Simpson — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:25:49 +0000

Why Fiber Fails to Impress—and Why That’s the Point Fiber has a public relations problem. Unlike supplements or extreme diets, fiber does not promise instant transformation. Instead, it works slowly, predictably, and quietly. Because of that, people rarely notice it when it’s doing its job well. However, that very boredom is precisely why fiber matters....

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