I have been in functional medicine for eight years as a health coach and personal trainer specializing in performance optimization for adults over 40. Which means I have recommended magnesium supplements to hundreds of clients and evaluated dozens of products…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their late forties who have not yet received a diabetes diagnosis but know something is metabolically wrong, I had been managing a constellation…
I have been a night owl my entire adult life, and for 23 years as a software engineer it was a professional advantage — late-night focus sessions, uninterrupted deep work after the household went quiet, the particular clarity that comes…
My name is Dr. Patricia Okoye. I am forty-eight years old and I am a board-certified family medicine physician in a group practice in Ohio. Approximately forty percent of my patient load involves management of type 2 diabetes or prediabetes…
My name is Sandra, and I manage a twelve-person marketing team for a mid-size retail company. I am forty-four years old, I work at a desk for nine to ten hours daily, and for the past three years I have…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties who have not yet received a formal diabetes diagnosis but recognize something is metabolically wrong, I had been quietly living with…
My name is Carol. I have been a flight attendant with a major international carrier for thirty-one years. Long-haul routes — predominantly transatlantic and transpacific — have been my professional reality for most of that time. I am fifty-eight years…
My name is Sandra. I am sixty-one years old, retired after thirty-two years as a fourth-grade teacher, and I have been growing vegetables in my backyard in rural Tennessee since 1987. I know the difference between plants that thrive and…
My name is James. I am forty-six years old and I have worked emergency medicine for eighteen years. I have seen what chronic sleep deprivation does to people — not as a statistic, but in the faces of patients whose…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties with a family history of type 2 diabetes, I had been watching my fasting glucose numbers creep upward year by year…