Doc Mac's The PAUSE Blog Live Long! Live Well! “Doc, is there a best time to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner?  THE BELL TOWER Once upon a time, when I was a little boy, living in a small village in Mexico's Yucatan, the church had a bell tower and, within it, an enormous bell, so huge it always made me wonder how it didn’t fall; it had to weigh tons. Three times a day, the priest would ring the bell, and it could be heard maybe a hundred miles away. When the bell chimed, eve

Doc Mac's The PAUSE  Blog Live Long! Live Well! “Doc, I love your first rule about eating God-made food so that I can live a long and healthy life by losing my excess weight and feel great. It just makes sense. I can't wait to hear your second rule. Please, tell me what it is? EAT LIKE CAROL You remember Tom, the solitary forager who cooked his omelette straight from the land? Good. Now meet Carol. On the 44th floor of a Manhattan high-rise, a Michelin-starred chef wakes on h

“Doc, if you had to name the single most important rule for eating to optimize one's weight, what would it be?”

The PAUSE A Hormone, Weight, Health, and Mind Optimization Blog "Doc, I often hear how the gut is associated with our hormones, therefore, our weight. How is that so?" More than you can ever imagine. Your Gut and Hormones You’ve probably heard the saying, “You are what you eat.” But here’s the truth I’ve seen play out in tens of thousands of patients over my 45 years in practice: "You are about as happy as your gut is." Your gut isn’t just a digestion machine. It’s a hormone

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Menopausal women may benefit from DHEA if their levels are low, but it should only be used

And one of the most potent hormones in this new phase of life is one most women never talk about—growth hormone (GH).

Let's discuss a great little hormone we have all heard of and many of my clients use, but not the right way: Melatonin.

If your body were a business, insulin would be your CFO — deciding where your energy gets spent.

I define stress hormonally. Stress occurs when physical or mental activity elevates cortisol.

“Doc, you write a lot about the importance of balancing estradiol and progesterone to tame the symptoms of menopause, but you rarely...

If I were a woman, I’d want plenty of estrogen, and as a man, I still want a healthy amount. Still, it's always about balance: estrogen with progesterone for women, and estrogen with testosterone for men.

DOC MAC'S GUT PROTOCOL MODULE SEVEN MENOPAUSE GUT and L -GLUTAMINE “Doc, in ​ Module One ​ , we learned that we are nothing but tubes...

DOC MAC'S GUT PROTOCOL MODULE FIVE COLLAGEN Menopause Gut and Collagen Introduction: What’s Holding You Together? “Doc, in ​ Module One...

🥣 THE PAUSE 🥣 DOC MAC'S GUT PROTOCOL MODULE FIVE Healing the Epithelium with Bone Broth Introduction “Doc, in Module One , we learned...

THE PAUSE DOC MAC'S GUT PROTOCOL The Culvert “Doc, you keep writing about our guts and microbiomes being crucial for thyroid...

— You're going to need this to " really" succeed Let’s be honest: Ozempic is everywhere. TikTok, doctor’s offices, dinner...

WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION COURSE TESTING FRUIT The Food Sensitivity Testing Order I've divided the twelve food groups into four categories....

WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION COURSE The Expansion Protocol FOOD GROUP TESTING ORDER In the last course, we learned that once we found our bottom,...

I define menopause as not ovulating. If you do not ovulate, your ovaries do not release progesterone. The lack of progesterone production is