Healing Passion

Personalized Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (pTLC) for chronic illnesses and long-term health.

15/09/2025

Did you know your muscles can “call for help” when they can’t take in sugar?
A new Cell Reports study shows insulin-resistant muscle releases signals that push the pancreas to grow more insulin-producing cells.
✨ Short-term: stable blood sugar
⚠️ Long-term: pancreatic exhaustion
This is exactly what the ERM framework describes — resilience has a cost, and catching it early makes all the difference. Discover what this means for our health! Read more: https://wix.to/iv4EBNH

A fascinating new study published in Cell Reports (Liboz et al., 2025) has shed light on how the body compensates when muscles struggle to take in glucose during insulin resistance. The results highlight not only the remarkable adaptability of our organs, but also the hidden trade-offs that can push...

14/09/2025

Did you know your immune system can be “trained” by infections, vaccines, and even your diet? 🧬💥

A new JCI review explains how trained immunity reprograms cells through metabolism and epigenetics.

Short exposures = stronger protection.

Persistent overload (like HIV, diabetes, or cholesterol stress) = chronic inflammation.

This ties directly into Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM):
⚖️ With enough energy and nutrients → adaptation builds resilience.
⚠️ Without them → the body gets stuck in maladaptation, fueling disease.

Resilience has an energy cost. How we fuel it determines if it protects or harms us.

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Trained Immunity, Immunometabolism, and the Energy Cost of ResilienceA new review in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (Sviridov, Netea & Bukrinsky, 2025) takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of trained immunity (TRIM)—the ability of our innate immune system to “remember” past expo...

09/09/2025

Why do patients with sepsis sometimes swing from overwhelming inflammation into immune collapse? A new review shows the answer lies in energy. The immune system’s “brakes”—specialized molecules, regulatory T cells, vitamin D–driven genes—require fuel. When energy and nutrients run out, the body can’t heal, and immunity shuts down. This is Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM) in action: sepsis as an energy shortage, not just an infection. Read more: https://wix.to/E3shNfE

Sepsis remains one of medicine’s greatest challenges. Patients often arrive in intensive care with infections that spiral into two seemingly opposite dangers: first, a destructive cytokine storm, and then, paradoxically, a state of dangerous immune paralysis where they can no longer fight infectio...

06/09/2025

What if cholesterol wasn’t the villain—but a messenger of healing? A major genetic study shows that suppressing lipids too aggressively may raise the risk of Alzheimer’s, asthma, and immune diseases. This post explores how cholesterol plays a role in stress recovery—and how disrupting it can backfire. Discover the hidden risks of micromanaging cholesterol in our latest blog post: https://wix.to/VlXP3zc

In the world of heart health, lowering cholesterol has long been seen as a clear win. Fewer heart attacks. Less plaque buildup. Better outcomes. That’s the story we’ve been told—and in many ways, it's true. But like many stories in medicine, it’s not the whole picture.A large genetic study p...

05/09/2025

🌙 Not enough sleep? It’s more than fatigue.
↓ Testosterone = less rebuild
↑ Cortisol = more breakdown
➡️ Insulin resistance, faster ageing
A study showed: restoring hormone balance, and you can cut the damage in half—even without more sleep.
💡 Sleep is an exposure. Resilience depends on how your body balances & cycles energy.
Read more: https://wix.to/GtN3wkD

Sleep is more than rest—it is a cornerstone of how our bodies balance energy, repair tissues, and adapt to the challenges of life. A recent review by Liu and Reddy (2022) in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders explored how disrupted sleep reshapes two of our most critical hormonal signals...

03/09/2025

💪 Are you getting enough protein to stay strong as you age?
Research shows the RDA is too low—especially for older adults, athletes, and anyone who wants to age with strength.
✅ Learn how much you really need and when to eat it to support muscle, resilience, and vitality.
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The official protein recommendations are too low—especially for older adults, athletes, and anyone trying to preserve muscle and stay strong as they age.📊 The Evidence Is In: More Protein = More Muscle (Up to a Point)A recent analysis of over 1,000 individuals across dozens of studies found tha...

29/08/2025

Our “good fat” can turn into “regular fat” under stress. A new study finds that when mitochondria struggle, brown fat cells shift gears: burning less energy, storing more. This confirms what ERM describes — survival takes priority when energy runs short, even if long-term resilience suffers. Find out more in our latest blog! https://wix.to/gcLzOk6

A recent study in Nature Metabolism (Kaul et al., 2025) gives us a close look at how our cells respond when their mitochondria — the “power plants” of the cell — begin to fail. The researchers examined brown adipose tissue (BAT), a fat type known for burning calories and producing heat throu...

28/08/2025

Why do some children develop food allergies after just a trace exposure? A new review in Nature Reviews Immunology shows how broken skin can send alarm signals (DAMPs) that reprogram the gut and prime mast cells for severe reactions. We see this as a story of rhythm: tolerance restores the body’s tempo, while barrier damage distorts it. Allergy isn’t just overreaction — it’s a loss of the body’s natural rhythm of adaptation. Read more: https://wix.to/SngQggu

A recent review in Nature Reviews Immunology by Nicholas Lukacs and Simon Hogan, “Food allergy: begin at the skin, end at the mast cell?”, reframes how we think about food allergy. It highlights that what begins as a breach in the skin barrier can end as a violent allergic reaction in the gut an...

25/08/2025

Did you know cholesterol-lowering statins may affect more than just your heart? 🫀
A new study shows they also disrupt gut bacteria and hormones like GLP-1 — making blood sugar harder to control and even increasing hunger. Protecting the heart shouldn’t mean stressing the metabolism. Read more: https://wix.to/EjJZc3t

Statins are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world. They’re celebrated for lowering cholesterol and reducing heart attack risk. But over the past decade, another side of the story has emerged: people taking statins are more likely to develop diabetes or struggle with high blood sugar....

22/08/2025

Some flashy tools — live blood scans, “quantum analyzers,” even machines that stretch HRV results into organ maps — look scientific but aren’t validated.

Patients often feel better after visiting these services. But it’s usually because of the general supports offered — better nutrition, stress reduction, lifestyle changes — not the machine’s “magic readings.”

We need something better. That’s where ERM (Exposure-Related Malnutrition) comes in. It explains chronic illness through real science:
✅ Validated biomarkers
✅ Measurable energy mismatches
✅ Targeted, evidence-based care

✨ Patients deserve care that combines compassion and science.
Hope should not replace evidence.
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Around the world, patients living with chronic illness often feel underserved by conventional medicine. In this gap, entire systems of alternative diagnostics have emerged. They promise to reveal the “hidden dynamics” of health—blockages, toxins, imbalances, even neurotransmitter states. Yet m...

21/08/2025

Your body runs on a 24-hour rhythm — from hormone release to metabolism, sleep, and recovery.
But what happens when chronic stress disrupts this tempo?
This post explores the circadian role of adrenal glucocorticoids, the science of hormetic cycling, and how persistent adaptation can lead to fatigue, aging, and a condition called Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM).
🧭 Learn how to realign your metabolic tempo and rebuild resilience.
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What if health isn’t just about what we eat, how we move, or how we sleep — but when we do them?Recent insights into the circadian rhythm of adrenal glucocorticoids (GCs) — our body’s key stress hormones — reveal that our physiological resilience depends on more than just balance. It depen...

19/08/2025

💉✨ GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are making headlines. But here’s what you won’t see in the ads:
⚖️ Muscle down, fat up → Many patients regain fat after stopping treatment, but muscle doesn’t bounce back. This sets up sarcopenic obesity — frailty hiding behind weight loss.
🔥 Glucagon suppressed → These meds blunt a hormone vital for brain energy, immune defense, and recovery. Long-term, this may erode resilience.
👉 The scale shows weight. But resilience? That’s hidden.
Protect muscle. Protect flexibility. Ask deeper questions.

Read more here: https://wix.to/KuoSez1

Over the past few years, GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have taken center stage in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Branded as breakthrough drugs, they can induce 15–25% body weight loss over a year or two — results once thought possible only through bariatric surgery.But as pre...