LeanLabs Medical Spa

10/21/2025

I switched oils and eating felt easier.

No cleanse, no rigid rules. I moved to olive oil, avocado oil, and high-oleic versions for cooking. Pulled back on deep-fried takeout and restaurant meals where seed oils dominate every dish.

Within a few weeks I noticed my hunger wasn't this constant background noise anymore.

Energy felt steadier through the afternoon instead of that 3pm crash. The plan was easy to keep because I wasn't fighting my body the whole time.

After 15 years in functional health, I've watched this play out with thousands of patients who make the same switch.

Here's the mechanism that matters:

Polyunsaturated fatty acids in seed oils (soybean, canola, corn) oxidize easily when exposed to heat, air, or just sitting in your tissues. Those oxidized compounds create inflammatory metabolites that interfere with hunger signaling and metabolic function at the cellular level.

Linoleic acid has a half-life of about two years in your body. That means the damage builds meal after meal, and getting rid of stored oxidized fats takes years... not weeks.

Between 1909 and 1999, soybean oil consumption increased over 1000% in America. We replaced butter, lard, and tallow with highly processed vegetable oils. The food industry called it progress.

But what I see in patient labs tells a different story.

When people eliminate processed seed oils and return to stable fats like olive oil, butter, ghee, and tallow, inflammatory markers improve. Hormone panels shift. And most importantly, they tell me eating feels simpler and hunger feels manageable for the first time in years.

Your body responds to the environment you give it.

Seed oils create oxidative stress and inflammatory static that makes everything harder. More stable fats reduce that load so your cells can actually function the way they're designed to.

The fix is simpler than most people think, but it takes time because of how long these compounds stick around in tissues.

What are you cooking with right now? Comment "olive oil" if you've already made the switch, or "curious" if you're thinking about it.

10/21/2025

Clinics see the same seed oil pattern.

Patients hit a plateau, weight won't budge, energy crashes by 2 PM. Hunger feels impossible to control.

Then they cut ultra-processed foods with seed oils, add more protein and fiber... and within weeks the plateau breaks.

I've watched this happen hundreds of times over 15 years in functional medicine. And once you understand what's happening at the cellular level, it makes perfect sense.

Most seed oils (soybean, canola, corn oil) are loaded with omega-6 fatty acids. Your body needs some omega-6, but historically humans ate a 10:1 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6. Today that ratio flipped to something like 1:20 because of how our food system changed.

When your cells need to repair membranes and you're low on omega-3s, they substitute omega-6s instead.

Problem is, omega-6 fatty acids oxidize easily... from sun exposure, stress, even normal energy production in your mitochondria. Once oxidized in your mitochondrial membrane, they change shape and your mitochondria can't produce energy efficiently anymore.

Your cells are screaming for energy but can't make it.

So your body sends hunger signals. Cravings for quick carbs and sweets. You eat more processed food (with more seed oils), making the cycle worse.

Clinically, we see elevated blood sugar, A1C, insulin resistance. All markers of metabolic dysfunction. But also brain fog, chronic fatigue, slow healing, inflammatory skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.

When patients eliminate seed oils and processed foods, we see improvements in 30 days. Some take 4-6 months to feel like themselves again, but the direction matters more than speed.

Here's the starter plan clinics use:

→ Eliminate processed foods in bags and boxes (they almost always contain seed oils)
→ Shop the perimeter: fresh produce, meats, dairy, eggs
→ Cook with stable fats: butter, ghee, tallow, olive oil
→ Add fiber at every meal (leafy greens, beans, berries)
→ Prioritize protein for satiety and blood sugar stability
→ Read labels religiously... seed oils hide everywhere

When eating out, ask what oil they cook with. Most restaurants use seed oils for cost, so you'll need to make requests or choose carefully.

Tailor this to your kitchen and culture.

If you eat Mexican food, use lard instead of vegetable oil. If you love Asian cooking, use coconut oil or ghee. Mediterranean? Olive oil and butter.

The framework stays the same: eliminate oxidizable omega-6s, add stable fats your cells actually recognize.

Linoleic acid (the main omega-6) has a half-life of about two years in your tissues. Decades of accumulation won't reverse overnight, but every meal without seed oils reduces your inflammatory load. Your mitochondria get a chance to heal, energy comes back, hunger normalizes, weight starts moving again.

This is what I see in clinical practice. Not quick fixes or hype, just biochemistry that actually supports your cells.

What's one processed food you're ready to swap out this week? Drop it below, and if this clicked for you, like and share so someone else can finally break through their plateau.

10/15/2025

Your doctor gets paid to manage you, not heal you 💊

High blood pressure gets medication. Inflammation gets steroids. Fatigue gets dismissed as aging.

The symptom gets managed.

The dysfunction continues.

This pattern repeats across thousands of patient visits every day - different specialists, different medications, same underlying problem getting worse. One medication leads to another, which leads to another, and nobody asks why the body stopped working correctly in the first place.

When you shift to root-cause thinking, everything changes.

Instead of suppressing inflammation, you identify what's triggering it. Instead of managing blood sugar with medication, you restore the insulin sensitivity that regulates it naturally. Instead of replacing hormones blindly, you investigate why production dropped.

The body doesn't operate in isolated parts.

When insulin resistance develops, it affects everything simultaneously: hormone production drops, inflammation increases, detoxification slows down, cellular aging accelerates. Conventional medicine treats each symptom separately with different medications.

Functional medicine addresses insulin sensitivity, and the downstream symptoms start resolving without needing separate interventions for every single one.

This produces outcomes you can measure: patients reversing prediabetes instead of progressing to full diabetes, restoring hormone levels that conventional doctors call "normal for your age," eliminating medications they were told would be lifelong.

The functional approach takes more work upfront - comprehensive testing, detailed protocols, your active participation. But the return shows up in years of healthy life instead of just suppressed symptoms.

The healthcare system makes money from chronic disease management.

Your body benefits from actual healing.

Like this if you're tired of treating the same symptoms over and over without getting to what's actually wrong.

12/24/2024

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 2025 is going to be amazing!

10/23/2024

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06/18/2024

What an incredible birthday it’s been. Not only did my friends and staff plan an amazing lunch, we also received our Certificate of Occupancy for our brand new location!!

06/10/2024

Well, it’s taken a little bit longer than we planned, but we are finally getting the last finishing touches on the office and getting ready to move in. I wanted to share this exciting tour with you. Can’t wait to see you all soon.

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