For optimal health, your waist-to-hip ratio should be less than 0.8 for women and less than 0.9 for men, with even stricter guidelines for Asian and Indian ethnicities.

The two biggest and most often unaddressed causes of high blood pressure are insulin resistance and sleep apnea.

As you age, you can weigh the same but be twice as fat because lost muscle mass is replaced by metabolically unhealthy fat.

A person with a 'good' total cholesterol of 150 can be at high risk if they have a large number of small, dense LDL particles, which standard tests don't show.

Belly fat is not just passive storage but an active immune organ that produces inflammatory molecules, creating a chronic, low-grade cytokine storm in your body.

The primary benefit of statin drugs may not be from lowering cholesterol but from their powerful, though unintended, anti-inflammatory effects.

Not everyone is salt-sensitive, and the real problem is the salt added to processed foods, not the mineral-rich sea salt you add yourself.

Environmental toxins like BPA are considered 'obesogens' that can directly cause visceral fat gain and insulin resistance, independent of diet.

The functional medicine approach is to improve hypertension by treating its root causes—like sleep apnea, nutritional deficiencies, and stress—rather than just medicating the symptom.