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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have state of the art whole room calorimeters at $3m each. They are used to conduct fundamental metabolic research and provided some interesting insights into the role of metabolism in weight loss including: Heavier people generally have higher metabolic rates than skinny folks to meet the fuel demands of their larger bodies. Crash dieting can permanently slow a person’s metabolic rate Low carb diets don’t always improve fat utilisation There’s a...

MHS recently featured in the Raconteur specialist edition on Understanding Diabetes. You can access the full paper...

Are you not getting the weight loss results you expected despite all your efforts? Here are 5 reasons why your physiology may be hindering your progress. 1. Disease State We know the bodies of those with disease function differently to healthy people, yet from a weight loss perspective they’re treated the same.For example, those  with Hashimoto’s diagnosed from high thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) are put on the same medications as those with other thyroid diseases. However, from a...

When you are grocery shopping, selecting the rights food can be a long and confusing process. The following 5 minute video gives some hints and tips when choosing foods that support fat burning and metabolism. It should however be pointed out that most of the best choices for the shopping trolley DON’T even have a label eg) vegetables, meats and other fresh foods....

We had leading endocrinologist Dr Ben Ng visit us from Singapore. He uses ECAL not just to assess metabolic rate, but whether lifestyle and drug interventions are improving the fat utilisation of his clients. This video of Body and Soul (a daytime health show) is dedicated to the management of Diabetes type 2 and discusses new and innovative technologies that can improve the prognosis of diabetes patients. The interviewer concludes by questioning whether all diabetic patients and those at risk...