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Insulin Resistance and Iron Levels: What the Research Shows
Insulin resistance and obesity are linked to disrupted iron metabolism, including iron deficiency without anemia. Why the relationship runs both ways, why ferritin can mislead, and what to do.
Why Chronic Inflammation Never Shuts Off: The 3 Stages
Inflammation is not a switch, it is a life cycle with three stages: ignition, persistence, and resolution. Why chronic disease is often a failure to shut the fire off, and what your terrain has to do with it.
The Gut Barrier: An Upstream Driver of Cardiometabolic Disease
The intestinal barrier and its microbes sit upstream of the inflammation and insulin resistance behind cardiometabolic disease. A synthesis of six weeks of research, organized by strength of evidence.
Can People With Type 1 Diabetes Safely Try Intermittent Fasting?
A 2026 randomized trial found an 8-hour eating window improved blood sugar in adults with Type 1 diabetes and obesity, without raising serious risks. The evidence and its limits.
Why Am I So Tired All the Time When My Bloodwork Is Fine?
Persistent fatigue with normal bloodwork is common. Real contributors include sleep, thyroid, nutrient status, circulation, neuroinflammation, and genetics.
Food Allergy vs Food Sensitivity vs Food Intolerance: The Difference
Food allergy, food sensitivity, and food intolerance are three different mechanisms, routinely confused. What separates them, and why the right response to each differs.
Can a Brain Injury Cause Autoimmune Disease?
A traumatic brain injury can trigger an autoimmune response. The Autoimmune Answer devotes a chapter to brain injury induced autoimmunity, told as one patient’s case.
Is There a Book for Parents of Children With PANDAS or PANS?
The Autoimmune Answer has a full chapter on PANDAS and PANS written for parents, not clinicians, following one child’s case from sudden onset through testing to treatment.
Thyroid Labs Normal but Still Have Symptoms? What to Read
If your thyroid labs are “normal” but symptoms persist, standard testing may be missing autoimmune thyroid disease. What to read to understand why, and what to do next.
It Is Not Just the X Chromosome: New Genetics on Women and Autoimmunity
A 2026 study of 1.25 million immune cells found 1,000+ sex-specific genetic switches, mostly NOT on the sex chromosomes, that help explain why women get more autoimmune disease and lupus.
