Make Sense of Metabolic Health
Insulin resistance, glucose spikes and the weight-loss medicines — what the evidence supports and what the monitors are selling.
7 steps · ~40min · tick as you go
7 steps
Insulin Resistance: What It Is and What Moves It
Understand what insulin resistance is, and that substantial weight loss put nearly half of DiRECT's participants into remission.
Do Glucose Spikes Matter If You Don't Have Diabetes?
Separate glucose control in diabetes (well evidenced) from spike-flattening in healthy people (not).
Compute the standard monitor metrics properly, if you have the data.
Put your own numbers into one composite, and read what it can't tell you.
Weight-Loss Medicines: The Questions They Raise
Know the trial evidence, the lean-mass finding and what the withdrawal studies show about stopping.
Protein and muscle on GLP-1 medication
See the food-side answer to the muscle question.
Grade metabolic and weight-loss claims, and notice how far the strong ones sit from the marketed ones.
How this works
Nothing here is gated and nothing is new: every step is a page or a calculator already on the site, and you can jump straight to any of them. The order is the contribution, along with the last step — a round of Grade the Claim, because reading something and being able to judge it later are different skills, and only the second one survives the week.
Ticks are saved on this device. Claims you meet in the check come back on a spacing schedule, and what you know keeps the tally.
Written and reviewed by Mathew Beale, MSc Biotechnology, University of Reading.
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