AVOLYA Medical Insights
Doc's Thoughts
Medical perspectives from the AVOLYA team of doctors – on obesity, metabolism and modern therapy.
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Body composition & endocrinology
The sarcopenia paradox
Why the scales lie about true fat burning
It is not the number on the scales that determines metabolic health, but what the lost mass is made of – and why muscle is your most important ally here.
Dr. Ulrich Heidenreich · · 3 min read
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Neurobiology & behavioural medicine
Silence in the mind
The neurobiology of constant “food noise”
The constant inner monologue about food is not a lack of willpower but measurable neurobiology – and a window of opportunity that coaching should make the most of.
Dr. Ulrich Heidenreich · · 3 min read
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Circadian endocrinology & stress physiology
Chrononutrition & Cortisol
When poor sleep blocks fat metabolism
Sleep is not a passive state of rest but the body's central endocrine repair window. What sleep deprivation does to hunger, cortisol and insulin.
dr. med. Christoph Regalbuto · · 3 min read
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Enteroendocrinology & the microbiological axis
The gut–brain axis
How the microbiome helps control hunger
The gut microbiome works like a hormone organ in its own right. How dietary fibre stimulates the body's own release of satiety hormones.
dr. med. Christoph Regalbuto · · 5 min read
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Obesity & precision medicine
Why “eat less, move more” is medically outdated
Obesity phenotypes and modern incretin therapy
Why obesity is not a question of willpower, which four phenotypes the Mayo Clinic describes and what this means for treatment.
dr. med. Christoph Regalbuto · · 7 min read
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