Integrative Health &
Applied Nutrition
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Editor’s note –
April 2026
Yes calories matter, but they’re not the be all and end all of fat loss.
We’re celebrating the publication of a new book by Dr JASON FUNG with a major cover story on the theme “Focus on Huger, not Calories”.
Jason endeared himself to us nutritionally-orientated practitioners with his love of fasting – intermittent and otherwise – and his 2018 best-seller The Obesity Code, which saw him pilloried for challenging the idea that type 2 diabetes is chronic and inevitably gets worse. He advocated diet and fasting as a treatment with the potential to reverse the condition.
Will he face heavy criticism again with The Hunger Code? Of course. But maybe this will be the final nail in the coffin of the overly-simplistic “calories in, calories out” model of weight loss.
And these days you can’t talk about losing weight without GLP-1 drugs butting into the conversation. We’re seeing two new types of clients: those that have been on the jabs and want to come off, and those who’ve seen the amazing results but are suspicious and wonder if there’s an alternative.
Well, they’re right to be suspicious, as research pharmacist MIKE WAKEMAN explains. There are side-effects. Between 25–40% of the total weight lost is lean tissue. And when people stop taking them, the weight comes back on.
GLP-1s are not all they’re cracked up to be. And no fewer than three Cochrane reviews just revealed that a large share of the positive studies have been funded by the companies that manufacture the drugs – and in many cases, the companies were deeply involved in designing, conducting, analysing and reporting the trials.
Independent reviewers conclude that these medications alone, ignoring diet and lifestyle changes, are not enough and maybe shouldn’t be used long-term. Mike has an alternative protocol that will enable you to deal with the new wave of clients.
And as usual, the issue is packed with the latest news and research – with some surprising – well, not really – findings on the effectiveness of nutrition and supplements; as ever, fully referenced and bang up to date.
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We don’t put a big emphasis on being “evidence based” in the conventional sense, mainly because the bulk of the evidence used in meta analyses and systematic reviews and to produce “guidelines” is not to be trusted. As Prof Richard David Feinman puts it, the meta-analysis is the “most dangerous” activity plaguing modern medical literature. And RCTs are of no use in assessing complex conditions that we address with multiple interventions – such as Dr Dale Bredesen’s Alzheimer’s protocol. Likewise, we highly value the hard-won clinical experience of multiple practitioners accumulated over the years and handed down over generations of evolving natural medicine practice. That said, we do put a lot of effort into referencing our features. References are online to save space, available within our members area.
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