Pecan Health

23/10/2025

Heart disease is still the #1 killer in America and the world, and it’s getting worse.
Despite decades of “advancements,” more people are dying younger — not because we lack technology, but because our approach is incomplete.

The standard medical protocol focuses on:
💊 Hypertension medication
💊 Statin medication
💊 More Hypertension and Cholesterol medictions
💊 Waiting until there’s already damage

But heart disease isn’t just a plumbing problem — it’s a metabolic problem.
The root drivers often go unchecked:
⚠️ Chronically high insulin
⚠️ Inflammation
⚠️ Poor mitochondrial function
⚠️ Nutrient deficiencies
⚠️ Oxidative stress from processed foods and poor sleep

These don’t show up on a routine cholesterol panel.
They require deeper testing — fasting insulin, triglyceride-to-HDL ratio, hsCRP, metabolic markers — the tests functional medicine uses to catch disease before it becomes a crisis.

It’s time to move from reactionary medicine to root-cause medicine.
Heart disease is preventable — if we start treating metabolism, not just arteries.

💬 Do you think the medical system focuses too much on symptom management instead of prevention? Comment below 👇

22/10/2025

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in America, but most people don’t realize it starts decades before the first symptom.
It’s not just about clogged arteries — it’s about insulin resistance, inflammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction silently damaging the body over time.

The good news? Nearly 90% of heart disease is preventable.
You can lower your risk by improving your metabolic health:
✅ Lower processed carbs and seed oils
✅ Walk after meals
✅ Prioritize protein and strength training
✅ Get your fasting insulin checked — not just cholesterol

Heart health isn’t managed by a pill — it’s built by daily habits.
💬 What’s one lifestyle change you’ve made for your heart?

20/10/2025

You’ve heard it a thousand times — “Just eat less and move more.”
But is weight gain really that simple? 🤔

A new 2025 study by McGrosky et al. looked at energy expenditure and obesity across economic populations and found something surprising — people around the world, from wealthy nations to developing regions, burn nearly the same number of calories daily on average.

That means the old “calories in, calories out” model misses the mark.
🧬 Your metabolism, hormones, sleep, stress, and food quality all shape how your body uses energy — not just how much you eat or move.

At Pecan Health, we focus on restoring metabolic balance, not calorie math.
Let’s move beyond calorie counting and start understanding how your body processes energy. 💪

02/08/2025

BACK TO SCHOOL SOON!!
📚 How Much Sugar Are Kids Really Eating at School?
🍩 Spoiler: More than you think… and it's not just dessert.

Between fruit juice, chocolate milk, granola bars, breakfast cereal, ketchup, “fruit” snacks, and lunchroom pizza crust, many kids are unknowingly consuming over 100 grams of added sugar—just during school hours. That’s the equivalent of 20 teaspoons before they even get home. Yay!

😴 And the result?
• Brain fog
• Mood swings
• Midday crashes
• Behavior labeled as “disruptive”
• Insulin resistance in the making

🍎 We don’t need more sugar in schools.
We need better food.

🧠 A stable brain starts with stable blood sugar.

01/08/2025

📣 POST: “Healthy Food Has a PR Problem”

🥦 Broccoli doesn’t have a marketing team. But processed food does.

From the bright colors to the cartoon mascots, ultra-processed foods are designed to hijack your taste buds—and your metabolism.

🍩 Most processed foods are engineered to be hyper-palatable, addictive, and cheap… but the real cost shows up in our insulin resistance, inflammation, and chronic fatigue.

🧃 Sugar is the lead actor, but processed food is the whole cast.

♟ And the USDA, ADA, and AHA? Let’s just say they’ve been playing supporting roles in this junk food drama for decades.

🔍 If you're tired of feeling tired, start by reading ingredients, not just calories. The fewer syllables, the better.

👉 Eat like your great-grandparents—if they wouldn’t recognize it as food, maybe you shouldn’t either.

29/07/2025

If you’ve tried cutting calories and hitting the gym but still aren’t seeing results, you’re not broken—you’ve just been given the wrong playbook. 🧬

The old “eat less, move more” advice completely ignores the role of metabolism, hormones, insulin resistance, and stress chemistry like cortisol.

🧠 Your body isn’t fighting you—it’s trying to protect you.

19/07/2025

Would you tell them "everything in moderation"?
🧠 Addiction is addiction.
🍩 Sugar and processed food hijack the brain the same way hard drugs do.
But only one gets told to “just have a little.”
Let’s stop normalizing the trap.

18/07/2025

🗽🍭 America’s Sugar Tower 🍭🗽

Imagine the Empire State Building…

Now imagine TWENTY of them…

Filled. To. The. Top.
With granulated sugar.

That’s how much sugar Americans consume every single year — 33.5 BILLION pounds.

😳
That’s 766 million cubic feet of sugar — enough to cover 1,330 football fields with a 10-foot-deep layer of sweet white powder.

And it’s not just desserts — it’s hidden in sauces, breads, dressings, snacks, drinks, and more. Now add up the amount of corn and wheat we consume and that give you an even better picture why Americans have so much chronic disease.

🧠 This isn’t just a fun fact. It’s a metabolic health crisis.

📉 Fatigue. Brain fog. Insulin resistance. Chronic disease.

🍽️ It’s time to rethink what we’re feeding our bodies.

17/07/2025

🧠💔 Is your depression actually coming from your gut?
We’ve been taught to think of depression as purely a chemical imbalance in the brain—but the truth is far more connected.

👉 Over 90% of serotonin is produced in the gut.
👉 Chronic inflammation, poor microbiome diversity, and leaky gut can all disrupt mood.
👉 Antibiotics, sugar, processed foods, and stress? They all play a role.

🌿 Functional medicine asks the deeper question:
What’s driving the mood changes?
Gut health might be the key your brain has been waiting for.

16/07/2025

🧠 SCIENTISTS SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO CONFIRM WHAT YOUR GRANDMA ALREADY KNEW:
You can’t outrun a donut. 🍩💨

Turns out, it’s not your treadmill that’s failing you — it’s your fork.
A massive global study published in PNAS (July 2025) found that overeating crappy food — not inactivity — is the primary driver of the global obesity crisis.
Even people in sedentary, industrialized societies have a near net zero expenditure of calories just like hunter-gatherer societies that are nearly devoid of chronic diseases. 🤯

📖 Source: Pontzer et al. Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum, PNAS, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420902122

Up to 88% of American adults have Insulin Resistance, a metabolic disorder that is causing the majority of our illnesses, so by treating one condition, we can prevent or reverse a multitude of others including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, ect. Pecan Health is here to help.

14/07/2025

📣 Breaking News: We had to invent a whole new branch of medicine just to remember to ask... WHY. 🤯

🩺 "Functional Medicine": because apparently “Let’s figure out what’s actually causing your symptoms” was too wild for traditional healthcare. 😅

01/05/2025