MetFix 8 posts from the Persistence team
The MetFix Course, Now as Eight Animated Stories
MetFix explains how your metabolism makes energy and what goes wrong with it. Each of the course's eight modules now opens with a short narrated animation of its main idea, open to anyone with no login.
What Actually Changes in Your Metabolism When Seattle Goes Dark, and What Does Not
The biochemistry does not have a seasonal setting. What changes when the light goes is the schedule wrapped around it: when you move, when you eat, when you sleep. The honest version, including the places where the confident advice outruns the evidence.
Why Moving After You Eat Does Something That Eating Less Does Not
A walk after a meal is the cheapest thing in metabolic health and almost nobody explains why it works. There is a second door into the cell, and contraction opens it without insulin.
What a Normal Blood Panel Answers, and the Question It Was Never Asked
A standard panel reports a level, not a capacity. It is very good at the question it was built to ask. Here is what that question is, and what a fuel handling question would look like instead.
How to Improve Metabolic Health: Five Levers, Ranked by Payoff and Cost
Food, timing, exercise, sleep, and stress. A coach ranks the five levers of metabolic health by how much each one moves against what it actually costs you.
What Insulin Resistance Actually Is, Without the Scary Graphics
A coach's plain explanation of insulin resistance: not cells refusing to listen, but cells that are already full. Why glucose can read normal for years.
Why You Are Tired All the Time (It Is Usually an Engine Problem)
Most fatigue advice is sleep hygiene. Here is the other explanation nobody gives you: the machinery that makes your energy is trainable, and capacity varies enormously.
Why Nutrition Advice Keeps Changing (and Why Both Sides Have a Study)
Your doctor and your trainer give you opposite nutrition advice and both are quoting research. Here is the structural reason the literature contradicts itself, and how to judge a claim.
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