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You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.

What I Eat on a GLP-1 And Why It Changes

Let’s Start With What Nobody Tells You When people start a GLP-1, they are told what to avoid. What side effects to expect, and sometimes how much protein they should be eating. While that information has its place, it misses the part that actually changes your day-to-day life. Because what really shifts is not just…

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GLP-1 The First Month: Tips for the new user

The first month of the GLP-1 journey can follow one of three pathways. In this article we go through those pathways as well as give you tips to avoid trouble.

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Being a Foodie on a GLP-1

Why GLP-1 Made Me Love Food More—Not Less From beetroot pasta to backyard salsa, this wasn’t about eating less. It was about finally tasting more. I want to tell you about two people on a GLP-1. First, there’s me. I’ve been on a maintenance dose—7.5 mg of Zepbound—for a while now. And recently, I went…

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The Peptide Bazaar: Real Medicine vs. Vials from the Internet

From insulin miracles to gym peptides like BPC-157—what works, what doesn’t, and why most peptide hype skips real evidence.

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Fat Shaming and GLP-1 – It’s Biology

Fat shaming happens from Hollywood to the Gym Bros and often from that little voice within.

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Menopause: Estrogen Effects Satiety

Menopause, Hunger, and the Brain: Why It Feels Different Menopause changes more than temperature control. It reshapes how the brain handles hunger, fullness, and the quiet signals that guide eating. As a result, many women notice something unsettling. The same meals no longer satisfy. Hunger arrives sooner. Food feels louder. For years, we blamed metabolism….

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Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity

Henry VIII’s weight gain wasn’t just excess—it may have been brain injury. What history and GLP-1 drugs reveal about obesity today.

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The Carnivore Priesthood

When Beef Becomes Belief: The Carnivore Priesthood Nutrition debates rarely begin with money. Yet money almost always explains how they spread. That fact explains much of the modern carnivore movement. At first glance, the carnivore diet appears to be a radical nutritional idea: eat beef, organs, and animal fat while avoiding vegetables, grains, legumes, and…

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Minnesota Starvation Experiment: Food Noise, Science

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment: What Hunger Does to the Human Mind Every few years, someone announces the solution to weight loss. Eat less.Fast longer.Cut carbs.Cut fat.Cut something. Naturally, the advice usually comes with a tone of moral certainty. If you are hungry, the implication goes, you simply lack discipline. However, long before social media, diet influencers,…

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