Why Your CGM Only Tells Half the Story

Why Your CGM Only Tells Half the Story

Your continuous glucose monitor shows exactly how bread affects blood sugar but misses the fructose pathway completely. While CGMs track glucose perfectly, they remain blind to fructose heading straight to your liver, where it converts to triglycerides and visceral fat without spiking blood glucose. Read full blog [https://www.vat-trap.com/post/cgm-fructose-blind-spot]

The Four Pillars: A Temple for Your Healthspan

What if living longer isn’t about finding a miracle treatment, but strengthening four foundations that support every decade of life? The Four Pillars explores cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, metabolic health and recovery, showing how small, consistent improvements in each area can help extend not just lifespan, but healthspan and vitality. Read full article  [https://www.vat-trap.com/post/four-pillars-healthspan]

How to Interpret Your Home Blood Pressure Results: What Your MyBP Numbers Actually Mean

A week of home blood pressure readings tells a far more accurate story than a single clinic measurement. Learn how to interpret your MyBP [https://vat-trap-tools.vercel.app/mybp] results, understand what the categories mean, recognise when lifestyle changes are enough, and know when it may be time to discuss treatment with your GP. Read full article [https://www.vat-trap.com/post/interpret-blood-pressure]

VAT Brain

Your belly fat isn't just threatening your heart — it's actively damaging your brain. Visceral adipose tissue drives the insulin resistance, inflammation and vascular damage that accelerate dementia, stroke and Parkinson's disease, often decades before symptoms appear. The hopeful part: every step in that chain is, in principle, reversible. Read full article [https://www.vat-trap.com/post/vat-brain]

Is coronary artery calcification good or bad?

Coronary calcium screening has evolved from expensive research tool to mainstream risk assessment, but fixation on Agatston scores obscures sophisticated plaque analysis. Zero calcium cannot exclude disease in younger patients, while elevated scores demand intensive prevention regardless of traditional risk calculations. Full article [https://www.vat-trap.com/post/coronary-calcium-evolution]