The Five Pillars of Metabolic Health (eBook)

Reclaim Your Health From an Industry That Profits From Your Confusion

For readers of Good Energy and Glucose Revolution who want the blood-sugar science backed by a lived story: at forty-nine, Shakira Rahimi Niazi stood in a hospital bathroom, her mother comatose down the hall, and didn't recognize the obese, prediabetic woman in the mirror. She had already survived one collapse, fleeing Kabul at ten with her baby sister on her back as the Soviet invasion closed in. She built an American success story anyway ? an MBA, a career managing a $300 billion portfolio ? and still ended up sick and exhausted, certain something was wrong with her.

It wasn't. It was the system.

In The Five Pillars of Metabolic Health, Niazi, founder of the wellness brand Zen Basil, argues that the food, wellness, and healthcare industries profit from women's confusion, not their health. Using whole food alone, she reversed her own prediabetes, lost more than 40 pounds, and dropped her fasting glucose more than 30 points. You can, too.

In this book, you'll discover:

• The one formula for reading any food label and knowing what it's doing to your blood sugar
• Why fiber, not another isolated powder, is the most overlooked lever in metabolic health, and a simple way to close the gap
• The Five Pillars: Faith, Family, Food, Fitness, and Freedom, a daily practice that costs nothing
• The single question that exposes a wellness "warning" as a sales pitch
• A firsthand account of reclaiming health at fifty-five with more energy than at thirty

Part refugee memoir, part industry exposé, part practical guide, The Five Pillars of Metabolic Health shows that real health costs almost nothing ? and that readers have more power over their bodies than the wellness industry wants them to believe.