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What the series is

Dr. Luebker delivered three grand rounds talks on metabolic health at White River Health during 2025, and all three of them were recorded and published. This page gathers the recordings in the order she gave them. She declared no disclosures and no industry support for any part of the three-part series.

The talks were written for physicians, residents, and advanced practice clinicians, so they work through the biochemistry before they reach any practical advice. That makes them slower than most health videos and a good deal more useful. A viewer without a clinical background can follow them, though the middle sections will ask something of you.

Each talk also has its own page here, with a fuller description of what it covers and the questions still open on it. The links below go to those pages as well as to the recordings, so you can read first or watch first. Watching a lecture is not the same as being given advice about your own case.

Part one, on the body

Find Your Why: Understanding the Impact of the Standard American Diet was delivered on 29 May 2025. It works through the standard American diet, insulin resistance, the biochemistry of the fed and fasted states, and what regulatory approval does and does not establish about a food additive. The closing section reads a metabolic panel line by line, using a practice patient the audience interprets first.

The recording is published as The Metabolic Crisis: Why We're Getting Sicker. The fuller description, and the questions still open on it, are on the page for Find Your Why. That page holds the detail, and this one is only an index.

Part two, on the brain

Fuel for Thought: How Diet Powers Both Mind and Body followed on 5 June 2025. Where part one dealt with the body, this one deals with memory, mood, and long-term brain health. It reviews the published case series on ketogenic metabolic therapy in psychiatry, the imaging findings in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, and the documented effect of resistance training on brain structure.

This is the talk most likely to be quoted out of context, because some of the case material involves people who came off psychiatric medication. A lecture is not a reason to change psychiatric treatment. The recording is published as Brain Fog Isn't "Normal", and the full description is on the page for Fuel for Thought.

Part three, on the home

It's Not Crunchy: Endocrine Disruptors is the third talk in the series, and the date it was delivered is not on file here. It works through what an endocrine disrupting chemical is, using the Endocrine Society definition, which is broader than most people expect. The three groups it examines in detail are pesticides, plastics and plasticizers, and the forever chemicals.

A substantial part of it deals with what regulatory approval does and does not establish, and with the history of diethylstilbestrol. It closes on reducing total exposure rather than eliminating it. The recording is published as What Your Home Is Doing to Your Hormones, and the page for It's Not Crunchy holds the rest.

Why each talk has two titles

Each of these talks has two titles, and the difference is deliberate rather than careless. The grand rounds title is the one used with a clinical audience, and it describes the talk to somebody who already works in medicine. The published title was written for a person searching for an explanation of their own symptoms.

Both titles appear on this page and on each talk's own page, so neither audience loses track of which recording is which. The content behind each published title is the grand rounds talk itself, in full and unedited. Nothing at all was cut for the general-audience release.

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