Lifestyle

Walking Uphill Instead of Running? What Incline Walking Can Do for Fitness, Fat Metabolism and Lipedema
Why steep incline walking can deliver serious cardiovascular and metabolic benefits, how it compares with running, and what it may mean for women with…
 • CarinaW
Why Do We Seek Extreme Diets to Manage Lipedema?
Why strict food rules can feel safer and easier than moderation when living with lipedema, and why finding what works for your body may mean changing…
 • CarinaW
What Is Gut Health? Understanding the Gut Microbiome, Intestinal Barrier and Immune System
What a “healthy gut” actually means, how gut bacteria interact with the body, and why microbiome diversity alone does not tell the whole story.
 • CarinaW
Anti-Inflammatory Food, Diet and Lifestyle with Lipedema
Anti-inflammatory foods are only one part of the picture. Explore evidence on dietary patterns, sleep, stress and inflammation in lipedema.
 • CarinaW
Hunger and Fullness Hormones: GLP-1, Ghrelin, Leptin and Appetite in Lipedema
How GLP-1, ghrelin, leptin, PYY, CCK and reproductive hormones influence hunger, satiety and weight control, and why appetite can differ so much between…
 • CarinaW
Why Your Lipedema Triggers May Change Over Time
Stress, inflammation, pain and the science behind why your body may tolerate something one week but react differently the next.
 • CarinaW
The Nervous System Has an Impact on Your Lipedema Inflammation
How 15 years of living with lipedema led me to stress, pain and the science of neuroimmune regulation
 • CarinaW
What Weight Actually Does in Lipedema
Lipedema is not caused by obesity, and weight loss is not a cure. But does that mean body weight does not matter? New research is challenging some of…
 • CarinaW
What Food Looks Like Through the Eyes of a Food Scientist with Lipedema
From nutrient interactions and gut health to food quality and balance, this is the framework I use every day.
 • CarinaW
Redox, Oxidative Stress and Lipedema
A piece of biochemistry I first learned during my bachelor’s degree in nutrition may help us understand how energy production, blood vessels…
 • CarinaW
Can Exercise Improve Life with Lipedema? Inside Norway’s LipidEx Research Programme
A closer look at Norway’s LipidEx research programme and what it may teach us about pain, physical capacity, quality of life and the role of exercise in…
 • CarinaW
What to Read First If You’re Curious About Food, Nutrition, and Lipedema
A guide to food, nutrition, inflammation, insulin, and lipedema symptoms through science and lived experience.
 • CarinaW
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