Articles
Plain explanations of what these assessments measure, written for the person having them and for the clinician reading the report.
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Insulin Resistance and Dementia: Screening Past the Glucose
Glucose and A1c record the failure of compensation, not its onset. The evidence on insulin resistance and dementia, who to screen, and what a finding changes.
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Fasting Insulin Screening: The Gate on the Brain’s Second Fuel
Glucose is a late marker. Why fasting insulin and related measures belong in screening, what thresholds the literature supports, how to interpret ketones safely, and how to route results into the chart.
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Cognitive Screening in Primary Care: Add the Metabolic Picture
Why a cognitive score in an insulin-resistant patient belongs next to metabolic, nutrient and body-composition data, what the evidence supports, and how to build the pairing into standing orders.
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Standing Orders: Making Screening Reproducible
Selection by clinical impression cannot be audited and is not reproducible. A written rule applied at intake makes it so.
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Cognitive Screening: What a Baseline Is For
A single screening score is close to uninterpretable. Two scores, taken the same way two years apart, are one of the more informative things in a chart.