Intro to Travel
I’ve been a pilot since 1995. That is a lot of living out of a suitcase, thousands of hotel rooms, time zone changes, and all kinds of adventures. That isn’t even including my time in the Army and all the places Uncle Sam sent me. I’ve let myself go physically in the beginning, more on […]
Intro to Chow Hall
Dinner is Served! I will share with you some basics of food knowledge, how it benefits your body and how to prepare it. I’m not a trained chef, I’m just someone that loves to cook and create tasty dishes. I used to cook traditionally, but have switched to cooking mostly Low Carb. I like to […]
Intro to Boot Camp
“Exercise is a terrible way to lose weight!”….Vinnie Tortorich, Trainer to the Stars. Vinnie is a world-class physical trainer and has trained many of actors and actresses in Hollywood. He has a degree from Tulane in exercise and has decades of experience in helping people get fit and lose weight. So why would he say […]
Welcome to WTH
What is Whiskey Tango Health? This is a website dedicated to understanding metabolic health so you can live your best life, especially for the challenges of flight crews. What Whiskey Tango Health is not is medical advice. The information on this website is intended to help inform the reader and IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. What […]
Insulin
We have already learned a little bit about insulin in the hormone section, however it is such an important hormone that it deserves it’s own page. Insulin is so very important because without it we would not be able to get glucose into our cells and we would die. Type 1 Diabetics know this all […]
Hormones
What is a hormone? I’m sure we all have heard of them, probably in the context of sexual hormones like testosterone and estrogen. Simply, a hormone is nothing more than a messenger molecule that runs around the body to turn on or off certain functions in the body. They regulate almost everything in the body […]
A Brief History of Food
Our species has survived and thrived for about 300,000 years. Humans slowly evolved over that time period and yet in the last 30 years we as humans now suffer from a variety of diseases that were relatively rare until the late 1980’s. How is this possible that we live in a time that has more […]
Fasting
Fasting is simply the time you are not eating. Fasting makes so many people nervous, however we all fast every day. We fast between meals and have our long fast when we sleep, hence the first meal of the day is the breakfast (break-fast). There are many misconceptions about fasting, there are myths and then […]
Diabetes
Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the United States. Over 15% of the total population in the US has diagnosed Diabetes, that is over 35 million people. The amounts of people that have undiagnosed diabetes or pre-diabetes is estimated to be over 50% of Americans and this goes up every year. Type […]
Basic Nutrition
Most of us have heard the old saying, “Calories in, Calories Out”. If you are like me, that’s how I understood how weight control worked, create a calorie deficit, burn more calories than you take in. Seems simple right? Well, that’s just it, it is a little too simple. First what is a calorie? A […]