Ask Dr. Sears: Is There A Sugar I Can Eat To Lose Weight?
Surprisingly, the answer is yes. It is a natural sugar called allulose. It has 70% of the sweetness of table sugar, but a completely different metabolic…
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Live Your Life To The Fullest In The Zone
Wellness is a lifelong commitment. It begins in the womb and goes through the continuum of life. The…
What Is The Zone?
The Zone is the physiological state when your metabolism performs at peak efficiency. Metabolism keeps us alive by…
Benefits Of Being In The Zone
The health benefits of being in the Zone are numerous. Here is a small listing of those benefits: AMPK…
Evolution Of The Zone
For the past 40 years, I have been exploring the mysteries of metabolism and how diet can control…
GLP-1 Drugs
Ask Dr. Sears: GLP-1 Drugs vs Metabolic Engineering
GLP-1 drugs are widely recognized for suppressing hunger and aiding in weight loss. But like any drug, they…
What Is AMPK?
Defining Anti-Inflammatory Diets
To make science reproducible, you must have definitions. The more rigorous the description, the more likely the science…
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Insulin Resistance, Explained
Insulin resistance is a buzzword in the health world, but what does it really mean? Simply put, it’s…
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The #1 Factor for a Longer Life (It’s NOT Your Genes!)
What’s the secret to living longer—your genes or your lifestyle? 🤔 The answer is clear: lifestyle wins. While…
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Is A Leaky Gut Caused By Inhibition of AMPK?
People are obsessed with gut health. They should be, because without a healthy gut, you would be a sitting target for continual bacterial invasion from the…
The Wellness Zone Episodes
Welcome to The Wellness Zone Podcast hub, where Zone Diet creator Dr. Barry Sears and Mary Perry help you decode the science behind your health. Each…
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JAMA on GLP-1 Drugs—Here’s Dr. Sears’ Take
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an article on tips for using GLP-1 drugs (1). Are these tips valid? Let’s find out? First,…
Stopping GLP-1 Drugs May Increase Cardiovascular Risk
Everyone wants to lose excess body fat. However, the Holy Grail of weight loss is losing excess body fat while maintaining, if not increasing, lean body…
How Metabolic Engineering® Reduces Inflammation
Inflammation is a crucial component of our metabolism that keeps us alive. It is our initial defense against microbial invasion or physical injury. However, unless we turn…
NY Times on Sugar: Here’s What They Missed
Last year, the NY Times had an article entitled This Is Your Body on Sugar (1). I thought this might be a good time to…
What’s the Best Way To Determine My Percentage of Body Fat?
Excess body fat is strongly related to increased cardiovascular disease and mortality. The gold standard for measuring your percentage of body fat has always been underwater…
Why Prediabetes Is America’s Most Dangerous Silent Epidemic
It may not get the headlines, but it has the potential to destroy our health care system in a few decades. What is this new epidemic? …
Ask Dr. Sears: Are Continuous Glucose Monitors Useful?
If you have diabetes (either type 1 or type 2), a continuous glucose monitor (CRM) can be exceptionally useful, especially to reduce hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is low…
