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Year: 2024

What’s Healthier—Avocado or Olive Oil?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • December 6, 2024

Both olive oil and avocado oil are rich in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats—but olive oil, especially extra virgin olive oil, stands out as the superior choice. Why?…

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Categories: Cooking

Type-2 Diabetes And The Brain

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • December 6, 2024

Preventing Type-2 diabetes and neurological diseases starts with one key step: losing excess body fat. The only way to achieve this is by increasing the activity…

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Categories: diabetes

Gut Health And Your Overall Health

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • December 6, 2024

Your gut plays a vital role in preventing chronic inflammation, which can contribute to weight gain—and more concerning—fat accumulation. The key to maintaining a healthy gut…

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Categories: Gut Health

Cancer and Your Metabolism

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • December 2, 2024

Recent research suggests that GLP-1 drugs, often used for weight loss, may also have the potential to fight cancer. But how can an injectable weight-loss drug…

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Categories: cancer, Metabolism

Maintaining A Healthy Heart

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • December 2, 2024

What’s the best food for heart health? While there isn’t a single ‘magic’ food that guarantees a healthy heart, there is a proven system that can…

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Categories: Heart Disease

Measuring Insulin Resistance

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 22, 2024

Insulin resistance is a key factor in many health issues, and measuring it doesn’t always require expensive tests. The triglyceride (TG) to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL)…

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Categories: Insulin Resistance, Resources

GLP-1 Drugs and AMPK Activation

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 22, 2024

GLP-1 drugs are often hailed as ‘miracle treatments’—tackling not just diabetes and obesity, but also conditions like heart disease, infertility, and even sleep apnea. But what…

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Categories: Benefits of Metabolic Engineering, chronic diseases, GLP-1 Drugs

The Ultimate Anti-Viral Drug: AMPK

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 9 min read
  • November 22, 2024

What if you had a drug that would stop the replication of viruses and whose only know side-effect would be to extend your healthspan?  Would you use…

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Categories: Metabolic Engineering®, What Is AMPK?, Zone Science

Why No One Talks About AMPK

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 22, 2024

What if you had a drug that would stop the replication of viruses and whose only know side-effect would be to extend your healthspan?  Would you use…

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, Uncategorized, What Is AMPK?

How Zone Foods Activate AMPK

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 21, 2024

The most effective way to activate AMPK is by calorie restriction.  Once AMPK is activated, you burn fat faster, improve metabolic efficiency, and slow down aging. …

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, What Is AMPK?, Zone Foods

What Is GLP-1?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 20, 2024

With the rise of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, GLP-1 has become a hot topic. But what exactly is GLP-1? It’s a hormone released by the…

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, GLP-1 Drugs, Ozempic

Will Rapamycin Make Me Live Longer?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • November 19, 2024

Is Rapamycin the key to living longer? While it’s a cancer drug, Rapamycin is getting attention for its potential longevity benefits by decreasing mTOR activity and…

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Categories: aging, Ask Dr. Sears, cancer
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