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Month: July 2025

GLP-1 Drugs for Weight Loss: Dr. Barry Sears Responds to JAMA Guidelines

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 8 min read
  • July 29, 2025

Key Takeaways 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…

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Categories: GLP-1 Drugs, Latest News

Stopping GLP-1 Drugs: Why Weight Regain May Increase Heart Disease Risk

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 10 min read
  • July 29, 2025

Key Takeaways Everyone wants to lose excess body fat.  However, the Holy Grail of weight loss is losing excess body fat while maintaining, if not increasing,…

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Categories: GLP-1 Drugs, Heart Disease, Latest News

How Metabolic Engineering® Helps Reduce Chronic Inflammation

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 9 min read
  • July 23, 2025

Key Takeaways Why Inflammation Is Both Necessary and Dangerous Inflammation is a crucial component of our metabolism that keeps us alive.  It is our initial defense…

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Categories: Inflammation, Latest News, Metabolic Engineering®

What Sugar Really Does to Your Body: Glucose, Fructose, and Metabolic Health

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 8 min read
  • July 22, 2025

A recent New York Times article examined how sugar affects the body. While the article covered some key points, it missed several important metabolic details. Key…

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, Latest News

How to Measure Body Fat Percentage (And Why BMI Is Often Wrong)

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 5 min read
  • July 15, 2025

Key Takeaways Excess body fat is strongly related to increased cardiovascular disease and mortality.  The gold standard for measuring your percentage of body fat has always…

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Categories: Latest News, Obesity, Zone Science

Why Prediabetes Is America’s Most Dangerous Silent Epidemic (And How to Reverse Insulin Resistance)

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 9 min read
  • July 14, 2025

Key Takeaways It may not get the headlines, but it has the potential to destroy our health care system in a few decades.  What is this…

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Categories: chronic diseases, diabetes, Latest News

Are Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) Useful for People Without Diabetes?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 6 min read
  • July 8, 2025

Key Takeaways If you have diabetes (either type 1 or type 2), a continuous glucose monitor (CRM) can be exceptionally useful, especially to reduce hypoglycemia.  Hypoglycemia…

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Categories: diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Latest News

Do Omega-3 Supplements Increase the Risk of A-Fib?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 7 min read
  • July 8, 2025

Key Takeaways The answer is no, and maybe yes.  Before I explain that seemingly cryptic answer, let me explain what Afib is.  What Is Atrial Fibrillation…

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Categories: Heart Disease, Latest News, Omega-3
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