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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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…
JAMA on GLP-1 Drugs—Here’s Dr. Sears’s 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…
Do Omega-3 Supplements Increase the Risk of A-Fib?
The answer is no, and maybe yes. Before I explain that seemingly cryptic answer, let me explain what Afib is. Afib is an abbreviation for atrial…
