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Tag: AMPK

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

Ask Dr. Sears: Everything You Wanted to Know About HbA1c (But Didn’t Want to Google)

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 11 min read
  • June 13, 2025

Key Takeaways A major women’s magazine recently asked me some questions on HbA1c.  Here are my answers: Why is HbA1C an important metric for blood sugar…

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, Latest News

Understanding Wellness: Simple Blood Tests That Measure Your Health

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 8 min read
  • June 13, 2025

Wellness is a medical condition, just like diabetes, heart disease, or any other chronic condition. What links wellness with chronic disease is your current state of…

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Categories: Healthspan, Latest News, Zone Science

Do I Need Amino Acids Supplements?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 4 min read
  • June 3, 2025

Protein supplements are everywhere—but are they really necessary?  Dr. Sears explains why getting the right amount of protein from whole foods is often better than relying…

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Categories: Zone Science

The Zone Diet and Brain Health: How to Fuel Peak Mental Performance

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • June 3, 2025

Your brain runs on energy—and if it’s not getting enough, it simply can’t function at full capacity. In this video, Dr. Barry Sears explains how brain…

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Categories: Latest News, Zone Science

Are There Natural Alternatives to Ozempic? 

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • May 19, 2025

Can you achieve the benefits of Ozempic without the drug? In this video, Dr. Barry Sears, creator of The Zone Diet and pioneer of Metabolic Engineering,…

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Categories: GLP-1 Drugs, Zone Science

AMPK and Infertility: The Metabolic Key to Getting Pregnant

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • April 29, 2025

Infertility is deeply personal—and increasingly common. In this episode of The Wellness Zone podcast, Dr. Barry Sears and Mary Perry explore the surprising connection between infertility…

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Categories: In-Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Latest News

Is Excessive Sleepiness a Warning Sign of Dementia?

  • Barry Sears
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • April 21, 2025

As we age, many of us start to worry about dementia and look for early warning signs—like unusual fatigue or excessive sleepiness. But could constant drowsiness…

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Categories: Ask Dr. Sears, Zone Science
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