Chronic Diseases

Many common chronic disease conditions are strongly associated with increased insulin resistance.  This is because insulin resistance is a surrogate marker for an inefficient metabolism, leading…

Categories: chronic diseases

What Is The Zone?

The Zone is the physiological state when your metabolism performs at peak efficiency. Metabolism keeps us alive by converting food into chemical energy, maintaining the immune…

COVID and Immuno-Nutrition

The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that our health care system is not as robust as we would want to believe. We don’t have a vaccine or useful anti-viral…

Categories: chronic diseases

Protein Leveraging

One of the more interesting observations of a potential cause of our obesity crisis is the concept of protein leveraging (1).  This concept states that the…

Categories: Zone Science