metabolic health
Balancing the Blood Sugar Equation: Natural Approaches to Metabolic Health
New information, key ingredients and myths around blood sugar and metabolic health. Unfortunately, individuals who work out, eat a healthy diet and get enough rest and relaxation may still suffer from poor metabolic health. And while it’s easy to track some metrics through the scale, a pedometer or a nutrition app, it’s more difficult to ...
Natural Ozempic: What’s the Truth Behind the Hype?
In recent years, GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) agonists like Ozempic have revolutionized the pharmaceutical landscape, originally developed to manage type 2 diabetes but gaining widespread attention for their ability to promote weight loss. This secondary benefit has fueled demand and inspired a parallel trend in the natural health industry: the marketing of supplements as “natural GLP-1 ...
That’s So Meta (bolic)!
People are finally seeking to tackle their metabolic health, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Ballooning waistlines tend to be the factor that opens people’s eyes that there may be something more insidious going on inside them—chiefly, metabolic dysfunction. And unfortunately, those with metabolic dysfunction, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes comprise a very ...
Intermittent Fasting Shows Promise in Improving Gut Health, Weight Management
A new study by researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and their colleagues highlights a dietary strategy for significant health improvement and weight management. Participants following an intermittent fasting and protein-pacing regimen, which involves evenly spaced protein intake throughout the day, saw better gut health, weight loss and metabolic responses. These benefits were notably greater ...
Blood Sugar & Metabolic Health: What’s Next?
Lifestyle changes and natural supplements may help improve blood sugar and metabolic health. When thinking of preventing heart disease, many people aren’t automatically considering metabolic health. In fact, most people aren’t aware of what metabolic syndrome even is. This is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cluster ...
Non-nutritive Sweeteners Affect Human Microbiomes and Can Alter Glycemic Responses
Since the late 1800s non-nutritive sweeteners have promised to deliver all the sweetness of sugar with none of the calories. They have long been believed to have no effect on the human body, but researchers challenge this notion by finding that these sugar substitutes are not inert, and, in fact, some can alter human consumers’ ...
Research Review Shows Intermittent Fasting Works For Weight Loss, Health Changes
Intermittent fasting can produce clinically significant weight loss as well as improve metabolic health in individuals with obesity, according to a new study review led by University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) researchers. “We noted that intermittent fasting is not better than regular dieting; both produce the same amount of weight loss and similar changes in ...
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