6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (664+ words) Berberine is having a moment and has been for quite a while now. Scroll for 30 seconds, and you'll see it framed as the "natural Ozempic," a plant-based shortcut to better blood sugar, weight loss, and metabolic health. It sounds pretty…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (600+ words) Getting a type 2 diabetes diagnosis can change the way you think about food overnight. Suddenly, everyday choices like what to put on your plate can feel loaded, especially when you're trying to manage blood sugar while also figuring out what…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (519+ words) If you have type 2 diabetes, you're probably used to keeping tabs on your blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure. But there's another number that rarely comes up at a routine diabetes visit: your zinc level. Zinc is a mineral that…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (688+ words) A new study1 from researchers at the University of Leeds identified L-BAIBA, short for L-β-aminoisobutyric acid, as a central driver of how muscle responds to training. Your muscles release this molecule during exercise in order to get stronger. The same molecule…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (539+ words) Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have become a popular way to get a window into what happens inside the body after a meal, during a workout, or overnight. Originally developed for people with diabetes, they're now being used by plenty of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (430+ words) Getting older comes with plenty of assumptions. Maybe you've heard that forgetting a name is "just part of aging" or that slowing down is inevitable. But could the way we think about aging actually be connected to how our brains…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (447+ words) Ultra-processed foods (think packaged snacks, fast food, frozen meals, sugary drinks) now make up a large share of what many people eat every day. They're convenient, affordable, and many are engineered to be hard to stop eating. They're also not…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (621+ words) Two people can step on a scale and see the exact same number. That doesn't mean they have the same metabolic health. That's why researchers are looking beyond body weight alone when assessing diabetes risk. New research suggests that how…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (468+ words) GLP-1 medications have become one of the most closely watched tools in metabolic health, and for good reason. These medications can help regulate appetite, improve blood sugar control, and drive levels of weight loss that were once difficult to achieve…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (553+ words) Most prediabetes diagnoses happen by accident—a routine blood draw, a physical you almost skipped, a lab result that nearly got missed. For the roughly one in three US adults with elevated blood sugar who go undiagnosed, the barrier often…...