Metabolic health is a broad term that encompasses four deeply interconnected areas of health: Blood sugar metabolism, weight, the liver and the heart. Learn how one nutrient impacts them all…

Wouldn’t it be great if fighting obesity were as simple as adding one specific food to your diet? According to multiple studies, one food eaten for thousands of years may help — by stimulating your gut’s built-in GLP-1 support system…

A heart attack occurs every 40 seconds in the US, making screening to gauge risk vital. But there’s a big problem with the two screening tools doctors depend on: They missed half of all first heart attacks in people screened just days earlier. Here’s why…

Insulin resistance is a driver for the cluster of conditions that make up metabolic syndrome. When blood sugar spikes often, the pancreas produces too much insulin and the body stops responding to it. Once that door opens, it’s hard to keep the other conditions out.

What would you say if I told you there’s an amazingly healthy snack food that most of us don’t eat, even though the disease-fighting benefits are through the roof? Why? For fear this high-calorie, delicious-tasting snack causes weight gain. But the truth, in fact, is the total opposite…

Compared with other mammals, humans have a remarkably long lifespan. But we have not been able to escape a turning point when aging accelerates. But half the battle is knowing when it happens and why…