metabolic-health
7 stories tagged "metabolic-health"
For Forty Years They Said Skim the Fat. This Trial Fed People Full-Fat Dairy and the Cholesterol Held.
In a 74-adult trial, the group assigned three servings of full-fat dairy a day for twelve weeks held steady on weight, body fat, cholesterol and insulin resistance, and their blood pressure improved, against advice the guidelines have pushed since 1980.
Brain & AgingThe Fat Molecule That Rides From Your Waistline to Your Brain, and Feeds Alzheimer's Once It Gets There
In obese mice, a membrane fat called phosphatidylethanolamine packed into tiny vesicles, rode to the brain, and sabotaged the immune cells that clear amyloid. An investigational drug reversed it, in mice.
Brain & AgingSame Diet, Same 15 Pounds: Only the Women Who Ate in an 8-Hour Window Got Sharper
Two groups of older women cut the same calories and lost the same 15 pounds over six months. The ones who packed eating into an 8-hour window still scored better on problem-solving, from a 47-person pilot that hasn't been peer-reviewed.
Brain & AgingThe Sweeteners Sold to Diabetics as the Safe Swap Tracked With Faster Brain Aging
Brazilian researchers followed 12,772 adults for eight years. The ones consuming the most artificial sweeteners, about a diet soda's worth a day, showed cognitive decline equal to 1.6 extra years of brain aging, and diabetics fared worst.
Metabolic & WeightObesity Stopped Denting Older Adults' Metabolic Numbers: In the Young It's Biting Harder Than Ever
For middle-aged and older adults, extra weight no longer tracks with the cardiovascular damage it once did. For the young, the same fat is biting harder and earlier. The lab panels converged; the fat didn't.
Metabolic & WeightYour Kidneys Are Quietly Failing. The WHO's Plan Skips What's Actually Killing Them.
The Lancet is pushing fast implementation of the first WHO kidney resolution, which expands screening and treatment access while leaving the ultraprocessed food and sugar driving the global CKD doubling untouched.
Nutrition & FoodThe sugar-free mice got sicker, and the press release left out what they were eating instead
A 16-week mouse study presented at ENDO 2026 reported that sugar-free animals developed insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis and fatty liver at the same body weight as controls. The press release never says what replaced the sugar, and that single missing detail decides what the study actually means.