metabolic-health
13 stories tagged "metabolic-health"
The Fast Every Type 1 Diabetic Is Warned Against Held Up in a Six-Month Trial
Thirty-two obese adults with Type 1 diabetes ate only between noon and 8 p.m. for six months. No rise in severe lows, severe highs, or ketoacidosis, and their HbA1c fell 0.46 points against the calorie-cutting group.
Metabolic & WeightAt the Dose the FDA Calls Safe, Two Sweeteners Reshaped the Guts of Mouse Grandpups That Only Drank Water
Chilean researchers fed mice sucralose and stevia at the doses the FDA calls safe. The metabolic marks showed up in grandpups that only drank water.
Metabolic & WeightThe Cheapest Measurement in the Exam Room Beat BMI and the Lancet's Four-Part Obesity Formula
BMI flagged 37 percent of the adults a body-fat scan called obese. On overall accuracy, a cloth tape around the waist caught far more and edged out the four-measurement framework built to fix BMI.
CancerHigh Blood Sugar Hands Cancer Cells a Cloak the Immune System Can't See Through
Grown in a fluid built to mimic the human body, cancer cells used excess glucose to thicken a sugar coating that hid them from immune cells, an effect that never showed up in the standard lab dishes used across cancer biology.
Nutrition & FoodCut the Fiber and Your Gut Bacteria Start Eating Your Own Gut Lining
Princeton isotope tracing found that when fiber runs short, gut bacteria strip protein off the mucus wall and churn out the same toxins that pile up in failing kidneys. Feed them whole plants and the chemistry flips.
Nutrition & FoodThousands of Genes, 20 Volunteers, No Control Group: The Viral Orange Juice Study
The juice came from a citrus-growers' group, the study had no comparison drink, and 'thousands of genes' rests on 20 people, arriving the same summer the FDA loosened what counts as orange juice.
Nutrition & FoodFor 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.