Metabolism/Weight Loss
LATEST STORIES
How to Optimize Your Thyroid and Fuel Your Body’s Metabolism (Performance & Longevity Series)
Learn the important role of the thyroid in overall health as well as common symptoms of thyroid imbalance and key biomarkers that indicate how well the thyroid is functioning.
Breaking Insulin Resistance: Your Guide to Blood-Sugar Mastery (Performance & Longevity Series)
Understand the widespread and critical issue of insulin resistance, including its implications for health and the steps you can take to monitor and manage your blood sugar.
Inflammation and Aging: The Hidden Connection (Performance & Longevity Series)
Understand the concept of metabolic inflammation — or “metaflammation” — and how it can silently affect metabolism, leading to accelerated aging, or “inflammaging.”
Learning How to Manage Gestational Hypertension — Naturally
How healthcare researcher Michelle Emebo learned to manage gestational hypertension with quality nutrition and exercise.
Redefining Obesity
Rather than looking just at a person’s weight, some progressive healthcare providers are seeking to identify obesity by its metabolic effects.
Taking a Balanced Approach to GLP-1s
How short-term use of GLP-1s — when used in combination with intentional lifestyle changes — may be a healthier path toward long-term weight management.
Breaking Down Weight-Loss Barriers
A roadmap of habits for support your efforts for body-composition change.
Beyond the Scale: Understanding Measurements of Body Weight
There are several ways to measure body weight, and different methods offer different insights into your health. Learn the metrics — including those related to body weight and beyond — that can give you the picture of your overall health status.
What Is Metabolic Health, Anyway?
Gain an understanding of eight factors that can help you better understand your current metabolic health, including why each is important for longevity and vitality.
Do I Need a Continuous Glucose Monitor?
Here are eight things to consider before deciding to track your blood sugar.
Considering a GLP-1 Agonist? Here’s How to Take a Balanced Approach
Weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, can be both helpful and harmful — sometimes in equal measure. Integrative-health experts suggest that short-term use, coupled with lifestyle changes, can offer a middle way.
The Truth About Ultraprocessed Foods
These products are everywhere. Here’s a closer look at the many ways these food products can harm your health — and why it’s worth the effort to avoid them when you can.
How to Handle Food Cravings
Whether it’s a hankering for something salty, sweet, or savory, we all experience food cravings — and times when they can deter our healthy-eating plans.
GLP-1s, Weight Loss, and Health: A Panel Discussion With Life Time’s MIORA Leaders
Learn how GLP-1s can safely and strategically be used to support your health and weight-loss goals while also promoting overall wellness.
What Is Body Composition — and How Do I Measure It?
Why tracking this metric can give you better information for reaching your health goals.
Why Do People Have Differing Detox Capacities?
Genetics, environment, and nutrition can all affect an individual’s ability to detox. Learn more.
How Rebecca Walcott Discovered Wellness Through D.TOX
When her energy flagged, one woman learned how to fuel her body more efficiently by participating in a detox program.
What Are Macros and Calories?
Understand the differences between macros and calories and the roles they play in our health and well-being — as well as gain insights for how to think about them when it comes to healthy eating.
6 Things to Know About the “Miracle” Drug Ozempic
Functional-medicine pioneer Frank Lipman, MD, on what you should know about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.
Taking Flight: Jason Burns’s Story
How one man took control of his health after he was grounded from flying lessons because of his weight.
Why Do I Crave Salty Foods?
It may be a signal of low blood pressure or adrenal dysfunction, says our expert.