#metabolism

#metabolism

In the last few years, I've seen an increasing number of wellness and fitness influencers yap about fixing their metabolisms. For some, that means hawking supplements like Foodology's Coleology Cutting Jelly, NAD+ pills for improving insulin sensitivity, or powders that claim to "balance your hormones." Right now, my TikTok FYP is full of girls talking about the viral Korean Switch-On diet - a seemingly brutal regimen of intermittent fasting, protein shakes, and tofu. An obesity researcher purportedly designed the diet, which will "reset your metabolism."

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a new way that brown fat, a type of fat that burns energy, can boost the body's metabolism. This process allows cells to consume more fuel and generate heat, improving overall metabolic health. Conducted in mice, the research points to new possibilities for using brown fat to address metabolic conditions such as insulin resistance and obesity.

Giada de Laurentiis believes in eating five meals a day, emphasizing that smaller meals are easier to digest than three big ones, which promotes a happy metabolism.

Intermittent calorie restriction involves alternating between periods of caloric restriction and calorie maintenance, offering benefits like improved adherence, muscle preservation, and metabolic support.

Colonic inflammation activates your pancreas before your blood sugar ever rises, leading to a chain reaction that may result in insulin imbalance long before any glucose issues arise.

Cortisol is essential for biological processes, helping manage stress responses, regulating blood sugar, modulating inflammation, and supporting metabolism and immune responses.

The results could lead to better prevention, diagnoses and treatment of prediabetes, diabetes and other metabolic diseases that lower quality of life and raise health care costs.

Emerging studies point out that a reasonable intake of spicy food, particularly chili peppers, could enhance health and metabolic functions.

Previous studies have shown that gut yeast - a type of fungus - can aggravate alcoholic fatty liver disease, but whether filamentous fungi such as F. foetens could affect liver conditions was unclear.