Metabolism: Insights

A tape measure tells you more than the scales about how your body stores energy. Here is how to measure waist-to-height ratio, what it can and cannot show, and what sits with your GP.

Your muscles do more than move you. They release signals that reach the rest of your body, which is why regular strength work matters.

Your metabolism runs on a daily clock. What the research shows about meal timing, and where it has been oversold.

A healthy metabolism switches smoothly between burning glucose and fat. What metabolic flexibility is and how to build it.

Your scale says your metabolic age is 52. What that number measures, what it misses, and what to track instead.

Discover how Mark optimised his GLP-1 treatment and metabolism by understanding his specific biomarkers, while maintaining his professional edge.

For decades, the gold standard of health assessment has been the blood panel. This is the science of metabolomics, and how it reveals what a blood panel alone cannot.

Here are a range of quick tips that you can apply right away to help your microbiome, metabolism and nervous system respond better to stress events.

The traditional approach to men's wellness has focused on reactive treatment, but a new, proactive, and deeply personalised approach is changing how men can achieve optimal health.

Explore the intricate science of the gut-weight axis, the factors that disrupt it and learn how precision health can help you succeed in your weight management goals.

Not all tests are created equal. vivaLAB's tri-layered testing protocol combines urine metabolomics and metagenomic microbiome sequencing to decode your biology in far greater depth than a standard test.

Discover what metabolic testing is, how it works, and why you should care about the metabolic "fingerprint" revealed in your urine.