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metabolism

[muh-tab-uh-liz-uhm] / məˈtæb əˌlɪz əm /


NOUN
digestion
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With these shorter daily fasting periods, it will take longer to lose fat and improve metabolism than versions of restricted eating that call for 16 hours of fasting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Mounjaro and Zepbound contain tirzepatide, which targets that hormone plus another one involved in metabolism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

Medical research has spent decades identifying the levers to regulate metabolism for people with diabetes, and most of these hacks work for everyone.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 21, 2026

The gut contains trillions of microbes that help regulate immunity, metabolism and even brain signaling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

If sugar was sugar was sugar—if the metabolism of lactose was no different from that of glucose—then one might have expected bacteria fed on the glucose/lactose mix to exhibit the same smooth arc of growth.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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