About 93% of US adults have poor metabolic health expert reveals how you can help it

As interest in peptides continues to grow, experts are increasingly looking beyond weight loss to their potential role in healthy aging.Functional medicine expert Dr.Will Cole told Fox News Digital that peptides are “intimately connected” with longevity, cellular healing and metabolic health.“[Peptides] help with cellular communication,” said Cole, co-author of the upcoming book “Heal Your Cells.” The recommendations for peptides depend on the context in which they’re used, he said, noting that the answer often falls “somewhere in the middle.”Citing previous research, Cole noted that an estimated 93% of US adults are metabolically unhealthy, leaving only about 7% who meet the criteria for optimal metabolic health — a figure he described as “wild.”“That’s common, but not normal,” Cole said.

He added that while GLP-1 medications can be beneficial, improving metabolic health also requires addressing lifestyle and other underlying factors.Cole shared that he does not believe “macro-dosing” GLP-1s “forever and ever in perpetuity” is the solution to improving metabolic health.While GLP-1s can reduce food cravings — often referred to as “food noise” — and promote weight loss, Cole said he’d like to see more research on how decreasing the desire for food could also decrease cravings for love, relationships and other mood-boosting factors.Cole questioned whether suppressing food cravings could have unintended effects on other reward-related behaviors, including social relationships.“So, are we circumventing pathways and pathologizing things that don’t have to be pathologized?”Cole argued that some degree of hunger signaling is healthy.“Food noise is actually a decent thing in balance, so shutting down your hunger cues with an ‘atomic bomb’ peptide dose is not the solution.”He added that he believes overreliance on GLP-1 medications may contribute to disordered eating patterns and a growing fear of hunger.Cole at...