Don't be fooled by diets and workouts that claim to speed up metabolism, that's not how it works. Here's how metabolism is ...

A woman has shown how she uses a thermometer to measure her metabolism in a social media video, but a hormonal health expert isn't convinced that her technique is quite as helpful as it may appear.

In medical school, Casey Means could tell that her own health was slipping. The culprits? Crummy food, long days hunched over a desk and little sleep -- rites of passage for many future physicians. “I ...

Arizona State University (ASU) reported the receipt of a patent for a device with colorimetric sensors for measuring excreted ketones in a body fluid. Additional sensors may be incorporated to measure ...

Your body faces a lot of change as you age. For instance, did you know the amount of times you need to get up at night to pee (and the number of nighttime wake-ups in general) shift as you grow older?

Glucagon is a pancreatic hormone that plays a crucial role in regulating glucose and whole-body energy metabolism. In individuals with diabetes, the pancreatic alpha cells that produce glucagon are ...