The Wellness Zone Podcast

In this episode of The Wellness Zone, Dr. Sears takes a closer look at what ultra-processed really means—and why the definition itself may be deeply flawed.

This week on the Wellness Zone Podcast: We hear a lot about the gut microbiome and how our diet affects it—but what’s really happening when we eat food?

Body fat—not BMI—is the true predictor of your risk for heart disease and early death. In this episode, Dr. Barry Sears explains why BMI often gets it wrong and introduces a better at-home solution: the Body Fat Calculator at ZoneLiving.com.

Dr. Barry Sears and Mary Perry discuss Supercritical Fluid Technology, one of the most advanced and innovative manufacturing techniques in the omega-3 industry.

It’s been 30 years since The Zone changed the way we think about food, health, and inflammation. In this special Wellness Zone podcast, Dr. Barry Sears looks back on the origins of The Zone—from its unlikely start inspired by the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine to its rise as one of the first diet books to bring hard science into the mainstream. Plus, discover why The Zone is more relevant today than ever before, as chronic disease, metabolic disorders, and inflammation continue to rise.