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From eNewsletter 7/28/2025

DID YOU KNOW that one of the best ways you can help your child succeed is to make sure they don't consume artificial sweeteners and added sugars?

Aside from the myriad studies we've wrote about showing how awful they can be, a new study presented at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting found they may increase the risk of early puberty in children.

Researchers found that consuming aspartame, sucralose, and added sugars was significantly associated with a higher risk of early puberty, especially in children with certain genetic traits. The more of these sweeteners they consumed, the higher their risk of central precocious puberty.

Look at your products at home and there's a pretty good chance your child is consuming something with one or more of these ingredients. Are they drinking Liquid IV or Celcius? Both have sucralose. This is just one example of popular foods and beverages that contain these ingredients.

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Fitness Personality

From eNewsletter 7/23/2025

DID YOU KNOW that fitness trackers are failing those with overweight and obesity?

Fitness trackers have become indispensable tools for some, but for those living with overweight or obesity, who are known to exhibit differences in walking gait, speed, energy burned and more, these devices often inaccurately measure activity.

Researchers publishing in Scientific Reports found current activity-monitoring algorithms that fitness trackers use were built for people without obesity. For example, fitness trackers accurately track those performing standard pushups, but for those who cannot drop to the floor and do them, but are doing wall-pushups instead, trackers do not count them.

The authors are in the process of creating algorithms that do accommodate for the overweight and obese.

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You Need This Blood Test

From eNewsletter 7/21/2025

DID YOU KNOW that there is a critical reason why we track your high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels (hsCRP) year in and year out? It gives us a idea of your level of inflammation, specifically in the heart region. A new study from The Lancet eBiomedicine echos this.

After following almost 6,000 patients for over 20 years, those with the consistently highest serum hsCRP levels had the highest number of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality, independent of any other form of testing.

There are two instances where hsCRP can be elevated but not necessarily tied to heart risk: acute exercise performed soon before your blood draw and acute infection. This is why it is important to continually get hsCRP at every blood test, so we can get a large sample size.

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