Zone Diet®

The Zone Can Help You Reach Your Goals

Dr. Sears has spent more than 40 years researching how the foods we eat impact our hormones and the expression of our genes. See how the Zone can help you finally get that scale to budge!

What Is The Zone Diet®?

The Zone Diet® was developed by Dr. Barry Sears more than 30 years ago to reduce diet-induced inflammation, The Zone Diet® will help you shed excess pounds and improve your mental and physical performance while living a more fulfilling life. The Zone Diet® is a life-long dietary program based on strong science to reduce diet-induced inflammation inflammation.
Zone Diet

What Is The Zone?

The ZoneTM is a real physiological state in your body that can be measured in clinical tests. If you are in the Zone, you have optimized your ability to control diet-induced inflammation. This inflammation is the reason you gain weight, become sick, and age faster.

There are three clinical markers that define if you are in the Zone. If all three clinical markers are within their ideal values, you are in the Zone. Otherwise, you are not.

Based on these values, most Americans are not properly managing diet-induced inflammation and falling within the parameters of the Zone. In the Zone, you will live a longer and better life because you are controlling diet-induced inflammation. That is the secret to maintaining wellness.
Clinical MarkerIdeal ValueWhat It Indicates
TG/HDL ratioFrom your diet. < 1 Your level of insulin resistance in the liver. *Typically included with normal blood work within your cholesterol panel. Ask your doctor.
AA/EPA ratioFrom your diet & fish oil. 1.5-3 Your level of diet-induced Inflammation in the body. Take The Zone Labs Cellular Inflammation Test
HbA1cFrom your diet & polyphenols. 5% Your level of Advanced Glycoslated Endproducts (AGE) tied to your blood glucose. *To measure your level of blood sugar over a three-month period, ask your doctor.

What Are The Benefits Of
Being In The Zone?

Benefits of being in The Zone include:

• Losing excess body fat at the fastest possible rate
• Maintaining wellness for a longer period of time
• Performing better
• Thinking faster

Controlling diet-induced inflammation is a life-long effort. It is inflammation that disrupts the hormonal communication in our cells that prevents us from reaching peak performance. Making the dietary changes to reach the Zone and stay there may initially appear difficult, but are well worth the effort.

At Zone Labs, we provide the dietary products, continuing education, and personal consultation to make getting into the Zone easier.

What Are The Benefits Of <br> Being In The Zone?

How The Zone Works

The Zone Diet requires that you simply balance your plate at every meal and snack with these nutrients:

Protein

1/3rd of your plate, add some lean protein, about the size and thickness of your palm. This could include egg whites, fish, poultry, lean beef or low-fat dairy.

Carbohydrates

2/3rds of your plate, add a lot colorful vegetables and a little fruit. Fruits and vegetables to avoid are those that are high in sugar (e.g., bananas, raisins) or starchy (e.g., potatoes, corn).

Fat

Add a little bit of monounsaturated fat. This could include olive oil, avocado, or almonds.

Learn the science behind the Zone Dietary Balance, or visit the Zone Food Block Guide.

Zone Food Pyramid

By restricting grains and starches and maximizing fruits and vegetables, those on the Zone diet will observe dramatic hormonal and anti-inflammatory benefits. If you balance your plate according to the Zone Diet blueprint, you end up with a Zone Food Pyramid that looks like the following:

The Zone Food Pyramid helps assure an optimal protein-to-glycemic load balance for improved hormonal control. Furthermore, it assures you have ample polyphenol levels in your diet. Polyphenol intake is important in controlling the bacteria composition of our digestive system, as well as activating anti-inflammatory and anti-aging genes.

Learn the science about the Zone Food Pyramid Biochemical Impact.

Zone Diet Anti-Inflammatory Supplements
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Zone Diet Anti-Inflammatory Supplements

As powerful as the Zone Diet® is, it is just one of three parts of the complete Zone Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program required to manage diet-induced inflammation for a lifetime.

Zone Diet® benefits can be enhanced with anti-inflammatory supplements. The two most powerful are ultra-refined omega-3 fatty acids, such as OmegaRx®2 Fish Oil, and purified polyphenol supplements, such as MaquiRx®. Collectively, these three distinct dietary components provide what is required to stay in the Zone.

3 Parts of the

Zone Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program

Zone Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program

1. The Zone Diet®

Controls hormonal balance to reduce the generation of diet-induced inflammation. Consider replacing your daily pasta with Zone PastaRx Fusilli or Orzo, as it provides superior hunger control with 15 grams of protein per serving.

2. Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Increase the resolution of diet-induced inflammation with OmegaRx Fish Oil. Check your AA/EPA ratio with the Zone Blood Kit.

AA/EPA RatioCellular InflammationFuture Wellness
1.5 to 3.0 Low Excellent
3.1 to 6.0 Moderate Good
6.1 to 15 Elevated Moderate
Greater than 15 High Poor

3. Polyphenols

Control gut biology and slow the aging process with MaquiRx or other Zone polyphenol supplements.

Each of the three components of the Zone program is powerful in its own right, but working together, they provide a powerful dietary roadmap to get you to the Zone where diet-induced inflammation can be controlled throughout your life.

Zone Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program
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Putting It All Together

Combining the Zone Diet® with anti-inflammatory supplements provides the basis for the Zone Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program, which takes you back to the beginning of modern medicine when Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”

We finally have the breakthroughs in molecular biology to understand the power of those words and the importance of being in the Zone. The Zone Diet® makes it possible with the least effort on your part.

Losing excess body fat, maintaining wellness, improving athletic performance, or slowing the rate of aging are dependent on your ability to reduce diet-induced inflammation. We understand that changing your diet can be difficult. At Zone Labs, we provide you the products, continuing dietary education, and personal support that makes dietary change possible for you.

Putting It All Together

Be Even More Precise

Want to have an even stronger connection to the Zone?

  • • Make your own meals – When cooking, consult the Zone Food Block Guide, or access hundreds of Zone Recipes.

    • Determine how much protein you need to maintain your muscle mass – use our Body Fat Calculator. Then spread the recommended amount of protein you need throughout the day, balancing it with the correct amount of colorful carbohydrates.

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Dr. Sears’ Zone Products

Always start with the Zone Diet® as your dietary foundation. Then use our recommended food and supplement products to get even better results to optimize your health and nutrition.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Omega-3 Fatty Acids

OmegaRx is specifically designed for those looking to take the highest quality fish oil supplemen...
OmegaRx is specifically designed for those looking to take the highest quality fish oil supplement available. Whether your interests are general wellness, athletic performance, weight loss, healthy aging, or pre/postnatal health OmegaRx can help support your goals.
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Polyphenols

Polyphenols

Most of us fall short on our intake of fruits and vegetables with only 1 out of every 10 adults i...
Most of us fall short on our intake of fruits and vegetables with only 1 out of every 10 adults in the U.S. meeting the recommended intake (5 to 9 servings per day). This is why supplementing with Zone purified polyphenols can help fill in the gaps.
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Zone Pasta

Zone Pasta

PastaRx Makes the Zone Diet Easy to Follow