Cathy is 66 years old. She loves traveling and spending time with her kids and grandkids now that she’s retired. But in the past few years, she started feeling fatigued, having trouble with her weight, and despite treatment had dangerously high cholesterol levels.

“I just felt off,” she says, “and every doctor I saw just told me to eat right and exercise more.”

After taking her doctors’ advice but finding her weight didn’t budge and she still felt tired, sluggish, and medications weren’t working, Cathy decided it was time to find different answers.

Macronutrients are a buzzword in health and wellness circles right now. You’ve probably heard influencers or healthcare professionals talk about “tracking macros” and how that can help you optimize your wellness. Learn what macronutrients are, what the most important macros are, and how tracking them can help you manage your weight while maintaining nutrition and be your healthiest self.

What Are Macronutrients?

Dan is 62 years old with three grown children and one four-year-old granddaughter. A few years ago, he and his doctors decided that knee replacement surgery in both knees would improve his quality of life. However, he also learned that he would have to lose a significant amount of weight before his surgeon would operate on him.

If you’ve visited a medical professional in the last few decades, you’ve probably had them tell you what your body mass index (BMI) is and they likely discussed possible risk factors associated with it. But there are other ways, such as body composition analysis, that can more accurately tell you how at-risk you are for certain health problems.

Learn why a BMI number doesn’t tell you the whole story about your health and how you can get more thorough information from body composition analysis.