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Barry Sears wrote the Zone Diet when he was 47. He came from a family with history of heart attacks with many family members dying before 45.

He had earned a Ph.D in biochemistry from Indiana University, looking at the molecular structure of lipids, a class of compounds that includes cholesterol and lipoproteins.

Up to this point his work had been purely scientific, but due to his family history became interested in the role of cholesterol in heart issues. He moved on to Boston University School of Medicine, to work with Don Small who was performing research on how lipids may contribute to heart complications.

Dr Sears read a research paper where the researchers had induced atherosclerosis, which is essentially the condition where the arteries clog and harden, often leading to heart attack. They were able to clear most of the clogged arteries by injecting phospholipids.

Other researchers published similar findings and Dr Barry Sears became to believe that a way to reduce risk of heart attack could be through a carefully consider diet.

His research developed, and he began considering research of eicosanoids (eye-KAH-sah-noids), these hormones are among the most powerful in the human body and control virtually all human functions.

The Zone Diet gets it's name from the term athletes use when they get into that peak performance zone, however typically this only lasts a few minutes, or the duration of a match. Dr Sears wanted to make this Zone last longer, 24hrs for the rest of your life.

Essentially that's how the zone diet was established, to use the food we consume to manipulate the eicosanoid balance, and to use that balance to get in the zone.