Category: Nutrition & Diet
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B12 Testing: What Your Numbers Actually Mean and Why Most Doctors Get It Wrong
A patient may be profoundly functionally deficient in B12 while appearing normal on the test most commonly used to assess it — often because of a widely overlooked cause that has nothing to do with diet. Here’s what food-bound cobalamin malabsorption actually is, and what to ask for instead.
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B12 and Neurological Recovery: What Epilepsy and TBI Patients Need to Know
Vitamin B12 gets treated as a mild energy booster in most wellness content. For anyone managing epilepsy or recovering from a TBI, it’s actually a testable, medication-related factor that rarely comes up in standard neurology visits.
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The Truth About Intermittent Fasting: When It Helps, When It Hurts, and When It’s Dangerous
Intermittent fasting has real research behind it, and real risks for specific populations most coverage skips entirely. Here’s the honest picture, including a more nuanced neurological angle than ‘fasting is dangerous for epilepsy.’
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Magnesium: The Invisible Deficiency Behind Anxiety, Migraines, and Poor Sleep
Magnesium is involved in 300+ enzymatic reactions and may be the most overlooked mineral deficiency in modern diets. Here’s the honest, carefully-sourced picture on its role in nervous system excitability — including what the evidence does and doesn’t support.
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Potassium: The Mineral Most Americans Are Dangerously Deficient In
Salt gets all the attention in electrolyte conversations — potassium is the more consequential gap for most people. Here’s what it actually does, why modern diets fall short, and the real cardiac risks of supplementing carelessly.
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Food, Faith, and Freedom: What Christians Today Misunderstand About What They Eat
Understanding dietary freedom theologically is one thing. Living inside it without drifting into legalism or indifference is a different, harder task — and one most Christians navigating food culture are already facing.
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What the Bible Actually Says About Dietary Law, Freedom, and Stewardship
Why does a health blog cover Old Testament dietary law? Because the honest biblical picture is neither legalism nor indifference — it’s freedom held alongside genuine stewardship, and getting that right shapes everything downstream.
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Why Won’t Anyone Agree on Salt? The Sodium Debate No One Is Framing Honestly
Cardiologists say cut it. Functional medicine says most people need more. Medical Medium says only “mineral salts” from vegetables count. Here’s why the confident voices disagree — and the medication and diet factors none of them are accounting for.
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Watermelon Nutrition: What the Rind and Seeds Actually Offer
Watermelon is more than hydration and sugar. Here’s what current research shows about the citrulline, lycopene, and nutrients packed into its flesh, rind, and seeds — and who should be more cautious with it.
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Labels Don’t Determine Outcomes — Patterns Do
Whether a diet is correctly labeled tells you almost nothing about whether it’s actually working. Here’s why patterns — not labels — are what actually determine an outcome, and why one off-plan meal doesn’t undo anything.