Category: Nutrition & Diet
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The Modern Produce Strategy: Evidence Over Ideology
A practical, evidence-based framework for what actually belongs in your cart — including an honest look at the Dirty Dozen, and where wild, heirloom, and modern produce each earn their place.
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What We Sacrificed for Modern Agriculture: The Real Trade-Offs
Wild isn’t automatically better, but modern breeding wasn’t a free lunch either. Here’s an honest look at nutrient dilution, the sugar-and-water trade-off in fruit, and what a single banana clone stands to lose.
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Nightshades, Oxalates, and Who’s Selling the Alternative: Applying the Evidence Ladder to Food Fear
Oxalates and nightshades both carry a real, narrow kernel of clinical truth. Here’s how that gets amplified into blanket food panic — and who profits when it does.
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The Broccoli Myth: Why “Man-Made” Isn’t a Dirty Word in Nutrition
Broccoli, kale, and cabbage are the same plant, reshaped by thousands of years of human selection. Here’s why that history matters more than the appeal-to-nature instinct most of us bring to the produce aisle.
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Your Gut on Carnivore: What Happens to the Microbiome Without Fiber
Maybe fiber isn’t as essential as claimed. A real study found no significant diversity difference in long-term carnivore dieters — but that’s not the whole story. What actually happens to butyrate production and bile acids tells a more complicated tale.
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Carnivore and Your Heart: What Long-Term Studies Actually Say (And What They Can’t Tell Us Yet)
The most important question about the carnivore diet isn’t whether people feel better on it. What happens to the cardiovascular system — LDL, the lean mass hyper-responder phenomenon, TMAO, and a recent retracted study — is where the evidence gets genuinely interesting.
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How to Choose a Prebiotic Fiber: Inulin vs. PHGG vs. Acacia vs. Psyllium
Inulin, PHGG, acacia, psyllium — not all fiber does the same job, and not all of it needs to come from a bottle. Here’s how to think about which fiber fits your situation, when food alone is enough, and whether it’s a better value than a probiotic.
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The Gut-Muscle-Pain Connection: What a New Prebiotic Fiber Trial Reveals
A new University of Nottingham trial found that a daily prebiotic fiber reduced knee osteoarthritis pain about as well as physiotherapy. Here’s the real mechanism behind it — fermentation, butyrate, and a gut-muscle-pain connection — and where the evidence is still speculative.
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The High-Fiber Paradox: Why Healthy Eating Can Cause Bloating (And How to Choose an Enzyme Wisely)
A clean, fiber-rich diet can still cause bloating — here’s the biochemistry behind it, plus how to read an enzyme label and use one safely.
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Enzymes vs. Probiotics: What Each One Actually Does (And Why the Marketing Blurs the Line)
Digestive enzymes and probiotics get marketed as nearly the same thing, but they work in different parts of the gut, on different timelines, with different evidence behind them. Here’s an honest breakdown of what each actually does — and where the evidence is strong versus where marketing has outrun the science.