Type 2 diabetes is the most common chronic metabolic condition in the United States – affecting approximately 34 million Americans – and also one of the most misrepresented. The way it gets talked about in popular culture reduces a complex biological condition to a simple story: too much sugar, not enough willpower, predictable consequences. That […]
Ask someone why they’re avoiding bread right now and there’s a reasonable chance the answer involves carbs. Carbohydrates have been the dominant dietary villain in American culture for roughly two decades – ever since Atkins went mainstream in the early 2000s and keto picked up where it left off. The core claim is intuitive: carbs […]
You get your blood work back. There’s a page full of numbers, abbreviations, and little H and L flags next to some of them. Your doctor says everything looks “basically fine” but doesn’t have time to explain what you’re looking at. You go home and Google “low MCH” and end up down a rabbit hole […]
Open any nutrition book from 1985 and you’ll find confident advice that contradicts at least some confident advice from a nutrition book published in 2005, which contradicts at least some of what you’d read in a nutrition book from 2025. Fat was the villain. Then carbs were. Then it was specific types of fat, then […]
You’ve probably seen the claim. It shows up in documentaries, wellness podcasts, and fitness influencer posts with confident regularity: sugar is more addictive than cocaine. Sometimes it’s framed as a warning. Sometimes it’s used to explain why you can’t stop eating chips after dinner. Occasionally it comes with a dramatic brain scan image and the […]
Think about the last time you optimized something about your health. Maybe you started tracking your calories. Switched to a new workout program. Cut out alcohol for a month. Added a handful of supplements to your morning routine. Now think about how you were sleeping while you did all of that. For most people, sleep […]
Scroll through your social media feed on any given morning and you’ll find at least a dozen health claims. One influencer is telling you that seed oils are destroying your metabolism. Another is insisting that cold plunges will extend your life. A podcast is promoting a supplement that supposedly does what no drug ever could. […]