A trademark, a Netflix series, and about $100,000 a year for a city to keep the certification. The business kept growing while the science underneath it kept shrinking.
A cyclospora outbreak just sickened 1,645 people across 34 states, and romaine keeps causing E. coli recalls. Is romaine lettuce safe to eat, and is it even worth it? A hard look, and what I eat instead.
Two dozen outlets ran the same glucosamine-Alzheimer’s scare in four days. The new Nature Metabolism paper is strong mouse biology with a weak hospital-records footnote, and the bigger human data points the other way.
Caffeine is the most-studied performance drug in sport, and it works, modestly. What matters after 50 is the dose, the timing, and whether the label tells you the number.
Wholesale whey protein is up fivefold in three years and suppliers are sold out. GLP-1 users chasing protein targets repriced the market, and the same drug is shrinking cheese demand that whey depends on.
On my weight loss journey for a year only tracked scale weight but I finally wanted to gain more insights. Dexa scans are widely considered the gold standard for body composition analysis, in addition to their original target of bone density analysis. I found a Health/Fitness optimization place nearby that had a Dexa machine and
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My own doctor told me to quit creatine because a number on my bloodwork went up. That number was never measuring what he thought it was. I take creatine every day, and at my last physical my doctor told me to stop. His reason: my creatinine had crept up on the panel, and creatinine is
In an effort to keep muscles during a GLP-1 diet, I tried many post workout meal/shakes/supplements. For a while my goto choices were Cutler Nutrition’s Repair and Fairlife Core Power. However, my favorite is a shake I make at home: A scoop each of Vanilla Ice Cream Whey powder, Cocoa powder, one Oikos Triple Zero
I aimed at 200 grams a day, averaged 164, and the DEXA still came back with 9.6 pounds more lean mass than I started with. I published the first version of this post in August 2025 with three different protein targets in it. The body text said 1 gram per pound of target weight, which
