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Gut Microbiome Testing: What It Can and Cannot Tell You Today
Mail-in stool tests promise personalized nutrition insight, but the same sample sent to different labs can come back with conflicting advice.
Oct 3, 2025
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Nutrition
What Happens to Your Gut When You Remove Fruit and Vegetables
Fibre is not a supplement you can skip and make up later. Take it out of a diet and the effects run from the bowel to blood glucose to long-term cardiovascular risk.
Jun 24, 2026
Nutrition
A Mouse Study Says Sweeteners Left Marks Two Generations On, and It Is Being Read Far Too Confidently
47 mice drank water, sucralose or stevia. Their children and grandchildren, who drank only water, showed some of the same changes to gut bacteria and gene activity. That is genuinely interesting and it is not a finding about people.
Sep 1, 2026
Nutrition
Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does
Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.
May 22, 2024
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Wellness trends that actually stick vs the ones already dying
Gut health is real, personalized nutrition is trending, but collagen shots are on their way out. Here's what the $6.3T wellness economy reveals.
Jul 5, 2024
Nutrition
The Low FODMAP Diet Is a Diagnostic Tool, Not a Way of Eating
It has strong evidence behind it for irritable bowel syndrome, and it is routinely misused. The elimination phase is meant to last weeks, and the part people skip is the part that matters.
Aug 7, 2026
Health
Food Allergy Treatment Exists Now. It Is Not a Cure.
Oral immunotherapy raises the dose a patient can tolerate before a reaction starts. That protects against accidents, which is not the same as being able to eat the food.
Jul 29, 2026
Nutrition
Watermelon Has a High Glycaemic Index and It Does Not Matter, Which Tells You What Is Wrong With the Number
Glycaemic index measures the quality of a carbohydrate in a standardised portion nobody eats. Glycaemic load multiplies it by the amount actually on the plate, and the two frequently disagree.
Aug 14, 2026
Nutrition
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Wrong, Item by Item
Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.
Jun 3, 2026
Nutrition
Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning: What Research Says
The Mediterranean diet isn't trendy, it's proven. New 2025 research shows it cuts diabetes risk by a third when combined with lifestyle changes.
Feb 10, 2025
Health
A Chewing Gum That Cut Oral HPV by up to 93 Percent
An engineered gum reduced HPV and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. It is early work, and the delivery method is the genuinely clever part.
Aug 6, 2026
