Evidence & Method
What counts as proof — and where the standard tools fall short.
14 essays
- How to Read a Supplement Claim
A field guide anyone can run on any bottle: three questions that sort the serious from the sold. The move a grifter never makes — run it on the bottle you already believe in, too
Evidence & MethodSupplements - Normal Is Not the Same as Optimal
A lab report that says 'normal' is describing a crowd, not you — but 'optimal ranges' is also the exact phrase used to declare healthy people sick. How to tell the few places your normal genuinely is not good enough from the many where 'optimal' is being invented to sell you something
Foundations of NFMEvidence & MethodMetabolic Health - Reading the Omega-3 Evidence Honestly
The big fish-oil trials seem to flatly contradict each other. They do not — the contradiction dissolves the moment you read each one by dose, form, baseline, comparator, and endpoint. A worked example of how to read a literature without cherry-picking the answer you wanted
Evidence & MethodDosingSupplementsMetabolic Health - The Diabetes You Were Told to Manage
Type 2 diabetes can be put into remission for a definable group of people — what the evidence actually shows, and, just as importantly, where it stops
Evidence & MethodThe Asian LineageMetabolic HealthNutrition & Diet - The Mineral You're Quietly Short Of
Magnesium — a real deficiency the standard blood test routinely under-detects (it can only see the one per cent that sits in your blood), a few genuinely proven uses, several modest ones, and at least one thing it is sold hardest for that it does not do. The discipline is telling them apart
Evidence & MethodDosingMineralsSupplements - The Root Beneath the Diagnoses
Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, polycystic ovary syndrome, much hypertension and much cardiovascular disease are often not five diseases but one upstream fault wearing five names — and what that means for the person carrying them
Medicine & InstitutionsEvidence & MethodMetabolic HealthLiverNutrition & Diet - The Pyramid Was Never Just Science
How a national food diagram actually gets made — and why the honest response to a captured guideline is not a better diagram, but an assessment
Medicine & InstitutionsEvidence & MethodNutrition & Diet - Your Liver Is Not Dirty — It Is Overloaded
Fatty liver is the most common liver disease on earth and, caught early, largely reversible — but not by anything sold as a 'detox.' Why the fat is there, how far it can be undone, and exactly where that stops
Evidence & MethodMetabolic HealthLiverNutrition & Diet - Healthspan, Not Lifespan
Aging is a genuinely modifiable process — but the interventions with real human evidence are unglamorous, and almost everything sold as 'anti-aging' rests on mouse data, a surrogate marker, or nothing. The whole discipline is knowing the difference
Foundations of NFMEvidence & MethodMetabolic HealthLongevity - The Organ Medicine Forgot
The gut microbiome is a real metabolic and immune organ — and almost everything sold under the words 'gut health' is marketing running years ahead of the science. How to tell the organ from the industry that grew up around its name
Evidence & MethodMetabolic HealthGut HealthNutrition & Diet - What the Old Pharmacy Got Right
The traditional Asian pharmacopoeia was not ancient wisdom to be revered — it was a vast, unindexed library of molecules. The handful that became medicine did so only after modern chemistry isolated the compound and a trial tested it. The credit belongs to the molecule and the method, not the mysticism
Evidence & MethodThe Asian LineageSupplementsMetabolic Health - Why Allopathic Medicine Resists This
The structural mechanisms behind the resistance to nutritional and functional medicine — and why naming them honestly matters more than complaining about them
Medicine & InstitutionsEvidence & Method - The Kidney Article That Conventional Medicine Did Not Write
Why the patient told to wait for dialysis is being given an incomplete map — and what serious functional medicine can offer instead
Evidence & MethodKidney Health - Not All Supplements Are Created Equal
Why country of origin is a weak signal, and why the bottle on the pharmacy shelf is not the same product as the one in the clinic
Evidence & MethodSupplements