Metabolic Health

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 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

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