Food & nutrition
Nourish your body with healthy and delicious food. Let our contributors break common misconceptions to change your perception of food and educate you on how to make healthier choices on a day-to-day basis. Whether you're looking to boost energy, manage an underlying health condition, or simply eat healthier, they provide the information and inspiration you need to make positive changes to your diet.
How to Rebuild Self-trust After Years of Dieting
If you’ve followed countless plans and still don’t trust yourself around food, the problem may not be a lack of knowledge or discipline. In this article, metabolic health strategist René Caruso explains...
The Ingredient Category Nobody Could Explain to Me, So I Built a Company Around It
A few years ago, I sat in a meeting with a company director who used the word “postbiotic” three times before I finally stopped him and asked what it meant. He looked slightly embarrassed, then spent...
Why Digestive Health is Never One-Size-Fits-All, Lessons From Crohn's Disease
The human digestive system is remarkable. It nourishes every cell in the body, supports immunity, influences energy production, and plays a significant role in emotional and mental well-being. Yet, despite it...
How to Stop Emotional Eating with 7 Proven Mindset Shifts That Work
You ate well all day. Then, somewhere between dinner and bedtime, you found yourself standing in front of the fridge, eating something you were not even hungry for and wondering why this keeps...
Why Healthy Eating Feels So Hard and the Missing Skill Behind Sustainable Nutrition
Raise your hand if you’ve started a new diet this year. Now raise your other hand if it’s the same one you tried last year. If you’re sitting there with both hands in the air, you’re not alone. Millions of...
Why One Diet Doesn't Work for Everyone
In naturopathy, every person is unique. Understanding body constitution helps identify the body's strengths, potential weaknesses, and the lifestyle choices that can best support long-term wellbeing.
How 40 Years of Food Changed Childhood and Why Our Children Deserve Better
Childhood is a once-in-a-lifetime window for growth, yet by the age of seven, children in the UK get around 60% of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods, raising important questions about the...
Ten Questions to Ask Yourself When Preparing a Meal
Food choices occur on a daily basis, but how often do you consider your physiology and nutrition in your daily food choices? Perhaps each time you think about food, or perhaps never. Either way, here...
The Midlife Guide to Gut Health and a Four-Pillar Approach to Building a Healthier Microbiome
Gut health has become one of the most talked-about areas in nutrition, and for good reason. We now know the gut is far more than a digestive tract. It is home to a complex ecosystem of microorganisms...
7 Habits Metabolically Healthy People Do Without Thinking
Most healthy people never sat down and wrote out a metabolic health plan. They just picked up habits from their families or others along the way, and those habits stuck. Maybe they forgot to tell...
How to Stop Starting Over and the Missing Piece in Sustainable Health
If you've ever restarted a health plan more times than you can count, you're not broken, you've just been handed the wrong framework. In this article, metabolic health coach René Caruso breaks down why the...
What Happens After GLP-1? The Missing Conversation About Life Beyond Appetite Suppression
GLP-1 receptor agonists have changed the landscape of weight management. For many individuals, these medications offer something they may not have experienced in years: relief. The constant mental...
How Blood Sugar Shapes Mood, Focus and Emotional Regulation
Many people assume their mood swings, irritability, or difficulty concentrating are simply personality traits or stress responses. Often, these experiences have a quieter, physiological root: unstable blood sugar.
How My Pursuit of Wellness Led to Food Obsession and What Finally Set Me Free
I never expected that my pursuit of health would eventually become one of the biggest sources of stress in my life. Like many people, my journey began with good intentions. I learned how food affects...
How to Positively Influence Through Food
One of the infinite benefits of food is that it influences us to feel better, whether that feeling is satiated, nourished, or simply an uplifted mood. The crucial element is that we want this feel...
