Wellness

I’ll never forget my first panic attack. I was 12, and I had a huge project due the next day that I had completely put off. At around 9 p.m., the stress hit me like a tidal wave. My body got unbearably hot, panic surged through me, and I broke down in tears as I […]

I want to talk about something that’s made a huge difference in my health: circadian alignment—basically, syncing up with nature’s rhythms when it comes to eating, sleeping, and light exposure. This idea might seem simple, but it’s been a game changer for me. It all started when I posted this on social media: “Underrated health

For years, I lived with the effects of Hashimoto’s disease—thinning hair, stubborn weight gain, and constant fatigue. It felt like no matter what I did, my body was working against me. What I eventually learned is that inflammation was at the root of it all. Autoimmune diseases, arthritis, and even everyday issues like joint pain

After years of dieting and obsessing over calories, I learned an important lesson: the quality of what we eat matters just as much as how much we eat. Once I stopped focusing solely on calorie counting and started prioritizing protein and micronutrients, everything changed. My energy improved, my sleep got better, and I finally saw

If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”? “Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.” Also known as cured meat, such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, lunch meat, and sausage, processed meat is definitively cancer-causing. What’s more,

There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but is it harmful only under certain circumstances? Lychee fruits have been widely used in many cultures for the folk medicine treatment of everything from farting to testicular swelling. (Arsenic, mercury, and lead are also included in many “traditional” remedies.) Lychees have also apparently

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? In muscle meat, there is a heme protein that contributes to, well, the meaty taste of meat. There’s also a heme protein in the roots of soybean plants that can be churned out

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure? In an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the chair of nutrition at Harvard pointed out that many plant-based meats, such as burgers made by Beyond Meat and Impossible

The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a killer? In his classic book Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times Best-Selling author, traces the human

Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels. You may have heard about meats made from wheat protein (like Field Roast sausages and Upton’s bacon seitan), meats made from soybean protein (like the Impossible Whopper and Gardein’s wings), and meats made from pea protein