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